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Agriculture is the practice of cultivating land, raising animals, and producing food and other crops. It is one of the oldest human pursuits and has played a critical role in shaping human civilization. There is a wide range of agriculture trivia questions that can be asked, whether you're a farmer or someone who is simply interested in the subject.
Here are some examples of agriculture trivia questions you might come across: What is the most widely grown crop in the world? What is the name of the process that uses insects to pollinate plants? How much of the world's land is used for agriculture? What is the name of the method of farming that involves rotating crops? These questions cover a wide range of agriculture topics, from crops, farming practices, and innovations.
In addition to the various farming practices, there are also many fun and interesting facts to learn about agriculture. For example, did you know that the most widely grown crop in the world is maize? Or that the process of using insects to pollinate plants is called entomophily? These trivia questions will not only test your knowledge, but also give you a glimpse into the many fascinating aspects of agriculture, the history of its development, the different types of farming and its impact on the environment and human society.
1. If you’re interested in winemaking, you’ll want to study viticulture, which tells you everything you need to know about growing what fruit?
Answer: Grapes
2. Tags for identification and bug-repelling are often clipped to which body part on beef cattle?
Answer: Ear
3. In the 1990s, what illness previously thought to be confined to cattle was found to have been expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans?
Answer: Mad Cow's Disease
4. California produces 98% of the United States' output of what green-colored nuts?
Answer: Pistachios
5. Craisins are both a popular snack and a registered trademark. What fruit is used to make Craisins?
Answer: Cranberries
6. North Carolina's Piedmont region has historically been known for the growth of what crop, with modern companies such as Phillip Morris, Reynolds American, and Lorillard still having a heavy presence within the state?
Answer: Tobacco
7. Hydroponics is growing plants without soil using water-based mineral nutrient solutions. What is the name of the similar process of growing plants without soil but with roots suspended in air and feed using mist-based nutrients, rather than being immersed in water?
Answer: Aeroponics
8. New Holland, Case IH, and Kubota are among the brands that make what large-wheeled motor vehicles, often used on farms to haul equipment and trailers?
Answer: Tractors
9. What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
Answer: Spinach
10. Looking more like quinoa than anything in an artichoke, the shelled seeds of a hemp plant are known by the name of what pump-y organ?
Answer: Heart
11. Although the statue is located more than 60 miles from its company headquarters, the city of Blue Earth, MN is home to a 55-foot tall statue of what verdant vegetable mascot?
Answer: Jolly Green Giant
12. What method of applying seed, fertilizer, or pesticide in a wide pattern shares its name with the method of using public airwaves to transmit television?
Answer: Broadcast
13. What scary-sounding "H" farm implement is defined as "a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over plowed land to break up clods, remove weeds, and cover seed?"
Answer: Harrow
14. In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?
Answer: Bee
15. Featuring more than 900 varieties of plants and designated a National Historic Site of Canada, Butchart Gardens is a horticultural marvel located on Vancouver Island in what province?
Answer: British Columbia
16. Aside from a billy, what other “B” word can be used to describe a male goat? The word can also be used as slang for a dollar bill.
Answer: Buck
17. The Kona Coast of Hawaii's Big Island is the only major production area in the U.S. of what crop?
Answer: Coffee
18. In 1862, there was a landmark piece of legislation in the U.S. meant to encourage frontier families to settle further West. However, there were few takers as the allotted 160 acres of federal land was inadequate for a farm to support a family in Montana's arid territory. What was this famous Act?
Answer: Homestead Act
19. What grade comes between Prime, which is the most marbled, and Select, which is less marbled, on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's beef grading scale?
Answer: Choice
20. What crop, the most common to be rotated with corn, was the focus of China trade war discussions because of the fact that 60% of the U.S. crop was exported to China in 2016?
Answer: Soybean
21. In the 1950's, the "Cavendish" overtook the "Gros Michel" as the most commonly grown variety of what culinary fruit in the genus Musa?
Answer: Banana
22. What is the stonefruit that is the national fruit of India, Haiti, and the Philippines? Strangely enough, is also the summer national fruit of Pakistan. Using seasons to claim four different national fruits: brilliant.
