30-Jun-2022 Theme: 'Lunar'

(1) Moonflower (Ipomoea alba) – also known as white morning glory – is an environmental weed in NSW and Queensland. But another plant in the same genus is an important vegetable. What is the vegetable?

Answer: Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas).

(2) True or false: In most Aboriginal cultures the moon is regarded as masculine, and the sun as feminine?

Answer: True

(3) What was the name of the lunar ‘sea’ on which Apollo 11 landed in 1969?

Answer: Sea of Tranquility (aka Mare Tranquillitatis).

(4) “And Frankie kicked a mine the day mankind kicked the Moon. God help me - he was going home in June” (from ‘I Was Only 19’, by Redgum). How many months before Frankie was due to go home?

Answer: 11 months.

(5) What kind of a creature is Stellaluna, in the eponymous 1993 children’s book by Janell Cannon?

Answer: Fruit bat.

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