Fruit Salad Trivia Quiz

The picture of the shiny red apple should have brought to mind one of the creators of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak. Born in California in 1950, Wozniak co-founded the successful company along with Steve Jobs in 1976. Wozniak was also the designer of the first viable home computer, the Apple II.

He semi-retired in 1985, but remained part of the computing world by serving on boards and/or funding business ventures. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000, amongst many other honours and awards.

Bicycles with so-called banana seats were all the rage in 1970s North America, especially amongst pre-teen boys intent on using them to do wheelies and other stunts. As well as the elongated, narrow seats, these bikes also had high handlebars which at least made them look "cool".

The other advantage of the banana seat was that it provided room for a passenger, should such a thing be desired.

American singer-songwriter Antoine "Fats" Domino (1928-2017) wasn't the only entertainer to find his thrill on "Blueberry Hill", but his 1956 recording of the song did reach number two on the "Billboard" Top 40, and spent several weeks at number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart. It was also considered significant enough to be enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Even though the sobriquet "Kiwi" for a New Zealander derives from the flightless bird, and not the fruit, there is a definite connection here. The fruit, alternately known as a Chinese gooseberry for its country of origin, was grown commercially in New Zealand beginning in the early 20th century.

The name kiwifruit began to be used in marketing in the 1950s for various reasons, and that was shortened to kiwi in North America.

A new car described as a lemon normally has a fault that wasn't caught before it left the factory - and probably should have been. The use of the slang term lemon to describe something that doesn't perform as expected actually predates its use in the automotive sense, having been used in the early twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic to describe any subpar product, especially if it was being represented as being exemplary.

It wasn't until the 1960s that the term became popular to describe faulty vehicles.

There's zither music in my head, because Orson Welles in Vienna was Harry Lime, the elusive "Third Man" in the brilliant film noir, directed by Sir Carol Reed, with a screenplay by Graham Greene. Set in post World War II Vienna, the plot involves the black market, friendship, betrayal and great scenes on a ferris wheel and in the sewers. And there's always the theme, the zither music creating a particular atmosphere. (You might have guessed that I like this movie a lot.)

"The House on Mango Street" by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros was first published in 1984. It has come to be regarded as a major work of both Chicano and feminist literature, with the flip side being that is also somewhat controversial due to some of its themes. Cisneros herself was born in Chicago and educated there and at the University of Iowa.

As well as being an author she has been a teacher, and she has been the recipient of a number of awards for her writing.

In the novel "A Clockwork Orange" (1962) by Anthony Burgess, and the Stanley Kubrick film (1971) based upon it, "droogs" are friends or comrades, in the slang used by young thug Alex and his gang. The story in both cases is of a dystopian future society where these young hooligans terrorize innocent people, seemingly just because they can.

The word droog is a corruption of a Russian word for friend. The movie, which starred Malcolm McDowell as Alex, was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning none of them.

"Papaya power" returned to the Formula 1 grid in 2018, when the McLaren team returned to the papaya-orange livery of its early days in the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid-2020s, Papaya power was making itself felt, with back to back Constructors' Championships in 2024-25, and a World Drivers' Championship for Lando Norris in 2025.

The peach is the state fruit of the US state of Georgia, designated as such as recently as 1995, but associated with the state for over a century before that. Nearly three million bushels of the fruit are produced in the state annually, including in a county named Peach County! Early 20th century baseball star Ty Cobb (1886-1961), born in Georgia, was nicknamed "The Georgia Peach".

Animated television character SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea, in his self-named tv series which began in 1999 as well as in movie and video game spin offs. Voiced by Tom Kenny, SpongeBob has a pet snail named Gary, and a starfish friend named Patrick. His pineapple house on Conch Street began as a pineapple that fell from a ship, ending up as SpongeBob's home.

"Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles, was released in 1967 as a double A-side single with Paul McCartney's "Penny Lane". Written by John Lennon, based on childhood memories, "Strawberry Fields Forever" was later included on the US "Magical Mystery Tour" LP. In 2004 it was ranked by "Rolling Stone" at number 76 of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".