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Bread Alone

Can you answer these questions pertaining to bread?
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Last updated: November 14, 2018
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Who supposedly said that, if the people had no bread, "let them eat cake"?
Marie Antoinette
What fairy tale characters left a trail of bread crumbs to guide them back home?
Hansel and Gretel
On what Jewish holiday do people eat unleavened bread?
Passover
What makes bread rise?
Yeast
What were Roman leaders expected to provide to keep the people fed and entertained?
Bread and Circuses
What country did bagels originally come from?
Poland
What type of French bread is shaped like a long tube?
Baguette
What is the Spanish word for bread?
Pan
What is the name of the ritual in which Christians eat bread that
symbolizes the body of Christ?
Eucharist
What does most bread have that a person with celiac disease can't tolerate?
Gluten
What type of Mediterranean bread sometimes includes a pocket?
Pita
What type of durable but tedious bread product did sailors eat on long sea voyages?
Hardtack
Name a type of bread that is commonly served at Indian restaurants
Naan / Chapati / Roti
What word comes before "bread" in the Lord's Prayer?
Daily
What type of bread is naturally fermented?
Sourdough
What type of bread is used to build houses and men at Christmas time?
Gingerbread
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Level 89
Nov 13, 2018
Pita pan is Spanish pocket bread.
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Level 89
Nov 13, 2018
I'll be here all week.
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Level 70
Nov 14, 2018
:)

nice

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Level 89
Oct 16, 2022
:/ I was really thinking maybe this would be The Best Of Bread, that 1970s band that was always on the 13 albums for 1¢ record clubs in the TV Guide.
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Level 75
Nov 14, 2018
Should allow the variant "z" in Hanzel
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Level 65
Oct 18, 2022
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Level 72
Nov 14, 2018
The question on the fairy tale was quite confusing as I immediately thought of Little Thumbling. While that episode is also included in Hansel and Gretel, it's more famous that of Little Thumbling, at least in Italy. You might want to allow both as an answer.
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Level 82
Nov 14, 2018
Around me H&G is much more famous, probably because it seems the Little Thumbling doesn't appear in Grimmborthers' collection.
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Level 63
Feb 19, 2019
Maybe the clue has been changed since the comment but it says characterS.
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Level 79
Nov 14, 2018
Bread rises because of trapped CO2 produced by the yeast. Saying that yeast causes bread to rise makes it sound like the yeast multiplies and expands. If you want a one-word answer for what makes bread rise, I would say 'fermentation.' If you want the answer to be 'yeast', the question should be 'Which traditional ingredient causes the fermentation that causes bread to rise?' or something like that.
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Level 89
Nov 14, 2018
I put yeast. It was 5 simple little letters.
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Level 76
Nov 14, 2018
Adding fermentation as a type-in seems like a fair compromise!
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Level 59
Mar 11, 2019
Also, Irish Soda bread is leavened by sodium bicarbonate, producing CO2, no yeast in sight - i second that the answer should be CO2, with yeast/bicarb/fermentation/.... also accepted.
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Level 75
Mar 11, 2019
I easily got the answer, but agree with JoshPen. Yeast breads aren't the only type of breads, either, as jbjt05 said. Corn bread, biscuits, quick breads such as banana bread, etc. all rise from the chemical reactions of baking powder or baking soda, not yeast. If fermentation isn't accepted, at least accept baking soda and baking powder.
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Level 69
Mar 12, 2019
i think you need a name change, pedant217 should suffice :)
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2020
Might as well say that fermentation isn't what makes bread rise, because the fermentation is a result of chemistry that is caused by physics.
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Level ∞
Dec 26, 2021
The gunshot didn't kill him, it was the loss of blood flow to the brain.
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Level 62
Nov 14, 2018
A helpful historical fact, Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake"! The phrase was in existence years before she married, attributed to "a great Princess" (conveniently unnamed) in a work by Rosseau. The first attribution of HER saying it was nearly 50 years after her death.

Also, the literal translation of the phrase is brioche, not cake.

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Level 67
Mar 11, 2019
Agree wholeheartedly with JBrommit. The attribution is totally bogus and the use of "supposedly" to qualify the statement is weaselly. I'd sub in "peace, land and bread" in its place.
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Level 78
Mar 11, 2019
Feel a bit ripped as I put in circus rather than circuses. Them's the breaks I guess...
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Level 80
Mar 11, 2019
Same.
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Level 53
Mar 27, 2019
Same here, although the phrase really is "bread and circuses". However "bread and games" is definitely an alternative phrasing that I think should be accepted.
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Level 66
Sep 5, 2019
I tried bread and games :/
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Level 72
Oct 16, 2022
"Games" should definitely be accepted. Especially seeing as the "circenses" in "Panem et circenses" is an adjective to the implied noun "ludi", which would make the English literal translation "Bread and (games) of the circus"
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Level 76
Jul 10, 2021
Yes, it seems pretty tight to accept only 'circuses', considering the quiz accepted 'communion' for 'eucharist'.
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Level 71
Oct 16, 2022
Does seem tough to not accept circus and insist on the plural. So many other quizzes and answers accept things without an s, or only part of the answer. I couldn't figure out what it was after being unsuccessful with circus.
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Level 76
Apr 1, 2023
Same. Given how many people seem to have made this comment, I think it may be time to reconsider this one.
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Level 50
Mar 11, 2019
Nice quiz. Two suggestions

1. Please allow more time. I know I'm pretty slow on my phone, but I had no where near enough time. Suggest adding at least 1 minute.

