Q 01/05

What is the fruit of a rose plant called?

A) Hip

B) Drupe

C) Pome

D) Achene

Answer · why

A) Hip

Many tightly petalled garden roses never form one because pollinators cannot reach inside the flower, so they are propagated from cuttings instead.

Q 02/05

The Rose Parade is held every New Year's Day in which California city?

A) Santa Barbara

B) San Diego

C) Sacramento

D) Pasadena

Answer · why

D) Pasadena

It runs mostly along a boulevard that was once part of Route 66, and has followed roughly the same route for decades.

Q 03/05

In the traditional language of flowers, a red rose stands for what?

A) Friendship

B) Innocence

C) Mystery

D) True love

Answer · why

D) True love

Yellow is friendship, white innocence, orange passion and blue mystery, which is convenient given that a truly blue rose does not exist.

Q 04/05

Rose hips are especially rich in which vitamin?

A) C

B) D

C) B12

D) K

Answer · why

A) C

Wild hips can contain around 426 mg per 100 g, several times the concentration in an orange, which is why they are made into syrup, tea and jam.

Q 05/05

Which of these fruits belongs to the rose family, Rosaceae?

A) Apple

B) Grape

C) Orange

D) Banana

Answer · why

A) Apple

The family also includes pears, plums, cherries, peaches, strawberries and almonds, which is why an apple blossom looks so much like a wild rose.