A Quiz for Bright People!

[mothhawk]

Good quiz VC. I got them all except No 1 (I said politics - that's a sport, isn't it?), and No 8 - lettuce would never have occured to me as I loathe the stuff. And I only got dwell, not dwarf or dwindle. (I did get dweomer though, does that count?)

[julesapple]

Gardening Quiz

1. The cranberry, so popular in a sauce to go with the Christmas turkey, is known botanically as what?

a) Needlium

b) Injectium

c) Vaccinium

2. What would a gardener do with a dibber or dibble?

a) Scrape mud off spades and trowels

b) Make holes in compost from transplanting seedlings

c) Grade soil particles according to size

3. What is meant by a resistant vegetable variety?

a) A variety that is resistant to being attacked by pests or diseases

b) A variety that is not resistant to being attacked by pests and diseases

c) A variety that doesn't like being moved

4. The Royal Horticultural Society runs a large garden at Rosemoor. Which county is it in?

a) Kent

b) Devon

c) Warwickshire

5. What general term is given to the trees and shrubs whose leaves fall in autumn?

a) Deciduous

b) Evergreen

c) Ambidextrous

6. What is the popular name for the flowering house plant Impatiens walleriana?

a) Marguerite

b) Black-eyed Susan

c) Busy Lizzie

7. What is the name given to the technique of clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes?

a) Topiary

b) Bonsai

c) Renewal pruning

8. Why do gardeners practice crop rotation?

a) To grow bigger vegetables

b) To make the garden appear organised and efficient

c) To help prevent a build up of pests and diseases in the soil

9. Which part of a tree can be used to make cork?

a) The bark

b) Root tissue

c) Pulped seeds

10. The love apple is the original name for what?

a) Potato

b) Tomato

c) Quince

11. How can you keep an area of soil weed-free, without digging?

a) Cut the tops of the weeds off with scissors, to prevent them from seeding

b) Cover the soil with a light-excluding mulch or mulch-fabric

c) Ignore the weeds and they will eventually go away

12. When a gardener makes a 'drill' what is he/she making?

a) A machine to make holes in the ground

b) A shallow trench in which to sow seeds

c) A loud noise to scare away birds

13. A 'kumquat' is a small Japanese variety of what sort of fruit?

a) Citrus

b) Plum

c) Pineapple

14. Harry Wheatcroft was a renowned breeder of which type of plant?

a) Fuchsias

b) Begonias

c) Roses

15. Name the evergreen hedging conifer that has created many a neighbourly dispute?

a) The British Leyland cedar

b) The Leyland cypress

c) The Lakeland cupressus

16. What is the Latin name for the Rowan Tree?

a) Sorbus

b) Malus

c) Prunus

17. On what would you use the spray containing the chemical 'Glyphosate'?

a) Persistent weeds

b) Greenfly, blackfly and whitefly

c) Black spot of roses

18. What is the popular name for the Antirrhinum?

a) Snake-bark maple

b) Snapdragon

c) Dog's tooth violet

19. Who, or what, is Müller-Thurgau?

a) A botanist from Victorian Bavaria

b) A variety of grape

c) A summer pudding using raspberries and yoghurt

20. In garden design terms, what is a Ha-Ha?

a) A ditch forming a boundary but not obscuring a view

b) An area of the garden using mirrors or other illusions

c) An arbour or other secluded seating area

21. Araucaria araucana is better known as what?

a) Tree of Heaven

b) Dragon tree

c) Monkey puzzle tree

22. 'Iceberg' is NOT a type of what?

a) White arum

b) Lettuce

c) Rose

23. Camellias belong to which plant family?

a) Heather

b) Iris

c) Apple

24. Monty Don stood down as the main presenter of TV's Gardeners' World this year. Who replaced him?

a) Barney Tuckland

b) Toby Buckland

c) Bob Tarland

25. What is a cloche?

a) A cover to protect plants

b) A type of fruit

c) A way of digging

26. Jasper Carrott could be linked to which of these vegetable varieties?

a) 'Chantenay Red Cored'

b) 'Webbs Wonder'

c) 'Gardener's Delight'

27. What is the Latin name of the yellow winter jasmine?

a) Jasminum nakediflorum

b) Jasminum nudiflorum

c) Jasminum bareiiflorum

28. The traditional Christmas tree – Picea abies – is what type of conifer?

a) Fir

b) Pine

c) Spruce

29. Why would you cover carrots with horticultural fleece?

a) To keep them warm in winter

b) To stop them being attacked by carrot root fly

c) To hide them from view

30. And finally, which of these is an anagram of 'Happy Christmas from all at Priory Farm!'?

a) Hmm! Pay crop or clamp fair shortfall arm!

b) Tipsy army pro champ alarms Flora Firth!

c) Fair pompoms shortfall. Charity arm pry!

[veggiechicken]

I can answer them all except 17

[Linnea]

fairly certain I got 25 of them with another possible 2

[julesapple]

Should we have a Quiz thread?

[veggiechicken]

I like Quiz's and puzzles! Keeps my addled old mind active

[julesapple]

My bro, who's a good ten years my senior, used to come home on leave clutching the Puzzler monthly. He really hated it when I, a precocious 11 year old, would swipe it off him and fill in all the bits he couldn't do. I often wondered how long it would take him to figure out that the answers were in the back.....Even now, one of my little pleasures, when we're up that way, is to beat him to the pub quiz sheet and answer all of the questions before he gets it. Watching a 58 yr old having a paddy is quite amusing....

......but it did foster my love of quizzes and puzzles to this day!

[alldigging]

We do a regular quiz at the local club. Lots of fun. Very hard last week though!

[Mikey]

19 is definitely wrong, it should be a rhubarb yoghurt.

[Nicos]

VC- Q no 8.....
have a look at this...

dehydrated lettuce flakes products,China dehydrated lettuce flakes supplier

[veggiechicken]

I knew it, I just knew it!! You can't trust these quiz answers - ever!
I wonder what one does with dehydrated lettuce - feed it to your dehydrated slugs?

[julesapple]

My son bought dehydrated water.....but he didn't know what to add to it!

[Bren In Pots]

VC- Q no 8.....
have a look at this...

dehydrated lettuce flakes products,China dehydrated lettuce flakes supplier

That means I only got 4 right instead of 5

[Nicos]

That means I only got 4 right instead of 5

...sorry!

[alldigging]

You can get lettuce in a tin too
Thai fermented lettuce, 4.8 oz can, available online from ImportFood.com