Orange (fruit) - Quiz
A) French missionaries B) Spanish travellers C) British explorers D) Portuguese merchants
A) His second voyage B) His first voyage C) His fourth voyage D) His third voyage
A) 1493 B) 1565 C) 1607 D) 1540
A) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés B) Archibald Menzies C) William Wolfskill D) Christopher Columbus
A) Spanish missionaries B) Franciscans C) British settlers D) Mexican farmers
A) Botanists B) Dutch traders C) Spanish missionaries D) Franciscans
A) Interpreter B) Navigator C) Botanist D) Captain
A) Mexico B) Brazil C) South Africa D) Spain
A) A prolonged drought B) Political revolution C) A severe winter frost D) Arrival of the Mediterranean fruit fly
A) Around 1565 B) Around 1872 C) Around 1890 D) Around 1804
A) By importing mature trees from California B) By using greenhouse cuttings C) By planting seeds directly in sandy soil D) By grafting the sweet orange on to sour orange rootstocks
A) Around 1804 B) Around 1739 C) Around 1769 D) Around 1707
A) It was thick-skinned and sour B) It rotted too quickly C) It was too small and sweet D) It lacked vitamin C
A) Mission San Gabriel B) Los Angeles C) St Augustine D) San Diego
A) About 4.5 million trees B) About 2 million trees on one hundred acres C) About 90,000 trees on fifty acres D) About 400 trees on six acres
A) The completion of major railroads in 1877 B) The establishment of the Citrus Experiment Station in 1907 C) Secularisation in 1835 D) The California gold rush in 1849
A) William Wolfskill B) Jean-Louis Vignes C) Luther C. Tibbets D) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
A) William Wolfskill B) Eliza Tibbets C) Jean-Louis Vignes D) Archibald Menzies
A) The introduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly B) The California gold rush C) The opening of the Panama Canal D) The creation of Sunkist Growers Inc.
A) Vitamin D B) Vitamin C C) Vitamin B12 D) Vitamin A
A) Orange County B) Riverside County C) Los Angeles County D) San Diego County
A) 1885 B) 1876 C) 1841 D) 1873
A) Jean-Louis Vignes and William Wolfskill B) Luther C. Tibbets and Eliza Tibbets C) Archibald Menzies and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés D) Farmers from New Orleans
A) Small and acidic B) Sweet and seedless C) Summer-ripening and seedy D) Thick-skinned and sour
A) 1873 B) 1862 C) 1885 D) 1876
A) In spring and summer B) Only in winter C) In winter and spring D) In summer and fall
A) Central Pacific B) Southern Pacific C) Union Pacific D) Santa Fe
A) Southern Pacific B) Northern Pacific C) Panama Railway D) Santa Fe
A) Refrigerated steamships B) Horse-drawn insulated carts C) Air-conditioned trucks D) Ventilated boxcars
A) 2 million B) 400 C) 90,000 D) 4.5 million
A) 4.5 million B) 10 million C) 90,000 D) 2 million
A) 1 million B) 4.5 million C) 2 million D) 90,000
A) Hand-picking pests daily B) Introduction of ladybugs only C) Spraying and fumigation D) Crop rotation and burning
A) Heaters and later wind machines B) Building glass greenhouses over trees C) Underground heating pipes D) Covering every tree with canvas
A) 1907 B) 1905 C) 1890 D) 1980
A) Vancouver Expedition Society B) Riverside Citrus Union C) California Fruit Growers Exchange D) U.S. Department of Agriculture
A) Sunkist Growers Inc. B) Valencia Orange Growers C) Navel Citrus Corporation D) Mission Agricultural Co.