Answer: Mango
23. What is the horticultural technique in which the scion of one plant is grown on the rootstock of another?
Answer: Grafting
24. The boomerang shaped region of the Middle East, spanning modern day Iraq, Syria, and other countries, sometimes called “The Cradle Of Civilization”, is also called what kind of Crescent, because early civilizations there were able to innovate irrigation and general agriculture?
Answer: Fertile Crescent
25. What did the "M" in Texas A & M University originally stand for? (Hint: The "A" stands for "Agricultural.")
Answer: Mechanical
26. A term also used in anthropology to mean a society that lacks diversity, what word is used to describe the agricultural practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time?
Answer: Monoculture
27. What was the most widely grown crop in Australia over the past five years?
Answer: Wheat
28. A tree that still stands outside the Erechtheion temple is considered the most sacred moria, and which was given to Athens by Athena herself. What kind of tree, whose fruit Greece produces over 2 million tonnes each year, is the moria?
Answer: Olive
29. Jaffa, Hamlin, Fukumoto, and Cara-Cara are all varieties of what citrus fruit?
Answer: Orange
30. Three dairy cows try to protect their home, the Patch of Heaven farm, from creditors in what 2004 Disney animated film named for a classic country-western song?
Answer: Home on the Range
31. If you're comparing Scotts, Vigoro, and Schultz in an aisle, you're almost certainly looking to buy what critical agricultural "ingredient" that is considered a crucial component of conventional food systems?
Answer: Fertilizer
32. Alaskan farmers took out low-interest loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, established as one of what president's New Deal reforms?
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. What marital name is given to the science of breeding, feeding, and caring for farm animals in the proper way?
Answer: Animal Husbandry
34. While it is known as the Peach State, Georgia is also the nation's largest producer of what legume that is also the state crop?
Answer: Peanut
35. An economic bubble of what plant in the Netherlands is frequently referenced when referring to overspeculation of an asset?
Answer: Tulip
36. Tree nut and peanut allergies are largely separate because peanuts fall into what group of plants that belong to the family Fabaceae and includes mesquite, alfalfa and lentils?
Answer: Legumes
37. Two dudes with Midwest connections founded Farmers Insurance Group in what non-Midwest U.S. state that leads the world in almond production?
Answer: California
38. Tower, bunker, and bag are the three most common types of what building whose name comes from a Greek word for “pit for holding grain”?
Answer: Silo
39. Derived from the French for “bell,” what name is given to a covering protecting plants from cold temperatures? This word can also refer to a type of tableware cover or a type of hat.
Answer: Cloche
40. Although they're not at all related, the grasses of the genus Zizania, some of which are native to Asia and others which predate European contact in the Americas, are typically referred to as a "wild" version of what other staple crop?
Answer: Rice
41. An Alabama monument pays tribute to what agricultural pest, credited by many for helping the Southern U.S. diversify its agriculture by devastating the cotton industry?
Answer: Boll Weevil
42. "Linseed" is another name for what flowering plant, which has been cultivated by humans for over 30,000 years, and which is the source of linen fiber?
Answer: Flax
43. Edaphology is the study of which natural material—specifically, how it affects organisms (especially plants) and the ways in which humans can change it to meet their agricultural needs?
Answer: Soil
44. Which P-word refers to the mindful creation of stable, sustainable ecosystems—for example, trying to “work with nature” rather than go against it when you’re designing buildings? (Hint: Think rooftop gardens)
Answer: Permaculture
45. Provender is another name for which agricultural term for food like silage and hay that is meant to feed animals—especially livestock?
Answer: Fodder
46. In 1837, what inventor created the steel plow, which was stronger than the iron plows then in use? His name is still well-known for agricultural equipment.
Answer: John Deere
47. What crop, North America's most widely grown grain, was developed in southern Mexico from a wild grass called teosinte?
Answer: Corn
48. The name of the agriculturally-focused youth organization known as "4-H" stands for "heart," "head," "health," and what final "H?"
Answer: Hands
49. Which crop is Australia’s biggest agricultural export?
Answer: Wheat
50. Livestock feed that has been fermented and compressed is known by what name, derived from the Greek "siros," meaning a pit or hole for corn?
