Potato
Peanut
Cacao
Watermelon
Coffee
100
The first potato farmers.
Who were the Incas?
100
Of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina or South Carolina, the first state in the US to have grown peanuts in 1880.
What is South Carolina?
100
3 to 10% of the flowers on the cacao plant develops into these.
What are cacao pods?
100
Watermelons are related to this vegetable.
What is squash or pumpkin?
100
The continent where coffee trees probably originated.
What is Africa?
200
Sailors ate potatoes to prevent this disease.
What is scurvy?
200
The African-American scientist who is noted for his research that led to the development of over 300 uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
200
Of 200, 300, 400 or 500, the number of cacao beans needed to make a pound of chocolate.
What are 400 cacao beans?
200
The American president who grew watermelons at Monticello.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Of sugar, oil, milk or corn, the only commodity that is traded more than coffee.
What is oil?
300
The country that suffered a famine from 1841 to 1851 because the potato crop was killed by a disease.
What is Ireland?
300
The farthest seat from the stage, named because the audience sometimes threw peanuts.
What is the "Peanut Gallery"?
300
Daniel Peters of Switzerland is credited for developing the first one.
What is a milk chocolate candy bar?
300
A watermelon is 92% this.
What is water?
300
The area of the world that is 1000 miles on either side of the equator where most coffee is grown.
What is the "bean belt"?
400
Most people think the potato is a root but it is actually this.
What is a swollen stem growing underground?
400
50% of the peanuts grown in the US is made into this.
What is peanut butter?
400
There are 20 to 40 of these in one cacao pod.
What are cocoa beans?
400
Watermelons were important to desert travelers who used them as these.
What is a canteen or water bottle?
400
Coffee trees prefer to grow between 2000 to 6000 feet of altitude because of the mild climate and this.
What is rainfall?
500
The first name of the man who developed the Burbank potato, a hybrid potato with disease resistance.
What is Luther?
500
The name for the swollen stem on the peanut plant that turns downward after the flower petals drop, enters the soil and develops the peanuts.
What is the peg?
500
The candy company credited for creating the first Valentine's Day chocolate box.
What is Cadbury?
500
The country that developed a square watermelon.
What is Japan?
500
A coffee tree will produce enough coffee beans in one year to produce this much coffee.
What is 1 pound?