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Mushrooms: edible, poisonous and astonishing quiz — Nature & animals The “Mushrooms: edible, poisonous and astonishing” quiz — Nature & animals. It has 25 questions in five categories: The Forager's Basket, Deadly & Dangerous, Underground Network, Molds & Miracles, Weird & Wild. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
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A peek at the questions The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
The Forager's Basket 100 Common grocery store mushrooms, cremini, and large portobello caps are all different stages of what same cultivated species?
200 Which trumpet-shaped wild mushrooms are prized by chefs for their golden color, peppery taste, and delicate apricot aroma?
300 Which prized spring mushrooms…
In the game400 Which subterranean culinary delicacies…
In the game500 Which spicy, cinnamon-scented wild…
In the gameDeadly & Dangerous 100 Which innocent-looking pale woodland fungus is responsible for the vast majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide?
200 Which iconic red toadstool with white warts, pictured, contains psychoactive muscimol and lends its look to the power-up mushroom in Super Mario?
300 What ominous celestial name…
In the game400 Which toxic rye fungus…
In the game500 Which genus of mushroom…
In the gameUnderground Network 100 What term describes the vast underground network of fungal threads from which mushrooms sprout like fruit?
200 Spanning nearly four square miles beneath an Oregon national forest, what common fungus is often cited as Earth's largest living organism?
300 What folkloric two-word term…
In the game400 What traditional English term…
In the game500 To obtain nitrogen, the…
In the gameMolds & Miracles 100 Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery of what miracle antibiotic began with stray mold contaminating a culture dish of staph bacteria?
200 Which microscopic single-celled fungi have driven human civilization for millennia by fermenting beer and leavening bread?
300 Specific blue-green mold cultures…
In the game400 What dark pigment, also…
In the game500 Isolated from a Norwegian…
In the gameWeird & Wild 100 Which spherical mushroom can release a dense cloud of trillions of microscopic spores when struck by rain or stepped on?
200 Which parasitic fungus hijacks the nervous system of carpenter ants, inspiring the infected monsters in The Last of Us?
300 Erupting rapidly from an…
In the game400 What evocative name referencing…
In the game500 Which dung-dwelling fungus is…
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