OK, Woodman wanted an opportunity to win a sugar scoop, so here's the Sugar Scoop Contest. I decided to hold it myself so that even Jeff B can compete if he wants to. There is only 1 scoop available and it is made from black cherry and has a food safe finish of mineral oil and bee's wax.
Rules: A) Don't put answers on this thread.
Send the answers to: cadnhead@forestryforum.com B) I, and I alone will determine whether or not your answer is correct. If your answer doesn't match mine, then you are wrong and there will be no arguing or discussion about who's right.
C) I may give partial credit if I want to.
D) 1 point per correct answer. Partial point if I decide to give partial credit.
E) You may only enter one time.
F) The contest ends on May 30th.
Contest Questions 1. What wood is the favorite for butchers' blocks?
2. What native American wood is considered best for making arrows?
3. What is the wood most preferred in the manufacture of artificial limbs for people?
4. What wood is the most desirable for manufacturing of containers for liquids?
5. What wood is the most satisfactory-and is used in large quantities for storage-battery separators.
6. How was the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, named, and what tree was involved?
7. What tree has aerial roots?
8. Which tropical American wood is it that, when the leaves are bruised, has a strong odor like that of garlic?
9. What wood is used most for making manicure sticks?
10. What is the hardest, heaviest and closest-grained wood known?
11. What type of pine furnishes a figure similar to that seen in birds-eye maple and is sometimes referred to as bird's-eye pine?
12. What wood is generally used in the manufacture of toothpicks?
13. What spruce was first discovered on Pikes Peak?
14. What American wood is particularly suitable for food containers?
15. Nearly 80 percent of what wood is used in the manufacture of wooden tool handles?
16. What wood is used for making matches?
17. What state in the U.S. has the largest number of different kinds of trees?
18. Approximately how many crossties are required for a mile of railway tracks?
19. What southern tree of the U.S. has no heartwood until it is 18 years of age or over?
20. What is the whitest known wood and what is the blackest?
21. What is the wood from which practically all lead pencils are made?
22. What tree supplies us with quinine, used to treat malaria?
23. What tree provides us with strychnine?
24. What tree is stripped of its bark every ten years and continues to grow and thrive for 150 years or more?
25. How is the weight of teak logs reduced so that they will not sink in water?
