Q 01/05

Which insect crawls inside a fig through a tiny opening to pollinate it, often losing its wings?

A) Wasp

B) Bee

C) Moth

D) Beetle

Answer · why

A) Wasp

Wasp females squeeze in through the fig's narrow opening, lay their eggs, pollinate it and die inside. Most fig species depend on a partner insect of ...

Q 02/05

Fig Newtons, launched by the Kennedy Biscuit Company, are named after a suburb of which US city?

A) Chicago

B) Boston

C) Philadelphia

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

B) Boston

Boston's suburb of Newton, Massachusetts, lent its name when a plant manager christened the new fig-filled cookie after the nearby town.

Q 03/05

In Genesis, which couple sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves after eating forbidden fruit?

A) Abraham and Sarah

B) Isaac and Rebekah

C) Adam and Eve

D) Jacob and Rachel

Answer · why

C) Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve's leafy cover-up is why later artists and censors used fig leaves to hide the nudity of painted and sculpted figures.

Q 04/05

Which teacher is said to have reached enlightenment after seven weeks meditating under a sacred fig?

A) Mahavira

B) Guru Nanak

C) Confucius

D) The Buddha

Answer · why

D) The Buddha

The Buddha sat beneath a Ficus religiosa, now known as the bodhi tree, and its heart-shaped leaves became a symbol of wisdom in religious art.

Q 05/05

Which country grows more figs than any other, with its Aydın province famous for dried fruit exports?

A) Turkey

B) Greece

C) Italy

D) Spain

Answer · why

A) Turkey

Turkey harvests roughly a quarter of the world's figs, and its dried crop was long sold abroad as Smyrna figs after the port that shipped them.