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All About Apple Trivia Quiz

This is NOT another quiz about the Apple computer company. It is simply about an apple, a delicious fruit of many varieties, which gave rise to numerous myths and legends, as well as sayings and proverbs.

A multiple-choice quiz by Beatka. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This woman was tempted by a serpent into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, usually seen as an apple. She then made her companion eat it; as a result they were banished from the Garden of Eden for ever. What was her name?

Answer: Eve

Eve, according to the Bible, was the first woman on Earth, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth.

2. What is the name of the goddess of discord, who threw the mythological golden apple, inscribed "for the fairest", into an assembly of the gods?

Answer: Eris

Eris, who was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, threw the apple of discord in vengeance. Paris had to settle a dispute among the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, who claimed the apple, a golden fruit inscribed "to the fairest". Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite, who promised him Helen, the most beautiful of all women on Earth. With Aphrodite's help he abducted Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta; as a result, the Trojan War broke out.

3. These nymphs guarded the golden apples given to Hera as a wedding gift. What did the ancient Greeks call them?

Answer: Hesperides

Hesperides were, in Greek mythology, daughters of Atlas. They lived in a garden at the western end of the world. They guarded (with the aid of the dragon Ladon) a tree that bore golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon and obtained the apples as one of his twelve labors.

4. Name the Greek goddess the apple was sacred to in classical mythology.

Answer: Aphrodite

Aphrodite was, in Greek religion and mythology, the goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. It was to her that Paris awarded the apple of discord, which ultimately led to the Trojan War. The Roman counterpart of Aphrodite is Venus.

5. Which fruit is sometimes called the "love apple" or the "apple of love"?

Answer: tomato

Tomatoes were raised by the Incas and the Aztecs. Officially a fruit, the tomato did not catch on at once in Europe, because many people believed it was poisonous. Around the beginning of the 19th century, the tomato was reintroduced to the Americas by Europeans. It is the third most common vegetable crop in the U.S. nowadays.

6. The legend has it that this scientist was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the universal gravitation law. Who was he?

Answer: Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and natural philosopher (physicist), is considered by many the greatest scientist that ever lived. He discovered the law of universal gravitation.

7. A projection of the thyroid cartilage at the front of the neck that is more prominent in men than in women is called ____ 's apple.

Answer: Adam

Adam, according to the Bible, was the first man on Earth, husband of Eve. Eve tempted him into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, usually seen as an apple. As a result they were banished from the Paradise for ever.

8. A legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow. What was his name?

Answer: Wilhelm Tell

Tell lived in one of the Swiss forest cantons. Gessler, the canton's Austrian bailiff, decreed that Swiss citizens must remove their hats before his hat, which he had posted on a stake in the canton's capital. Tell refused and as a punishment was ordered to shoot an apple off his son's head.

9. Which city is called "The Big Apple"?

Answer: New York City

According to the Museum of the City of New York, the phrase "Big Apple" was first used in a metaphoric description of New York by Martin Wayfarer in 1909. The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau used a red apple during its campaign to increase tourism in the 1970s. Since then the apple has become an international symbol for New York City.

10. A variety of red apple, as well as a very well known computer trademark.

Answer: McIntosh

Macintosh computers are manufactured by Apple company. McIntosh is also a variety of red eating apple, grown commercially in the northern United States.

Source: Author Beatka

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All About Apple Trivia Quiz

This is NOT another quiz about the Apple computer company. It is simply about an apple, a delicious fruit of many varieties, which gave rise to numerous myths and legends, as well as sayings and proverbs.

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