Monday’s questions were:
1. Who said, “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
2. Name this tree:
3. It’s cielo in Spanish, ciel in French and rangi in Maori, what is it in English?
4. Who composed the Trumpet Voluntary?
5. Name four countries which have compulsory voting.
Points for answers :
Bearhunter got five right (on trust that sky was an unintentional omissions) and a bonus for Fred which earns theis week’s electronic boquet.
Scrubone got a point for trying.
Mr Gronk got two 1/4 and a nearly for Central America.
Gravedodger got three and a nearly with Purcell.
Paul got two and 1/4, a very nearly but wrong way round for Purcell and Clarke, with a bonus for humour and imagination and a welcome back.
Cadwallader got 1 1/2 and a nearly for Purcell.
David got 3 1/4 and a bonus for knowing more about the boab.
Adam got three and a bonus for confusing me.
Farmer Baby Boomer got them all right and a bonus for honesty.
I have no idea who knows the answers and who resorrts to Google or other sources but I suspect those who don’t get them all right don’t so in light of that I won’t award FBB the electronic boquet.
Tuesday’s answers follow the break:
1. Jane Austen.
2. Adansonia gregorii, more commonly known as a boab or baobab.
3. Sky.
4. Jeramiah Clarke (often wrongly attributed to Henry Purcell).
5. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Fiji, Liechtenstein, Naru, Peru, Singapore, Turkey, Uruguay.
Homepaddock 
The really interesting thin about the Australian Baobab, if you’re geek like me, is that it’s there at all.
There are 6 six species in Madagascar and another in mainland Africa, and we know the Australian one got to Aussie way after Africa split from the rest of Gondwana. So a seed must have dispersed all the way from Africa to Aussie and taken root. The seeds do float, and 100 million years is a long time, but it’s still pretty cool.
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Your trust is appreciated. Now I must dash out and buy a virtual vase to my bouquet in. It’ll look nice on the virtual windowsill…
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David – the extra info gets another bonus. I’m not a geek but I too think it’s pretty cool.
Bearhunter – remember to fill the vase with virtual water so the flowers will last longer.
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