Statistics for Fun Fungus Fungi Kingdom Quiz 🍄

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A single-celled fungus used to make bread rise, and to produce alcohol	yeast	88%
The top of a mushroom	cap	85%
Antibiotic discovered by Andrew Fleming, which is produced by a fungus	penicillin	85%
What mushrooms produce instead of seeds	spore	85%
The study of fungi	mycology	78%
Important in this process, the breaking down of organic matter	decomposition	76%
The fruit of some fungi	mushroom	68%
Condition caused by fungus between the toes	athlete's foot	66%
Edible mushroom native to East Asia, with a Japanese name	shiitake	66%
Pigs and dogs help us find these delicacies	truffle	66%
A partnership between algae and fungi, which can be hundreds of years old	lichen	63%
The web of small threads mushrooms grow from	mycelium	63%
U.S. state where the world's largest known organism, a fungus, is found	Oregon	61%
Two-word term for mushrooms that grow in a circle	fairy ring	59%
What's inside the top	gills	56%
Large, mature form of the button mushroom that is often grilled	portobello	56%
Another name for mushroom, especially a poisonous one	toadstool	54%
Stachybotrys chartarum, which contaminates flooded homes	black mold	51%
Common name for entheogenic mushrooms	{magic} mushrooms	44%
Amanita phalloides, a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus	death cap	41%
Edible fungus with a honeycomb appearance	morel	39%
A fungal infection of the skin (aka Dermatophytosis)	ringworm	32%