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Pub quiz question 4665 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city boasts the British Meteorological Office?
Answer: A: Exeter
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Pub quiz question 4664 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many rays has the full sun on a BBC weather map?
Answer: A: Twelve
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Pub quiz question 4663 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the national tree of England, Germany, France and the USA?
Answer: A: Oak
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4662 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which animal produces most of the world's wool?
Answer: A: Sheep
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Pub quiz question 4661 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which animal produces cashmere wool?
Answer: A: Goat
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Pub quiz question 4660 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which type of wool can come from a rabbit?
Answer: A: Angora
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Pub quiz question 4659 by pjh2

Question: Q: What kind of tree is the General Sherman which is generally accepted as the world's largest living organism?
Answer: A: Giant Sequota
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Pub quiz question 4658 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the process of creating fabric from a woollen yarn using a single hook?
Answer: A: Crochet
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Pub quiz question 4657 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name does the cosmetics industry use for the greasy yellow substance found in wool?
Answer: A: Lanolin
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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
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Pub quiz question 4653 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which tree measurement do foresters usually make at 1.3m above ground level?
Answer: A: Girth
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Pub quiz question 4652 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which common vegetable is the world's most widely grown tuber?
Answer: A: Potato
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Pub quiz question 4651 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vegetable is known as a neep in Scotland?
Answer: A: Turnip/swede
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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
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Pub quiz question 4647 by pjh2

Question: Q: What are German Butterball, Pink Fir Apple and International Kidney?
Answer: A: Potatoes
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Pub quiz question 4646 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many points has a snowflake on a BBC weather map?
Answer: A: Six
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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
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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
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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
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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)