190 free FFA trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free FFA trivia questions with answers. Thirty-three delegates in a Kansas City hotel in 1928 started what is now a million-member organisation. This FFA trivia quiz covers the National FFA Organization from the Future Farmers of Virginia and the Smith-Hughes Act through the emblem (corn, sun, plow, eagle, owl), the motto, national blue and corn gold, E. M. Tiffany's Creed, the Fredericktown jacket, official dress and pins, and the officer stations from the rising sun to the door. It also covers the milestones members recite: the 1950 federal charter, the 1965 NFA merger, women in 1969, the 1988 name change, the move to Indianapolis, degrees from Discovery to American, SAEs and CDEs, and the alumni who wore the jacket, from Jimmy Carter and Jim Ross to Taylor Swift and astronaut Ellison Onizuka. About a third of the questions are for any Greenhand, a third for chapter officers, and the rest for advisors who know who won the first Star Farmer. Every answer is checked against a cited source, mostly ffa.org and Wikipedia, shown under the question.
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Q 01In what year was FFA founded?
1928
It was established in Kansas City on November 20, 1928 at the first National FFA Convention; the Black students' New Farmers of America followed nationally in 1935.
Q 02Where was FFA founded, and where did it hold its convention through 1998?
Kansas City, Missouri
The convention moved to Louisville in 1999 and to Indianapolis in 2006, where it is now booked through 2033.
Q 03How many delegates attended the first National FFA Convention in 1928?
33
They came from 18 states; Leslie Applegate of New Jersey was elected the first national president.
Q 04Who was the first national FFA president?
Leslie Applegate
He was from New Jersey; Carlton Patton of Arkansas became the first Star Farmer of America the next year.
Q 05FFA was modelled on an organisation founded in 1925 in which state?
Virginia
Henry Groseclose and three colleagues at Virginia Tech organised the Future Farmers of Virginia for boys in agriculture classes.
Q 06Which 1917 federal law established vocational agriculture courses, laying the groundwork for FFA?
The Smith-Hughes Act
Both Senator Hoke Smith and Representative Dudley Hughes were from Georgia.
Q 07What is the FFA motto?
Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve
Head, Heart, Hands and Health is 4-H; Be Prepared belongs to the Scouts.
Q 08What are the official FFA colors?
National blue and corn gold
They were adopted in 1929, a year after the founding.
Q 09The famous FFA jacket is made of what fabric?
Blue corduroy
It was created for the Fredericktown, Ohio chapter band by Dr. Gus Lintner and adopted as official dress in 1933.
Q 10The FFA jacket originated with a chapter band in which Ohio town?
Fredericktown
Van Wert, Ohio is where every jacket is now lettered and finished by Universal Lettering Company.
Q 11What does the cross section of an ear of corn on the FFA emblem represent?
Unity
Corn is grown in every state; the rising sun means progress, the plow labor, the eagle freedom and the owl knowledge.
Q 12On the FFA emblem, what does the owl represent?
Knowledge
The eagle stands for freedom and the plow for labor and tillage.
Q 13What does the rising sun on the emblem signify?
Progress
The FFA president is stationed by the rising sun during meetings, 'a token of a new era in agriculture'.
Q 14What does the eagle on the emblem symbolise?
Q 21The FFA treasurer is stationed by an emblem of which historical figure?
George Washington
Because Washington kept his farm accounts carefully and accurately; National FFA Week falls around his birthday.
Q 22Which officer is stationed by the door?
Sentinel
The sentinel keeps the door open to all and helps the president keep order.
Q 23The secretary is stationed by which emblem?
The ear of corn
To keep records and 'correspond with other secretaries wherever corn is grown and FFA members meet'.
Freedom
The words 'Agricultural Education' and 'FFA' on the emblem stand for the combination of learning and leadership.
Q 15Who wrote the FFA Creed?
E. M. Tiffany
Erwin Milton Tiffany of Lyndon, Kansas; it was adopted at the 3rd National Convention in 1930 and revised at the 38th and 63rd.
Q 16Reciting the Creed from memory is required to earn which degree?
Greenhand
The degrees climb from Discovery through Greenhand, Chapter and State to the American FFA Degree.
Q 17Which FFA award level was approved in 2000 for middle-school students?
Discovery
Seventh and eighth graders had been allowed to join since 1988.
Q 18What does SAE stand for in FFA?
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Every active member must have an SAE project; the four types are Foundational, Research, Ownership and Placement.
Q 19What are the competitions like meat evaluation, land judging and tractor driving called?
Career Development Events
CDEs, alongside Leadership Development Events, run from local to national level.
Q 20Which FFA officer is stationed by the plow?
Vice president
The president sits by the rising sun, the reporter by the flag, and the treasurer by the bust of Washington.
Q 24In what year were female students first admitted to FFA?
1969
Julie Smiley of Washington became the first woman national officer in 1976 and Jan Eberly of California the first female national president in 1982.
Q 25Which organisation for Black agriculture students merged into FFA in 1965?
New Farmers of America
The NFA was founded nationally at Tuskegee in 1935; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forced the merger.
Q 26Why did the organisation change its name to the National FFA Organization in 1988?
To reflect agriculture's diversity
The same year seventh and eighth graders were allowed to join.
Q 27Which president signed the bill granting FFA a federal charter in 1950?
Harry Truman
It became Public Law 81-740; the charter now sits under Title 36 of the U.S. Code.
Q 28Who was the first sitting U.S. president to speak at a National FFA Convention?
Dwight Eisenhower
In 1953 he received an Honorary American Farmer Degree; a 3-cent stamp marked FFA's 25th anniversary the same year.
Q 29Which future president was a member of the Plains, Georgia FFA chapter?
Jimmy Carter
He spoke at the convention as ex-governor in 1975 and again as president in 1978.
Q 30Where is the National FFA Center, dedicated in 1998?
Indianapolis, Indiana
The previous headquarters near Alexandria sat on land that was once part of George Washington's estate.