Answer: Silage
51. What type of mushroom named for its color and shape, also known as the champignon or table mushroom, is the most commonly grown variety of mushroom in the United States?
Answer: White Button
52. What agricultural machine, sometimes called a harvester, gets its name from the fact that it merges four different farming techniques? These are reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing.
Answer: Combine
53. Before his stints as Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack served two terms as governor of what corn-fed state?
Answer: Iowa
54. What tart fruit are sometimes called “bounce berries” because they will, indeed, bounce when they’re ripe?
Answer: Cranberries
55. Known to grow over 100 pounds in weight, this fruit is the world’s largest tree fruit and is also the national fruit of Bangladesh. Name this unique “J” fruit.
Answer: Jackfruit
56. Indigenous people in pre-Columbian North America developed a system of companion planting in which maize, beans, and squash were grown together in a mutually beneficial system. These three crops were typically known as "the Three" what?
Answer: Sisters
57. The pear is the official state fruit of what U.S. state? The designation is likely because they are the top-selling tree fruit crop in the state, growing particularly well in the Rogue River Valley and along the Columbia River near Mt. Hood.
Answer: Oregon
58. “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson's landmark work of environmental writing, helped lead to a worldwide ban on what three-letter agricultural pesticide?
Answer: DDT
59. What four letter word is a type of rich soil, usually considered ideal for gardening and agriculture, comprising a mixture of sand, clay and humus?
Answer: Loam
60. What common type of farm implement is used to compress and cut a raked crop like cotton, flax, or hay, into shapes that are easy to transport and store?
Answer: Baler
61. According to 2021 statistics, what crop of the Musa genus is, at 125 million metric tons grown per year, the most popular fruit among global producers?
Answer: Banana
62. What vegetable, a variety of Brassica oleracea, actually traces its cultivation back to the Belgian suburb of Saint-Gilles, despite its name?
Answer: Brussels sprouts
63. What food item "stands alone" at the end of the classic children's song "The Farmer in the Dell?"
Answer: Cheese
64. Most popular and important to folks in the Central Asian steppes from Turkic and Mongol origins, what is the fermented "K" dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk or dairy milk?
Answer: Kumis
65. What two-word machine, invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney, separates fibers of a certain plant from its seeds? It also sounds like a cocktail idea that would taste bad.
Answer: Cotton gin
66. What six-letter adjective describes arable land that is deliberately not planted with crops for one or more growing seasons to allow the soil to recover and restore depleted nutrients?
Answer: Fallow
67. The Haber Process, also called the Haber-Bosch Process, is an artificial method of nitrogen fixation, and the primary method of manufacturing what farming compound? Chemical formula NH3, it is commonly used in fertilizer.
Answer: Ammonia
68. What country has the most cultivated land area in the world? Its major agricultural products include pulses, milk, jute, and rice.
Answer: India
69. Unrelated to the spice company, what American inventor is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper, which revolutionized farming by allowing more grain to be harvested?
Answer: Cyrus McCormick
70. Hurricane Ike devastated parts of southeast Texas in 2006, causing tremendous damage to cattle ranchers, timberlands, and growers of what most common crop in the world, but primarily only grown in coastal Texas and the Mississippi River Delta in the United States?
Answer: Rice
71. What agricultural process is the creation of small holes in the soil, allowing air and other other nutrients to reach a plant’s roots?
Answer: Aeration
72. What “A” location is a specialized container designed to keep and maintain honeybees? It’s a key resource in the field of collecting honey.
Answer: Apiary
73. The Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought in the 1930s that devastated farmers, started in what state, before spreading east?
Answer: Oklahoma
74. What “C” term refers to an intact male horse that is four years of age or younger? It is also the name of a member of the NFL franchise based in Indianapolis.
Answer: Colt
75. Which term is defined as green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter?
Answer: Silage
76. What is the biggest crop export of Texas, and has been for the last 100 years?
Answer: Cotton
77. What region in California between the Sierra Nevada and Coast ranges, including Bakersfield, Fresno, Stockton, Modesto, and Sacramento, produces 8% of American crop value on just 1% of American farmland and provides over half of the fruit, vegetables, and nuts produced in America?
