Q 01/05

Which small animal hides inside wild calla lily blooms, turning pale to ambush visiting insects?

A) A frog

B) A gecko

C) A chameleon

D) A shrew

Answer · why

A) A frog

A frog, the arum lily reed frog, sits in the white blooms by day with its bright orange feet tucked out of sight under its body.

Q 02/05

In Mexico the calla lily goes by a name it shares with which notorious former island prison?

A) Devil's Island

B) Robben Island

C) Alcatraz

D) Château d'If

Answer · why

C) Alcatraz

Alcatraz is the everyday Mexican word for the flower, while the island's name comes from an old Spanish word for a pelican.

Q 03/05

Which American painter made news when six of her calla lily canvases reportedly sold for $25,000?

A) Mary Cassatt

B) Grandma Moses

C) Helen Frankenthaler

D) Georgia O'Keeffe

Answer · why

D) Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe saw her prices rise after the publicity, though there is no evidence the 1928 sale happened the way her husband and dealer Alfred Sti...

Q 04/05

Which star reused a line about calla lilies from her flop play The Lake in the 1937 film Stage Door?

A) Bette Davis

B) Katharine Hepburn

C) Olivia de Havilland

D) Joan Crawford

Answer · why

B) Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn was making fun of her own biggest failure: on Broadway the play had drawn her sharp rebukes from the newspaper critics.

Q 05/05

The white calla lily is native to the marshes and stream banks of which part of the world?

A) Southeast Asia

B) Central America

C) Southern Africa

D) The Mediterranean

Answer · why

C) Southern Africa

Southern Africa is its native home, centred on South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini; gardeners have since carried the genus to every continent except An...