New viktorina green skills

Project “Green Skills for Social Agriculture” Sandanski, 09.05.2018 г.

Quiz – Competition "Agro - Culture - Education"

Question 1 This is an annual plant from Poaceae family. Flour, beer, whiskey, vodka and fodder are made from it. The one is mentioned in the title of one of the TOP 100 of 20th – century best novels, written by an American author. It is translated into lots of languages.

Also the novel is taught in school as well as sold over 65 million copies all over the world.

What is the name of the plant?

Question 2 You will not see the animal mantioned in the title of the movie, in none of the frames of this American film, which was filmed in 1991 and has won 5 Oscars. The animals are the most cultivated species in New ZeĐ°land and the country is the leading seller of its meat.

What the movie is?

Question 3

Its Latin name is Fragaria. You can prepare some very delicious jam from it.

John Lenon wrote a song about the fruit. A sector of Central Park is named after it.

What is the name of the song?

Question 4 It appears bizarre that the plant is a part of the genus Nicotiana and of the Solanaceae family. And it is far less harmless. According to the World Customs Organization the substance in its leaves causes 5.4 million deaths a year. It did not stop it playing one of the main roles in a famous Bulgarian novel.

What is the name of the novel?

Question 5 This plant is grown for fodder. The first lady of Bulgarian pop music sings about it and she is seeking it all over the Earth, but finds only species with three leaves. It is a symbol of good luck and happiness.

What is the name of the plant?

Question 6 Now we are talking about the first novel by this author fully completed in 1980. In 1986 a movie was filmed in which Sean Connery and Christian Slater were played. The title of the novel includes flower which all the Bulgarians love and are proud of. Its aroma appears the basis for many perfumes.

What is the name of the book?

Question 7 According to the song lyrics, it must have been discovered and sung by the Bulgarian team because the one concerns the love and the product chosen for the study. Literary character suffers the beloved and drinks the liquid in order not to feel alone. It is written for the first time by the American singer Neil Diamond in 1967.

What is the name of the song?

Question 8 The plant was transported to Europe in 1510 and sown in the Botanical garden of Madrid.

Originally was grown as a decorative one – today it is a major agricultural crop. In 1888, a Dutch artist used it as a model and has painted four canvases, each one for decorating a friend’s room. Today each of them is valued at one million euros. In 1970, Vittorio de Sica created a film in which the plant was involved.

What is the name of the plant? What is the artist’s name?

Question 9 Half of the species are grown in China.

Annually the country produces over 50 million tones of meat of the animal. They appeared the main characters in a George Orwell “Animal Farm”. They claimed themselves as the cleverest ones and made a coup with the slogan: “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”

Which is the animal?

Question 10

Its fruit is an object of research in this project. Athena Pallas gave it as a gift for the inhabitants of a city. In return she was given the right to run it.

What is the name of the tree?

What is the name of the city?

Question 11

A Belgian surrealist, born in 1898, his work is aimed at limiting the reality of art more clearly.

The apple of the beautiful picture cannot be eaten because it is in the picture. The painting is called “Ceci n’est pas une pomme“ / This is not an Apple“/.

Who the painter is?

Question 12 The film is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Stanley Kubrick directed the movie which is based on a novel of the same name. The film is defined as fiction, drama, comedy and thriller, too. Its title has the fruit and the country of Brazil is the largest exporter of it. Its juice is the most popular soft drink in America.

What is the name of the fruit/ movie?

Question 13 This is an epic popular book for children, but its author tells her to be destined for the child in every adult. The book was published in 1926 and has been translated into more than 25 languages. In 1996, a leading publishing house in England put the one at 17th place among the most widely read books of the 20th century.

The main character of the story says that there is only one thing which is better than a pot of honey and these are two pots of honey.

Which is the book and who is the author?

Question 14 This is a resin. In ancient times was used as cure. It contains antioxidants and also has antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Nowadays it is used in medicine. It comes into the composition of some foods and beverages used in cosmetics. The European Union has given it a protection sign of origin.

What is the name of the resin and where is it produced?