Trader Tom's fun stuff with berries

Test Your berry IQ
(answers below)
1.         On average, there are about ______ tiny seeds on every strawberry.
            A) 25               B) 100                        C) 200            D) 500
 
2.         Strawberries are the highest in which vitamin?
            A) Vitamin A             B) Vitamin B6            C) Vitamin C
 
3.         What makes blackberry plants related to apples, roses, and peaches?
            A)  The taste              B)  The Flower           C)  The Leaf
 
3.         A blackberry is a berry?
            A)  True                      B)  False


Answers: 
1: C 
2: C 
3: B 
They are all rubus plants and typically have 5-7 white/pink petals around a cluster of yellow stamens.
4: B
Technically a blackberry is not a berry, it is an aggregate fruit – with lots of small druplets joined together in the calyx to make one fruit.



Here are some fun websites with a berry focus:

http://www.knotts.com/public/park/tour/index.cfm   real fun in the original boysenberry theme park in California.
 
http://www.altontowers.com/theme-park/magic-young-fun/berry-bish-bash/  more fun and berry games at a theme park – this time in the UK
 
http://pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com/2010/01/berry-fun-felt-fairy-berry-houses.html      make berry houses
 
http://www.pokemon.com/us/fun-zone/online-games/munchlaxs-berry-bonanza_fg/     berry game
 
http://www.isacherryaberry.com/fun poem
 

BerryTrivia Quiz:
 
1.         How do botanists classify eggplant?
 
2.         What are the two most cultivated fruit trees in the world?
 
3.         What berry is the result of a cross between a blackberry & raspberry,
            developed in 1881 in Santa Cruz, California?
 
4:         What am I? 
            I originated in Southeast Asia and India.
            I have been cultivated for 5000 years
            I am a member of the cashew family
 
5.         How did 'bounceberries' get their name, and what is their more
            common name?

6.         What citrus fruit is a cross between a mandarin and a grapefruit?
 
7.         What is distance is the world record for watermelon seed spitting?
 
8.         This tree and its fruit are native to the Peruvian Andes, but are widely cultivated as a commercial crop in New Zealand. When it did not sell well under its original name, New Zealanders invented its current name in 1966.
                        a) kiwi
                        b) tamarillo
                        c) uglifruit
                        d) gooseberry
                        e) pumello
 
Answers:
1:         Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries!
2:         Apple, Peach
3:         Loganberry
4:         Mango
5:         Fresh cranberries can bounce. Bounceberry is another name for
            cranberries.
6:         Tangelo
7:         The world record for watermelon seed spitting is held by Lee Wheelis
            of the USA, who launched a seed a distance of 68 feet 9 1/8 inches in
            1989.  That’s over 20 metres – longer than a cricket wicket.  That’s
            some spit!
8:         The Tree Tomato was renamed Tamarillo.

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Find these berry words:
BLACKBERRY, STRAWBERRY, BLUEBERRY, BERRY, RED, TRADER, TOMS, ORGANIC, JUICY, FROZEN, BLUEBERRIES, YUMMY, SWEET, GOOD, SMOOTHIES, ICEBLOCK, CAKE, MUFFINS, PUDDING, PIE, CRUMBLE, WILD, BEST.