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Becoming a wizened wizard of Halloween trivia is easy as pumpkin pie.
Each year we gather up the family and go to local pumpkin patches, or at least the grocery store, to pick the perfect pumpkins for our pies, soups, breads, roasted seeds, and, of course, to make the perfect jack-o-lantern. It’s always so much fun, until the questions come.
Where do pumpkins come from? How big can they get? Who thought of carving jack-o-lanterns? Oh yes. Kids are very curious and as grandparents, they often turn to us for the answers. This year, be prepared. Test your Pumpkin IQ and memorize the answers (listed below), and you, too, can be the Prince or Princess of Pumpkin Trivia.
Test your Pumpkin I.Q.
1. Pumpkins are vegetables. (True or False)
2. Pumpkins, native to Ireland, were originally brought to America by the colonists who planted the seeds here. (True or False)
3. Pumpkins contain no nutritional value. (True or False)
4. The largest pumpkin ever grown was grown in 2006 in the state of: (a) Ohio (b) Rhode Island (c) Illinois (d) Euphoria.
5. The largest pumpkin, beating the 2005 Guinness World Record, weighed: (a) 557 lbs. (b) 1,100 lbs. (c) 843 lbs. (d) 1,502 lbs.
6. The flowers on the pumpkin plant are poisonous. (True or False)
7. Pumpkins are 25% water, and the rest pulp and seeds. (True or False)
8. Pumpkin seeds can be saved from year to year, and when planted in the Spring, will produce pumpkins in the Fall. (True or False)
9. Pumpkins are always orange. (True or False)
10. In the nursery rhyme “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater”, how did Peter’s wife end up? (a) fat and happy (b) in a pumpkin shell (c) divorcing the famous pie-eater (d) very angry.
Answers:
1. False. Pumpkins are a fruit from the squash family.
2. False. Pumpkins are native to North America, where they’ve been grown for over five thousand years, but originated in Central America. In the British Isles, it was customary to carve squash on All Saints Day or Hallow’s Eve.
3. False. Pumpkins are low in calories, fat, and sodium and high in fiber. They are good sources of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, potassium, protein, and iron.
4. b) Rhode Island
5. d) 1,502 lbs.
6. False. They are entirely edible – safe and tasty, too.
7. False. Pumpkins are 90% water.
8. True.
9. False. Although orange is the most popular color, pumpkins are available in a variety of colors, including: Orange, red, white, green, yellow, tan, blue.
10. (b) Peter “put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept her very well.”
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