Q 01/05

Lawn grass survives weekly mowing because each blade grows from which part, a trait evolved to cope with grazing?

A) The base

B) The tip

C) The middle

D) The edges

Answer · why

A) The base

The base is the growth point of a grass blade, unlike most plants, which lengthen from stem tips. That is why a lawn can be cut or grazed again and ag...

Q 02/05

Which lawn grass that carries the name of an American state is native to nearly all of Europe and northern Asia?

A) Texas bluegrass

B) California oatgrass

C) Kentucky bluegrass

D) Virginia wildrye

Answer · why

C) Kentucky bluegrass

Kentucky bluegrass grows blue flower heads if left uncut, reaching two to three feet tall. About 90% of American seed for it is raised on farms in Ida...

Q 03/05

The club that stages Wimbledon began in 1868 devoted to which lawn game, still named in its official title?

A) Badminton

B) Croquet

C) Archery

D) Lawn bowls

Answer · why

B) Croquet

Croquet was the club's founding sport, and a single lawn was set aside for tennis only in 1875. The older game was dropped from the club's name in 188...

Q 04/05

Which yellow-flowered lawn weed takes its English name from a French phrase likening its jagged leaves to teeth?

A) Sow thistle

B) Buttercup

C) Hawkweed

D) Dandelion

Answer · why

D) Dandelion

Dandelion comes from the French dent de lion, lion's tooth. The common species is no native of American lawns: it was introduced from Europe.

Q 05/05

Which kitsch lawn ornament did sculptor Don Featherstone design in 1957 for Union Products of Leominster, Massachusetts?

A) Pink flamingo

B) Garden gnome

C) Gazing ball

D) Concrete goose

Answer · why

A) Pink flamingo

Pink flamingo number one was named Diego by its designer, and it became a pop culture icon that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996.