EXPLORIT'S CONFUSED QUIZ!

These questions are about ancient or new foods, or ancient foods with a modern twist. They are intended to be quite straightforward - it's the answers that are confused as you will see.

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Question 1.
Historically, many new plants have been those found in other countries by world explorers or plant hunters and taken back as "new" plants to their own countries. In the sixteenth century, Francis Drake sailed from Virginia (America) to Britain with a supply of a new vegetable. This vegetable, native to the Andes, was new to the British but had been a staple in the diet of the Incas and then the Spanish. The Incas knew how to preserve it by drying or storing in cool caves. (What was this vegetable?)
Here is the answer for you to unscramble: TAPOOT
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Question 2.
This food grain, a member of the grass family (Graminae), has served as an important food source since perhaps as long ago as 8000 B.C. and has been found in Egyptian tombs. Its generic name is Triticum and its several varieties include "hard -----", spring -----", "winter -----." (What is this grain?)
Here is the answer for you to unscramble: AWTHE
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Question 3.
These days, with modern techniques of gene manipulation, custom-made plants are a reality but gardeners and researchers have always practiced selective food plant breeding to produce new varieties with improved vigor, nutritional value or taste. In 1881 a gardener in California crossed a raspberry and a blackberry to produce a vigorous hybrid with dull red, tasty fruits. (What is this fruit plant?)
Here is the answer for you to unscramble: GROALYBERN
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Question 4.
This ancient food plant, rich in vitamins A and C, has been called as the "love apple." It comes in many guises. Some of the edible fruits are yellow but most are red; some are tiny and some large. Modern varieties have been improved by means of gene manipulation to make them easier to harvest or longer lasting on the supermarket shelf. (What is this plant?)
Here is the answer for you to unscramble: AMOTOT
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Question 5
Sometimes the faster a seed germinates, the healthier the seedling will be and the more it will produce at harvest time'. So said a grain researcher at UCDavis who anticipated that improved germination rate of this grain might, in the future, allow it to be seeded directly into dry ground eliminating the need for transplanting seedlings into flooded fields. (What is this grain?)
Here is the answer for you to unscramble: CRIE
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