This president is responsible for signing the Morill Act in 1862, providing eligible states 30,000 acres of federal land to use for the establishment of educational institutions to teach branches of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This annual 4-day event provides Illinois teens new opportunities to explore the University of Illinois campus; study potential careers or build their leadership skills, and meet youth from across the state.
What is Illini Summer Academies?
100
This 4-H program coordinator has four children and a love of horses. She once hid a pan of tadpoles under her bed and got in trouble when her mom went in and found dozens of little frogs hopping around her room!
Who is Vicki Enloe?
200
This kind of club was the first modern 4-H Club.
What is a Corn Club?
200
This is what the 4 "H"s stand for in the 4-H pledge.
What are head, heart, hands, and health?
200
This Illinois native proposed a system of universities for the masses in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
Who is Jonathan Baldwin Turner?
200
In what county did 4-H club work in Illinois begin?
What is Macoupin County?
200
This 4-H program coordinator was once an airline stewardess. She has also served as program coordinator for Madison County.
Who is Tonya Moore?
300
In 1911, O.H. Benson suggested adding this 4th "H" to the 4-H pledge.
What is "hustle"?
300
The official colors of 4-H
What are green and white?
300
This agency is the cooperative extension system's federal partner.
What is NIFA -National Institute of Food and Agriculture?
300
In 1912, the first two farm advisers, William Eckhardt and John Collier, were employed and worked in these two counties.
What are Dekalb and Kankakee?
300
This 4-H program coordinator is afraid of birds. She uses vacation days to turkey hunt every year. Oh, and she used to arm wrestle competitively.
Who is Amanda Fox?
400
This wording was added to the 4-H Pledge in 1973.
What is "and my world"?
400
What is the 4-H motto?
What is "To make the best better"?
400
The name of the act that granted federal funds be matched at the state level providing for further outreach to include cooperative extension.
What is the Smith Lever Act? (May 8, 1914)
400
The name of the man who began the 4-H club movement in Illinois
Who is William B. Otwell?
(He was the president of the Macoupin County Farmer's Institute in 1898 and ignited the interest of young boys by giving them the best seed corn and having them exhibit a sample of their produce for prizes.)
400
This 4-H program coordinator has been with Extension the longest. Back at the camper, she has help putting her "game face" on!
Who is Marilyn Thompson?
500
What was the TV show that was sponsored by the 4-H Council in the 1970s?
What is Mulligan Stew?
500
This slogan is a phrase that sums up the educational philosophy of the 4-H program.
What is "learn by doing"?
500
This Extension program was popular during the 1940s war period.
What is the Victory Garden? (20 million gardens in 1943 produced 40% of the vegetables that were grown)
500
This is the original name of University of Illinois, our state's land-grant university, established in 1867.
What is Illinois Industrial University? (The name was officially changed to University of Illinois in 1885)
500
This 4-H program coordinator used to teach in a Catholic school. Her kids enjoy riding their pet cow.