Q 01/05

Elm Farm Ollie, a Guernsey cow, was milked in mid-journey in 1930 as the first cow to travel aboard what?

A) An airplane

B) A submarine

C) An airship

D) A hot-air balloon

Answer · why

A) An airplane

An airplane carried her from Bismarck, Missouri, to an air show in St. Louis, and her milk was dropped to the crowd below in containers tied to parach...

Q 02/05

Pauline Wayne, the last cow to graze the White House lawn, supplied milk to which US president's family?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) William Howard Taft

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

B) William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft's cow once went missing for two days on her way to a dairy show, when a rail crew's mistake sent her private car to the Chicago st...

Q 03/05

Dairy farmers often feed a cow a magnet to protect her from which oddly named condition?

A) Wooden tongue

B) Lumpy jaw

C) Hardware disease

D) Grass tetany

Answer · why

C) Hardware disease

Hardware disease strikes when swallowed nails or wire pierce the stomach wall, so a magnet given by mouth sits in the stomach and holds stray metal in...

Q 04/05

Milkmaids who caught cowpox seemed immune to which deadly disease, inspiring Edward Jenner's vaccine?

A) Chickenpox

B) Measles

C) Cholera

D) Smallpox

Answer · why

D) Smallpox

Smallpox immunity among dairy workers led Jenner to test matter from a cowpox sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes, and his word vaccination comes from vacca...

Q 05/05

What must a dairy cow do before her body will start producing any milk at all?

A) Give birth

B) Reach full size

C) Shed her winter coat

D) Turn three years old

Answer · why

A) Give birth

Give birth is the trigger: like every mammal, a cow makes milk to feed her young, so dairy farmers breed their cows regularly to keep it flowing.