20-Mar-2025 Theme: 'Rote'

(1) Rotenone, used as a piscicide and insecticide, is the active ingredient of what common home vegetable garden product?

Answer: Derris dust.

(2) Are rotifers (a) microvertebrates (b) microinvertebrates (c) macrovertebrates (d) macroinvertebrates?

Answer: (b) microinvertebrates

(3) What is a seven-letter word ending in ‘rote’, meaning to strangle?

Answer: Garrote.

(4) What is a roturier?

Answer: A commoner (person of low rank).

(5) Who played the role of Jessica Fletcher in the TV detective series ‘Murder She Wrote?’

Answer: Angela Lansbury.

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