Q 01/05

Early farming created food surpluses; what did those surpluses let people do?

A) Live in cities

B) Migrate out of Africa

C) Tame the first dogs

D) Paint cave art

Answer · why

A) Live in cities

Live in cities is what the surpluses allowed, even though people had gathered wild grain for over 100,000 years before they began planting it.

Q 02/05

Besides Asia, which region independently domesticated its own species of rice?

A) West Africa

B) Central America

C) The Andes

D) Southern Europe

Answer · why

A) West Africa

West Africa's farmers grew African rice, a separate species, but introduced Asian rice is now replacing it.

Q 03/05

About what share of the world's food do small family farms produce?

A) 1%

B) 3%

C) 10%

D) 33%

Answer · why

D) 33%

33%, about a third of the world's food, comes from small family farms, even though large farms dominate total farmland.

Q 04/05

About what share of the world's food is lost after harvest but before reaching shops?

A) 1%

B) 4%

C) 13%

D) 40%

Answer · why

C) 13%

13% of food is lost this way, and the share has hardly changed since the mid-2010s despite a UN target to cut such losses.

Q 05/05

The shift from hunting and gathering to farming and settlement is known as what?

A) The Bronze Age

B) The Industrial Revolution

C) The Green Revolution

D) The Neolithic Revolution

Answer · why

D) The Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution set off a population boom, as a steadier food supply and settled living pushed birth rates up.