KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to encourage farmers to stop growing cotton
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peanuts were his favorite food
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to make money from his work as a scientist
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to help farmers profit from their peanut crops
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Detailed explanation-1: -He wanted poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts.
Detailed explanation-2: -George Washington Carver’s work resulted in the creation of more than 300 products from peanuts, contributing greatly to the economic improvement of the rural South.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dr. 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.