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Just a little lighthearted fun.....although trying to make a quiz to suit the vast range of knowledges on here is near impossible me thinks......anyway here goes
Round 1: Herbs
A herb is hidden in each of these sentences
a. Jack loves his doberman pinscher, vile beast it is to strangers.
b. Give me some of your savoy plants and I'll give you some of my cauliflower plants
c. Kathy met me and Meg for afternoon tea at the Ritz.
d. I won a big box of chocolates, which I've saved for Christmas.
e. I met Penny and Bob as I left the underground station.
f. Please bring me a whole honeycomb, or a generous piece of one.
g. Jane bought a raspberry pavlova, Geena a strawberry shortcake, and Kate fresh cream.
h.Do come to supper. It's ages since we last saw you.
8 Marks
Round 2: Anagrams
a. ACID CHOIR
b. MANAGE TO UPSET
c. BRINGS PAGE'S CAB
d. WRITE UP HINTS
e. CURED CRIME BUGS
f. BEARS A BOND
g. HER STEWARD IS IN
h. SWISH CARDS
8 Marks
Round 3: Fruit
a. How long should you be able to keep a well grown blackcurrent bush before it needs replacing? 10, 15 or 20 years
b. Which apple rootstock would give the largest tree? M9, M26 or M27 ( and no not the one to Portsmouth)
c. For red ripe dessert gooseberries would you plant....Careless, Leveller or Whinham's Industry?
d. Which rootstock is most suitable for a garden plum tree? Myrobalan, Pixy or St Julian
e. To a botanist only one of these is a true berry, which? Gooseberry, raspberry or strawberry
f. How high is the bare trunk of a half standard apple tree? 2, 3 or 4 feet
g. Which strawberry would you grow from seed? Florence, Honeoye or Mignonette
h. Which apple should be eaten first? Greensleeves, Katy or Meridian
8 marks
Round 4: Common Ground
Plants in each of the following questions have something in common....but what? (warning sometimes its a tenious link!)
a. Deadly nightshade, sweet peppers and tomatoes?
b. Cardoons, Whitloof chicory and trench celery?
c. Cucumbers, tomatoes and aubergines? (other than half hardy)
d. celery, seakale and rhubarb?
e. Alfalfa, fenugreek and mung beans?
f. Kale, leeks and swedes
g. dill, fennel and parsley? (apart from being herbs....doh!)
h. gherkins, silverskin onions and red cabbage?
8 marks
Round 5: Time
a. Should you prune Autumn Bliss raspberry canes in Spring, Summer or Autumn?
b. Tubers of which potato variety should you dig up first? Cara, Dunluce or Kestrel
c. When would you hope to harvest the cauli variety Juno in? March, May or Novemeber
d. To harvest strawberries into early autumn would you grow...Bolero, Elsanta or Elvira?
e. Would you sow seed of the onion Imai Early Yellow in....the greenhouse in January, the open in March or the open in August?
f. What is the traditional time to sow the broad bean Aquaduluce Claudia? February, March or November
6 Marks
Round 6: Salads
a. Eat this on 5th November?
b. Sailing through treacherous Artic seas?
c. Is it eaten with sausages and ham?
d. Is it really grown to feed young animals?
e. French blend of coffee?
f. Once known as the love apple? (Don't google it LJ xx)
g. Island in the Aegean Sea
7 Marks
Round 8: What it's name??
a. A fruit tree with vertical trunk and tiers of horizontal branches?
b. Essentail chemical element such as manganese needed in small amounts for plant growth?
c. Very absorbant lightweight material made from minerlas derived from mica?
d. A short lateral branch bearing clusters of fruit buds?
e. Plant raised from seed produced by crossing two pure parent strains?
f. Radish or other quick growing plant grown between rows of slower growing veg?
g. A tree that will produce fruit after being pollinated with its own pollen?
h. Old style method of storing potatoes in a pile covered by straw and earth?
8 Marks
Total of 53 possible marks....good luck....need a lie down now!
