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What does Japanese 'gohan' mean besides cooked rice?
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What part of the plant is a potato?
Answer: Stem
Why: A potato's eyes are buds at stem nodes, which is why a planted chunk of potato can sprout a whole new plant.
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Who ordered Prussians to grow potatoes in 1756?
Answer: Frederick the Great
Why: Visitors still leave potatoes on Frederick the Great's grave at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.
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Which English title comes from Old English for 'loaf guard'?
Answer: Lord
Why: Lady has a bread origin too: its Old English source, hlaefdige, is usually explained as 'loaf kneader'.
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Which fruit grows on a giant herb, not a tree?
Answer: Plantain
Why: What looks like a trunk on a banana plant is a pseudostem of tightly wrapped leaf stalks, with no wood in it.
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On which island were bananas first domesticated?
Answer: New Guinea
Why: Microscopic banana remains at Kuk Swamp in New Guinea's highlands show bananas were grown there about 7,000 years ago.
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Where outside the Americas did sweet potatoes grow before Columbus?
Answer: Polynesia
Why: Charred sweet potato from Mangaia in the Cook Islands has been radiocarbon dated to about AD 1000.
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