Q 01/05

In the fairy tale Cinderella, what does the fairy godmother turn a pumpkin into?

A) A coachman

B) Six horses

C) A coach

D) Glass slippers

Answer · why

C) A coach

A coach, gilded all over with gold: Charles Perrault added the pumpkin when he wrote the tale down in 1697, along with the mice that become its horses...

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) Jack Frost

C) Spring-heeled Jack

D) Jack Sprat

Answer · why

A) Stingy Jack

Stingy Jack, the tale goes, tricked the Devil twice and was then refused by both Heaven and Hell, left to wander the dark with a single burning coal f...

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

Thanksgiving's pie did not always have a crust: one early New England version cooked spiced, sweetened milk inside a hollowed-out pumpkin set in the f...

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 seed or pip, look green because the white hull has been removed, though some pumpkins grow seeds with no hull at all.