Answer: Central Valley
78. “Beefalo” have been crossbred in the United States since the early 1970s. The hybrid is part buffalo and which animal?
Answer: Cow
79. Which region of the U.S. is called the “Corn Belt” because its states produce almost all of America’s corn?
Answer: Midwest
80. Commonly referred to as beekeeping, what’s the technical term for maintaining these buzzy colonies? The name comes from Apis—the genus that most honey bees belong to.
Answer: Apiculture
81. What “H” term refers to the stems or stalks of crops, such as peas or potatoes, especially as used for animal bedding?
Answer: Haulm
82. If it looks like a goat, sounds like a goat, and walks like a goat, you could describe it with which adjective that starts with C and applies both to actual goats and goat-adjacent terms (for example, arthritis that goats get)?
Answer: Caprine
83. Which currency term is used for a crop that is grown to be sold for profit?
Answer: Cash
84. What's the name of the process by which the chaff, a dry protective casing, is separated from a grain like wheat or rice? It usually follows "threshing" in the process of grain preparation.
Answer: Winnowing
85. According to U.S. News and World Report, Wageningen University is the #1 Agricultural Studies school. Wageningen is located in the "food valley" of what European country?
Answer: Netherlands
86. Which D-term isn’t just something that beavers build—it also refers to an animal’s mom?
Answer: Dam
87. Which P-term refers to a young female chicken (under a year old) who has yet to lay eggs?
Answer: Pullet
88. The "sinensis" species of what flowering shrub from East Asia is harvested to make tea? Other species of this plant are used as common garden flowers.
Answer: Camellia
89. Which A-term describes when the same species of plant grows in separate locations and ends up splitting off into two isolated groups since it can’t crossbreed?
Answer: Allopatric
90. What swanky apple cultivar passed the Red Delicious in 2018 to become the most highly produced in the United States?
Answer: Gala
91. What's the name of the starch that is extracted from the cassava plant, native to Brazil? A staple crop for much of the world, it's also used to form "pudding" and "pearls."
Answer: Tapioca
92. Tillage involves using something like a shovel or plow to agitate what natural substance and prepare it for crop planting?
Answer: Soil
93. 80% of sugar produced in the world is from sugarcane, with most of the rest being produced from the "sugar" variety of what root vegetable?
Answer: Beets
94. Kharif crops, including chili peppers, mangos, and rice, are ones planted from June to November, known as what specific "season" in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh?
Answer: Monsoon Season
95. Although it sounds like something more alarming, what seven-letter "S" word means to break up the surface of a field to remove weeds with shallow roots?
Answer: Scarify
96. One of the greatest drivers of deforestation in Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries, is the planting of monocultures of what type of tree, from which oil is produced?
Answer: Palms
97. Its name is a little misleading, since which palm tree fruit is neither a legume nor chocolate?
Answer: Coconut
98. What food-growing system uses fish as biofilters for water that can then be given to plants?
Answer: Aquaponics
99. A sheep or cow that has been "polled" has had what removed?
Answer: Its horns
100. Which term that sounds like a forecast actually refers to a male sheep or goat that’s been castrated?
Answer: Wether
101. Ovine refers to which wooly, ruminant farm animal?
Answer: Sheep
102. Mirabelle, Damson, and Greengage are all the names of varieties of what common fruit crop?
Answer: Plums
103. Gibberellin is an example of what kind of chemical substance that stimulates plant growth?
Answer: Hormone
104. You can use the temperature and relative humidity to figure out which meteorological measurement that actually tells you a lot more about how damp it feels, since it shows how much the air needs to be cooled for humidity to reach 100% (e.g., it can’t possibly hold any more water vapor? For example, when you’d notice drops on the grass.)
Answer: Dew point
105. What American agribusiness company, best known for producing Roundup glyphosate herbicide, has also controversially produced genetically-modified "Roundup Ready" crop seeds?
Answer: Monsanto
106. It can take seven to 10 years to harvest what naturally occurring agricultural product from the Brazilian tree Hevea brasilensis? The process begins when harvesters make several shallow cuts in the latex-producing vessels of the tree.
