Origin & Trade
The time when bananas were originally Domesticated
When is 4776 BCE? (or 6,800 years ago)
This company was known as something else before the Mrs. Chiquita program in 1944
Who is the United Fruit Company?
These are the countries the European Union wanted to get their bananas from
What are former colonies?
This was the banana species that was the most popular up until their extinction in the 1950s
What are Gros Michel Bananas?
The West Asian Island where Bananas were first thought to be traded
Where is Sri Lanka?
The country the Chiquita started a US-backed coup in
What is Guatemala?
This is the governing body of commerce in the world that mediated the Banana Trade War
What is the World Trade Organization?
This disease completely wiped out the population of a species of banana in the 1950s
What is Fusarium Wilt or "Panama Disease"?
This captain "saw that bananas were popular on local markets” and sold them in the US for over a 3,000% mark-up
Who is Lorenzo Dow Baker?
The US president who was convinced a new, democratic, government in Guatemala was a Communist Regime
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
After the US complaints to the World Trade Organization didn't work, these were placed on almost European imports
What are tariffs?
This is the species of Banana that many of us know and love today
What is the Cavendish?
This is the place where Bananas are originally thought to be domesticated from
What is the Kuk Swamp in Papa New Guinea?
This was Dole's or Standard Fruit Company's original name when the company was first founded
What is the Vaccaro Brothers?
This is the year that the EU and the US came to an agreement
When is 2009?
All of our commercially produced Bananas today are dependent on this reproduction practice
What is cloning?
This Dominican Friar is responsible for documenting the arrival of Bananas in the New World, specifically the West Indies
Who is Tomás de Berlanga?
The year US-backed presidents ended in Guatemala after Chiquita's continued control
When is 1996?
The year the punitive taxes were finally diminished across the board
When is 2017?
This is a new disease threatening the population of our Bananas today
What is “Black Sigatoka”?