Q 01/05

Which world leader took the stage at a 2010 children's charity concert to sing Blueberry Hill with a jazz band?

A) Bill Clinton

B) Silvio Berlusconi

C) Vladimir Putin

D) Tony Blair

Answer · why

C) Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin sang the old standard in Saint Petersburg, backed by saxophonist Maceo Parker's band. He also picked out part of the tune on the piano ...

Q 02/05

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet Beauregarde turns into a giant blueberry after trying which Wonka sweet?

A) Chewing gum

B) Gobstopper

C) Chocolate bar

D) Lollipop

Answer · why

A) Chewing gum

Chewing gum is her obsession, and Wonka's unfinished stick packs a three-course dinner that goes wrong at the blueberry pie dessert. Roald Dahl's earl...

Q 03/05

After praising Hammonton as the blueberry capital of the world in 1984, Ronald Reagan went on to hail which rock star?

A) John Cougar Mellencamp

B) Bruce Springsteen

C) Jackson Browne

D) Bryan Adams

Answer · why

B) Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen comes from the same state as Hammonton, and the president's campaign stop tried to borrow his glow. The singer soon distanced himsel...

Q 04/05

Which tart red fruit, a fellow member of the heath family, shares the genus Vaccinium with the blueberry?

A) Raspberry

B) Redcurrant

C) Pomegranate

D) Cranberry

Answer · why

D) Cranberry

Cranberry vines and blueberry bushes are such close cousins that the first blueberry farm was planted in the gaps between a family's cranberry bogs.

Q 05/05

Every commercial blueberry, wild lowbush or cultivated highbush, is native to which part of the world?

A) North America

B) Southern Africa

C) Central Asia

D) South America

Answer · why

A) North America

North America kept the blueberry to itself until the 1930s, when highbush plants were first shipped to Europe. Farms in the Southern Hemisphere follow...