27-Jan-2022 Theme: 'Lime'

(1) Citrus australasica, native to Queensland and NSW, has a skin colour which can vary from yellow-green to crimson, purple, and black. What is it commonly known as?

Answer: Australian finger lime (aka caviar lime).

(2) Does adding lime raise or lower the pH level of soil?

Answer: Raises.

(3) What is a Limey?

Answer: British person.

(4) Lyme disease is caused by an infection with a bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi). How is it spread?

Answer: Tick bites.

(5) Discoveries in the 1980s at Lime Springs, near Gunnedah on NSW’s Liverpool Plains, were claimed as evidence of what disputed issue in Australian archaeology?

Answer: Co-existence of Aboriginal people and megafauna.

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