Trivia Question of the Day

[Wodrick]

The Kiwi fruit is native to New Zealand - True or False

[ian16th]

False

[Wodrick]

correct it's China - won't be eating them again, YHC

[Capetonian]

Should be renamed the WiWi or the Virus fruit. I don't like them much anyway but from now on I'll make a point of not eating them.

[G-CPTN]

I doubt that any Kiwifruit on sale in the UK will come from China.

[John Hill]

We knew them as Chinese Gooseberries 50 years ago.

[G-CPTN]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit

[1DC]

Most kiwi fruit eaten in the UK comes from the Netherlands.

[ExSp33db1rd]

They're always either too ripe or not ripe enough. Difficult barstewards to externally assess. But ... they're fibre and fruit and better for you than chocolate, unfortunately.

[G-CPTN]

Like avocados (which I do).

[1DC]

When you eat a kiwi fruit do you peel it or not? I just eat it,Mrs 1DC says it should be peeled.

[G-CPTN]

I don't eat the 'skin' - but I don't eat orange peel or banana peel either.

I do, however eat apple skin.

[k3k3]

Cut it in half and spoon it out.

[Hydromet]

Eating the skin's fine, it tastes better than it looks.

[Ex-Ascot]

Ian, I think that you are in the chair.

[ian16th]

Nothing to hand.

OH.

[Capetonian]

The highest mountain in southern Africa and the highest mountain on mainland Spain are the same height (give or take 3 metre.)

Name the mountains and their altitude.

[G-CPTN]

Møllehøj is the highest natural point in Denmark at 170.86 m (561 ft).
Yding Skovhøj is 172.54 m (566 ft) above sea level when the height of one of the Bronze Age burial mounds built on the top of the hill is included. If these man-made structures are ignored the hill's highest point is at 170.77 m (560.27 ft), which is 9 cm lower than Denmark's highest natural point Møllehøj.
Ejer Bavnehøj is Denmark's third highest natural point at 170.35 m (558.89 ft).
Himmelbjerget ("The Sky Mountain" or "The Mountain of Heaven") with a height of 147 m (482 ft) was believed to be the highest natural point in Denmark until 1847.
Himmelbjerget is much more impressive than Møllehøj: There is a height difference of 121 m from lake Julsø below to the top of the hill, which is remarkable by Danish standards.

The Eiffel Tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall.

[Capetonian]

Well, yes, interesting stuff but I am not sure how it relates to the question.
Are you a politician?

[G-CPTN]

Well, yes, interesting stuff but I am not sure how it relates to the question.
Are you a politician?

It was simply to prove that what one country considers to be impressive can be insignificant when judged by other standards.