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1.Plays a prominent role in the film Cats.
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Taylor Swift played Bombalurina.
2.Featured in a Vincent van Gogh painting.
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Potatoes are shown in “The Potato Eaters”. Van Gogh died about 100 years before Taylor was born.
3.Consumed billions of times in 2023.
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Taylor accrued billions of streams in 2023. Americans ate billions of potatoes.
4.“Spuds” is one of their common nicknames.
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Tay Tay isn’t usually called “Spuds”. Spuds is taters.
5.Awarded the title of Time Magazine’s biggest newsmaker of the year.
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Taylor Swift was awarded the title in 2023. Potatoes sadly have never won the title.
6.Can have many eyes on them.
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Concert-goers have eyes on Taylor and potatoes grow sprouts called eyes.
7.Was difficult for politician Dan Quayle to spell.
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Quayle was televised teaching a child to spell “potatoe”. Ridicule ensued. There’s no evidence he has ever spelled Taylor Swift.
8.Their products were consumed more times by Americans in 2023.
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Taylor has 68 billion total streams on Spotify. Almost 50 billion pounds of potatoes are eaten yearly in the US.
9.Grown in Idaho more than any other state.
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Taylor was grown in Pennsylvania. Idaho grows the most potatoes.
10.Creations often contain beef.
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Meat and potatoes is a common dish. Taylor’s songs often have celebrity beef with someone.
11.Native to the Americas.
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Swift is American. Potatoes are a New World crop from South America.
12.Victim of a Kanye West tirade.
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Kanye West went on an on-stage tirade about Swift’s music video winning over Beyoncé’s. Potatoes haven’t incurred Kanye West’s wrath… yet…
13.Has country roots.
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Taylor started as a country/western star. Potatoes have plant roots in the country.
14.Regularly gets mashed up during production.
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Mashed potatoes are popular. Swift songs often get DJ mashups.
15.Had at least one major role in the Toy Story film series.
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Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead are potatoes. Taylor Swift is not in the films.
16.Romantically linked to Hollywood and sports stars.
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Potatoes cannot be romantically linked to anyone because they are not sentient.
17.Will float in the Dead Sea.
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Both humans and potatoes sink in fresh water, but float in moderately saline water in most cases. The Dead Sea's density is easily enough to make virtually any potato or Taylor Swift float.
18.Sometimes seen in a shiny jacket.
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Taylor wears fashionable jackets of various sheens. “Jacket potatoes” are wrapped in aluminum foil.
19.Have 24 pairs of chromosomes.
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Humans typically have 23 chromosomes. Potatoes have more complicated genetics, apparently.
20.Flowers ended up being one of their prettiest 2023 productions.
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Potatoes grow flowers when left uncultivated. Taylor never produced anything called “Flowers” in 2023 (Miley Cyrus did, though).
14/20 great quiz!! My knowledge that potatoes can be geneticly diverse than humans came back to help me. chimps too….so potato chimp hybreed…oh yeah great quiz!!
Seeing the spelling of the answer choices on number 7 was quite entertaining. Nice touch.