A) Arizona B) Florida C) Hawaii D) Texas
A) Fourth voyage B) First voyage C) Second voyage D) Third voyage
A) 1872 B) 1707 C) 1565 D) 1493
A) South America, Mexico, and Florida B) Spain, England, and France C) Hawaii, California, and Arizona D) Canada, Alaska, and Oregon
A) Hispaniola B) San Diego C) Hawaii D) Arizona
A) Riverside, California B) Los Angeles, California C) San Diego, California D) St Augustine, Florida
A) Archibald Menzies B) Luther C. Tibbets C) Christopher Columbus D) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
A) Mediterranean fruit fly B) Aphids C) Citrus rust mite D) Locust swarm
A) Early 1900s B) Late 1700s C) Mid 1800s D) Late 1900s
A) San Diego B) Brazil C) South Africa D) New Orleans
A) Navel orange rootstocks B) Lemon rootstocks C) Sour orange rootstocks D) Wild lime rootstocks
A) Sacramento B) Baja California C) Alta California D) San Francisco
A) 1835 B) 1739 C) 1804 D) 1769
A) Two acres B) Ten acres C) Six acres D) Fifty acres
A) 1804 B) 1835 C) 1862 D) 1841
A) 1804 B) 1834 C) 1841 D) 1873
A) 1834 B) 1841 C) 1862 D) 1873
A) Two-thirds B) Three-quarters C) One-half D) One-third
A) 1849 B) 1890 C) 1873 D) 1835
A) Malaria B) Rickets C) Scurvy D) Beriberi
A) $1,000 B) $100 C) $10,000 D) $50
A) Spanish Mission Board B) University of California C) California Fruit Growers Exchange D) U.S. Department of Agriculture
A) San Diego B) Riverside C) Los Angeles D) St Augustine
A) The summer-ripening Valencia orange B) The sweet, seedless navel orange C) The Mediterranean fruit fly-resistant orange D) The thick-skinned sour orange
A) Sour orange B) Navel orange C) Valencia orange D) Baja orange
A) 1905 B) 1873 C) 1877 D) 1885
A) 1877 B) 1907 C) 1876 D) 1885
A) Caused a massive decline in orange prices B) Ended the need for irrigation C) Triggered a planting frenzy by opening national markets D) Forced farmers to switch to growing lemons
A) U.S. Department of Agriculture B) University of California C) California Fruit Growers Exchange D) Stanford University
A) Protect it from Mediterranean fruit flies B) Invent frost protection heaters C) Breed the Valencia orange D) Standardise and market it
A) The American continent B) The Asian continent C) The European continent D) The African continent
A) Christopher Columbus in 1493 B) Archibald Menzies in 1792 C) William Wolfskill in 1841 D) Subsequent expeditions in the mid-1500s
A) Mid-1500s B) Mid-1800s C) Mid-1700s D) Mid-1900s
A) French B) Portuguese C) British D) Spanish
A) Sent them by railroad to New Orleans B) Raised seedlings on board and gave them to Hawaiian chiefs C) Grafted them onto sour orange rootstocks D) Planted them immediately in San Diego
A) 1873 B) 1792 C) 1769 D) 1804
A) With Archibald Menzies' expedition B) With Spanish missionaries planting at Baja California and Alta California missions C) With Midwestern farmers in Orange County D) With William Wolfskill's private orchard
A) Florida explorers B) Midwestern farmers C) European botanists D) Hawaiian chiefs
A) Brazil B) Mexico C) South Africa D) Spain
A) Gymnosperms B) Angiosperms C) Bryophytes D) Ferns
A) Never B) Yes, almost entirely C) Only in the wild D) No, they are sterile
A) The trifoliate orange B) The bitter orange C) The mandarin orange D) The hybrid pomelo
A) 50% B) 25% C) 42% D) 58%
A) 50% B) 58% C) 42% D) 75%
A) No, bitter oranges arose independently B) Bitter oranges are mutated sweet oranges C) Yes, they are identical D) Bitter oranges came first
A) Citrange B) Grapefruit C) Ambersweet D) Clementine
A) Trifoliate oranges B) Pomelos and grapefruits C) Mandarin oranges or tangerines D) Lemons and limes
A) Citrus aurantium B) Citrus maxima C) Citrus reticulata D) Citrus × sinensis
A) Solanaceae B) Rutaceae C) Lamiaceae D) Rosaceae
A) 17th century B) 314 BC C) Song dynasty D) 2024
A) 50% B) 67% C) 10% D) 23%
A) Jan van Eyck B) John Sloan C) Vincent van Gogh D) Henri Matisse
A) Zhao Lingrang B) Jan van Eyck C) Vincent van Gogh D) Henri Matisse
A) 10 m B) 4 cm C) 15 m D) 33 ft
A) Serrated margins B) Smooth margins C) Lobed margins D) Crenulate margins
A) Hesperidium B) Carpel C) Albedo D) Vesicle
A) Bright orange B) Yellow-orange C) Green D) White
A) Both climacteric and non-climacteric B) Climacteric C) Non-climacteric D) Neither
A) Pome B) Drupe C) Pepo D) Hesperidium
A) Louis XIV B) Portuguese merchants C) Italian merchants D) The Moors
A) 9th century B) 10th century C) 15th century D) 17th century
A) Terraced farming methods B) Greenhouse heating systems C) Advanced grafting techniques D) Complex irrigation techniques
A) 9th century B) Late 15th century C) 17th century D) 10th century |
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