Tater Trivia
The vegetable Maine is famous for.
The change of color that happens to potatoes stored in sunlight.
What is they turn green?
What is Aroostook County?
The iconic fried potato treat sold at most fast food restaurants.
What are French fries?
A cooking method that uses high heat and oil to make crispy potato strips.
What is frying?
A small potato often harvested early in the season.
What is a new potato?
The mineral found in potatoes that allows them to power a lightbulb in a science experiment.
What is potassium?
A Maine festival that celebrates the potato each July.
What is the Maine Potato Blossom Festival?
This Pixar movie features a popular toy that has removable eyes, nose, and arms.
What is Toy Story?
The tool used by farmers to plant seed potatoes in rows.
What is a potato planter?
This holiday is often celebrated with mashed potatoes in the U.S.
What is Thanksgiving?
The plant family potatoes are part of.
What is the nightshade family?
The most common use of Maine-grown potatoes.
What are chips?
This 2015 sci-fi film featured potatoes grown in space.
What is The Martian?
The common method of preserving potatoes for long-term storage.
What is cold storage?
During this year, the potato became Maine's official state vegetable.
What is 2014?
A poisonous compound found in green potatoes.
What is solanine?
During this year, the Maine Potato Board was founded.
What is 1986?
This 2020s meme had people mailing potatoes with messages written on them.
What is Potato Parcel?
These are the three types of markets Maine potatoes serve.
What are processing, table stock, and seed?
Potatoes grow from this part of the potato plant.
What is the tuber?
The ideal soil type for growing potatoes.
What is sandy?
Maine's largest potato-growing town by acreage.
What is Mars Hill?
The U.S. TV chef is known for saying, "I love me some smashed potatoes!"
Who is Guy Fieri?
The purpose of rotating potato crops.
What is disease prevention and soil health?