Answer: Rubber
107. What "I" word refers to the practice of planting several crops in one place at one time, which often leads to a greater yield for each individual crop?
Answer: Intercropping
108. What kind of landfill takes compacted waste and holds it together with plastic or steel straps? You might see hay displayed this way in a field.
Answer: Balefill
109. What crop, common to tropical climates, is harvested either by the "climbing method" or the "pole method," in which a sharpened pole is used to cut the harvest from trees?
Answer: Coconuts
110. The first secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Norman Jay Coleman, was appointed during the first of the two nonconsecutive terms of which U.S. President?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
111. Farmwise’s first high-tech version of what common agricultural tool used AI and computer vision to create a robotic way to yank up unruly plants in crops without chemicals?
Answer: Weeder
112. If you’ve got 43,560 square feet of land to plow, that equals 1 of which unit of measurement you may prefer to describe the farmland you own?
Answer: Acre
113. Each year, Minnesota's "Princess Kay of the Milky Way" has her likeness sculptured in what agricultural product, millions of pounds of which are produced each year in the state?
Answer: Butter
114. In 2021, Bayer announced a partnership with what tech company to develop cloud-based digital tools for use in agriculture, to complement Bayer's Climate FieldView platform?
Answer: Microsoft
115. What agricultural science is concerned with field crop production and soil management, including plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science?
Answer: Agronomy
116. The harvest festival of Vendimia begins when the Archbishop of Mendoza sprinkles the season’s first grapes with holy water. Most of those grapes will end up in what popular Argentinian wine?
Answer: Malbec
117. The first grain elevator not powered by animals (it was powered by steam) was built by Joseph Dart, Jr. in 1843 in what Eastern American city?
Answer: Buffalo
118. Not to be confused with the 1972 film about a sharecropping family in the deep South, wild and feral pigs often live in groups called what?
Answer: Sounders
119. The AFIS certification developed by the International Risk Management Institute is designed to educate insurance professionals about issues facing insurers in what field?
Answer: Agriculture
120. Accounting for approximately 134 million tons in 2020, what country is the world's largest supplier of wheat?
Answer: China
121. This one’s a little cute but try not to squeal. A female pig that’s given birth to a litter of little piglets is technically called what?
Answer: Sow
122. What mascot is shared by Texas A&M, North Carolina A&T, New Mexico State, Utah State, and many other universities in recognition of their heritage as agricultural training institutions?
Answer: Aggies
123. Radicchio and Belgian endive are both varieties of what woody, perennial crop, whose roots are often cultivated as an additive to (or replacement for) coffee?
Answer: Chicory
124. The "fuzz" on the surface of a peach occurs thanks to a dominant gene; what peach variety commonly grown in the U.S. gets its "fuzzless" or "shaved" surface from recessive genes?
Answer: Nectarine
125. A German word for "dirt" (not an English word for illicit or inappropriate material) gives its name to what many-spored fungi, which cause worldwide plant diseases in crops like corn, wheat, sugar cane, and wild rice?
Answer: Smut
126. Twenty Ounce, Cortland, Mutsu, and Ginger Gold are lesser known varieties of what popular and versatile fruit?
Answer: Apple
127. What crop, species name Musa × paradisiaca, is distinguished from "bananas" by the fact that they're typically cooked before eaten, rather than consumed raw?
Answer: Plantains
128. Oryza sativa indica is the main cultivar of the "deepwater" variety of what staple crop, which can grow in 20 inches of flood water for a month or more?
Answer: Rice
129. "Lucerne" is another name for what crop in the legume family, which is primarily used for making hay, but whose sprouts are also cultivated for culinary use?
Answer: Alfalfa
130. If you were in your high school’s club, you might know what 4-H stands for. We’ll give you the first three H’s: Head, Heart, Hands…what’s the fourth?
Answer: Health
131. What U.S. state exports more agricultural goods than any other, including 80% of the world's supply of almonds?
Answer: California
132. What's the better known name of vegetables in the genus Cucurbita, which are widely believed to be the oldest domesticated crop in the New World, having been grown for over 10,000 years?
Answer: Squash (Gourds)
133. What compound word refers to a line of collected hay or other grain crop, where it is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled?
