Get the Scoop on Our Ice Cream Quiz!

Although Alexander the Great enjoyed a rudimentary form of ice cream (ice and snow flavored with nectar and honey), and Marco Polo brought back a recipe that aligns with modern sherbet, ice cream as it's known today first popped up reliably at the table of King Charles I in the 17th century.

Ambergris (whale poop) forms when sperm whales can't digest squid beaks and pass them out. It became an important ingredient in perfume. One of the earliest documented recipes for ice cream suggested flavoring with ambergris. Bad move — it starts out smelling like vanilla and ends up smelling like, well, poop.

The ice cream cone had been invented earlier, but it was popularized at the World's Fair when Ernest A. Hamwi rolled one of the waffle pastries he was selling into a cone to help out an ice cream vendor who had run out of dishes.

That's a whole lot of whole milk. For nutritional context, 1 gallon of whole milk has 2,400 calories and 127 grams of fat. Yikes.

President Ronald Reagan decreed that July is National Ice Cream Month. But don't fret about the rest of the year, as the third Sunday of every month is National Ice Cream Day.

More commonly known as Neapolitan ice cream, the confection is made up of equal parts chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

Chocolate was the No. 1 answer, favored by 17 percent of respondents. Vanilla came in second, while strawberry, butter pecan and mint chocolate chip all tied for third place.

Is there anything that isn't made better by hot, melted fudge?

Ben & Jerry's still makes Phish Food, which was inspired by the band Phish. You can see the flavor graveyard if you visit the company factory in Waterbury, Vermont.

New Zealanders average 7.5 gallons per person, per year! The U.S. is a distant second, at 5.5 gallons, or 40 pints.