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