QUOTES
AG. ABROAD
EGGSPLAIN YOURSELF
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture" IS ATTRIBUTED TO THIS EARLY U.S. PRESIDENT.

WHO IS GEORGE WASHINGTON

100

AS OF APRIL 2020, THIS COUNTRY IS ATTRIBUTED WITH BEING HOME TO THE MOST PIGS IN THE WORLD.

WHAT IS CHINA

100

THIS OXYGEN-CARRYING BODY FLUID CAN BE USED AS AN EGG SUBSTITUTE.

WHAT IS BLOOD

100

THIS CEREAL GRAIN USED TO GO BY A DIFFERENT LOOK AND A DIFFERENT NAME: MAIZE.

WHAT IS CORN

100

JOHN FROELICH, AN INVENTOR FROM IOWA, CREATED THE FIRST GAS-POWERED VERSION OF THIS MAJOR FARMING INNOVATION.

WHAT IS A TRACTOR

200

SOCRATES: "Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of [BLANK]" THIS FIVE LETTERED GRAIN.

WHAT IS WHEAT

200

THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CLAIMS THAT CORN WAS FIRST GROWN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO IN THIS AREA.

WHERE IS MEXICO

200

THE ECHIDNA AND THE PLATYPUS ARE THE ONLY REMAINING KINDS OF THIS GROUPING OF VERTEBRATES TO LAY EGGS.

WHAT ARE MAMMALS
200

THIS IS THE WATERY PART OF MILK THAT REMAINS AFTER CURDS ARE FORMED.

WHAT IS WHEY

300

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: "[BLANK] looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." THIS ACTIVITY.

WHAT IS FARMING
300

THE USDA CLAIMS THAT THIS CROP BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT IN JAPAN.

WHAT IS RICE

300

THE LARGEST RECORDED LIVING EGG, ACCORDING TO GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS, WAS LAID BY THIS KIND OF BIRD. 

WHAT IS AN OSTRICH

300

PORK RIND IS A PIG'S THIS.

WHAT IS SKIN

400

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: "I never said all actors are [BLANK]; what I said was all actors should be treated like [BLANK]" THIS HERBIVOROUS QUADRUPED.

WHAT ARE CATTLE

400

THIS PLACE IS CLAIMED BY THE BRITANNICA WEBSITE TO BE THE WORLD'S LEADING PRODUCER OF WOOL.

WHAT IS AUSTRALIA

400

THE SHELL CAN BE REMOVED FROM AN EGG USING THIS COMMON KITCHEN CHEMICAL, WHOSE NAME TRACES BACK TO A TRANSLATION THAT MEANS "SOUR WINE".

WHAT IS VINEGAR

400

HONEYCOMB IS MADE OF A PLANT RESIN CALLED PROPOLIS AND THIS.

WHAT IS BEESWAX

500

THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Though an old man, I am but a young [BLANK]. SOMEONE WHO GENERALLY GROWS LESS THAN A FARMER, PERHAPS AS A BACKYARD HOBBY.

WHAT IS A GARDENER

500

DESPITE THE EMPLOYMENT OF THIS AFRICAN COUNTRY RELYING HEAVILY ON AGRICULTURE, ONLY ABOUT 3% OF IT IS AVAILABLE ARABLE LAND. OVER 90% OF THE REST IS DESERT.

WHAT IS EGYPT

500

EGGSHELL IS MADE MOSTLY OF THIS ALLITERATIVELY-NAMED CHEMICAL.

WHAT IS CALCIUM CARBONATE

500

ACCORDING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 50,000 OF THE WORLDS' THIS ARE EDIBLE, BUT ONLY FIFTEEN PROVIDE 90% OF THE WORLDS' FOOD ENERGY.

WHAT ARE PLANTS