Q 01/05

A strikingly dark begonia described from Borneo in 2014 was named after which Star Wars villain?

A) Kylo Ren

B) Darth Vader

C) Count Dooku

D) General Grievous

Answer · why

B) Darth Vader

Darth Vader inspired the name Begonia darthvaderiana because the plant's unusually dark look reminded its describers of the warrior. The same paper na...

Q 02/05

Begonia flowers come in almost every colour, but which one is missing from the range?

A) White

B) Yellow

C) Blue

D) Orange

Answer · why

C) Blue

Blue is the one colour missing, so whites, pinks, scarlets, yellows and oranges are as far as begonia flowers go. Even the fanciest double-flowered hy...

Q 03/05

The only member of the begonia family that is not a begonia grows wild in which US state?

A) Hawaii

B) Alaska

C) Louisiana

D) Arizona

Answer · why

A) Hawaii

Hawaii is the only home of Hillebrandia sandwicensis, the lone species of its family outside the genus Begonia. It survives in wet, wooded ravines on ...

Q 04/05

Botanists place begonias in the same plant order as which family of familiar garden vegetables?

A) Nightshades

B) Cabbages

C) Legumes

D) Gourds

Answer · why

D) Gourds

Gourds, the family of pumpkins, cucumbers and melons, share the order Cucurbitales with begonias. The begonia family is the bigger of the two, with ab...

Q 05/05

Which rock band released the song Scarlet Begonias on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel?

A) Jefferson Airplane

B) The Doobie Brothers

C) Grateful Dead

D) The Allman Brothers Band

Answer · why

C) Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead first played it live in March 1974, with words by Robert Hunter and music by Jerry Garcia. From 1977 the band often paired it on stage w...