The final set of questions from the Lavant Horticultural Society Annual Quiz is from the Geography and Food & Drink rounds:

As though the answers were written down, if you get a wrong answer you have to let someone else have a guess before having another go.

NO SILLINESS

Is the heating on alright? Good....

1. A Bruxelloise sauce is flavoured with which vegetable? - ASPARAGUS - Duckpin236
2. Which part of a tree gives Angostura Bitters its taste? - BARK - A Worried Man
3. The roadie for which 70s rock band once took a bet to eat a stone of raw potatoes? - PINK FLOYD - Zoot Horn Polo
4. Which fruit is used to make slivovitch? - PLUMS - Mere Pseud
5. What did Captain Cook call the Islands Of Tonga? - FRIENDLY ISLANDS - Mere Pseud
6. The Aegean Sea is linked to the Ionian Sea by which canal? - CORINTH - HiccupPercy
7. What are the three Baltic states? (one point for each, 6 bonus points if you get all 3 in one post) - LATVIA, LITHUANIA, ESTONIA - Mere Pseud
8. What is the largest island in the Dodecanese? - RHODES - Duckpin236/Reformed Marmot
9. Which Derbyshire town is famous for the church with the crooked spire? - CHESTERFIELD - SteveHamilton
10. In which state is the United States highest town with permanent residents? - COLORADO - Duckpin236
11. Which island is named after the Norse for puffin? -LUNDY- Reformed Marmot

Scores carried over from rounds 1 and 2:

Cappuccino and a slice of quiche - 2
Duckpin236 - 20
Orphiztic - 18
A Worried Man - 5
Chip Priest - 2
DJAsh - 2
Mere Pseud - 13
SteveHamilton - 2
Zoot Horn Polo - 2
A Worried Man - 2
Reformed Marmot - 3
HiccupPercy - 3

7. Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

9 - chesterfield

3. Pink Floyd. You told the story here last month.

1 - brussell sprout?

4. Apple

11 - baffin island?

4. plums

CORRECT! 9 points - well done

CORRECT! 2 points (even though it is pretty easy)

5. Friendly Islands?

CORRECT! I know, but when you get to our age....2 points

Not what's on the card :unsure:

10. Alaska? It quite often is, in these things.

No

10. Montana?

No - it does sound like puffin though.

CORRECT! 2 Points :beer:

2. Is it the bark? A tree does not have so many parts, after all.

CORRECT! 2 points.

5. A fucking shithole?

Not in this case - or else it's usually The Cheviots.

No

8. Lesbos

10 - Leadville, Colorado

CORRECT! 2 points

2 - root

Now look, I like you, but that's the language of the snooker hall.

Please refer to what I said to A Worried Man. There's just no need for it.

CORRECT! 2 points.

I was always led to believe that Angostura Bitter, a product I've used for years, was mainly alcohol and gentian root....are you sure about abuot the bark?

1 - shallots

Wrong answer, then. I know the answer now but I can't post it because I looked it up. Do I get a point for sportsmanship?

Seeing as the I've already got the points, that can never ever ever be taken away from me, for any reason, I took the liberty of looking on Wikipedia. It has both root and bark in it. I do not know what gives it a bitter taste as I stopped reading the entry at that point.

Well I've labored under a mistake all these years; thanks for letting me know. I was told, and you're bound to be told anything, that the whole ground root of a species of gentian was used.

8 - Crete

11 - Svalbard

11 - Spitzbergen

even though it's not a vegetable, for
#1 - truffle

Lundy is norse for puffin