Will supply the answers in a few days.....or bribery will work!
Round 1: Herbs
A herb is hidden in each of these sentences
a. Jack loves his doberman pinscher, vile beast it is to strangers.
b. Give me some of your savoy plants and I'll give you some of my cauliflower plants
c. Kathy met me and Meg for afternoon tea at the Ritz.
d. I won a big box of chocolates, which I've saved for Christmas.
e. I met Penny and Bob as I left the underground station.
f. Please bring me a whole honeycomb, or a generous piece of one.
g. Jane bought a raspberry pavlova, Geena a strawberry shortcake, and Kate fresh cream.
h.Do come to supper. It's ages since we last saw you.
8 Marks
Round 2: Anagrams
a. ACID CHOIR
b. MANAGE TO UPSET
c. BRINGS PAGE'S CAB
d. WRITE UP HINTS
e. CURED CRIME BUGS
f. BEARS A BOND
g. HER STEWARD IS IN
h. SWISH CARDS
8 Marks
Round 3: Fruit
a. How long should you be able to keep a well grown blackcurrent bush before it needs replacing? 10, 15 or 20 years
b. Which apple rootstock would give the largest tree? M9, M26 or M27 ( and no not the one to Portsmouth)
c. For red ripe dessert gooseberries would you plant....Careless, Leveller or Whinham's Industry?
d. Which rootstock is most suitable for a garden plum tree? Myrobalan, Pixy or St Julian
e. To a botanist only one of these is a true berry, which? Gooseberry, raspberry or strawberry
f. How high is the bare trunk of a half standard apple tree? 2, 3 or 4 feet
g. Which strawberry would you grow from seed? Florence, Honeoye or Mignonette
h. Which apple should be eaten first? Greensleeves, Katy or Meridian
8 marks
Round 4: Common Ground
Plants in each of the following questions have something in common....but what? (warning sometimes its a tenious link!)
a. Deadly nightshade, sweet peppers and tomatoes?
b. Cardoons, Whitloof chicory and trench celery?
c. Cucumbers, tomatoes and aubergines? (other than half hardy)
d. celery, seakale and rhubarb?
e. Alfalfa, fenugreek and mung beans?
f. Kale, leeks and swedes
g. dill, fennel and parsley? (apart from being herbs....doh!)
h. gherkins, silverskin onions and red cabbage?
8 marks
Round 5: Time
a. Should you prune Autumn Bliss raspberry canes in Spring, Summer or Autumn?
b. Tubers of which potato variety should you dig up first? Cara, Dunluce or Kestrel
c. When would you hope to harvest the cauli variety Juno in? March, May or Novemeber
d. To harvest strawberries into early autumn would you grow...Bolero, Elsanta or Elvira?
e. Would you sow seed of the onion Imai Early Yellow in....the greenhouse in January, the open in March or the open in August?
f. What is the traditional time to sow the broad bean Aquaduluce Claudia? February, March or November
6 Marks
Round 6: Salads
a. Eat this on 5th November?
b. Sailing through treacherous Artic seas?
c. Is it eaten with sausages and ham?
d. Is it really grown to feed young animals?
e. French blend of coffee?
f. Once known as the love apple? (Don't google it LJ xx)
g. Island in the Aegean Sea
7 Marks
Round 8: What it's name??
a. A fruit tree with vertical trunk and tiers of horizontal branches?
b. Essentail chemical element such as manganese needed in small amounts for plant growth?
c. Very absorbant lightweight material made from minerlas derived from mica?
d. A short lateral branch bearing clusters of fruit buds?
e. Plant raised from seed produced by crossing two pure parent strains?
f. Radish or other quick growing plant grown between rows of slower growing veg?
g. A tree that will produce fruit after being pollinated with its own pollen?
h. Old style method of storing potatoes in a pile covered by straw and earth?
8 Marks
Total of 53 possible marks....good luck....need a lie down now!
Will supply the answers in a few days.....or bribery will work!
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