I was confused when I saw Edelweiss and the only option was vegetable, so I scrolled to see if I've missed something. Then I saw the quiz description. Is there a specific reason why the answers include vegetable and not simply a plant? Is it like a popular game or sth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Questions#:~:text=The%20most%20popular%20variant%20is,animal%2C%20vegetable%20or%20mineral%20kingdom. I think this is where it comes from; there was also a BBC show called Animal, Vegetable or Mineral.
It's more like the game twenty questions, and you ask Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral to see what the catagory their chosen word is in. So it could be any plant, even though it says vegetable.
There's a show called 'World's toughest race: Eco-Challenge Fiji'. There's a team called 'Team Onyx'.They're a black team (not to be racist) and I was stumped on why they were called that
The BBC radio game mentioned in a post above, Twenty Questions, would be widely known by older Brits. Contestants had to guess the person/object on the card and were told if it was animal, vegetable or mineral as the only clue.
The terms were used quite loosely, as per the sort of definition you might be taught at junior school.
Therefore anything that you would call a plant in everyday speech would be classed as 'vegetable'. Hence Venus Fly Trap is vegetable but not one you would eat. Unless it was trying to eat you...
I thought the concept was thought up by the BBC but having just checked, it seems that this was previously a 'parlour' game in the US.
This is my luckiest quiz ever, 20/20 as a non native speaker and I thought I was going to get 10 or so. ASHDKSFHJKHJK second biggest achievement in my life :)
The terms were used quite loosely, as per the sort of definition you might be taught at junior school.
Therefore anything that you would call a plant in everyday speech would be classed as 'vegetable'. Hence Venus Fly Trap is vegetable but not one you would eat. Unless it was trying to eat you...
I thought the concept was thought up by the BBC but having just checked, it seems that this was previously a 'parlour' game in the US.
I think I was thinking about quail..