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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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Buzzo quiz: Mushrooms: edible, poisonous and astonishing

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

  1. 100

    Common grocery store mushrooms, cremini, and large portobello caps are all different stages of what same cultivated species?

  2. 200

    Which trumpet-shaped wild mushrooms are prized by chefs for their golden color, peppery taste, and delicate apricot aroma?

  3. 300

    Which prized spring mushrooms…

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  4. 400

    Which subterranean culinary delicacies…

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  5. 500

    Which spicy, cinnamon-scented wild…

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Deadly & Dangerous

  1. 100

    Which innocent-looking pale woodland fungus is responsible for the vast majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which iconic red toadstool with white warts, pictured, contains psychoactive muscimol and lends its look to the power-up mushroom in Super Mario?

  3. 300

    What ominous celestial name…

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  4. 400

    Which toxic rye fungus…

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  5. 500

    Which genus of mushroom…

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Underground Network

  1. 100

    What term describes the vast underground network of fungal threads from which mushrooms sprout like fruit?

  2. 200

    Spanning nearly four square miles beneath an Oregon national forest, what common fungus is often cited as Earth's largest living organism?

  3. 300

    What folkloric two-word term…

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  4. 400

    What traditional English term…

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  5. 500

    To obtain nitrogen, the…

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Molds & Miracles

  1. 100

    Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery of what miracle antibiotic began with stray mold contaminating a culture dish of staph bacteria?

  2. 200

    Which microscopic single-celled fungi have driven human civilization for millennia by fermenting beer and leavening bread?

  3. 300

    Specific blue-green mold cultures…

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  4. 400

    What dark pigment, also…

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  5. 500

    Isolated from a Norwegian…

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Weird & Wild

  1. 100

    Which spherical mushroom can release a dense cloud of trillions of microscopic spores when struck by rain or stepped on?

  2. 200

    Which parasitic fungus hijacks the nervous system of carpenter ants, inspiring the infected monsters in The Last of Us?

  3. 300

    Erupting rapidly from an…

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  4. 400

    What evocative name referencing…

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  5. 500

    Which dung-dwelling fungus is…

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