Trivia questions (5 of 15)
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1. What is this often hand-pollinated orchid that produces an exotic bean used for food flavoring?
While Mexican vanilla can be pollinated by insects in its native region, much of commercial vanilla is produced through the very time-consuming process of hand pollination of its orchid.
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2. What is the commonly used name for seasonal allergic rhinitis caused by trees, grass, and weeds during the spring and summer?
FUN FACT
The term "hay fever" originated from doctors in the 1800s believing the sneezing and itchy eye symptoms were caused by farmers mowing new hay in the summer.
Later in 1859, Charles Blackley discovered it was due to a pollen allergy, but by then the name had stuck.
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3. Which of these insects is the world's most prolific pollinator?
Bees are the most prolific of all pollinators on Earth, accounting for the pollination of between 75% to 85% of the world's food crops.
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4. Which of these big time pollinator flowers not only provides a type of food and cooking oil, but are incredible at detoxifying soil?
Sunflowers not only offer their seeds as food, but they're also used to make low fat cooking oil.
In addition they are great at sucking up toxic minerals and even radiation in soil and have been used at both Chernobyl and Fukushima to aid in clean up.
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5. What is this vegetable that was very bitter until the 1990s when breeders began cross-pollinating its species to make it palatable?
Brussels sprouts were not on a lot of menus until the mid-1990s when producers started tinkering with the plant to make it taste better.
Since the update, brussels sprouts have experienced a major resurgence on dining menus in the last twenty years.
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