A) French missionaries B) Portuguese merchants C) British explorers D) Spanish travellers
A) His first voyage B) His third voyage C) His second voyage D) His fourth voyage
A) 1493 B) 1540 C) 1607 D) 1565
A) Christopher Columbus B) William Wolfskill C) Archibald Menzies D) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
A) British settlers B) Franciscans C) Spanish missionaries D) Mexican farmers
A) Dutch traders B) Botanists C) Spanish missionaries D) Franciscans
A) Botanist B) Navigator C) Interpreter D) Captain
A) Mexico B) South Africa C) Spain D) Brazil
A) A severe winter frost B) Arrival of the Mediterranean fruit fly C) A prolonged drought D) Political revolution
A) Around 1872 B) Around 1804 C) Around 1565 D) Around 1890
A) By grafting the sweet orange on to sour orange rootstocks B) By planting seeds directly in sandy soil C) By using greenhouse cuttings D) By importing mature trees from California
A) Around 1769 B) Around 1739 C) Around 1707 D) Around 1804
A) It was thick-skinned and sour B) It was too small and sweet C) It lacked vitamin C D) It rotted too quickly
A) San Diego B) Los Angeles C) Mission San Gabriel D) St Augustine
A) About 4.5 million trees B) About 400 trees on six acres C) About 2 million trees on one hundred acres D) About 90,000 trees on fifty acres
A) The establishment of the Citrus Experiment Station in 1907 B) The completion of major railroads in 1877 C) Secularisation in 1835 D) The California gold rush in 1849
A) Luther C. Tibbets B) Jean-Louis Vignes C) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés D) William Wolfskill
A) William Wolfskill B) Archibald Menzies C) Jean-Louis Vignes D) Eliza Tibbets
A) The California gold rush B) The introduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly C) The opening of the Panama Canal D) The creation of Sunkist Growers Inc.
A) Vitamin B12 B) Vitamin C C) Vitamin A D) Vitamin D
A) Los Angeles County B) San Diego County C) Orange County D) Riverside County
A) 1885 B) 1873 C) 1876 D) 1841
A) Jean-Louis Vignes and William Wolfskill B) Farmers from New Orleans C) Archibald Menzies and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés D) Luther C. Tibbets and Eliza Tibbets
A) Summer-ripening and seedy B) Sweet and seedless C) Thick-skinned and sour D) Small and acidic
A) 1862 B) 1885 C) 1873 D) 1876
A) In winter and spring B) In spring and summer C) Only in winter D) In summer and fall
A) Central Pacific B) Southern Pacific C) Santa Fe D) Union Pacific
A) Panama Railway B) Southern Pacific C) Northern Pacific D) Santa Fe
A) Ventilated boxcars B) Horse-drawn insulated carts C) Refrigerated steamships D) Air-conditioned trucks
A) 90,000 B) 4.5 million C) 400 D) 2 million
A) 90,000 B) 2 million C) 10 million D) 4.5 million
A) 1 million B) 4.5 million C) 2 million D) 90,000
A) Spraying and fumigation B) Hand-picking pests daily C) Crop rotation and burning D) Introduction of ladybugs only
A) Underground heating pipes B) Heaters and later wind machines C) Covering every tree with canvas D) Building glass greenhouses over trees
A) 1905 B) 1907 C) 1890 D) 1980
A) California Fruit Growers Exchange B) Vancouver Expedition Society C) U.S. Department of Agriculture D) Riverside Citrus Union
A) Sunkist Growers Inc. B) Navel Citrus Corporation C) Mission Agricultural Co. D) Valencia Orange Growers
A) Florida B) Arizona C) Hawaii D) Texas
A) Third voyage B) Second voyage C) Fourth voyage D) First voyage
A) 1493 B) 1707 C) 1565 D) 1872
A) Hawaii, California, and Arizona B) Spain, England, and France C) South America, Mexico, and Florida D) Canada, Alaska, and Oregon
A) Arizona B) San Diego C) Hispaniola D) Hawaii
A) Los Angeles, California B) Riverside, California C) St Augustine, Florida D) San Diego, California
A) Luther C. Tibbets B) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés C) Christopher Columbus D) Archibald Menzies
A) Mediterranean fruit fly B) Aphids C) Locust swarm D) Citrus rust mite
