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Pub quiz question 4656 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which tree's fruit is candied to produce 'marrons glacés?'
Answer: A: Chestnut
Categories: Food (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4655 by pjh2

Question: Q: What came to Britain in 1967 that wiped out most of the country's elm trees?
Answer: A: Dutch elm disease
Categories: Nature (2) 1960s (2)

Pub quiz question 4654 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the ginkgo the world's oldest living example of?
Answer: A: Tree
Categories: Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4653 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which tree measurement do foresters usually make at 1.3m above ground level?
Answer: A: Girth
Categories: Nature (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4652 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which common vegetable is the world's most widely grown tuber?
Answer: A: Potato
Categories: Food (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4651 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vegetable is known as a neep in Scotland?
Answer: A: Turnip/swede
Categories: Food (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 4650 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vegetable is sometimes known as the oyster plant due to its cooked flavour?
Answer: A: Salsify/goatsbeard/tragopogon
Categories: Food (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4649 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for 'beta vulgaris,' a member of the beet family grown as cattle fodder?
Answer: A: Mangelwurzel
Notes: *: Beetroot and sugar beet aren't generally grown for cattle fodder - mangelwurzel is.
Categories: Food (6) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4648 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the better known name for the 'ipomoea batatas' the most nutritional vegetable, according to a 1992 'Science in the Public Interest' report?
Answer: A: Sweet potato
Categories: 1990s (8) Food (8)

Pub quiz question 4647 by pjh2

Question: Q: What are German Butterball, Pink Fir Apple and International Kidney?
Answer: A: Potatoes
Categories: Food (7) Nature (8)

Pub quiz question 4646 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many points has a snowflake on a BBC weather map?
Answer: A: Six
Categories: Science (4) Television (4) Media (4)

Pub quiz question 4645 by pjh2

Question: Q: What type of writing instrument was the 1960's Pentel the first example of?
Answer: A: Felt-tip pen
Categories: Science (6)

Pub quiz question 4644 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the hardest bone in the human body?
Answer: A: Jawbone
Categories: Biology (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4643 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for a fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens to form an edible pericarp?
Answer: A: Berry
Categories: Food (8) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4642 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for 'ribes nigrum' which gave its name to the drink Ribena?
Answer: A: Blackcurrant
Categories: Language (2) Food (2) Drink (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4641 by pjh2

Question: Q: What group of fruits, in true botanical terms, includes the grape, tomato and aubergine but not the strawberry?
Answer: A: Berries
Categories: Food (8) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4640 by pjh2

Question: Q: What part of the body does an orthopædic doctor treat?
Answer: A: Bones
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4639 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fruit is commonly called the bramble?
Answer: A: Blackberry
Categories: Food (2) Language (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4638 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour are cranberries before they turn red?
Answer: A: White
Categories: Food (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4637 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the only bone in the human body that doesn't directly connect to any other?
Answer: A: Hyoid
Categories: Biology (6) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 4636 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is crossed with a blackberry and loganberry to produce a boysenberry?
Answer: A: Raspberry
Categories: Food (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4635 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to pens made from goose feathers?
Answer: A: Quill
Categories: Language (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4634 by pjh2

Question: Q: What might a paramedic describe as either simple or compound?
Answer: A: Fracture
Categories: Biology (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4633 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is the longest and heaviest bone in the human body?
Answer: A: Femur/thighbone
Categories: Nature (4) Biology (4)

Pub quiz question 4632 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many pairs of ribs are there in the human body?
Answer: A: Twelve
Categories: Nature (5) Biology (5)