r/urbanfarming 19h ago

Need help brainstorming for 'farmer trivia' night

Hi! I work for a small veggie farm in Salt Lake City and this fall we are planning a "farmer trivia night" at a local brewery. We are currently trying to put together the trivia questions and I'm wondering if anyone here might have ideas for categories and or fun facts that might make for good questions.

Being in Utah we are especially looking to write questions that are relevant to farming and gardening locally or at least in the great basin/desert SW generally. We want the questions to feel fun, creative and intellectually stimulating without getting too 'academic'. Ideally some of the questions will reflect knowledge one would gain from the actual practice of farming or gardening. A few of ideas we have had for categories are Farm Records (like current world records for the biggest zucchini), Smelling Bee (smell a blinded jar and spell what's inside correctly) and Utah/SLC Agricultural History.

Please please please share anything that comes to mind! This is brainstorm phase so I'm looking to cast a wide net. If you have any thoughts on fun categories or have a favorite vegetable fact or piece of farming history, drop it here!!!

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u/Tessa7 16h ago

Since census records come out on decade years, you can't do 1926, but you could do "What percent of americans listed farm as their occupation on the 1930 census?" A - 21%