Using Your Five-a-Day Photo Quiz | Word Play

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1. When the fruit and household item shown in the picture clue are combined, they can help find a term for how your washing machine was connected to its water supply.

Answer: Plumbed

Plum + Bed = Plumbed

Household appliances that require a water connection, such as washing machines and dishwashers, are generally said to be "plumbed in". The term "plumbed" is derived from the word for the person needed to do the job - a plumber - and that term in turn comes from the Latin for someone who worked with lead piping (plumbum being the old name for lead and the source of its chemical symbol, Pb).

2. Your washing machine has leaked and you find yourself in dire need of a laugh. Take a walk through the countryside and use the picture clue to identify how a fruit can be combined with something you might see in order to give you one.

Answer: Limerick

Lime + Ricks - S = Limerick

A rick (pictured) is a stack of hay, straw or corn. A limerick is a type of poetry consisting of a single verse with a fixed rhyming scheme (AABBA) that is usually humorous and often derogatory:

There once was a quiz about fruit
Whose answers I couldn't compute
It included some veg
So I made a pledge
To complete it and take home the loot

Exactly how this type of verse came to share a name with a city in Ireland isn't entirely clear. I would also like to add my apologies for subjecting you to this particularly poor example of the genre.

3. You return from your walk with the overwhelming desire to sit down and rest. This vegetable and household object should be able to oblige...

Answer: Beanbag

Beans - S + Bag = Beanbag

A beanbag is a type of seat made from a large bag usually filled with polystyrene beads or dried beans. They make a particularly comfy chair as they can provide support by moulding to the shape of your body. Simple beanbags are somewhat shapeless, but they can also be made with the bags sewn to approximate the shape of a chair.

While they are also known as bean bag chairs, that answer isn't acceptable here as the rebus picture clue doesn't show anything representing a chair.

4. Resting comfortably gives the opportunity for your energy levels to return. What word containing a fruit means to return or come back?

Answer: Reappear

Reaper - ER + Pear = Reappear

The image in this case depicts the Grim Reaper, a personification of death.

If something was able to reappear then it must have disappeared having previously been present. If something came out of the blue without having been around before then it would have just appeared (not reappeared). Making the somewhat wild assumption that it actually exists, the Grim Reaper would be more likely to do the latter.

5. Feeling reinvigorated, you head to the kitchen to start preparations for the vegetarian dinner party you are giving this evening. The main course requires a type of legume, but you can't remember its name and don't have any helpful pictures of it. But wait - perhaps you can work it out by combining one of its relatives with a small creature, as shown in the picture clue?

Answer: Chickpea

Chick + Peas - S = Chickpea

Chickpeas are commonly used in Asian and Middle Eastern cookery and are the main ingredients used to make hummus, falafel and various types of curry. They are highly nutritious and provide protein, fibre and minerals such as iron. Both chickpeas and the common garden pea (pictured) belong to the Fabaceae family.

6. Your main course also requires a herb commonly used in Asian cookery. You know you can get its name by combining a fruit and something you can see lots of when you look out at your garden from the kitchen window.

Answer: Lemongrass

Lemon + Grass = Lemongrass

Lemongrass is also called by Cymbopogon but gets its common name from its citrus-like scent and flavour and the fact that it is a type of grass. There are dozens of different species native to areas of Central and South-East Asia, Africa and Australasia. As well as being a common addition to various Asian dishes, it is also used in tea and for medicinal purposes.

7. You decide to serve a popular upside-down cake for dessert, which is usually made with a fruit whose name can be made from another one combined with a tree. The picture clue should reveal all.

Answer: Pineapple

Pine + Apple = Pineapple

Despite their name, pineapples are not related to apples. They are the fruit of tropical plants of the Bromeliaceae family and are native to southern Brazil, although they are also cultivated widely across Central and South America and the Caribbean. Pineapples were first introduced to Europeans when Christopher Columbus discovered them in Guadeloupe in 1493.

8. The final step in your party preparations is to lay the table. You decide to use your best porcelain from which company that was founded in Ireland in the 19th century?

Answer: Belleek

Bell - L + Leeks - S = Belleek

The famous pottery in the town of Belleek, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland first opened for business in the mid-19th century and is known for its high quality and extremely delicate porcelain. Antique Belleek pieces are highly collectable and range from decorative figurines to more practical plates and tea services.

9. As your guests start to arrive, the noise in the house picks up as loud conversations begin and start to drone on and on. Use the picture clue to determine another word for what the guests have begun to do.

Answer: Yammer

Yam + Mermaid - Maid = Yammer

To yammer means to talk loudly and repetitively, often at some length. If you are told that you are yammering, it is likely that your audience has had enough of what you are saying and simply wants to you to stop. Yammer is also a business-focused social media service founded in 2008.

10. With your head starting to pound you head outside to get some peace and quiet and begin collecting the five fruits you're told you should eat tomorrow. Use a final bit of logic and a leafy vegetable to name the part of your garden you need to head for.

Answer: Orchard

Or + Chard = Orchard

The picture clue here shows a standard symbol for an OR gate in mathematical logic. An orchard is the term given to a plantation of fruit trees designed for growing and cultivating the fruit for food production. Common orchard fruits include apples, pears, peaches and cherries. Citrus fruits are also farmed in this way, but plantations with those types of trees are more generally referred to as groves.

Source: Author Fifiona81

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Using Your Five-a-Day Trivia Quiz

Eating five pieces of fruit and veg a day is supposed to be good for your health, but these handy foods can also turn up in other more unexpected places during your day. Let's investigate using the rebus picture clues provided.

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