Q 01/05

The belief that spinach is an outstanding source of which mineral has been called an academic urban legend?

A) Calcium

B) Iron

C) Zinc

D) Copper

Answer · why

B) Iron

Iron is no more plentiful in spinach than in many other vegetables. The mix-up is often blamed on a misplaced decimal point, though that tale is doubt...

Q 02/05

MIT engineers embedded carbon nanotubes in spinach leaves in 2016 so the plants could detect what in groundwater?

A) Pesticides

B) Mercury

C) Explosives

D) Bacteria

Answer · why

C) Explosives

Explosives leak chemicals called nitroaromatics, and when the roots draw them up the leaves glow in infrared, prompting a small computer to email a wa...

Q 03/05

Scientists stripped spinach leaves of their cells in 2017 and grew human tissue from which organ on the veined remains?

A) Liver

B) Kidney

C) Lung

D) Heart

Answer · why

D) Heart

Heart cells beat on the leaf scaffolds, and one researcher said the idea came when a spinach stem reminded him of an aorta.

Q 04/05

Which comedian played a Popeye who hates spinach until the final fight in Robert Altman's 1980 musical film?

A) Robin Williams

B) Rodney Dangerfield

C) Bill Murray

D) Steve Martin

Answer · why

A) Robin Williams

Robin Williams starred opposite Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl; in the finale Bluto force-feeds Popeye a can of the stuff, which proves to be the bully's...

Q 05/05

Which explorer's crew on the Endeavour picked and pickled the greens now called New Zealand spinach to fight scurvy?

A) Abel Tasman

B) James Cook

C) Francis Drake

D) Vasco da Gama

Answer · why

B) James Cook

James Cook was the first to document the plant, and the botanist Joseph Banks later carried its seeds home to Kew Gardens.