Thursday, May 5, 2011

Yesterday's answer, Today's Question.

Yesterday's Answer:

Socrates was quoted by Diogenes Laertius in "The Lives of Eminent Philosophers," as having said, "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."


(Note: I would have understood this quote more readily had it been written with a semi-colon after the word, "knowledge.")


Today's Question:


By popular name and plant family, identify the plant: broad-leaved wayside weed related to sorrel; its leaves are a country remedy for nettle stings and were historically used to wrap butter.


I don't know much about weeds so I will have to defer on this one.


(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, May 5, 2011; http://www.iep.utm.edu/dioglaer/; http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weed; http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm; http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/sorcom64.html)

Compiled by Otto and Patricia Ladensack)

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