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Pub quiz question 4256 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an ornithologist study?
Answer: A: Birds
Categories: Language (3) Science (3) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4255 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a botanist study?
Answer: A: Plants
Categories: Language (2) Nature (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4254 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an ichthyologist study?
Answer: A: Fish
Categories: Language (3) Science (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4253 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a coleopterist study?
Answer: A: Beetles
Categories: Language (7) Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4252 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an agaricologist study?
Answer: A: Mushrooms/fungi
Categories: Biology (8) Nature (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 4251 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the heaviest breed of bear?
Answer: A: Polar bears
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4250 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word describes the habit of some bears to sleep through the winter?
Answer: A: Hibernation
Categories: Nature (2) Language (2)

Pub quiz question 4249 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many non-retractable claws does a bear have on each paw?
Answer: A: Five
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4248 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word describes 'bear-like' in the way feline describes 'cat-like'?
Answer: A: Ursine
Categories: Nature (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 4247 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour is a polar bear's skin?
Answer: A: Black
Categories: Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4246 by pjh2

Question: Q: What happened to polar bears in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo when algæ appeared in their drinking water during the hot summer of 2005?
Answer: A: The bears turned green
Notes: *: Algae was growing in their hollow hairs
Categories: Nature (6) 2000s (6)

Pub quiz question 4245 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the fruit of the rose?
Answer: A: Rose hip
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4244 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for a flower's colourful corolla?
Answer: A: Petals
Categories: Nature (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 4243 by pjh2

Question: Q: What flowers do florists often refer to as 'mums?'
Answer: A: Chrysanthemums
Categories: Nature (4) Language (4)

Pub quiz question 4242 by pjh2

Question: Q: What direction will a field full of sunflowers face at the start of each day at sunrise?
Answer: A: East
Notes: *: The flowers actually turn back to face east during the night.
Categories: Nature (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4241 by pjh2

Question: Q: What smelly garden flower has a name which literally means 'nose twister?'
Answer: A: Nasturtium
Categories: Nature (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 4240 by pjh2

Question: Q: What common garden flowers are fed to chickens to give them skin an appealing golden colour?
Answer: A: Marigolds
Categories: Food (7) Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 4239 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the second-commonest source of sugar after sugar-cane?
Answer: A: Sugar beet
Categories: Nature (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4238 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Europe's favourite sweetener prior to the introduction of sugar?
Answer: A: Honey
Categories: Nature (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4237 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Alexander the Great's men see in India that they described as 'honey produced without the intervention of bees?'
Answer: A: Sugar
Categories: Nature (6) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4236 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the most common alternative name for sucrose?
Answer: A: Sugar
Categories: Nature (4) Science (4) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4235 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to sugar with a grain size of approximately 0.5mm? (between 1/64'' and 2/64'')
Answer: A: Granulated
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4234 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which sugar takes its name from the original source in Guyana?
Answer: A: Demerara
Categories: Language (7) Geography (7) Food (7)

Pub quiz question 4233 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter name is given to the killer whale?
Answer: A: Orca
Categories: Language (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4232 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the sieve-like structure in the upper jaw of plankton-eating whales?
Answer: A: Baleen
Categories: Biology (7) Nature (7)