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Quiz: How much do you know about pumpkins?
Orange you glad there’s less than two weeks to go until Halloween?
THERE’S LESS THAN two weeks to go until Halloween, and some of you may have already carved a pumpkin ahead of All Hallows’ Eve.
So we thought we’d pick your brains with a quiz about the spooky squash.
Can you get a gourd score, or is your knowledge a bit patchy?
To start with, is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
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Fruit
Vegetable
The word pumpkin comes from the Greek word 'peopon'. What does it mean?
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Sweet potato
Globular gourd
Large melon
Spooky squash
True or false - the word 'pumpkin' first appeared in the fairy tale Cinderella in the 17th century.
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True
False
Carving pumpkins has long been associated with Halloween, but which vegetable did the ancient Celts carve to ward off bad spirits?
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Carrot
Onion
Turnip
Potato
The Guinness World Record for heaviest pumpkin is held by Travis Gienger from the US, but how much did it weigh? (not pictured here)
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990 kg
1,246 kg
1,873 kg
2,540 kg
Which of these is not the name of a variety of pumpkin?
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Golden Cauldron
Jack Be Little
Sweet Sugar Pie
Warty Goblin
What was the name of the first single released by The Smashing Pumpkins in 1990?
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1979
Tonight, Tonight
Today
I Am One
In what year was It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown released?
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1959
1966
1975
1984
Starbucks developed the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2003. Which of these ingredients would you not find in the autumnal beverage?
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Cardamom
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Ginger
Finally, which film did this deadly mask appear in?
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Pumpkinhead
Friday the 13th Part 2
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Trick 'r Treat
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