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Test Your Research Skills
The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz - Fun Facts about Bananas 1
How much do you know about the worlds favourite yellow-skinned fruit? Try your
luck with our absolutely bananas multi-choice fun quiz!
1. Bananas are a type of...
a) vegetable.

b) fruit. c) potato.

d) meat.

2. Bananas are an excellent source of...


a) sodium.

b) oxygen.

c) potassium.

d) magnesium.

3. Complete the gap: Bananas are the _________ -selling food item in British
supermarkets.
a) biggest

b) lowest

c) most

d) least

4. The total amount of bananas grown in the world is around...


a) 18 million tons.

b) 28 million tons.

c) 38 million tons.

d) 48 million tons.

5. True or false - hundreds of years ago, bananas contained lots of seeds...


a) true

b) false

6. The biggest producer of bananas in South America is...


a) Ecuador.

b) Colombia. c) Bolivia.

d) Brazil.

7. The best climate for growing bananas is...


a) wet and windy.

b) cold and wet.

c) warm and dry.

d) hot and humid.

8. Complete the gap: One medium-sized banana contains around _________


calories.
a) 55

b) 110

c) 205

d) 300

9. The word banana comes from...


a) a Greek word meaning yellow. b) a French word meaning to hang.
c) an Arabic word meaning finger. d) a Polynesian word meaning long.
10. How many bananas do the British eat every year?
a) over 200,000

b) over 1 million

c) over 100 million

d) over 5 billion

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Test Your Research Skills
The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz - Fun Facts about Bananas 1
Answers:
1. b) fruit.
2. c) potassium.
3. a) biggest
4. b) 28 million tons.
5. a) true
6. d) Brazil.
7. c) warm and dry.
8. b) 110
9. c) an Arabic word meaning finger.
10. d) over 5 billion

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