Q 01/05

What type of food is a pumpkin technically classified as?

A) Vegetable

B) Tuber

C) Legume

D) Fruit

Answer · why

D) Fruit

Botanically it develops from the flower and carries its seeds inside, so it counts as a fruit rather than a vegetable.

Q 02/05

Which continent are pumpkins originally native to?

A) North America

B) Asia

C) Europe

D) Africa

Answer · why

A) North America

Wild Cucurbita grows in what is now northeastern Mexico and the southern United States.

Q 03/05

Irish legend credits the carved Halloween lantern to which trickster who cheated the Devil?

A) Stingy Jack

B) Wicked Will

C) Drunken Tom

D) Crafty Conn

Answer · why

A) Stingy Jack

Stingy Jack, in Irish legend, tricked the Devil and was barred from both Heaven and Hell, doomed to roam the Earth with only a glowing ember to light ...

Q 04/05

Which holiday is most closely associated with pumpkin pie in the United States?

A) Halloween

B) Thanksgiving

C) Christmas

D) Easter

Answer · why

B) Thanksgiving

It is a Thanksgiving staple in Canada as well.

Q 05/05

What are roasted pumpkin seeds also commonly called?

A) Pistachios

B) Pepitas

C) Pulses

D) Pinones

Answer · why

B) Pepitas

Pepitas, from the Spanish for 'little seed', are pumpkin seeds, strictly the hull-less green kernels, eaten roasted as a snack and used widely in Mexi...