Use the links to answer the following questions:
1. If a peanut is not a nut, what is it?
2. What month is National Peanut Month?
3. Where did the term “Peanut Gallery” come from?
4. What kind of flower does the peanut plant produce?
5. When should peanuts be planted?
6. Where did the peanut plant originate?
7. Who is considered “The Father of the Peanut Industry?”
8. Who introduced the “Hot Roasted Peanut” and when?
9. Where does the word “goober” come from?
10. The peanut came to the “New World” from where?
11. The first major use for peanuts was as food for what animal?
12. The first notable increase in human consumption of peanuts in American came during what major event?
13. What are the four basic market types of peanuts?
14. In the United States, what are the major peanut producing states?
15. Who introduced peanut butter to the world in 1904 at the Universal Exposition in St. Louis?
16. Find the picture of the ad for Beech-Nut Peanut Butter. Copy and paste it to your answer sheet and give the URL from where you found it.
17. Find a picture of a growing peanut plant. Copy and paste it to your answer sheet and give the URL from where you found it.
18. How much cholesterol is in a peanut (give your answer in percent)?
19. What two peanut farmers have served as President of the United States?
20. Name two uses other than food that George Washington Carver discovered for peanuts.
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