Episode 168 addendum: On The Ledge quiz answers
On The Ledge | Grow houseplants with the experts
Jane Perrone
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Find out how you scored in the On The Ledge quiz as Jane reveals the answers. Check out the questions and answers in full at https://www.janeperrone.com/on-the-ledge/2020/12/14/plant-quiz-aloe-vera
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for the quiz answers? Here we go. Question one. The question was, you've heard of Cam and Meet the Listener, |
| 0:22.5 | but what does Cam stand for? |
| 0:25.2 | It was C, |
| 0:26.9 | gratulation, acid metabolism. |
| 0:30.0 | Of course. |
| 0:32.0 | Question two, |
| 0:33.2 | asked about Anders Roinberg's other job |
| 0:36.6 | as a professional what? |
| 0:39.8 | And the answer was, of course, a professional sexologist. |
| 0:46.0 | Question three asked about lithops and the number one pest, |
| 0:52.3 | as described by expert Brian Fern. |
| 0:55.9 | And the answer was the unforgettable baboons. |
| 1:00.0 | That was answer C. |
| 1:01.0 | Question four asked about a species that's both edible and a house plant, |
| 1:06.8 | and the answer was C, Oxalis Triangularis, also known as the false leaf shamrock. |
| 1:14.9 | Question five asked about Tyler Thrasher and his work of fiction, which was, of course, about A, a botanist. |
| 1:25.0 | Question six, I hope you got this one right. My book is of course called Legends of the Leaf, |
| 1:30.5 | B. Question seven, the technique for propagating pepperomias, is of course the hummus pot technique. That was |
| 1:38.8 | answer C. And question eight, it was a tough one. Calathea, most of the species in this genus, have been moved to another |
| 1:49.5 | genus called Gapertia. So did you know how to spell that? It's G-O-E-P-P-E-R-T-I-A. So two points, |
| 2:05.0 | if you got that phonetically correct and you also got the spelling right. One point if you just got the essence of it but you didn't spell it correctly. |
| 2:12.0 | Question nine asked about names for the show and specifically which name did my husband come up with for |
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