Natural History
Botany
Apples in Food & Recipes
Mythology & Folklore
Miscellaneous
100
The only type of apple native to North America is this small, sour fruit that is rarely eaten raw.
What is the crab apple?
100
Apple tree blossoms have this many petals.
What is 5?
100
Caramel apples have a caramal coating, but candy apples have this kind of coating.
What is sugar and cinnamon boiled to the "hard-crack" stage.
100
The eleventh labor of Hercules was to bring these precious items, guarded by the Hesperides (nymph daughters of the Titan, Atlas) and a hundred headed dragon, to Eurystheus.
What are golden apples? (from the tree given to Zeus and Hera on their wedding day by Gaia)
100
The largest apple ever grown weighed 4 pounds 6 ounces 5 pounds 3 ounces 3 pounds 2 ounces 4 pounds 1 ounce
What is 4 pounds 1 ounce?
200
Early American settlers found their newly planted apple orchards produced very few apples until they imported these from the old country.
What are honey bees?
200
The apple is NOT related to one of the following plants: Rose Pear Peach Grape
What is the Grape?
200
This is the term for a small mass of fried batter with apples inside.
What is an "apple fritter"?
200
This is the term for the lump in the neck formed by the cartlidge surrounding the larnyx.
What is the Adam's apple?
200
This was Jonny Appleseed's given name.
Who is Jonathan Chapman?
300
Because Johnny Appleseed rebuked this practice and would only plant trees from seed, his trees produced cider apples that were not edible straight from the branch.
What is grafting?
300
Recipes for apple pies in the 14th century did not include this ingrediant, considered essential in today's pies.
What is sugar?
300
Putting this in the fork of a branch of the largest apple tree in the orchard would ensure that a farmer has a bountiful apple crop the follow year.
What is toast?
300
This country produces over half of the world's apples.
What is China?
400
There are more than _____________ varieties of apples in existance today. 7,000 700 70
What is 7,000?
400
If you were to plant 100 seeds from apples that all came from the same tree, this is the number of different types of apple trees you would get.
What is 100?
400
Tart apples boiled in cider until they are reduced to a thick paste creates this substance.
What is apple butter?
400
According to an old folk tale, you can cure rheumatism by rubbing the affected area with this.
What is a rotten apple?
400
This apple derivative can be used as a flea repellent, a skin toner, a cleaner and base for salad dressing.
What is apple cider vinegar?
500
Apple trees originated in the Tien Shan Mountains located in the eastern portion of this country.
What is Kazakstan?
500
In 2010, the complete genome of the apple was decoded. It contained about 57,000 genes - more genes than any other fruit decoded thus far, and nearly 27,000 more than this very complex mammal.
What is a human being?
500
Apples were often eaten with heavy meat dishes and cheeses due to their ability to do this.
What is aid digestion? (specifically the malic and tartaric acids in apples make them easy to digest and also help with the enitre process of breaking down food and moving it through the system)
500
In Norse mythology, golden apples are the source of the gods' __________________.
What is immortality?
500
The Anglo-Saxon mid-winter ceremony of "wassailing" involved singing and drinking to the health of the apple trees so that they would bear much fruit the following year for the production of this.
What is cider?
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