Q 01/05

Botanically, the peanut belongs to which plant family?

A) Legumes

B) Grasses

C) Beeches

D) Cashews

Answer · why

A) Legumes

Peanuts grow like peas and beans, not like tree nuts. They even fix nitrogen in the soil through bacteria in their root nodules.

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

After pollination a stalk called a peg grows down into the soil, and the pod forms there. Linnaeus named the species hypogaea, Greek for under the ear...

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 was a peanut farmer from Sumter County, Georgia?

A) Lyndon Johnson

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Harry Truman

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Carter

Georgia leads the nation in peanut production with about 49 percent of the country's peanut acreage and output.

Q 05/05

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

A) George Washington Carver

B) Booker Taliaferro Washington

C) Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa

D) Norman Borlaug of Iowa

Answer · why

A) George Washington Carver

He pushed peanuts as a rotation crop for soils exhausted by cotton, and his product list ran from cosmetics to paints to nitroglycerin.