I Eat Quizzes

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Warming Up ☀️ (Q1–5)

Q1: True or false: Mushrooms are plants. False, they’re fungi! 🍄

Q2: Which everyday white mushroom pops up on dinner plates most often around the world? Button mushroom 🍽️

Q3: Name the video game where a certain Italian plumber munches mushrooms for superpowers. Super Mario Bros. 🎮

Q4: Which clever little mushroom looks like a shaggy pom-pom and is said to boost your brain? Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) 🧠

Q5: Which tiny blue characters call mushroom-shaped houses home? The Smurfs 💙 Try the Smurf-themed quiz

Nicely warmed up! Let’s sprout some brainpower and get into the zone

In the Zone 🌤️ (Q6–13)

Q6: What circular patterns appear in grassy fields thanks to mushrooms growing in just the right way? Fairy Rings ✨

Q7: What’s the nickname for the underground mushroom network that helps trees and plants chat and share nutrients? The Wood Wide Web 🌳 (mycorrhizal symbiosis)

Q8: Which big brown mushroom, named after a Dublin suburb, is often grilled or stuffed and is basically the grown-up version of a chestnut mushroom? Portobello mushroom 🍄

Q9: Which popular East Asian mushroom grows on shii trees and shares its name with them in Japanese? Shiitake mushrooms 🍜

Q10: Name the 2007 Irish horror film about backpackers who get a bit too friendly with hallucinogenic mushrooms. Shrooms 👻

Q11: What do you call a scientist who spends their days studying fungi? Mycologist 🔬

Q12: True or false: Some mushrooms glow in the dark. True (bioluminescent mushrooms) ✨

Q13: The edible mushroom Auricularia is shaped like which body part? Ear 👂

Things are heating up like a fungus in the forest…

Pressure’s On 🌡️ (Q14–19)

Q14: Which video game series is packed with mushroom-inspired creatures like Vileplume, Shroomish, and Breloom? Pokémon 🎮🍄

Q15: Back in AD 54, which Roman Emperor allegedly met his end thanks to some dodgy mushrooms? Claudius 🏛️

Q16: Which mushroom, also called “hen of the woods,” grows in big clumps at tree bases? Maitake 🍴

Q17: What do Morels, Favolus, and Chanterelles all have in common? Honeycomb or wrinkled caps 🍯

Q18: Which mushroom has a long history of being hallucinogenic and used in religious rituals? Psilocybin mushrooms 🌿

Q19: Which video game and TV series features a terrifying mushroom-like fungus that infects humans? The Last of Us 🎮👾

Hold onto your thinking caps… a mushroom of a challenge is about to drop!

Dynamite Question 🌶️

Q20: No hints. No mercy. In Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940), which tiny mushroom character dances in the “Chinese Dance” segment of the “Nutcracker Suite,” wearing a cap and robe and brought to life by the Dewdrop Fairies? Hop Low Fancy a peek at the dancing mushrooms? Watch the Chinese Dance segment 🍄

And that’s your lot! How many did you ace?

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