Mile High Seed Swap
Tomato Trivia Game
1. What country produces the most tomatoes?
2. Climbing Triple Crop is an old Burgess Introduction that is sometimes referred to as a "tree" tomato because it can grow very tall, but the term "Tree Tomato" refers to another Solanum species, Solanum betaceum aka Cyphomandra crassifolia. What is its prevailing common name?
3. It's believed that the first tomato cultivated for human consumption was probably Solanum pimpinellifolium, and thought to originate in South America. What color were the fruits?
4. Tomatoes were introduced to Europe in the early 16th century before making their way to North America. Europeans were fearful of eating the fruits. There is a legend that one reason was because people feared that eating a tomato would turn them into werewolves, but resemblance to what plant in the same family containing tropane alkaloids was the more likely reason they were skeptical?
5. Orange, Yellow, Red. Which color of tomato contains the most useful nutrients for humans?
6. List three tomato varieties with animals in their names.
7. Are there really 57 varieties of tomato in Heinz ketchup?
8. Burpee's 2nd hybrid introduction, and the first one to become
widely popular, came in 1949, and continues to be a Big seller today because of good yields and disease resistance. What is it called?
9. The name Tomato comes from tomatl, a word from an ancient South American Culture known as the ________.
10. In the 1890's Joseph Campbell realized that canning was an excellent way to preserve tomatoes, and a classic was born. Maybe you have a can in your pantry? _________ ____.
11. Italians called tomatoes "pomi d'oro", because the fruits were this color. ___________.
12. In 1820 Robert Gibbon Johnson helped dispel fear of eating tomatoes in the early United States by eating a tomato on a Court House steps to demonstrate no ill effects. In which state did this occur?
