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OK, I have now managed to work through your answers, I am gong to list the results excluding the picture questions first as some of you had problems seeing them it seems. My fault using Yahoo to host them I expect.

So these scores are out of 90.

Aquilegia    41.5
Palustris    80
Garden Girl   66
Kerry      84
Emma Jane   74
Jesseveve   73.5
Lady Cosmos   78.5
Gavin      79.5

So the winner for the questions only part of the quiz in Kerry, very well done indeed. A great set of answers.

A couple of special mentions. Firstly to Lady Cosmos for listing over 40 types of mulch!!!! And Gavin for making me laugh more than once with his answers.

The results for the picture round for those who took part are as follows:

Garden Girl   8
Kerry      10
Emma Jane   10
Jesseveve   4


So a big well done for Kerry and Emma Jane both getting 10 out of 10. Very good considering I did not think many would get number 10.

Now for the full list of answers:

1.   Fig
2.   Cork
3.   Branch
4.   Plane
5.   Isle of Wight
6.   Teasel
7.   Yew/Taxus
8.   Pink
9.   Chrysanthemums
10.    Chipped bark, gravel, grass clippings, manure, cocoa shells, pebbles, Pine needles, straw, wood chips, leaf mould plus many others!
11.   1764, though some seem to think 1761 so I have given both a point.
http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/print_detail.asp?ContentID=295
12.   Psila Rosea
13.   Round-headed Rampion
14.   Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson
15.   Wakehurst Place, West Sussex
16.   Yes
17.   A type of grape vine
18.   Tagetes/French marigold is the normal answer but there are other answers such as basil,
19.    Fox Glove
20.    Dutch Hoe
21.   A number but the answer I was looking for was Feverfew as the most common suggestion.
22.   Fallow
23.   Saffron
24.   Tomato
25.   Pumpkin or Squash
26.   Sweet corn, Pea or runner bean
27.   Type of radish
28.    Rhubarb, sea kale, Chicory, endive, celery, asparagus
29.   Purple
30.   Percy Thrower
31.   Heligan
32.   Aloe Vera
33.   Parsnip/sweet pea/hazel/lupin/asparagus/etc.
34.   Plum
35.   Rotary, cylinder, mulching, ride on/ hover,flail, scythe, electric and petrol not accepted.
36.   True
37.   Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium,
38.   Air
39.   Terracotta
40.   Sorn, Scotland
41.   Pear
42.   Home Guard
43.   A biennial is a plant with a two year life cycle, that produces leaves in the first season, then flowers and sets seed in the second season.
44.   False
45.   Hydrangia
46.   Wallflower means “Foreign Flower”, the walnut got it’s name the same way
47.   False, they are lacking phosphorous
48.   False, Both lower pH
49.   Bacterial Wilt
50.   Lavender
51.   Echinacea
52.   Borage or Salad Burnet
53.   Rothschild
54.   The mathematician Salomon de Caus, being a movable wooden framed structure to shelter orange trees at Heidelberg Castle in Germany, there are also records of a similar structure dating from 30AD and the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius
55.   Telford family, Yorkshire, UK in 1775; previously, listings from firms had no prices
56.   Chuko Liang, a Chinese general, in AD231 for use by his troops in moving supplies through mucky soil. To that time carts had at least 2 wheels and were 2-person affairs. His had a large central wheel, flanked on either side by boxes to hold goods.
57.   Pink
58.   Radio 2
59.   Birch
60.   One gram of soil (about 1/5 tea-spoon) can contain over 100 million bacteria.
61.   Topiary
62.   Bears Britches
63.   Pampas
64.   Fig Tree, South Africa, 150m
65.   White Cedar, Canada, 155 years old and 10.2cm tall
66.   Brogdale, Kent. Over 4,500 types of apples, pears etc.
67.   Coco de Mare, upto 20kg
68.   Epiphytic Orchids, each gram of seeds contains approx 992million seeds.
69.   Alyssum
70.   Petal
71.   Cotyledon
72.   Photo Tropism
73.   Honey Fungus
74.   Forsythia
75.   Eric Robson
76.   60 degrees Celsius
77.   Cuttings, layering , seeds, grafting, spores, tissue culture, division
78.   Henry Doubleday Research Association
79.   Parsley/Rosemary
80.   Garlic
81.   A common name for Tobacco Rattle virus that is spread by nematodes when they feed on potatoes
82.   The roots
83.   True
84.   Dr D G Hessayon
85.   Beech
86.   Colchicum Speciosum
87.   Tulip
88.   An Orchid: Vanilla Planifolia belongs to the plant family Orchidacea and is natuve to Mexico.
89.   Mark Twain
90.   Carrot


Plant ID Answers:

1.   Trailing Petunia
2.   Lavateria
3.   Geranium “Johnson Blue”
4.   Chrysanthemum
5.   Hebe “Marjorie”
6.   Hypericum
7.   Peonies
8.   Allium careuleum, not 100% sure though about the exact variety
9.   Aquilegia
10.   Toad Lily


Hope everyone enjoyed researching the answers and you have learnt a thing or two!