A) Late 1900s B) Early 1900s C) Late 1700s D) Mid 1800s
A) Brazil B) New Orleans C) South Africa D) San Diego
A) Sour orange rootstocks B) Wild lime rootstocks C) Lemon rootstocks D) Navel orange rootstocks
A) Alta California B) San Francisco C) Sacramento D) Baja California
A) 1804 B) 1739 C) 1835 D) 1769
A) Fifty acres B) Ten acres C) Six acres D) Two acres
A) 1804 B) 1841 C) 1862 D) 1835
A) 1804 B) 1873 C) 1841 D) 1834
A) 1834 B) 1873 C) 1862 D) 1841
A) Two-thirds B) One-half C) Three-quarters D) One-third
A) 1873 B) 1890 C) 1849 D) 1835
A) Malaria B) Rickets C) Beriberi D) Scurvy
A) $50 B) $10,000 C) $1,000 D) $100
A) Spanish Mission Board B) U.S. Department of Agriculture C) University of California D) California Fruit Growers Exchange
A) St Augustine B) San Diego C) Los Angeles D) Riverside
A) The thick-skinned sour orange B) The Mediterranean fruit fly-resistant orange C) The summer-ripening Valencia orange D) The sweet, seedless navel orange
A) Navel orange B) Baja orange C) Sour orange D) Valencia orange
A) 1877 B) 1873 C) 1905 D) 1885
A) 1885 B) 1876 C) 1877 D) 1907
A) Triggered a planting frenzy by opening national markets B) Ended the need for irrigation C) Caused a massive decline in orange prices D) Forced farmers to switch to growing lemons
A) University of California B) Stanford University C) U.S. Department of Agriculture D) California Fruit Growers Exchange
A) Invent frost protection heaters B) Protect it from Mediterranean fruit flies C) Breed the Valencia orange D) Standardise and market it
A) The American continent B) The Asian continent C) The European continent D) The African continent
A) Archibald Menzies in 1792 B) Subsequent expeditions in the mid-1500s C) William Wolfskill in 1841 D) Christopher Columbus in 1493
A) Mid-1500s B) Mid-1800s C) Mid-1700s D) Mid-1900s
A) British B) Spanish C) French D) Portuguese
A) Grafted them onto sour orange rootstocks B) Raised seedlings on board and gave them to Hawaiian chiefs C) Planted them immediately in San Diego D) Sent them by railroad to New Orleans
A) 1792 B) 1873 C) 1769 D) 1804
A) With Midwestern farmers in Orange County B) With Spanish missionaries planting at Baja California and Alta California missions C) With William Wolfskill's private orchard D) With Archibald Menzies' expedition
A) Midwestern farmers B) European botanists C) Florida explorers D) Hawaiian chiefs
A) South Africa B) Spain C) Brazil D) Mexico
A) Angiosperms B) Ferns C) Gymnosperms D) Bryophytes
A) Never B) No, they are sterile C) Yes, almost entirely D) Only in the wild
A) The bitter orange B) The hybrid pomelo C) The mandarin orange D) The trifoliate orange
A) 42% B) 58% C) 50% D) 25%
A) 50% B) 58% C) 75% D) 42%
A) Bitter oranges are mutated sweet oranges B) No, bitter oranges arose independently C) Yes, they are identical D) Bitter oranges came first
A) Clementine B) Citrange C) Grapefruit D) Ambersweet
A) Mandarin oranges or tangerines B) Trifoliate oranges C) Lemons and limes D) Pomelos and grapefruits
A) Citrus reticulata B) Citrus maxima C) Citrus × sinensis D) Citrus aurantium
A) Rosaceae B) Rutaceae C) Solanaceae D) Lamiaceae
A) 17th century B) 2024 C) Song dynasty D) 314 BC
A) 23% B) 50% C) 67% D) 10%
A) John Sloan B) Vincent van Gogh C) Jan van Eyck D) Henri Matisse
A) Henri Matisse B) Jan van Eyck C) Zhao Lingrang D) Vincent van Gogh
A) 4 cm B) 15 m C) 10 m D) 33 ft
A) Crenulate margins B) Smooth margins C) Lobed margins D) Serrated margins
A) Carpel B) Albedo C) Vesicle D) Hesperidium
A) Bright orange B) Yellow-orange C) White D) Green
A) Non-climacteric B) Neither C) Climacteric D) Both climacteric and non-climacteric
A) Hesperidium B) Drupe C) Pome D) Pepo
A) The Moors B) Italian merchants C) Portuguese merchants D) Louis XIV
A) 9th century B) 17th century C) 15th century D) 10th century
A) Greenhouse heating systems B) Advanced grafting techniques C) Complex irrigation techniques D) Terraced farming methods
A) 17th century B) 10th century C) 9th century D) Late 15th century |