Fact or fiction?

Test your knowledge with these fact-or-fiction puzzlers.

Fact or Fiction: The earth’s surface is divided into seven continents.
Answer: Fact! The earth’s surface is divided into seven continents – Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. On which continent do you live?

Fact or Fiction: Granola was invented in the 1970s.
Answer: Fiction! It’s believed that granola, though different from the granola we know and love today, was first made in the latter half of the 1800s.

Fact or Fiction: Blue Planet Foods was once called Sovex.
Answer: Fact! The company name changed in 2004 to more accurately reflect our growing line of products.

Fact or Fiction: Granola bars grow on trees.
Answer: Fiction! Granola bars are made of baked granola that has been pressed into a bar shape.

Fact or Fiction: Blue Planet Foods is located in Tennessee .
Answer: Fact! We’re located in Collegedale, Tenn., just outside of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Fact or Fiction: The earth is made up of more dry land than water.
Answer: Fiction! Water covers approximately 139.5 million square miles of the Earth’s surface, while dry land covers approximately 57.5 million square miles.

Fact or Fiction: The earth travels around the sun at a speed of 18.5 miles per second.
Answer: Fact! The earth circles the sun at an approximate speed of 18.5 miles per second and completes one trip around the sun every 365.25 days – that’s a calendar year to you and me!

Fact or Fiction: Granola is made from oats.
Answer: Fact! Granola is typically a concoction of rolled oats mixed with other ingredients such as sweeteners, fruit and nuts.

Fact or Fiction: The earth is perfectly round.
Answer: Fiction! Though the earth is round, it’s not a perfect sphere. It protrudes a little at the equator and flattens a bit at the poles.