[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Quiz

[Hank]

By what that says, then I dispute your answer that the cashew has its seeds
on the outside.  Actually, the cashew IS a seed and not in the same class as
the strawberry, which is a fruit whose seeds are on the outside.

Hank

On 5/10/07, Luis Guzman <trpclman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Cashew
> >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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> Cashew
>
>
> Cashews ready for harvest in Guinea-Bissau
> Scientific classification
> Kingdom:Plantae
>
> Division:Magnoliophyta
>
> Class:Magnoliopsida
>
> Order:Sapindales
>
> Family:Anacardiaceae
>
> Genus:Anacardium
>
> Species:A. occidentale
>
>
> Binomial name
> Anacardium occidentale
> L.
> The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale; syn. Anacardium curatellifolium
> A.St.-Hil.) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The
> plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese
> name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in
> tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" (see below) and cashew apples.
>
> 'Anacardium occidentale', from Koehler's 'Medicinal-Plants' (1887)
>
> Tree shape
> It is a small evergreen tree growing to 10-12 m tall, with a short, often
> irregularly-shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery
> textured, elliptic to obovate, 4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a
> smooth margin. The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm
> long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five
> slender, acute petals 7 to 15 mm long.
> What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped
> accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the
> cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as
> "marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long.
> The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe
> that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first
> on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the
> true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary
> sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed. However,
> the true fruit is classified as a nut by some botanists. The seed is
> surrounded by a double shell containing a caustic phenolic resin, urushiol,
> a potent skin irritant toxin (also found in the related poison-ivy). Some
> people are allergic to cashews, but cashews are a less frequent allergen
> than some other nuts.
> Other vernacular names include cajueiro, cashu, casho, acajuiba, caju,
> acajou, acaju, acajaiba, alcayoiba, anacarde, anacardier, anacardo,
> cacajuil, cajou, gajus, jocote maranon, maranon, merey, noix d'acajou, pomme
> cajou, pomme, jambu, jambu golok, jambu mete, jambu monyet, jambu terong,
> kasoy. In the Antilles, specifically Puerto Rico, it is known as pajuil and
> the pseudofruit is the main used part as raw fruit.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:15:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Quiz
>
>
> But isn't a cashew a nut, not a fruit?
>
> Hank
>
> On 5/10/07, Luis Guzman <trpclman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is another answer for number 4: Cashew has it's seed on the
> outside.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:27:46 AM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Quiz
> >
> >
> > Hello fellow Rhodies,
> >
> > Here is another quiz to get your braining going this morning.  I did
> much
> > worse on this one than the other one.
> >
> > Hank
> >
> > This   is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry
> > that
> > I   didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions
> > with
> > straight answers.
> >
> > 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators   nor the
> > participants
> > know the score or the leader until the contest   ends.
> >
> > 2. What famous North American   landmark is constantly moving backward?
> >
> > 3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on   their own for
> > several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted   every
> > year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
> >
> > 4. What fruit has its seeds on the   outside?
> >
> > 5. In many liquor stores,   you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear
> > inside
> > the bottle. The pear is whole   and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it
> > hasn't been cut in any way. How did   the pear get inside the bottle?
> >
> > 6.   Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw"
> and
> > they are   all common words. Name two of them.
> >
> > 7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.   Can you name at
> > least half of them?
> >
> > 8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold   frozen, canned,
> > processed, cooked, or in any other form except   fresh.
> >
> > 9. Name 6 or more things   that you can wear on your feet beginning with
> > the
> > letter   "S."
> >
> >
> > Answers To Quiz:
> >
> > 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor   the participants
> > know
> > the score or the leader until the contest ends .    Boxing
> >
> > 2. North American landmark   constantly moving backward . Niagara
> Falls
> > (The rim is worn down about two   and a half feet each year because of
> the
> > millions of gallons of water that   rush over it every minute.)
> >
> > 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on   their own for
> several
> > growing seasons . . Asparagus and   rhubarb.
> >
> > 4. The fruit with its   seeds on the outside . . Strawberry.
> >
> > 5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It   grew inside the
> > bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are   small,
> and
> > are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the
> > entire
> > growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the
> > stems.)
> >
> > 6. Three English words   beginning with dw . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
> >
> > 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . .   Period, comma,
> > colon,
> > semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,   exclamation point,
> > quotation marks, bracket s, parenthesis, braces, and   ellipses.
> >
> > 8. The only vegetable or   fruit never sold ! frozen, canned, processed,
> > cooked, or in any other form but   fresh Lettuce.
> >
> > 9. Six or more   things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" .
> > Shoes, socks, sandals,   sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
> > stockings,   stilts.
> >
> >
> > PLEASE DO YOUR PART....... Today is National   Mental Health Day. You
> can
> > do
> > your part by remembering to   send an e-mail to at least one unstable
> > person
> >
> > Well, my job's done!
> >
> >
> > LIFE IS A JOURNEY. ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW AND ENJOY THE   BREEZE
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