Answer: Windrow
134. Although it might be best associated with a well-balanced breakfast, what word refers to any grass that's cultivated for its edible grain?
Answer: Cereal
135. "Huitlacoche," a kind of smut or fungal plant disease that's considered a delicacy in Mexican cuisine, grows on what other crop important in Mexico and Latin America?
Answer: Corn
136. The number 13-13-13 in the name of the popular fertilizer indicates that it includes thirteen percent each of nitrogen, potassium, and what third element, important for root production and energy production?
Answer: Phosphorous
137. Goyder's Line, which separates areas of mallee with sufficient rainfall for crop agriculture from areas of saltbush suitable only for grazing, can be found in what country?
Answer: Australia
138. What plant seen all over Japan is somewhat magical, having grown back time and time again after earthquakes, fires, and the Atom Bomb?
Answer: Ginkgo
139. What Asian country, whose national flag features a blue 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra wheel in its center, is the world’s largest producer of milk?
Answer: India
140. What word means a female dairy animal that has not yet given birth and therefore does not produce milk?
Answer: Heifer
141. A leafy vegetable native to the Mediterranean along with other cabbage species began appearing in northern Europe during the 5th century and a few hundred years later became closely associated with a major European city on the river Senne. Today, their name continues to reference that city. What is this vegetable?
Answer: Brussels Sprouts
142. What term is used for the reproductive part of a plant that produces pollen?
Answer: Stamen
143. Known as a controller of more destructive garden pests, what bug is the official insect of Delaware and Massachusetts?
Answer: Ladybug
144. Previously serving in the same role during the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2017, who was confirmed on February 23, 2021 as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture?
Answer: Tom Vilsack
145. What “B” term refers to when a plant produces flowers or seeds prematurely, often the result of excessive heat? It is a word often associated with lightning in another context.
Answer: Bolt
146. Given the choices of agriculture, services, or industry, which of those three segments generated the smallest percentage of Costa Rican GDP?
Answer: Agriculture
147. What agricultural product, often found within “factory farms,” has the most economic value of any agricultural products in the state of Delaware at nearly $1 billion?
Answer: Broilers
148. What “F” verb is the process by which a pig gives birth to a litter of baby pigs? Coincidentally, it is the surname of a family that includes an actress who starred in “Rosemary’s Baby.”
Answer: Farrow
149. What culinary fruit of the genus Actinidia, 90% of which is cultivated in New Zealand, is also known in English as the "Chinese gooseberry?"
Answer: Kiwi
150. What 18th century Englishman revolutionized agriculture by inventing horse-drawn versions of the seed drill and hoe? He's certainly more famous today for being the namesake of the rock band behind albums like Aqualung.
Answer: Jethro Tull
151. Used to lift water into aqueducts, a noria is a pretty effective irrigation device shaped like which simple machine?
Answer: Wheel
152. "I've even got hives on my roof!" That's a quote about the hemp and honey farm owned by what CBD-enthusiastic singer-slash-Ivy Park fashion entrepreneur?
Answer: Beyoncé
153. One of the most common of draft horses, the Percheron breed originated in the Huisne river valley of what European country?
Answer: France
154. An early and critical proponent of crop rotation, what man headed the Agriculture Department at the Tuskegee Institute and taught there for 47 years while researching soil's nitrogen contents and new crop products?
Answer: George Washington Carver
155. Often known for its cheddar cheese products and associated with the state of Vermont, what American dairy producer is technically an agriculture marketing cooperative owned by local dairy farmers throughout New England?
Answer: Cabot
156. The relatively high price of what type of edible tree nut (Anacardium occidentale) can be partly attributed to the fact that it releases a toxic compound similar to its relative, poison ivy, and needs extra care in harvesting?
Answer: Cashews
157. What chain of 45 retail stores across the Midwest that sells outdoor equipment and appliances was founded in Minnesota, features an orange-and-black color scheme, and has an alliterative F name?
Answer: Fleet Farm
158. An animal science professor at the University of Nebraska is credited with developing the process behind restructured meats after he was approached by the National Pork Producers Council to create a new product. Examples of restructured meats include Dino Nuggets and what fast food sandwich that has attracted a cult following since its introduction in 1981?
