UWRF
How many residence halls are on campus?
11: Crabtree, South Forks Suites, Grimm, Hathorn, Ames Suites, Johnson, May, McMillion, Parker, Prucha, Stratton
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
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
What is the #1 mineral in bananas?
Potassium
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
What building is home to UWRF’s student-centered services?
Rodli Hall
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
In agriculture, "apiculture" is the technical term for raising what type of insects?
Bees
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
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
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
Accounting for approximately 134 million tons in 2020, what country is the world's largest supplier of wheat?
China
What marital name is given to the science of breeding, feeding, and caring for farm animals in the proper way?
Animal Husbandry
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
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
What year was UWRF founded?
1874
How many square feet are in an acre?
43,560 square feet
What animal has the highest blood pressure?
Giraffe
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
Used to lift water into aqueducts, a noria is a pretty effective irrigation device shaped like which simple machine?
Wheel
What is the acceptance rate of UWRF? (Within 3 percentages)
84.7%
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
The small-eared breed of dairy goat called LaManchas was developed in what country?
The US
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
The gasoline-powered tractor was invented by John Froelich in 1892 in the village of Clayton in what Midwestern state?
Iowa