Invasive Plants of the USA
American colonists brought this vine from the homeland and it proceeded to topple native trees.
What is English Ivy?
This former Civil War soldier led the first European American expedition downriver through the Grand Canyon.
Who was John Wesley Powell?
This last name of golfer David is applied to what he called a “correction shot”
What is Mulligan?
Jawaharlal Nehru
What is India?
Zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, and tomatoes are the primary ingredients of this stable dish.
What is ratatouille?
Variations of honeysuckle and barberry from this island nation were first brought to the US as ornamental plants.
What is Japan?
The Colorado River Aqueduct delivers about 1 billion gallons of water per day to cities in this state.
What is California?
This term for an unidentified aircraft or missile is also used on the golf course.
What is bogey?
Manuel Félix Fernández
What is Mexico?
The top of this rich egg custard is sugared and then heated so that the sugar melts to a crisp, caramel crust.
What is creme brulee?
This vine was extensively planted in the 1930s and 1940s by the Soil Conservation Service to reduce soil erosion on deforested lands in the southeast, and grows up to a foot a day.
What is kudzu?
He was Secretary of Commerce when the Colorado River Compact was signed in 1922.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
An old joke says that golf was invented by the same people who think that music comes out of these.
What are bagpipes?
Jomo Kenyatta
What is Kenya?
This is a tall white hat worn by chefs.
What is a toque?
Tamarisk trees, originally from this country, now choke riverbanks throughout the Southwestern US.
What is South Africa?
This National Monument would be underwater today had early Sierra Club activists not defeated the plan for a dam at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
What is Dinosaur National Monument?
Rudyard Kipling painted golf balls this color to find them on snow-covered “greens” in Vermont
What is red?
Liaquat Ali Khan
What is Pakistan?
This refers to a meat dish, in which pieces of meat are cooked at the table in a pot of hot oil, or a dessert, in which pieces of fruit are dipped into warm, melted chocolate.
What is fondue?
This annual invasive grass now competes with native sage brush due to centuries of intensive cattle grazing.
What is cheatgrass?
Populations of this endangered porpoise have declined precipitously since the Colorado River ceased to flow through its delta.
What is the vaquita?
Golfers know it means to lay the club behind the ball in preparation to hit it (not mail it)
What is address?
Idris I
What is Libya?
This term means cooked in its own fat
What is confit?