Q 01/05

Botanically, the peanut belongs to which plant family?

A) Legumes

B) Grasses

C) Beeches

D) Cashews

Answer · why

A) Legumes

Legumes: the peanut is a cousin of peas and beans, and like them it hosts root bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air, leaving the field richer for ...

Q 02/05

Peanut pods develop underground, a rare trait known by what name?

A) Epiphyty

B) Dehiscence

C) Vernalization

D) Geocarpy

Answer · why

D) Geocarpy

Geocarpy: after pollination a stalk called a peg pushes the young pod a few inches into the soil to ripen, which is why Linnaeus named the species hyp...

Q 03/05

Which company made peanut butter famous by selling it at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?

A) Heinz

B) Kellogg's

C) Skippy

D) Beech-Nut

Answer · why

D) Beech-Nut

Peanut butter was first manufactured in Canada under an 1884 US patent held by Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal.

Q 04/05

Which US president ran his family's peanut farm before entering politics?

A) Lyndon Johnson

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Harry Truman

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter: when his father died in 1953 he resigned from the Navy's nuclear submarine programme to save the family business, and he handed it to tr...

Q 05/05

Which scientist promoted hundreds of peanut-based products in the American South?

A) George Washington Carver

B) Booker T. Washington

C) Luther Burbank

D) Norman Borlaug

Answer · why

A) George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver: his cotton-and-peanut rotations revived worn-out soil but left farmers with barns of unsold peanuts, so he set about devisin...