Q 01/05

Grits are a porridge made from which grain?

A) Wheat

B) Oats

C) Rice

D) Corn

Answer · why

D) Corn

Corn. Native peoples of the Southeast were pounding and boiling it long before Europeans arrived, and English settlers had adopted the dish by 1630.

Q 02/05

Which Native American crop trio was known as the Three Sisters?

A) Corn, okra and rice

B) Beans, maize and squash

C) Peppers, tomatoes and beans

D) Squash, pumpkin and melon

Answer · why

B) Beans, maize and squash

Beans, maize and squash. Planted in the same mound, the maize stalks give the beans a pole to climb, the beans add nitrogen to the soil and the squash...

Q 03/05

Which of these vegetables did enslaved West Africans introduce to the South?

A) Squash

B) Tomato

C) Pumpkin

D) Okra

Answer · why

D) Okra

Okra. Its name comes from a West African language, and 'gumbo', the Louisiana stew it thickens, probably comes from a Bantu word for the same pod.

Q 04/05

Which Lowcountry people made rice prominent because they already knew the crop?

A) The Gullah

B) The Cherokee

C) The Cajuns

D) The Ulster Scots

Answer · why

A) The Gullah

The Gullah. Carolina planters paid more for captives from West Africa's Rice Coast, whose skill with dikes and flooded fields made the plantations wor...

Q 05/05

Fried chicken in the South traces partly to frying traditions from which European country?

A) Scotland

B) France

C) Germany

D) Spain

Answer · why

A) Scotland

Scotland. Scots are thought to have fried their chicken in fat where the English baked or boiled it, though food historians admit the dish's early his...