2. Suggest making Lord's Supper also acceptable for Eucharist. Many protestants don't use the word Eucharist.

Thanks for your consideration

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Level 46
Mar 11, 2019
Yes, I totally back that. Need more time, and I thought I was typing "lord's supper" wrong the whole time...
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Level 65
Nov 14, 2021
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we just call it "the sacrament". There are many different names for this ordinance across many denominations of Christianity. So I agree that perhaps a wider range of accepted answers would be appreciated if you are just going to say "Christians"
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Level 75
Oct 16, 2022
"Communion" is accepted, and that's what I'd call it as a protestant (anglican). Never heard of "lord's supper"...
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Level 74
Oct 17, 2022
Agree about "Lord's Supper". I've always known it as either the Lord's Supper or Communion, both widely used in protestant denominations.
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Level 73
Mar 11, 2019
I needed more time :/ I'm polish and I've no idea bagels are from here!
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Level 75
Oct 16, 2022
Smacznego!
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Level 50
Mar 12, 2019
Didn't know the Spanish word for bread so just guessed the French word for it. Painful!
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Level 66
Sep 5, 2019
"pain" full? haha
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Level 81
Mar 12, 2019
I tried garlic, breadsticks, panini, foccacia and couldn't figure out why none of them worked... until I read the question again and it said "Indian"
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Level 60
Jul 19, 2019
paratha (and alternate spellings parotha / parata) should also be accepted in Indian breads
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2020
Fun fact: consubstantiation, in Christianity, is the doctrine of the Eucharist affirming that Christ’s body and blood substantially coexist with the consecrated bread and wine. The doctrine gained acceptance in the Protestant Reformation, though the term is unofficially and inaccurately used to describe the Lutheran doctrine of the real presence—namely, that the body and blood of Christ are present to the communicant “in, with, and under” the elements of bread and wine. Consubstantiation differs radically from the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, which asserts that the total substance of bread and wine are changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ at the moment of consecration in such a way that only the appearances of the original elements remain.
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2020
So: to Protestants, the bread is bread, but also the body of Christ. To Lutherans, the body of Christ was inside the bread all along. To Catholics, there is no more bread, just Christ that looks like bread.
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2020
There have been wars fought about this.
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Level 59
Nov 19, 2020
Funny that "communion" is the same as "Eucharist"
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Level 52
Jun 2, 2021
maybe accept "Hanzel" for Hansel? Otherwise I woulda got it
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Level 68
Dec 6, 2021
Please could someone eplain why 'Marie' is always accepted for Marie Antoinette on Jetpunk (could be any old Marie the person was about to type in) yet 'Circus' was not accepted here for Circuses.

In general the logic is hard to understand. It takes 'Tut' for the Egyptian king but one letter wrong in Ouagadougou is penalised. And I am still bitter at not being allowed 'The Sound of Musiv' :)

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Level ∞
Dec 26, 2021
Ouaga is all you need for Ouagadoughgoo
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Level 68
Oct 24, 2022
I agree that it makes no sense to accept "Marie" for "Marie-Antoinette", since, at no period of history was she ever known as "Marie", and nobody would have any clue who you're talking about if you referred to her as "Marie", but I've said so frequently and it doesn't seem like Jetpunk is willing to change on this point.
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Level 53
Aug 27, 2022
Perhaps accept Mass for Eucharist or communion?
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Level 89
Oct 16, 2022
I thought about guessing Mass but I figured that was probably wrong.
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Level 62
Oct 16, 2022
I misread "Indian" as Italian. Kept trying to type ciabatta, focaccia, etc., even garlic. Embarrassing.
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Level 48
Oct 16, 2022
Could you include circus singular? I didn’t even think to type it in plural lol
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Level 56
Oct 17, 2022
mmmm, carbs
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Level 66
Oct 17, 2022
You should accept paratha as an Indian bread. Just as common as roti or chapati.

Also gingerbread in this context is not a bread, it is a biscuit. You can have gingerbread made from bread, but you don't make little men out of this stuff. Unless you think cookies are bread??

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Level 33
Oct 19, 2022
why is it called bread alone?
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Level 84
Nov 9, 2022
It's from a proverb, "man does not live by bread alone". The gist of which, I think, is that you need to feed your mind and soul as well as your body. Or maybe I just made all that up.
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Level 64
Jun 25, 2023
I've never heard "bread and circuses", but always "bread and games". At least accept it as a type-in, if not changing the answer altogether.
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Level 46
Feb 16, 2024
Will you accept circus singular. I didn't type It out and I got It wrong