Q 01/05

The avocado has one big seed like a peach, but botanists class its fruit as what?

A) A pome

B) A berry

C) A nut

D) A legume

Answer · why

B) A berry

A berry, in the botanist's sense: a fleshy fruit with no stony shell around the seed, which is what a peach or cherry has. A few texts still file the ...

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

Cinnamon and bay laurel share the laurel family with the avocado, and the kinship has a cost. Laurel wilt, a beetle-borne fungus that has killed wild ...

Q 03/05

Which classic American salad, born at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant, counts avocado among its standard ingredients?

A) Caesar salad

B) Waldorf salad

C) Cobb salad

D) Chef salad

Answer · why

C) Cobb salad

Cobb salad is named for Robert Cobb, who ran the Brown Derby. As the story goes, he raided the kitchen for a midnight snack and chopped together what ...

Q 04/05

In 1970s American kitchens, the craze for 'avocado green' appliances went hand in hand with which other colour?

A) Harvest gold

B) Powder blue

C) Petal pink

D) Turquoise

Answer · why

A) Harvest gold

Harvest gold and avocado green ruled the decade's refrigerators and stoves. They then fell so far from fashion that the pair became shorthand for a da...

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

Mail carrier: he was earning 25 cents an hour at the Pasadena post office when he bought his grove, and he never gave the job up. The patent on the wo...