Thematic Fruits Trivia

1. Which tasty fruit is oftentimes mistakenly described as having its seeds on the outside?

From Quiz Cherries and Berries

Answer: strawberry

Each "seed" you see on the outside of strawberries is actually called an achene, and the average strawberry has around 200 of them. Achenes are actually the fruit, with each one of them containing the seed on the inside. For every strawberry you eat, you are technically eating about 200 pieces of fruit!

From Quiz All About Lemons

Answer: is impossible to eat

Adapted from the Brazilian folk song "Meu limão, meu limoeiro," "Lemon Tree" is a folk song written by Will Holt in the late 1950s. It was recorded many times: Trini Lopez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Roger Whittaker; Chad & Jeremy; The Kingston Trio; Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass; The Seekers; Bob Marley and The Wailers. In 1968 the Johnson Wax Company used "Lemon Tree" as a jingle to advertise their furniture polish Lemon Pledge.

From Quiz All About Bananas

Answer: Harry Belafonte

The song is a traditional Jamaican folk song, sung by night-shift dock workers loading bananas onto ships. "Daylight come and me wan' to go home." There are numerous versions and a great variety of lyrics, as befits a folk song. Harry Belafonte's 1956 recording became a standard and one of his signature songs. He sang it on "The Muppets Show" in 1979. It was featured in the 1988 motion picture "Beetlejuice." Stan Freberg famously parodied it in 1957 in a version where a beatnik bongo player tries to persuade the singer to sing more softly: "It's too piercing, man. Like, I don't dig loud noises."

From Quiz Key Lime Questions

Answer: Meringue

The Key lime is more tart and more aromatic than other limes, giving the pie a distinct sharp taste. As the pie mixture requires no cooking it could be made by fisherman at sea around the keys.

From Quiz Fruits of The Harvest

Answer: What's Eating Gilbert Grape

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was set in Endora, Iowa, and starred Johnny Depp as the title character, Gilbert Grape. The movie chronicled Gilbert's story as he cared for his mentally-disabled younger brother, Arnie (who was nearing his 18th birthday), his morbidly-obese mother, Bonnie, and his sisters Amy and Ellen. Gilbert spent a lot of his time looking out for Arnie, who often wandered off and got into trouble. Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of young Arnie. This visit to the "Movies" category was provided by kaddarsgirl.

From Quiz I'm Not Pumpking Around

Answer: Connecticut Field Pumpkin

Yes, these really are all types of pumpkins. However, the correct answer for this question is the Connecticut field pumpkin. These are also particularly a favorite for those with a green thumb, because they are dependable and relatively easy to grow in gardens. Connecticut field pumpkins are an heirloom variety that have a dark yellowish-orange skin, and are the most common type you'll find at farmers markets and grocery chain stores.

From Quiz Yes We Have No Bananas

Answer: Papua New Guinea

The banana is a large herbaceous flowering plant from the genus Musa that is native to the Pacific and Australia region. Plantains are from the same genus, but are generally eaten cooked. There is evidence that bananas were cultivated in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea as far back as 5000BCE. The Portuguese introduced bananas to the New World in the 16th Century.

From Quiz A is for Apple

Answer: 17th century

Apples were brought to America in the 17th century. They were brought by European colonists. In 1625, William Blaxton planted the first apple orchard in the continent of North America. It was planted in Boston.

From Quiz An Apple a Day

Answer: Pink Lady

Pink Lady is the trade mark name that Cripps Pink apples are sold under in many countries. The Cripps Pink was first cultivated in Australia in the 1970s, and is the result of breeding the Lady Williams apple with a Golden Delicious apple. Several mutations of the Cripps Pink apple exist, including the Rosy Glow, the Lady in Red and the Pink Belle. In the 1978 movie "Grease", the main female characters call themselves Pink Ladies and wear pink jackets.

From Quiz How Do You Like Them Apples?

Answer: i

The 1998 iMac was the first to use the prefix, with the i standing for internet. Apple's first logo depicted Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath an apple tree, but this was changed within months to the rainbow silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it. With the introduction of the iMac, Apple made their logo monochrome.

From Quiz She'll Be Apples Mate

Answer: Eastern Turkey and Western Asia

The apple is believed to be the first fruit ever cultivated from its wild state several thousand years ago. It has played an important part in the diet of mankind ever since. Alexander the Great, returning home from his many conquests all over that area of the world, is believed to have carried the seeds of the fruit back to Macedonia for cultivation - and the little apple has never looked back since.

From Quiz Cherry Pies Ought to Be You

Answer: You are very special to me.

If you are the "apple of my eye", you are very special to me. This an old phrase that appears in the Bible and works by Shakespeare. It originally referred to the aperture of the eye (iris) and later referred to objects or people who were cherished above all others.

From Quiz My Darling Clementine and Other Favourite Fruits

Answer: United States

A loganberry is a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry. It was first cultivated by James Logan way back in 1881. Logan was from Santa Cruz, California.

From Quiz Lime After Lime

Answer: Liverpool

Lime Street Station has been Liverpool's main railway station since it opened in August 1836. Birmingham's principal station is New Street; that of Glasgow is Glasgow Central, while Exeter has St David's. Liverpool's two main football clubs are less than a mile apart; Anfield is home to Liverpool and Goodison Park to Everton.

