Quiz 12

How much do you know about
corn?

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It's harvest time in Iowa. Farmers are in their fields combining corn. How much do you really know about corn? Take our quiz and find out.

1. The oldest archaeological record of corn was

a. 500 years ago

b. 1000 years ago

c. 2000 years ago

d. 7000 years ago

2. Most of the corn grown in Iowa is used for

a. popcorn

b. corn meal

c. cooking oil

d. livestock feed

3. Corn and maize are the same plant.

a. True

b. False

4. A rough average time from corn planting to harvesting in Iowa is how many calendar days?

a. 50 days after emergence

b. 75 days after planting

c. 110 days after emergence

d. 150 days after planting

5. A bushel of shelled corn weighs

a. 56 pounds

b. 66 pounds

c. 76 pounds

d. 83 pounds

6. How many bushels of corn were produced on one "average" acre in Iowa in 1995?

a. 86

b. 97

c. 123

d. 154

7. What percent of all grocery items contain corn in some processed form?

a. 15 percent

b. 34 percent

c. 55 percent

d. 75 percent

8. How many acres of corn were harvested in Iowa in 1995?

a. 8.3 million acres

b. 10.0 million acres

c. 11.4 million acres

d. 23 million acres

9. Which one of the following is not a type of corn?

a. dent

b. flint

c. pod

d. rod

10. Hybrid corn is

a. the first generation grown from seed produced by crossing unrelated parents

b. grown only for ornamental purposes

c. sterile and cannot reproduce

d. only grown in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

The information for this quiz was obtained from the National Corn Handbook, a publication of the National Corn Handbook Project, Iowa State University and 1996 Iowa Agricultural Statistics, EDC-61, revised August 1996.

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