Happy New Year

Jerry

Excellent!  And congratulations to Kerry!  In fact, well done all those who entered and many thanks to you Jerry.  I loved it, really got the old grey/green matter working and made me dust off a few old books.

So when is the next one?? ;D

Made a start but never got around to finishing it off..  Well done to Kerry and everyone who took the time and effort to finish.   Thanks Jerry for all your hard work.. promise that I will do better next time. ;D

CONGRATULATIONS, KERRY. WELL DONE
and Thanks very much Jerry, It was fun.

Congratulations, Kerry!

Well done, Jerry, for putting it together, and a big thank you.  I found out a lot - and it sent me down all sorts of byways I don't often go.

Better than a crossword!  :-)

All very best - Gavin

Nice one ,Kerry and Jerry.

Congratulations to Kerry and all participants!

I'm ashamed to say that I didn't finish the quiz, too hard for me. maybe I can use the language (horticultural) as an excuse but also some questions had to do with places England and I'm sorry to say, I don't know much about that.

Any chance you'll do a short quiz some day in the chat room Sanders?
This quiz was a wonderful thing you did.

I had the same problem, Ina. f.i.  no 15 I read Kew in the country, and thinking about that: Easy: country= England, so  translated:where is Kew situated? Ha haha. And it took me a long time to find out what means (ang) in 69,70,71. It seems, after more than 35 years living abroad, (USA- France and a loooooong time in the Netherlands) I am thinking like a foreigner. Scary....... I even have to look up words in a dictionary......
Can be my age???   Noooooooooooooooo

 :o :D
Thankyou! ooh! a winner! i did not expect that.  i am all excited now!

my 'well done' and 'thankyou' goes to Jerry for his hard work, and taking the time out to mark entries. i really enjoyed it, looking stuff up.
roll on the next one... ;)

Well done Kerry. That was great fun and learned a lot by looking up the answers.  :)

Well done to those who took part and particularly to Kerry for coming tops. :D

I have to confess i didnt complete the quiz either - though I had a good crack at it.

Well Done Jerry! :)

Jerry, what a fantastic quiz - thank you so much.  I printed it off for further consideration but it only proceeded a little further, ie some 50% of the answers.  SO.  Congratulations to Kerry.  Brilliant.

Er, L.C. what does (ang) mean? I still haven't been able to figure it out!
Ina (and L.C.)- if you hide behind a different language then what can be my excuse? Some of the questions were far to U.K. -centric for me to bother with so can we all shelter there?

ang=anagram I think!

Glad everyone enjoyed it, sorry if it was a bit too specific to the UK. I orriginally wrote the quiz a month or so back for another website which is mainly visited by UK posters.

I will try and do another one later in the year an might think about a chat room quiz, not with 100 questions though!

I enjoyed putting it together and looked upon it as a learning exercise, much like posting on the boards here too!

Jerry

A tiny personal preference for a next quiz - not on the chat-room?  Unless I'm the only one with an elderly computer, on a VERY slow dial-up connection?

All best - Gavin (and you should see how fast I have to pedal just to get this message sent - there's steam and smoke coming out the sides! [breathless smiley]).

Well done Kerry.

Didn't I do terribly?  :-[ Really must learn more!

Quote from: aquilegia on January 10, 2005, 10:20:26
Well done Kerry.

Didn't I do terribly? :-[ Really must learn more!

Never mind Aqui, you did your best I am sure. IMO a quiz like that is a good chance to learn new things. What you didnt know before, chances are you do now!  :)  ;D

You didn't do badly at all, and you took part!  It is amazing how much 'strange' knowledge you acquire and you have no idea from where, and one day someone will ask who invented the wheel barrow, and from the dark recesses of your mind, you will know!  ;D

thankyou to those above for their congratulations (blush!)