How it works
Four rounds of botany, multiple choice: where plants came from, how photosynthesis works and who worked it out, how a flower is built, and what people have found in plant genomes and made from plants.
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Photosynthesis trivia questions and answers
Photosynthesis asks about the stroma, carbon fixation, the Z-scheme, CAM plants and the people behind the science, from a Swiss pastor in 1796 to a Nobel Prize in 1961. It is the round for a biology class.
Botany trivia questions and answers
The plant kingdom and its long story runs from Aristotle and Linnaeus to the first land plants. Flowers names the parts and the words, and Genomes, partners and uses covers epiphytes, the wheat genome and the thirty species behind most food. Nothing here is about plants as medicine.
Tips
- Photosynthesis has the most hard questions; start a garden club on Flowers.
Questions and answers
What are some easy plant trivia questions?
Which plant has the smallest flowers? What is a cluster of flowers on one axis called? Which synthetic fiber is made from plant cellulose? The answers are duckweed, an inflorescence and rayon.
What does the word photosynthesis mean?
It joins two Greek words: phos, light or gleam, and synthesis, arranging together.
Who discovered photosynthesis?
No one person. Joseph Priestley experimented with a candle under a jar; in 1796 Jean Senebier showed that green plants consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen in light; Melvin Calvin won a Nobel Prize in 1961 for the carbon chemistry.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article the question links: Plant, Photosynthesis or Flower. The total count of plant species is not asked, because the article on plants gives two different totals.