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Pumpkins have been grown in America for around:
A) 500 years
B) 5,000 years
C) 50,000 years
D) 100,000 years
B) 5,000 years - Pumpkins originated Central America, and are indigenous to the western hemisphere. Spanish and Portuguese explorers carried pumpkin seeds back to Europe in the 14th century. In North America, Native Americans grew pumpkins for food long before the first Europeans arrived on the continent in the 1600s.