Natural selection has designed flowers to communicate with others species using these three senses.
What are smell, vision, and feel?
100
Psychiatrists regard a patient's indifference to flowers as a symptom of this psychological disorder.
What is depression?
100
This was the brief collective madness over a flower that shook a whole nation and nearly brought its economy to ruin.
What is tulipomania?
100
This is the age group of people who love tulips because they are simple to draw.
Who are kids?
100
The presence of flowers, according to scientist Steven Pinker, is a reliable predictor of this product.
What is future food?
200
Despite the wide variety of colors humans see when they encounter flowers, bees see most flowers as this color.
What is black?
200
This type of flower is known for leading many other flowers to being in love with human kind.
What are Chinese peonies?
200
This ancient civilization put flower blossoms in graves to make sure the dead had a nice transition to the afterlife.
Who were the Egyptians?
200
These are two components of variation and beauty that appealed to the Dutch and exploited the human desire for beauty.
What is seeding and what are breaks?
200
These two qualities set roses and orchids apart from the tulips.
What are long-living and indefinite cloning?
300
Species that are prone to parasitic infection tend to devote more resources to their own beauty in order to prove to potential mates that they are this.
What is healthy?
300
This color tulip was sought by the Dutch because of its rarity in nature and its power to astonish whose history serves as a metaphor for tulipomania.
What is a black tulip?
300
This is the time period from 1703-1730.
What is the “Tulip Era?”
300
This caused the start of Tulipomania, extended trade and led people to use flowers as a means of profit.
What are color breaks?
300
This is a flower with no scent.
What is the tulip?
400
These three qualities set roses, tulips and orchids apart from other wildflowers.
What are exceptional beauty, multifariousness, and the ability to adapt and reinvent themselves?
400
Author Michael Pollan associates this God with the tulip because of its clarity, order, and masculine qualities.
Who is Apollo?
400
This person stole flowers for his own garden in 1953.
Who is Carlous Clusius?
400
Tulips have used their beauty in the eyes of this species to survive.
Who are humans?
400
This is the flower with the most famous color break.
What is Semper Augustus?
500
This makes creates the beautiful “broken” color effect that the Dutch desired in their tulips.
What is a virus?
500
The logic stating that as long as there is a “greater fool” willing to pay more, Dutch merchants could charge extravagant amounts of money for tulip bulbs.
What is the "greater fool theory?"
500
This is the time period when tulipomania crashed and bulbs were suddenly unable to be sold at auctions.
What is the winter of 1637?
500
Michael Pollan says the tulip is a crucible for beauty and art because it is this.
What is the "meaning of life?"
500
This is when a DNA gene is damaged or changed in such a way as to alter the genetic message carried by that gene, specifically changing the color of tulips.