Q 01/05

Which food made from his signature crop is George Washington Carver often wrongly credited with inventing?

A) Peanut brittle

B) Peanut butter

C) Peanut oil

D) Peanut flour

Answer · why

B) Peanut butter

Peanut butter had been patented in 1884, twelve years before Carver began work at Tuskegee. His famous 1916 bulletin gathered existing recipes for the...

Q 02/05

Time magazine in 1941 dubbed George Washington Carver a 'Black' version of which Renaissance figure?

A) Leonardo

B) Michelangelo

C) Raphael

D) Galileo

Answer · why

A) Leonardo

Leonardo fit because Carver painted as well as experimented. One of his canvases had hung at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.

Q 03/05

A crater named for George Washington Carver in 1970 sits on which body in the solar system?

A) Venus

B) Mercury

C) The Moon

D) Enceladus

Answer · why

C) The Moon

The Moon carries the Carver crater on its far side, the hemisphere that can never be seen from Earth.

Q 04/05

Which San Antonio Spurs star and his wife founded an academy named for George Washington Carver in 2001?

A) Tim Duncan

B) George Gervin

C) Dominique Wilkins

D) David Robinson

Answer · why

D) David Robinson

David Robinson and his wife Valerie opened the school in San Antonio, and in 2012 it became a tuition-free public charter school.

Q 05/05

Which carmaker paid for an elevator in George Washington Carver's Tuskegee dormitory as his health declined?

A) Henry Ford

B) Walter Chrysler

C) Louis Chevrolet

D) Ransom Olds

Answer · why

A) Henry Ford

Henry Ford became a close friend after inviting Carver to speak in Dearborn in 1937. He later built a replica there of the cabin where the scientist w...