KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Carver established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab where he worked tirelessly on the development of hundreds of applications for new plants. Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton was still ‘king’ in the South, and Carver, like other agricultural researchers of the day, tried to find ways to help farmers increase the quantity and quality of their cotton production…. Yet Carver was a dreamer, more interested in finding something to end the debilitating reliance upon cotton….

Detailed explanation-3: -Carver published the results of his studies on the value of growing and developing various (non-cotton) crops such as sweet potatoes, cowpeas, small grains, corn, alfalfa, and plums in several Experiment Station Bulletins. (He also acknowledged the primacy of cotton for poor black Alabama farmers in two publications.)

Detailed explanation-4: -George Washington Carver was the first African American to have a national park named after him. You can visit the park and his monument in Missouri. In addition to being an excellent scientist and inventor, Carver was also an accomplished pianist and painter. His artwork was exhibited at the World’s Fair in 1893.