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Quiz about Fun Fig Facts
Quiz about Fun Fig Facts

Fun Fig Facts Trivia Quiz


I love figs! Once you've taken this quiz maybe you'll be a fig fanatic too.

A multiple-choice quiz by aimlu. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
aimlu
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
302,273
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
666
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is the Latin name for the common fig? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Some people think that fig trees smell like Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What spiritual leader had an "ah ha" moment while sitting under a type of Ficus tree? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What's a caprifig? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. On which continent did figs probably originate? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What plant family is the fig in? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. All fig trees have laticifers. What are laticifers? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This Ficus can grow up to a few hectares across using adventitious and aerial roots. It's called the Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Figs are rich in some vitamins and minerals. Which one of these is not one of them? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. According to the Bible, Eve ate the forbidden fruit which could have been a fig. What did Adam and Eve then do? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the Latin name for the common fig?

Answer: Ficus carica

There are over 800 species of figs.
2. Some people think that fig trees smell like

Answer: cat urine

This smell helps to attract fig eating bats and birds.
3. What spiritual leader had an "ah ha" moment while sitting under a type of Ficus tree?

Answer: Siddattha Gautama

A Ficus called a Bodhi or Bo tree that is a fourth generation descendant of the one Buddha meditated under over 2000 years ago resides in India to this day.
4. What's a caprifig?

Answer: All of these

The figs suitable for human consumption only have viable female flowers inside them so when the wasp goes in to lay eggs and doesn't find the right conditions the flowers are then pollinated.
5. On which continent did figs probably originate?

Answer: Asia

Birds as well as the silk road probably helped the migration of this widespread genus.
6. What plant family is the fig in?

Answer: Moraceae

The Urticaceae or nettle family is quite closely related to the mulberry or fig family. The Apocynaceae family has a milky sap like the fig family.
7. All fig trees have laticifers. What are laticifers?

Answer: Cells that produce latex as a secondary metabolite.

The Indian rubber tree, Ficus elastica, is not the same as the one used for making rubber for commercial purposes, this is the para-rubber tree or Hevea brasiliensis and is in the family Euphorbiaceae.
8. This Ficus can grow up to a few hectares across using adventitious and aerial roots. It's called the

Answer: banyan

Ficus benghalensis...The trees that grew into and around the ancient Angkor Wat ruins are banyans. Strangler is another common name.
9. Figs are rich in some vitamins and minerals. Which one of these is not one of them?

Answer: thiamin

Plus, all those seeds provide fiber and some protein!
10. According to the Bible, Eve ate the forbidden fruit which could have been a fig. What did Adam and Eve then do?

Answer: Used fig leaves to cover their "private" parts.

"And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day." Genesis 3:7
Source: Author aimlu

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