From Quiz Once Upon A Lime

Answer: Citrus

Citrus fruits include limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, etc. They are all berries (fleshy fruit formed from a single flower) and are known as Hesperidiums. A Hesperidium is a berry with a tough, aromatic rind.

From Quiz The Fruit Bowl

Answer: grapes

"The Grapes of Wrath" is a monumental work, written by John Steinbeck, about the dust bowl refugees moving to California. A young Henry Fonda played the lead character in the film version.

From Quiz All About Apple

Answer: Eve

Eve, according to the Bible, was the first woman on Earth, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth.

From Quiz Cherries and Berries

Answer: blueberry

Blueberries have a five-pointed star shape on the bottom of them and this is why they were referred to as "star fruit." The blueberry is known as a superfood because of its high nutritional value; it is high in flavonoids, vitamins C and K and fiber, as well as being low in both fat and calories.

From Quiz All About Lemons

Answer: Elizabeth (Liz) Miervaldis Lemon

Elizabeth Miervaldis Lemon, known as Liz Lemon, is the protagonist of TV's "30 Rock." Tina Fey not only plays the part but created it, as well. Lemon is a writer for a comedy sketch television programme; Fey was a writer for "Saturday Night Live." Fey has won a trunkful of awards for the role.

From Quiz All About Bananas

Answer: NBC-TV, in the USA

Hanna-Barbera mixed live-action with animation when they created "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" for American TV. The result was so successful that the programme remained in syndication from 1971 to 1982. The premise was that four costumed animal characters -- Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky -- composed a rock band. Both the costumes and the sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft ("H.R. Pufnstuf"; "The Bugaloos"; "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters", "Land of the Lost", "Wonderbug").

From Quiz Key Lime Questions

Answer: A stomach ache

The song is about a woman with a stomach ache, the supposed cause and prescribed cure for which is a drink made from putting lime in a coconut. The song featured in the film "Reservoir Dogs" and was covered by the Muppets in the fourth season of their original show.

From Quiz Fruits of The Harvest

Answer: Pears

Lizzie Borden was suspected in the crime because she was the only family member at home when her father and step-mother were brutally murdered, around 90 minutes apart. Lizzie had claimed that she didn't hear anything because she wasn't in the house. According to her testimony, she went outside and picked up some pears from the ground around the family pear tree before heading into the barn. There she sat by the window in the loft eating the pears and then looked for lead for fishing sinkers. She estimated that she was there for fifteen to twenty minutes and ate three pears. The prosecutor pestered her about the pears, particularly since she said she hadn't been feeling well that morning. Her testimony quote, "I was feeling well enough to eat the pears" became famous and can even be purchased on posters. This bit of "People" trivia was provided by PDAZ.

From Quiz I'm Not Pumpking Around

Answer: Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

"Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is a nursery rhyme from around 1825. It goes: "Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well."

From Quiz Feeling Fruity And Alive

Answer: Jason Orange

Orange got his break in show business with break dancing crew Street Machine, before taking his dance and vocal talents to Take That, for whom he was a primary songwriter. Following his departure from the band, he turned to acting and has appeared on stage and TV, including a cameo role in UK show "Shameless" as DJ Scouse Mouse.

From Quiz Yes We Have No Bananas

Answer: B6

And contrary to popular belief, they are not a particularly high source of potassium. Yes they have some, but it is less than their manganese content, for example. One hundred grams of banana will give you 31 per cent of your daily B6 requirement. (The potassium content also makes them naturally radioactive.)

From Quiz A is for Apple

Answer: the larynx

The larynx in a man's throat is called the Adam's apple because it is believed that was caused as a result of the forbidden fruit remaining in the throat of Adam after his act of disobedience. The apple is also used to represent human sexuality.

From Quiz An Apple a Day

Answer: Fuji

Though it shares its name with it, the Fuji apple is not actually named for Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, but for the town of Fujisaki where the Fuji apple was first developed in the 1930s. It is a cross between the Red Delicious and Virginia Ralls Genet apples. Mount Fuji is indeed an active stratovolcano (made up of many different layers of materials), but it has not erupted since the early 1700s.

From Quiz How Do You Like Them Apples?

Answer: Horse poo

Words in German that are made up of other words stuck together are called Bandwurmwörter (literally tapeworm words). Other examples include Handschuh (literally hand shoe) meaning glove, Unterseeboot (literally under sea boat) meaning submarine and Flusspferd or Nilpferd (literally river horse or Nile horse) meaning hippopotamus.

From Quiz She'll Be Apples Mate

Answer: Eternal youth

This can be found in the literary work "Prose Edda" which is a collection of Norse poetry written in the early thirteenth century. Apples can also be found in scholarly works which link apples to early Germanic pagan practices. These practices eventually spread all throughout Europe and England. Even today in some parts of southern England, there are still some light-hearted beliefs associated with the consumption of apples.

From Quiz Apples Galore!

Answer: Calvados

Calvados is more familiarly known as Calva. It originated in the department of the same name and is distilled from cider which is fermented apple juice. Nowadays it is made throughout Normandy where the climate and soil conditions are ideal for growing apple trees.

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