KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed), sweet potatoes and soybeans.

Detailed explanation-2: -In all, he developed 300 products from peanuts and 118 from sweet potatoes, in addition to new products from waste materials including recycled oil, and paints and stains from clay. Carver is best known for his research into alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some of George Washington Carver’s best-known inventions include crop rotation, or planting different crops to restore soil instead of single-crop farming, and creating 300 different uses for peanuts (which actually weren’t classified as a crop until Carver’s work).

Detailed explanation-4: -As the “Father of the Peanut Industry, ‘’ George Washington Carver developed more than 300 uses for peanuts, including chili sauce, shampoo, shaving cream and glue, to help save agriculture in the South. His humanitarian efforts were well documented and his innovations were so popular that even Franklin D.