Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Trivia Quiz

Answer: aqua

Emerald is a bright shade of green, ruby is a dark shade of red, sapphire is a deep blue. All three are well-known as gemstones. Aqua is a bluey-green colour, but it is not a gemstone however an aquamarine is.

Compare "aquatic", meaning "of water". Nice necklace of aquas, anyone?

Answer: tomato

Tomato has plenty of vitamin C, but it isn't a citrus fruit. The other three, characterised by pips, tree-growing habit and tough, yellow or orange rinds, are. Tangerines, mandarins, tangelos and quite a few others are citrus fruits too, but it's often difficult to tell which is which.

Answer: rose

Only the rose has no naturally-occurring blue form. Delphiniums are blue as often as not, and cornflowers and periwinkles are best-known for their blue forms. The nearest the rose has yet come to blue is a mauve or silver-grey shade, and it appears to be impossible to persuade it to go any bluer. Also, roses are shrubs.

Answer: galah

The males, females and young of whales, cattle and elephants all known as bulls, cows and calves. A galah family consists of a male bird (the system won't let me use the correct term), a hen and some chicks.

Just in case you need more convincing, cows, elephants and whales are all mammals, while a galah is a bird. It lays eggs. It talks. It flies.

Answer: frog

A frog is an amphibian. Emus, hawks and plovers are all birds. The emu can't fly, the hawk is a predator and the plover nests on the ground, but they're more like one another than like a frog. For a start, none of them can croak.

Answer: Thistle

The thistle is the emblem of Scotland (and anyone who has met a Scotch Thistle probably wishes it had stayed in its native land). The rose is the English flower, the cactus is generally associated with South America (although it isn't an emblem) and the haggis, though possibly indigestible and unlikely, isn't thorny or a plant.

Answer: all of them

All these words are synonyms of "belt". A belt is a strap to hold up trousers or tighten a waist. To belt something is to thrash it. To belt along the road is to rush or hurry.

Answer: five

Well - duh. Five buns make five buns. On the other hand, five bunny rabbits might make five hundred much sooner than you think. It's all a matter of the way you look at things.

Answer: all of them

There is no such thing as a fur tree, a popular tree or a wyllow. There's a fir tree, a poplar and a willow, but that's quite a different thing.

Answer: a chook

Most Australians refer to them as chooks, unless they're barbequed or fried or roasted, in which case they might be chickens.

If it's running about and clucking, it's not a chicken. Chickens are little fluffy things that peep or cheep. (Unless they're fried, etc...) A duster is something used to remove dust from furniture. A chick is a chicken, but also the young of most other birds. A cluck is the noise a chook makes.