Animals
What is the term for a young horse that is less than a year old?
The indigenous people of North and South America originally called the crop "corn" what?
Maize
California produces 98% of the United States' output of what green-colored nuts?
Pistachios
Unlike swamps, what kind of wetland habitat has primarily herbaceous vegetation?
Marsh
Alaskan farmers took out low-interest loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, established as one of what president's New Deal reforms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aside from a billy, what other “B” word can used to describe a male goat?
Buck
Which region of the U.S. is called the “Corn Belt” because its states produce almost all of America’s corn?
Midwest
What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
Spinach
An anoxic environment wouldn’t be great for humans, but certain organisms thrive in them. Anoxic means that which element needed by most life to survive is absent?
Oxygen
What did the "M" in Texas A & M University originally stand for? (Hint: The "A" stands for "Agricultural.")
Mechanical
If cattle have been 'polled', what has happened to them?
Horns removed
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?
Tobacco
As of the early 2000s, what Canadian province has easily the highest number of syrup farms with over 7,000 of these sweet agricultural sites?
Quebec
The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by human activity is better known by what two-word term which originated from a concept conceived by environmentalists William E. Rees and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel during the 1990s?
Carbon Footprint
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 this, because early civilizations there were able to innovate irrigation and general agriculture?
Fertile Crescent
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?
Mad Cow's Disease
An economic bubble of what plant in the Netherlands is frequently referenced when referring to overspeculation of an asset?
Tulip
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.
Mango
What President created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? The agency officially opened on December 2, 1970.
Richard Nixon
In 1862, there was a landmark piece of legislation in the US 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?
The Homestead Act
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?
Goat
What is the biggest crop export of Texas, and has been for the last 100 years?
Cotton
What popular American restaurant chain derives its name from a Nahuatl name for a specific smoked and dried vegetable?
Chipotle
What word refers to the study of the movement and distribution of water around the Earth, including the study of the water cycle and water resources?
Hydrology
The Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought in the 1930s that devastated farmers, started in what state, before spreading east?
Oklahoma