10 questions🇬🇧English
🌸 Flowers & Garden Plants
Roses, thistles and tulips that sparked a mania. Dig into the colourful world of flowers and gardens.
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Questions
Which prickly plant is the national flower of Scotland?
Thistle
Daffodil
Shamrock
Rose
20s
Red remembrance poppies are linked to the battlefields of which war?
The Boer War
The First World War
The Crimean War
The Second World War
20s
Which famous London gardens are home to the Palm House and the Temperate House?
Kew Gardens
Chelsea Physic Garden
Regent's Park
Hyde Park
20s
Who wrote the poem 'In Flanders Fields', which helped make the poppy a symbol of remembrance?
John McCrae
Rupert Brooke
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
30s
The Tudor rose combines the roses of which two rival royal houses?
Lancaster and Plantagenet
Tudor and Stuart
York and Windsor
Lancaster and York
30s
Which organisation runs the Chelsea Flower Show?
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The National Trust
English Heritage
The Royal Horticultural Society
20s
What is the name for the Victorian 'language of flowers', in which blooms carried secret messages?
Floriography
Ikebana
Botany
Horticulture
30s
Tulip mania, when tulip bulb prices soared and then crashed in the 1630s, happened in which country?
England
The Dutch Republic
France
The Ottoman Empire
30s
Which of these garden plants grows from a true bulb?
Crocus
Dahlia
Tulip
Potato
30s
Young sunflowers follow the sun across the sky. Which direction do mature sunflower heads usually face?
West
South
East
North
30s