Q The Story of Vanilla

Vanilla starts with a ...

• Fruit

• Vegetable

• Bean

• Animal

The first people to use vanilla were the ...

• Mayans

• Spanish

• English

• Aztecs

Vanilla comes from a beautiful ...

• Vanilla worm

• Orchid

• Tree

• Bush

Vanilla plants bloom ...

• Two times a year

• Once a month

• Once a year

• Once every five years

Why are vanilla beans left on the ground?

• No one wants to pick them up

• They need to be dried in the sun

• Vanilla beans need to be in dirt

• Vanilla beans need to rot

Vanilla plants originally grew in the ...

• rainforests of Mexico

• deserts of Arizona

• rainforests of South America

• forests of Spain

Who took the first vanilla beans back to Spain?

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Marco Pollo

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

The first country to make vanilla ice cream was ...

• Spain

• France

• England

• United States

Who brought the vanilla bean to the United States?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Lennon

Why was vanilla so expensive?

• it would rot too easily

• It only grew in South America

• too many people wanted them

• It only grew in Mexico