How well would you do in Stephen's Celebrating Trees Quiz?
Can you beat the score of 30/34 of The Woodentops, the winning team in fiendish Tree Quiz?
We'll draw a veil over the scores of the tree professionals (whisper, their teams came joint 3rd...)
We'll draw a veil over the scores of the tree professionals (whisper, their teams came joint 3rd...)
Picture round: Which tree?
Questions
1 Canada has a leaf of what type of tree on its flag?
A Cedar
B Pine
C Maple
2 Which type of tree is famous for being the closest survivor of the Hiroshima bomb?
A Cherry
B Oak
C Ginkgo
3 Isaac Newton is said to have “discovered” gravity while sitting under?
A Apple
B Sweet Chestnut
C Horse Chestnut
4 General Sherman is a large tree in California, is it?
A Californian Buckeye
B Coastal Redwood
C Giant Redwood
5 Which of these is the first to flower each year?
A Oak
B Hawthorn
C Blackthorn
6 A tree disease in the 1970s wiped out most of Britain’s large?
A Ash
B Elm
C Larch
7 Calvados is a French brandy made with fruit from what type of tree?
A Apple
B Pear
C Apricot
8 Which of these trees are NOT closely related to the other two?
A Olive
B Ash
C Cherry
9 The street in Berlin, Unter den Linden is lined with which type of tree?
A Lime
B Oak
C London Plane
10 Which of these trees is the last to lose its leaves in Autumn?
A Ash
B Oak
C Cherry
11 There are how many species of oak tree worldwide?
A About 100
B About 150
C Over 500
12 Coffee comes from a tree in the same family as?
A Cinchona - the tree that gives us quinine
B Willow - the tree that gives us aspirin
C Camelia - the shrub that gives us tea
13 A genealogist is an expert in?
A Family Trees
B The gene sequencing of trees
C The structure of genes generally
14 A scary kids film from East Germany based on Grimms Fairy Tale….
A The Ringing Tree
B The Singing Ringing Tree
C The Singing Tree
15 The Group Foals released in 2015/2016:
A Beech Tree
B Birch Tree
C Oak Tree
16 Vincent van Gogh painted a year before he died a picture titled?
A Mulberry Tree
B Oak Tree
C London Plane
17 The home ground of Kent Cricket Club in Canterbury has on its pitch?
A Oak Tree
B Lime
C Sweet Chestnut
18 Written by William Shakespear…. “Under the” ?
A Spreading Chestnut Tree
B Greenwood Tree
C Milkwood
19 Gin is flavoured by the fruit of which native tree?
A Juniper
B Cherry
C Apple
20 In the Blade of Tempest Manga by Kyō Shirodaira there is a plot toawaken?
A Tree of Exodus
B Tree of Genesis
C Tree of Life
21 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released in 2016 the album?
A The Joshua Tree
B The Lonely Tree
C The Skeleton Tree
22 There is a special ale brewed today for us by Redemption inspired by?
A England’s oldest Oak Tree
B Bruce Castle’s Park’s iconic Oak Tree
C An oak tree that stands near their brewery
23 Dawn Redwood is?
A An actress in Emmerdale
B An actress in Hollyoaks
C A type of redwood tree from China
A Cedar
B Pine
C Maple
2 Which type of tree is famous for being the closest survivor of the Hiroshima bomb?
A Cherry
B Oak
C Ginkgo
3 Isaac Newton is said to have “discovered” gravity while sitting under?
A Apple
B Sweet Chestnut
C Horse Chestnut
4 General Sherman is a large tree in California, is it?
A Californian Buckeye
B Coastal Redwood
C Giant Redwood
5 Which of these is the first to flower each year?
A Oak
B Hawthorn
C Blackthorn
6 A tree disease in the 1970s wiped out most of Britain’s large?
A Ash
B Elm
C Larch
7 Calvados is a French brandy made with fruit from what type of tree?
A Apple
B Pear
C Apricot
8 Which of these trees are NOT closely related to the other two?
A Olive
B Ash
C Cherry
9 The street in Berlin, Unter den Linden is lined with which type of tree?
A Lime
B Oak
C London Plane
10 Which of these trees is the last to lose its leaves in Autumn?
A Ash
B Oak
C Cherry
11 There are how many species of oak tree worldwide?
A About 100
B About 150
C Over 500
12 Coffee comes from a tree in the same family as?
A Cinchona - the tree that gives us quinine
B Willow - the tree that gives us aspirin
C Camelia - the shrub that gives us tea
13 A genealogist is an expert in?
A Family Trees
B The gene sequencing of trees
C The structure of genes generally
14 A scary kids film from East Germany based on Grimms Fairy Tale….
A The Ringing Tree
B The Singing Ringing Tree
C The Singing Tree
15 The Group Foals released in 2015/2016:
A Beech Tree
B Birch Tree
C Oak Tree
16 Vincent van Gogh painted a year before he died a picture titled?
A Mulberry Tree
B Oak Tree
C London Plane
17 The home ground of Kent Cricket Club in Canterbury has on its pitch?
A Oak Tree
B Lime
C Sweet Chestnut
18 Written by William Shakespear…. “Under the” ?
A Spreading Chestnut Tree
B Greenwood Tree
C Milkwood
19 Gin is flavoured by the fruit of which native tree?
A Juniper
B Cherry
C Apple
20 In the Blade of Tempest Manga by Kyō Shirodaira there is a plot toawaken?
A Tree of Exodus
B Tree of Genesis
C Tree of Life
21 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released in 2016 the album?
A The Joshua Tree
B The Lonely Tree
C The Skeleton Tree
22 There is a special ale brewed today for us by Redemption inspired by?
A England’s oldest Oak Tree
B Bruce Castle’s Park’s iconic Oak Tree
C An oak tree that stands near their brewery
23 Dawn Redwood is?
A An actress in Emmerdale
B An actress in Hollyoaks
C A type of redwood tree from China