Answer: McRib
159. Sometimes called “going to seed,” what’s the B term that describes a plant that’s flowered too early because it’s gotten too much sun or heat exposure?
Answer: Bolting
160. What popular cultivar of avocado is named for an amateur horticulturist and mail carrier?
Answer: Hass
161. Though its culinary usage is much different, what word refers, in a botanical sense, to any pitless fruit that grows from a single flower, and which includes bananas and tomatoes?
Answer: Berry
162. In the early 20th century, Japanese farmers stunned consumers by figuring out how to grow what popular fruit crop in sturdy, stackable square shapes?
Answer: Watermelon
163. Horrific as it sounds, what common tree-cutting tool was actually invented in the 1700s to make it easier to cut through the pelvic bone during difficult childbirths?
Answer: Chainsaw
164. The small-eared breed of dairy goat called LaManchas was developed in what country?
Answer: U.S.
165. What 1962 book by Rachel Carson awakened the world to the devastating effects of widespread agricultural use of pesticides?
Answer: Silent Spring
166. Used in the cultivation of crops such as sugarcane, what term means a method of harvesting a crop which leaves the roots and the lower parts of the plant uncut? It is thought that this word derives from the Latin “retonus”, meaning “to cut down.”
Answer: Ratooning
167. What round, green food is one of Brazil's most common pizza toppings? Though considered a vegetable nutritionally, this plant is botanically a fruit and it makes occasional appearances in carbonara sauces.
Answer: Green Peas
168. What blackberry cultivar, created by the USDA and Oregon State University and still popular in the Pacific Northwest, is named for the Oregon county where it was bred in the mid-20th century, and not a former mayor of Washington, D.C.?
Answer: Marionberry
169. The Valais Blacknose, until recently found only in a few Swiss villages, is a variety of what type of animal? Its exposure on social media has led to a resurgence of the breed, with it now being exported.
Answer: Sheep
170. "Sericulture" is the name for the cultivation of what animal, scientific name Bombyx mori, which began in China over 5,000 years ago?
Answer: Silkworm
171. The gasoline-powered tractor was invented by John Froelich in 1892 in the village of Clayton in what Midwestern state?
Answer: Iowa
172. Nearly two-thirds of the country's supply of what relative of a thistle are grown in the fields around Castroville, California?
Answer: Artichokes
173. What “Q” word describes a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel, used to lead water to a village? They are still used in parts of the Middle East.
Answer: Qanat
174. What process of making soil capable of creating living crops comes from a Latin word meaning “prepared for crops?”
Answer: Cultivation
175. With shorter lines than you'd expect, what UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwest London claims "we house the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world"?
Answer: Kew Gardens
176. Beating out Australia, India, and Turkey, what northern hemisphere country is the world’s largest grower of lentils, and produces more than half of the world’s total lentil exports?
Answer: Canada
177. There's a town in the Peloponnese region of Greece with a namesake food item known for its purple color and smooth meaty texture. What is this fruit?
Answer: Kalamata Olive
178. Although it's often cultivated for sale, what's either one of the two East Coast states where the infamous carnivorous plant known as the Venus Flytrap naturally grows in subtropical wetlands?
Answer: North Carolina
179. What branch of botany, one of the four major divisions of horticulture, studies fruit and its cultivation? Its name appropriately comes from the Latin word for fruit.
Answer: Pomology
180. What “O” science involves the production of leafy greens, alliums, and other food plants?
Answer: Olericulture
181. Dating back to 3600 BCE in Persia, water-filled "bladder" mattresses were made from an oft-discarded organ of a particular domesticated animal. What is this animal?
Answer: Goat
182. Biotech scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute have experimented with using what stimulating chiral alkaloid as a defensive substance against herbivorous insects? This substance is often associated with human usage in various forms.
Answer: Nicotine
183. What’s it called when you set your pigs free to roam the woods for acorns and nuts on the forest floor?
Answer: Pannage
184. The production of linen from flax and coir fiber from coconut involves what process, the separation of fibers in the plant's xylem from the stem?
Answer: Retting
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