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Is It A Vegetable Or A Fruit? Trivia Quiz

Well, fight amongst yourselves about what pumpkins are but, it being October at the time, pumpkins are quite in vogue so here's a quiz about them. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by Gatsby722. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
Gatsby722

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
218,273

Updated
Sep 08 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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3343

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Aside from being generally assaulted (gutted and carved into - those poor pumpkins!) as means to decorate your porch on Halloween, pumpkins have been thought to have other uses over times past. Which of these is one somebody actually dreamed up? Hint

In 1700s Pennsylvania children would "bowl" (of sorts) with them in the yard.

They were once recommended for freckle removal and/or curing snake bites.

Some ancient Egyptians would rub their hair with a freshly harvested pumpkin rind thinking it would get rid of graying hair.

In old London it was thought they served as worthy 'rat repellents' (which obviously didn't work).

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Question 2 of 10

2. How many a pumpkin or a pie made of them have suffered a fiery demise being burned to blackness in the oven. Ironic, that, since they are mostly made up of what?

Answer: (One Word - 5 'wet' letters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Before you complain about pumpkin plant vines travelling over half your property (they seem to stretch out forever!) look at the little orange fellows there and be happy. After all, something about pumpkins weigh in at over 350 pounds. What is that "little" fact about? Hint

None are correct!

It was the heaviest pumpkin known to man, coming in at just under 1000 pounds.

It was the largest pumpkin pie on record.

A fellow in Minnesota has won the annual "Pumpkin Pie" Eating Contest 14 years in a row. He weighs 385 pounds. No wonder!

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Question 4 of 10

4. Hey! *grumbles* Some rowdy teens just invaded my pumpkin patch and are running off with my little orange friends. I'll let them have their fun, I guess, since there are more left out there. Most pumpkins ARE orange, but other colors of them can be grown. Which of these can NOT be grown? Hint

Yellow

These all are colors that can happen.

White

Blue

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Question 5 of 10

5. Is there an official Pumpkin Festival? Sure there is - since there is a festival for just about everything else, why not? Is there one of those festivals in California USA?

Yes

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Question 6 of 10

6. Every year, at this time, we get to see somebody sitting in the garden waiting for "The Great Pumpkin" to appear in an animated Halloween special. It never does, but thinking it might is fun every time. In that "Peanuts" show, who is the one who's convinced that pumpkin will show up? Hint

Pig Pen

Charlie Brown

Linus

Snoopy

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Question 7 of 10

7. The American Indians, many years ago, used pumpkins to a very interesting effect. They would peel it, dry the rind, stretch it out and then do what? Hint

Feed it to the horses

Wear it

Sleep on it

Eat it

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Question 8 of 10

8. Like pumpkin soup? Good for you if you do (I don't). In a traditional recipe there what would you NOT find? Hint

Milk

Tomatoes

Celery

Onions

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Question 9 of 10

9. In 1964 a film called "The Pumpkin Eater" came out. Anne Bancroft was great in it, among others. She played Jo Armitage (frustrated wife) along with an actor who played her husband Jake. Who was that actor? Hint

Peter O'Toole

Donald Sutherland

David Niven

Peter Finch

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Question 10 of 10

10. The "Million Dollar" question: is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? Hint

It's an animal!

It's a vegetable

It's a fruit

Botonists cannot agree what it is

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: They were once recommended for freckle removal and/or curing snake bites.

Freckles are melanin, poorly distributed on the skin of the fair-skinned. Much like a suntan, but not quite so evenly spread around. While it was once considered so a pumpkin wouldn't help much to solve them. These days they are removed with lasers and I'm sure pumpkins pale in comparison to those.

As for snake bites? I would guess that expecting anything that grows in the garden to negate the venom of those is about the same as waiting to become dead. But it was once thought so. The other three answers are totally made up.

2. How many a pumpkin or a pie made of them have suffered a fiery demise being burned to blackness in the oven. Ironic, that, since they are mostly made up of what?

Answer: water

90% water! Most things are mostly water, though, in nature. But, darn it, if you cook something to extremes it can't 'put itself out' in the end. Don't blame the pumpkin - blame the chef. I'll mention that I was surely guilty a few years ago. I forgot the pie was in there and this horrible charred black thing eventually emerged. Naturally I blamed the oven.

Answer: It was the largest pumpkin pie on record.

The heaviest pumpkin known tipped the scales at 1337 pounds, so well over 1000 (bulky thing, I'm imagining). The pie is right. It was over 5 feet in diameter, using 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin and 36 pounds of sugar and 12 dozen eggs. Bake for 6 hours and it looks like enough to feed a small town!

Answer: These all are colors that can happen.

Colorful little devils. There is even a black and purple variety. Generally pumpkins are considered a member of the squash family so the odds there are endless. Squash are mostly hybrid things. Are squash fruit? Stay tuned...

5. Is there an official Pumpkin Festival? Sure there is - since there is a festival for just about everything else, why not? Is there one of those festivals in California USA?

Answer: Yes

It happens in Half Moon Bay, California every year. They line up for hours to get in and get their pumpkins weighed, criticized, and ready for friendly battle. Pretty serious "Pumpkin People". Truth is, such festivals happen everywhere. Except Antarctica, it seems, since that is the only place on the planet where pumpkins don't grow.

Answer: Linus

For once Charlie Brown gets a break in the 'goofy' department. They all appease Linus so as he sits out there waiting. By day, Linus is obsessed with his security blanket. But that one night every year he's just a one-note little boy hoping upon hope. Sorry to say, the "Great Pumpkin" never shows up.

But Linus never disbelieves. Now that I think about it he is my favorite "Peanuts" character.

7. The American Indians, many years ago, used pumpkins to a very interesting effect. They would peel it, dry the rind, stretch it out and then do what?

Answer: Sleep on it

They would make mats out of it, after the drying. This gave them, I guess, a bit of padding. Nobody ate the rind (not even the horses).

8. Like pumpkin soup? Good for you if you do (I don't). In a traditional recipe there what would you NOT find?

Answer: Tomatoes

Nothing tomato-ey about pumpkin soup. It's a creamy mixture, as a general rule and tomatoes would not be good in the mix. It is served in the hull of the pumpkin shell (usually heated) and that sums it up, mostly. The mixture of pumpkin and tomato sounds pretty bad, if you ask me.

Answer: Peter Finch

Finch had a great body of work. He won his Oscar (posthumously) for "Network" immortalizing the line "I'm mad as hell and won't take it anymore". As we collectively threw our TVs out the nearest window we realized what a great actor he was.

10. The "Million Dollar" question: is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer: It's a fruit

It is assigned to the squash family (which is considered a vegetable) but almost every source calls it a fruit. Again, fight amongst yourselves about it. A tomato is a fruit, too. I'll avoid such arguments - but I'm sure I'll get some.

Hope you had a spot of fun with my "pumpkins"! Happy forthcoming Halloween!

Source: Author Gatsby722

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