Which familiar fruit is a leathery berry, and what are the seeds on a strawberry? These fruit trivia questions and answers fill four rounds, one of them on strawberries alone.
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Fruit and vegetable trivia questions and answers
What a botanist calls a fruit is where the two meet: rhubarb, grains of wheat and true nuts are sorted there. Berries, true and false takes in pumpkins and juniper. Tap any of the four answers and the card marks it, with a reason and its article; ten questions make a set.
Strawberry trivia questions and answers
Strawberries follows the garden strawberry from Chile and Virginia to Brittany and Versailles. Lemons, limes and other citrus peels a lemon layer by layer and visits an orangery.
Questions and answers
Are there trivia questions on lemons and limes?
Yes. The citrus round asks who brought lemons to the Mediterranean, what the zest and the pith are, why lemon juice goes on fruit salad, and which fruit the schoolgirls trade in Little Women. The answer to the last is limes.
Is a strawberry a berry?
Not to a botanist. A strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit: the fleshy part grows from the receptacle of the flower, and each apparent seed on the outside is an achene, a tiny fruit with a seed inside.
Where are the trivia questions about fruits and vegetables together?
In the first two rounds, which ask what counts as a fruit in botany: a grain of wheat, a pumpkin and a banana all do, while rhubarb is a leaf stalk. Carrots and tomatoes have a pack of their own under vegetables.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked under it: Fruit, Berry, Citrus or Strawberry. Vitamins and health claims, allergies, harvest rankings and drinks with alcohol are left out.
A fig or a mulberry is a "multiple fruit". What is it formed from?Answer: A cluster of flowers. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
A peach, a cherry and a mango are stone fruits. What is the botanical word for a stone fruit?Answer: A drupe. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
Apples and pears belong to which kind of fruit?Answer: Pomes. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
The fibrous core of which dried fruit is used as a sponge?Answer: The luffa. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
In some species a fruit sets without fertilization and so has no seeds. What is this called?Answer: Parthenocarpy. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
The pericarp has up to three layers. What is the middle layer called?Answer: The mesocarp. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
Rhubarb is often called a fruit when it goes into a pie. Which part of the plant is actually eaten?Answer: The leaf stalk. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
To a botanist a grain of corn, rice or wheat is a kind of fruit. What is this kind of fruit termed?Answer: A caryopsis. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
To a botanist, what is a nut?Answer: A type of fruit. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
What is the outer layer of most fruits, often the part we eat, called?Answer: The pericarp. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
Which fruit can float for some time in the ocean and so spread its seeds?Answer: The coconut. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
Which of these is a true nut to a botanist?Answer: The hazelnut. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
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The "sloe berries" of the blackthorn are not berries. What are they, botanically?Answer: Small stone fruits. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Berry is one of only two fruit names in modern English that descend from native Germanic words. What is the other?Answer: Apple. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
The bright red "berry" of a yew is not a berry but a fleshy outgrowth that almost encloses the seed. What is such an outgrowth called?Answer: An aril. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
In Britain, which horticultural term covers strawberries, raspberries and currants?Answer: Soft fruit. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
In Hawaii the native raspberry called ʻākala was used to dye which material lavender and pink?Answer: Tapa cloth. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Juniper "berries" are not fruits at all. What are they?Answer: Seed-bearing cones. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Lingonberries and cloudberries differ from raspberries and strawberries in where they grow. Where is that?Answer: Almost only in the wild. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Native Americans mixed berries with meat and fats to make which food?Answer: Pemmican. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Raspberries and blackberries are not berries to a botanist. Which kind of fruit are they?Answer: Aggregate fruits. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Watermelons and pumpkins are giant berries. Which category of berry do they fall into?Answer: Pepos. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
What is a plant that bears berries said to be?Answer: Bacciferous. Source: Wikipedia: Berry
Which familiar fruit has been described as a "leathery berry"?Answer: The banana. Source: Wikipedia: Fruit
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A citrus fruit is a specialized berry with a leathery rind. What is this kind of fruit called?Answer: A hesperidium. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
Almost all common citrus fruits are hybrids of three ancestral species: the mandarin, the pomelo and which other?Answer: The citron. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
The colorful outer layer of a lemon's peel is the flavedo. What do cooks call it?Answer: The zest. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
From the 17th century, in what kind of building was citrus grown in the cooler parts of Europe?Answer: An orangery. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
In Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, which fruit do the schoolgirls trade for pencils, bead rings and paper dolls?Answer: Limes. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
In tropical regions with no winter, what color do citrus fruits stay until they are mature?Answer: Green. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
The Latin word citrus is related to the ancient Greek word for which tree?Answer: The cedar of Lebanon. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
Oranges, lemons, grapefruits and limes were all developed in the same way. How?Answer: Through hybridization. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
What is the white, spongy layer under the peel of a citrus fruit commonly called?Answer: The pith. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
Which compound makes grapefruit taste bitter?Answer: Naringin. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
Who introduced lemons, pomelos and sour oranges to the Mediterranean around the 10th century?Answer: Arab traders. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
Why is lemon juice squeezed over a fruit salad?Answer: To stop the fruit from turning brown. Source: Wikipedia: Citrus
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At the court of which English king were strawberries eaten fresh with cream?Answer: Henry VIII. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
The fleshy red part of a strawberry does not come from the flower's ovaries. Which part of the flower does it come from?Answer: The receptacle. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
The garden strawberry was first bred in the 1750s. In which region of France?Answer: Brittany. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
The garden strawberry was once called the "pine strawberry", and its species name is ananassa. Which fruit do both names point to?Answer: The pineapple. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
Gardeners once made new strawberry plants by pegging down a part of the plant until it rooted. Which part?Answer: The runners. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
In Florida, which season is the natural growing season for strawberries?Answer: Winter. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
The strawberry genus, Fragaria, belongs to which plant family?Answer: The rose family. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
What is each "seed" on the outside of a strawberry really?Answer: An achene, a tiny fruit with a seed inside. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
When Chilean strawberry plants first reached Europe they grew vigorously. What went wrong?Answer: They produced no fruit. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
Which Roman poet wrote of a snake lurking beneath the strawberry?Answer: Virgil. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
Who brought the Chilean strawberry from Chile to Europe in 1714?Answer: Amédée-François Frézier. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
Who found in 1766, in the gardens of Versailles, that the garden strawberry was a hybrid of two American species?Answer: Antoine Nicolas Duchesne. Source: Wikipedia: Strawberry
How this list was compiled
Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. The questions and the wrong choices are our own. Every answer was read on October 3, 2026 in one of four English Wikipedia articles, Fruit, Berry, Citrus or Strawberry (en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license); each question links the article that states its fact, and each explanation restates that article in our own sentence. Left out on purpose: vitamins, nutrition and health claims, allergies, harvest figures and rankings, which change every year, drinks made from fruit that contain alcohol, and what the strawberry has been made to stand for in paintings. Facts that other packs on this site already ask (which familiar fruit is not a true berry, the gas that ripens fruit, the fruit as the part that grows from the ovary, blueberries) are not asked again. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, hard will stump most. Licence: own work