Avocado Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
The avocado, is believed to have originated where?
A: In the state of Puebla, Mexico.
The native, undomesticated variety is known as a criollo,
and is what?
A: Small, with dark black skin, and contains a large seed.
The oldest evidence of avocado use was found where?
A: In a cave located in Coxcatlán, Puebla, Mexico, that dates to around 10,000
BC.
Where does the avocado tree has a long history of
cultivation?
A: In Central and South America.
A water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was
discovered in what pre-Incan city?
A: The city of Chan Chan.
The first written record in English of the use of the word
'avocado' was by whom?
A: Hans Sloane in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants.
The word "avocado" comes from what Spanish word?
A: Aguacate.
Avocados are known as "butter fruit" in parts of what
country?
A: India.
An avocado goes by the name "bơ" in Vietnamese, which is
the same word that is used for what?
A: Butter.
The avocado tree grows to how tall?
A: 66 feet.
The subtropical species needs a climate without what?
A: Frost and with little wind.
What do high winds do?
A: They reduce the humidity, dehydrate the flowers, and affect pollination.
Yield is reduced when the irrigation water is what?
A: Highly saline.
Commercial orchards produce an average of how many tons per
hectare each year?
A: Seven.
Biennial bearing can be a problem, with heavy crops in one
year being followed by what?
A: Poor yields the next.
The avocado tree does not tolerate freezing temperatures,
and can be grown only in what type of climate?
A: Subtropical or tropical climates.
The avocado is a climacteric fruit, which matures on the
tree, but ripens where?
A: Off the tree.
Avocados for commerce are picked hard and green and kept in
coolers at 37.9 to 42.1 °F until what ?
A: They reach their final destination.
Avocados must be mature to what?
A: To ripen properly.
Avocados that fall off the tree ripen where?
A: On the ground.
Generally, the fruit is picked once it reaches what?
A: Maturity.
Once picked, avocados ripen in how long?
A: One to two weeks .
Some supermarkets sell ripened avocados which have been
treated with what?
A: Synthetic ethylene to hasten ripening.
The use of an ethylene gas "ripening room", which is now an
industry standard, was pioneered in the 1980s by what farmer?
A: Gil Henry of Escondido.
In some cases, avocados can be left on the tree for how
long?
A: Several months.
What happens if the fruit remains unpicked for too long?
A: It falls to the ground.
Avocados can be propagated by seed, taking roughly how long
to bear fruit?
A: Four to six years.
While dozens of cultivars are grown, the 'what' avocado is
today the most common?
A: Hass.
It produces fruit year-round and accounts for what
percentage of cultivated avocados in the world?
A: 80%.
All 'Hass' trees are descended from a single "mother tree"
raised by whom?
A: A mail carrier named Rudolph Hass, of La Habra Heights,
California.
Hass patented the productive tree in what year?
A: 1935.
The "mother tree", of uncertain subspecies, died of root
rot and was what?
A: Cut down in September, 2002.
