Q 01/05

Botanically speaking, the avocado fruit is classified as what?

A) A stone-fruit drupe

B) A fleshy pome

C) A single-seeded berry

D) A hard-shelled nut

Answer · why

C) A single-seeded berry

Unlike a peach or cherry, there is no hard stony layer around the seed, which is what rules out the drupe label.

Q 02/05

The avocado tree belongs to the same plant family as which two kitchen staples?

A) Olive and jasmine

B) Cinnamon and bay laurel

C) Almond and cherry

D) Coffee and vanilla

Answer · why

B) Cinnamon and bay laurel

The laurel family, Lauraceae, is full of aromatic and often toxic species; the avocado is one of the few grown for its fruit.

Q 03/05

Which country was the world's leading avocado producer in 2024?

A) Peru

B) Kenya

C) Indonesia

D) Mexico

Answer · why

D) Mexico

Its output doubled between 2013 and 2023, and Michoacán's so-called Green Gold Belt became the world's largest integrated avocado industry.

Q 04/05

Which single cultivar accounts for around 80% of all avocados grown in the world?

A) Hass

B) Pinkerton

C) Reed

D) Fuerte

Answer · why

A) Hass

Its bumpy skin turns purplish-black when ripe, and it rhymes with 'pass', though supermarkets often misspell it Haas.

Q 05/05

What was Rudolph Hass's day job when he raised the original Hass avocado tree in the 1920s?

A) Mail carrier

B) Pharmacist

C) Schoolteacher

D) Railway engineer

Answer · why

A) Mail carrier

He earned 25 cents an hour at the Pasadena post office and sold his first surplus fruit to co-workers there.