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100

How many residence halls are on campus? 

11: Crabtree, South Forks Suites, Grimm, Hathorn, Ames Suites, Johnson, May, McMillion, Parker, Prucha, Stratton

100

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

100

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

100

What is the #1 mineral in bananas?

Potassium

100

New Holland, Case IH, and Kubota are among that brands that make what large-wheeled motor vehicles, often used on farms to haul equipment and trailers?

Tractors

200

What building is home to UWRF’s student-centered services?

Rodli Hall

200

What method of applying seed, fertilizer, or pesticide in a wide pattern shares its name with the method of using public airwaves to transmit television?

Broadcast

200

In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?

Bees

200

What crop, that's common to tropical climates is harvested either by the "climbing method" or the "pole method," in which a sharpened pole is used to cut the harvest from trees?

Coconuts

200

Horrific as it sounds, what common tree-cutting tool was actually invented in the 1700s to make it easier to cut through the pelvic bone during difficult childbirths?

Chainsaw

300

What is 1 core value of UWRF? 

STUDENT SUCCESS, EXCELLENT TEACHING AND LEARNING, COMMUNITY OF INCLUSION AND CARING, LOCAL AND GLOBAL SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT, INTEGRITY, INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY

300

Accounting for approximately 134 million tons in 2020, what country is the world's largest supplier of wheat?

China

300

What marital name is given to the science of breeding, feeding, and caring for farm animals in the proper way?

Animal Husbandry

300

What is the stone fruit that is the national fruit of India, Haiti, and the Philippines? Strangely enough, is also the summer national fruit of Pakistan.

Mango

300

Farmwise’s first high-tech version of what common agricultural tool used AI and computer vision to create a robotic way to yank up unruly plants in crops without chemicals?

Weeder

400

What year was UWRF founded? 

1874

400

How many square feet are in an acre?

43,560 square feet

400

What animal has the highest blood pressure?

Giraffe

400

The relatively high price of what type of edible tree nut (Anacardium occidentale) can be partly attributed to the fact that it releases a toxic compound similar to its relative, poison ivy, and needs extra care in harvesting?

Cashews

400

Used to lift water into aqueducts, a noria is a pretty effective irrigation device shaped like which simple machine?

Wheel

500

What is the acceptance rate of UWRF? (Within 3 percentages) 

84.7%

500

Beating out Australia, India, and Turkey, what north hemisphere country is the world’s largest grower of lentils and produces more than half of the world’s total lentil exports?

Canada

500

The small-eared breed of dairy goat called LaManchas was developed in what country?

The US

500

What round, green food is one of Brazil's most common pizza toppings? Though considered a vegetable nutritionally, this plant is botanically a fruit and it makes occasional appearances in carbonara sauces.

Green Peas

500

The gasoline-powered tractor was invented by John Froelich in 1892 in the village of Clayton in what Midwestern state?

Iowa