What’s your Corn IQ? Take this pop quiz and find out

With the farm show in town at the Peoria Civic Center this week, it’s a reminder of the importance of corn in this area.
It doesn’t matter that, for some, their only involvement with the crop is driving past corn stalks throughout the summer. The fact is that corn is king.

Take the Corn Quiz and find out:
1. Corn is grown on how many acres in Illinois:
a/ 5 million acres b/ 7.5 million acres c/ 12 million acres

2. What was Lester Pfister’s nickname while conducting experiments on corn plants in El Paso in the 1920’s and 1930s?
a/ “Old Cornball” b/ the Kernel c/ “Crazy Lester”

3. Why is there a plaque dedicated to James Reid just north of Delavan?
a/ He began the hybrid revolution with the development of Reid’s Yellow Dent Corn b/ He fought in the Civil War
c/ He won a corn-eating contest

4. True or false, America produces about half of the world’s corn?

5. One pound of corn has approximately how many kernels?
a/ 600 b/ 1300 c/4,000

6. How much of the corn grown in Illinois is sweet corn?
a/ 2,000 acres b/ 5,000 acres c/8,000 acres

7. Over 90 percent of U.S.-grown soybeans and 80 percent of U.S. corn and cotton crops are grown with seeds containing technology developed by what company?
a/ Anheuser-Busch b/ Monsanto c/Amazon

8. In the United States, 5.9 billion bushels of corn were used for animal feed last year. How much went for ethanol?
a/ 2 billion bushels b/ 4.9 billion bushels c/ 7.5 billion bushels

9. What two things does corn demand more than any other crop?
a/ salt and pepper b/ love and kisses c/ nitrogen fertilizer and pesticide

10. Illinois farmers used how much herbicide on their corn in 2005?
a/ 10 million pounds b/ 20 million pounds c/ 30 million pounds

1 (c); 2 (c); 3(a); 4(true); 5(b); 6(c); 7(b); 8(b); 9(c); 10(c)

Steve Tarter

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