20 November 2024

Quiztime

Today's quiz questions are all about fruit and to help you out multiple choice answers have been provided. As usual, solutions will be given in the comments section.

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 1) What is this?  (a) unicorn fruit  (b) sphinx fruit  
(c) dragon fruit (d) griffin fruit


2) What is this? (a) angry fruit (b) passion fruit (c) fear fruit (d) love fruit

3) What is this? (a) tai chi (b) coochee (c) ho chi  (d) lychee
4) What is this? (a) durian (b) plantain (c) pineapple (d) melon

5) What are these berries? (a) raspberries (b) loganberries 
(c) cloudberries  (d) gooseberries

6) What variety of banana is the one most widely eaten around the world?
(a) Barangan (b) Cavendish (c) Manzano (d) Goldfinger

7) What variety of apples are these? 
(a) Golden Delicious (b) Cripps (c) Jonathan  (d) Braeburn

8) What does pomegranate literally mean?
(a) sweet little eyeballs (b) orb with jewels inside
(c) apple with many seeds (d) fruit of the gods

9) Which of these is NOT a variety of melon
(a) Christmas (b) Cantaloupe (c) Charentais (d) Clandestine

10) What type of large fruit is this woman holding?
(a) spongefruit (b) jackfruit (c) jillfruit (d) balloonfruit

That's all folks! How did you do?

47 comments:

  1. Answers
    1. (c) dragon fruit
    2. (b) passion fruit
    3. (d) lychee
    4. (a) durian
    5. (d) gooseberries
    6. (b) Cavendish
    7. (a) Golden Delicious
    8. (c) apple with many seeds
    9. (d) Clandestine
    10. (b) jackfruit

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  2. Tutti-frutti - I got 9 out of 10! I missed the banana variety.

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    1. Nearly all bananas you see are Cavendish ones.

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  3. 9/10 went for Cavendish then changed it to goldfinger, don’t know why because I’ve never heard of either of them..

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  4. 8 out of 10, better than I expected.

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  5. 9/10--missed #10.

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  6. Does three count?

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    1. For a former teacher that is disappointing.

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  7. 10 of 10!!!! Woohoo!

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  8. 1. Dragon Fruit
    2. Passion Fruit.
    3. Lychee.
    4. Durian.
    5. Gooseberries.
    6. Cavendish. [guess]
    7. Golden Delicious.
    8. Fruit of the Gods [guess]
    9. Charentais [guess]
    10. Jackfruit.

    80% not shabby.

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  9. Finally, questions I actually know the answers to, except for the bananas.

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    1. The Cavendish banana was fostered and promoted by The Dukes of Devonshire based at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England.

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  10. 7/10 I missed 5,7,9.

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  11. I got 7 out of 10. Never seen Nr. 4, had no idea about No. 6, and wrongly guessed "Christmas" for No. 9.
    Now back to my muesli with sliced banana, raspberries and blackberries on top!

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    1. I am happy to have taught you a couple of things today.

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  12. 9 out of 10 this week, I missed the pomegranate one.

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    1. I cunningly tricked you on that. Pomme = apple in French.

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  13. 9 for me. Wrong on the banana question.

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    1. The Cavendish banana was fostered and promoted by The Dukes of Devonshire based at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

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  14. 3 out of 10. Do you shop in Sainsburys these days YP?

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  15. 8/10 - got the banana and melon wrong.

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  16. You had fun with #3, didn't you?

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  17. 8...didn't get 9 or 6!

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    1. I am surprised that you didn't get Cavendish Frances! Historically closely connected with the Dukes of Devonshire whose family name is Cavendish.

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  18. I am going to claim 8, the color on the apples came through as green here. They should be yellow.

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    1. Imagine a quiz contestant on a TV quiz show defying the quizmaster!

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  19. 7/10 - that's brilliant for me.🤣

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    1. What do you mean "for me"? You seem to have at least normal brainpower.

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  20. Got them all except no 6.

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    1. The name Cavendish is associated with The Dukes of Devonshire.

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  21. 7 correct. Which is pretty good since I have never eaten 8 out of the 10 fruits!

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  22. There's a melon called Christmas??? 🤔

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    1. There certainly is Cathy. Why not Google it?

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  23. As a middle aged fruit I did abysmally

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  24. 9 out of 10 - missed the melon.

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  25. 9 out of 10. I still think pomegranate's meaning should be orb with jewels inside because it is.

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  26. I got them all except no. 7. Those are Golden Delicious?! They don't look ripe. If there were no multiple choice I'd have opted for Granny Smith.

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