Q 01/05

The saying 'a rose by any other name' comes from a speech by which Shakespeare heroine?

A) Juliet

B) Ophelia

C) Desdemona

D) Cordelia

Answer · why

A) Juliet

Juliet: she argues that Romeo's surname, Montague, is no part of him, since the flower would smell as sweet whatever it was called.

Q 02/05

The Rose Parade is held each New Year in which California city?

A) Santa Barbara

B) San Diego

C) Sacramento

D) Pasadena

Answer · why

D) Pasadena

Pasadena: members of its Valley Hunt Club began the parade to show friends back east, buried in snow, that flowers bloomed there in midwinter.

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

True love: Victorians gave each bloom a meaning so a bouquet could say what etiquette kept them from speaking aloud, and guidebooks to the code sat in...

Q 04/05

Rose hips are especially rich in which vitamin?

A) C

B) D

C) B12

D) K

Answer · why

A) C

C: few plants hold more of the vitamin than rose hips, which is why wartime Britain leaned on wild ones, boiled into the syrup long taken to top up le...

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

Apple: like a rose hip, most of the flesh you eat is the swollen cup from the base of the flower, grown up around the core that holds the pips.