Statistics for Conifers and more

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Perhaps the best-known conifer genus, rhymes with wine	Pine	100%
Like the above, but named after Scottish botanist David Douglas	Douglas Fir	100%
Sounds like what a dog is covered in	Fir	100%
The H-4 Hercules airplane was nicknamed the "___ Goose"	Spruce	100%
Berry-bearing shrub or small tree of dry mountains	Juniper	80%
Conifer from the mountains and flag of Lebanon	Cedar	60%
Deciduous conifer also known as tamarack	Larch	60%
Churchyard tree named not me, but you	Yew	60%
Tree that shares a name with the poisonous plant that killed Socrates	Hemlock	40%
Tropical Australasian conifer with a Maori common name	Kauri	40%
Strange umbrella-shaped tree of the Chilean Andes	Monkey-puzzle	40%
Tallest trees of the California coast	Redwood	40%
Giant tree named after the creator of the Cherokee alphabet	Sequoia	40%
Mediterranean evergreen said to have been used to build Noah's Ark	Cypress	20%
Another rare Chinese conifer first known from fossils	Dawn Redwood	20%
Fan-leafed urban ornamental; not a conifer, but not a flowering tree either	Ginkgo	20%
"Living fossil" tree found in a single valley in Australia	Wollemia	20%
Many "palms" are actually these cone-bearing spiny shrubs	Cycad	0%

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