{"id":321204,"date":"2025-12-01T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:04:09","slug":"science-quiz-are-you-a-mushroom-master-or-do-you-need-more-fungi-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321204\/","title":{"rendered":"Science quiz: Are you a mushroom master or do you need more fungi facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It&#8217;s fair to say 2025 has been a big year for mushrooms \u2014 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the ABC Science team is here to show you that there&#8217;s much more to fungi than their toxins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">While you might not think about mushrooms beyond the weekly grocery shop, or on the news, fungi are an important part of our ecosystem, and researchers say there&#8217;s still much more to learn about them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">From smelly stinkhorns to delightfully coloured toadstools, do you have what it takes to ace our quiz and be crowned a fungi fanatic?<\/p>\n<p>LoadingMore tasty mushroom morselsLoading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">If this quiz has left you hungry to learn more about fungi, check out this special three-part series from ABC Radio National&#8217;s What the Duck?! podcast with Ann Jones:<\/p>\n<p>Where to find all the ABC&#8217;s quizzes<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Want to test yourself even further?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Take a squiz at <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/quizzes\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the ABC&#8217;s New Quiz topic page<\/a> and see if you&#8217;re a whiz at our previous quizzes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s fair to say 2025 has been a big year for mushrooms \u2014 and not in a good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,180874,65239,99,180873,20551,20544,180875],"class_list":{"0":"post-321204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-native-species","11":"tag-botany","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-death-caps","14":"tag-fungi","15":"tag-mushrooms","16":"tag-what-the-duck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}