Janet Tweedy wrote:


One question was:
The plant hunter, David Douglas, worked for the Horticultural Society,
(the forerunner of the RHS), in the 19th century and in 1834 lost his
life while plant hunting in the Sandwich Islands when he was
a) Eaten by a shark
b) Bitten by a snake
c) Gored by a bull
d) Attacked by killer bees

Google is wonderful for things like this:

try Google: David Douglas RHS , the fist result gives his life (& death)
history!




the other that I can't do was a picture of some fir cones and you had
to guess:

These cones are typically borne by:
a) Korean fir
b) Douglas fir
c) Serbian spruce
d) Corsican pine

ditto, Google: (plant name) Image search

for nice piccies of the cones of each!

pk