Agriculture
These Continental American crops are known as the three sisters.
What are beans, squash, and corn?
This civil rights leader's birthday marks a national day of service in America.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Rutgers University was founded in this year, then known as Queen's College.
What is 1766?
This NJ inventor is credited with the development of the phonograph, movie picture camera, and the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Despite its abundance on Earth, only 1% of this resource is readily usable by humans.
What is water?
This farming technique, developed around the 10th century Europe, involves leaving fields without crop to replenish nutrients.
What is the three-field system?
This type of organization strives to better a community or cause, not make money.
What is a nonprofit?
Rutgers University is named after this Revolutionary War hero.
Who is Henry Rutgers?
During the American Revolution, this city saw the ensuing battle after Washington crossed the Delaware.
What is Trenton?
This tech hub in California is named after an important element in the creation of microchips.
What is Silicon Valley?
These organisms help farming by naturally enriching and increasing drainage of soil.
What are earthworms?
This percentage of Americans participated in community service in 2025.
What is 22%? (Accept 15-25%)
A common myth states that Rutgers was once a part of this sports conference along with other prestigious universities.
What is the Ivy League?
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY) On June 19th, 1846, the first ever game of this sport was played between the New York Nine and the New York Knickerbockers.
What is baseball.
What is the heaviest (highest atomic number) element naturally found on Earth?
What is Uranium? (Will also accept Plutonium.)
This farming technique reduces the need of soil by using nutrient dense water from nitrogenous fish waste or other enriching substances.
What is hydroponic farming?
This founding father created Philadelphia's first all volunteer fire company in 1736.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is one of seven universities in America older than Rutgers.
What is (UPENN, Moravian, UDEL, Princeton, Washington and Lee, Columbia, Brown)?
The game Monopoly with properties like Boardwalk and Indiana Ave is based off of real locations in this NJ city.
What is Atlantic City?
Softwood comes from this type of trees.
What are conifers?
This US state produces 80% of the world's almonds.
What is California.
This Civil War Nurse founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Rutgers won the national football championship in this year.
What is 1869?
The first female governor of NJ (elected in 1993).
Who is Christine Todd Whitman
Before the invention of synthetic dyes, this color of dye was created by crushing thousands of sea snail shells.
What is purple? (Tyrian Purple specifically)