Q 01/05

Mendel was abbot of St Thomas' Abbey in which city, then in Moravia?

A) Brno

B) Prague

C) Vienna

D) Krakow

Answer · why

A) Brno

The abbey's two-hectare garden was where the pea experiments took place.

Q 02/05

Mendel was born in 1822 in which region of the Austrian Empire, now part of the Czech Republic?

A) Bohemia

B) Galicia

C) Silesia

D) Tyrol

Answer · why

C) Silesia

His birthplace, Heinzendorf, is now the village of Hyncice, and the farmhouse is a museum.

Q 03/05

Mendel was born Johann. He took the name Gregor on joining which religious order?

A) The Benedictines

B) The Augustinians

C) The Jesuits

D) The Franciscans

Answer · why

B) The Augustinians

He admitted that monastic life spared him 'perpetual anxiety about a means of livelihood'.

Q 04/05

Mendel's pea experiments began in 1856 and ran until which year?

A) 1865

B) 1868

C) 1871

D) 1863

Answer · why

D) 1863

In that time he cultivated and tested some 28,000 plants.

Q 05/05

How many characteristics of the pea plant did Mendel study?

A) Three

B) Five

C) Ten

D) Seven

Answer · why

D) Seven

They covered plant height, pod shape and colour, seed shape and colour, and flower position and colour.