Q 01/05

The peach was first domesticated in which country?

A) Persia (Iran)

B) China

C) India

D) Greece

Answer · why

B) China

The Latin name persica is a leftover of the Roman belief that peaches came from Persia, a mistake botanists repeated for centuries.

Q 02/05

A peach with a fuzz-free glossy skin is sold under what name?

A) Apricot

B) Nectarine

C) Plumcot

D) Damson

Answer · why

B) Nectarine

It is the same species; a single recessive gene switches off the fuzz.

Q 03/05

Peaches, cherries, plums, apricots and almonds all belong to which genus?

A) Malus

B) Pyrus

C) Citrus

D) Prunus

Answer · why

D) Prunus

All of them sit inside the rose family, Rosaceae.

Q 04/05

Which US state earned the nickname 'the Peach State' in the decades after the Civil War?

A) South Carolina

B) Georgia

C) Alabama

D) Mississippi

Answer · why

B) Georgia

It earned the name in the three decades after the Civil War, when its orchards boomed.

Q 05/05

Which country grows roughly two-thirds of the world's peaches and nectarines?

A) Spain

B) Italy

C) China

D) United States

Answer · why

C) China

No other country produces more than about five percent.