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Who made the carrot orange, and why was the tomato first grown only to be looked at? These trivia questions about vegetables fill four rounds, two of them on the carrot and the tomato.
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Vegetable trivia questions and answers, four rounds
The word and the ancient garden asks what Romans did with beets. Carrots: names, colors and flowers follows the root from purple to orange. Tomatoes: from the Andes to Italy reads the first European herbal to mention them. In the garden and the kitchen has mirepoix, locules and a wartime pie.
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Every question comes with four choices. Tap one, and the card tells you whether it was right, adds one sentence of reason and names the article behind it. Questions come in sets of ten.
Questions and answers
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Both. Botanically the tomato is a fruit, an edible berry. In 1893 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Nix v. Hedden that it is taxed as a vegetable, and it is eaten as one.
Why are carrots orange?
Dutch growers created the orange carrot, and a stable variety, the Long Orange, was bred at the start of the 18th century. Carrots are typically orange because of their beta-carotene; older kinds were purple, red, yellow or white.
Where do tomatoes come from?
The tomato's likely wild ancestor is native to western South America: Chile, Peru and Ecuador. Tomatoes were being cultivated in southern Mexico by 500 BCE, and the Spanish introduced them to Europe in the 16th century.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked under it: Vegetable, Carrot or Tomato. Vitamins and health claims, allergies, food-safety outbreaks and harvest rankings are left out.