Let’s get Quizzical

I compere a Quiz last night . It was at theGarden Museumin London and the audience was studded with the great , the good and the not high-risk of the British garden world . The museum is free-base in a disused church building just next door to Lambeth Palace ( which is the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury ) and holds exhibitions , public lecture and tour of gardens .

Anyway I cerebrate it might be interesting to put up some of those questions to keep you on your toe . They are not specifically horticultural but all have some link to garden , gardening and garden history .

The rules are : No Googling , no reference Word of God and I will put up the solvent in a couple of weeks . I rationalize in rise that most of the questions are Europocentric . Email your answers to me at[email protected]will station the winner an fitly inscribed transcript of my book,101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers . Sound reasonable ?

Are you sitting well ? Then I ’ll begin …

1 . The Sloe is the fruit of which tree ?

2 . What did Edwin Beard Budding invent after watch a machine trimming the nap of fabric ?

3 . Which industrial plant can be hoogiana , sibirica , reticulata or germanica ?

4 . Shakespeare write “ What ’s in a name ? that which we call a blush wine , By any other name would smell as sweet-flavored ? In which play ?

5 . What is Apple Jack ?

6 . In the mid 19th century which production was the most important export from the Peruvian Chincha Islands ? It was used as fertiliser on farms and gardens in both Europe and the USA .

7 . A Frenchman want to stay in the USA , a horticulturist wants an apartment with a brilliant conservatory only available to matrimonial couples . In which film did Gerard Depardieu and Andie Macdowell decide on a marriage of convenience ?

8 . What was the 1967 Hit call for The Flowerpot Men ?

9 . What vegetable is supposed to improve the sightedness ? Does it wreak ?

10 . Which veg is value on the Scoville scale ?

11 . What are Nepenthes and who should be very untrusting of them ?

12 . What cargo was the Bounty ( as in the Mutiny on the Bounty ) carrying from Tahiti ?

13 . What do the initial RHS stomach for ?

14 . With what arboricultural proficiency are the followers colligate : Chokkan , Kengai , and Sabamiki ?

15 . In the Language of Flowers , crimson roses symbolise love . What do chicken pink wine symbolise ?

16 . In baseball game who are the Gardeners ?

17 . Fill in the miss bloodline to this 1928 Fats Waller strain :

Roses at Hever Castle

Every honey bee fills with jealousy

When they see you out with me

I do n’t blame them

Goodness knows ……

18 . Roses come in many coloring . Which colour does not feature ?

19 . Who was the associate of John Bartram , lawyer , soldier politician , scientist , doctor and botanist who first preface the Linnaean scheme to America ?

20 . What is the national flush of Japan ( also the name given to the majestic Throne of Japan , the oldest constitutional monarchy in the humankind ) ?

So there you go . It is not that easygoing but quite interesting . The pictures keep company this blog are only more or less relevant : they are delineation of the Rose garden at Hever Castle which was the childhood home plate of Anne Boleyn , the 2d married woman of Henry VIII .

I hope that you find metre to enter , it would be full to hear from you .

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