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154 free FFA trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free FFA trivia questions with answers. Thirty-three delegates in a Kansas City hotel in 1928 started what is now a million-member organisation. This FFA trivia quiz covers the National FFA Organization from the Future Farmers of Virginia and the Smith-Hughes Act through the emblem (corn, sun, plow, eagle, owl), the motto, national blue and corn gold, E. M. Tiffany's Creed, the Fredericktown jacket, official dress and pins, and the officer stations from the rising sun to the door. It also covers the milestones members recite: the 1950 federal charter, the 1965 NFA merger, women in 1969, the 1988 name change, the move to Indianapolis, degrees from Discovery to American, SAEs and CDEs, and the alumni who wore the jacket, from Jimmy Carter and Jim Ross to Taylor Swift and astronaut Ellison Onizuka. About a third of the questions are for any Greenhand, a third for chapter officers, and the rest for advisors who know who won the first Star Farmer. Every answer is checked against a cited source, mostly ffa.org and Wikipedia, shown under the question.
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Q 01FFA's 1928 founders met in what kind of building?
Hotel
A downtown hotel: the delegates had come to Kansas City for a national livestock judging contest, but they gathered at the Hotel Baltimore to vote the new organization into being.
Q 02How did the federal government mark FFA's 25th anniversary in 1953?
A commemorative postage stamp
A commemorative postage stamp: the 3-cent issue, then the cost of mailing a first-class letter, went on sale first at that year's National FFA Convention.
Q 03How many delegates attended the first National FFA Convention in 1928?
33
33 delegates from 18 states met at Kansas City's Baltimore Hotel on November 20, 1928 to organize the Future Farmers of America.
Q 04Who was the first national FFA president?
Leslie Applegate
Leslie Applegate of Freehold, New Jersey, went on to spend his whole career running his family's apple orchards there.
Q 05Which small state's 1950 charter finally put an FFA association in all 48 states?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the last of the 48 states to charter an association, so late that two overseas territories already had theirs.
Q 06The FFA motto runs 'Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to' what?
Serve
Serve ends the motto, which FFA describes as twelve short words for members to live by; its closing phrase, Living to Serve, also names the organization's community service program.
Q 07What are the official FFA colors?
National blue and corn gold
National blue and corn gold echo the blue field of the U.S. flag and golden fields of ripened corn; a 2003 campaign, 'Only Blue Will Do!', restored jackets whose colors had drifted from the true shades.
Q 08The famous FFA jacket is made of what fabric?
Blue corduroy
Blue corduroy jackets were first made in 1933 for an Ohio chapter band by Dr. Gus Lintner and adopted as official dress at that year's national convention.
Q 09The FFA jacket originated with a chapter band in which Ohio town?
Fredericktown
Fredericktown's FFA band wore the jackets, ordered by advisor Gus Lintner from a uniform maker in Van Wert, to the 1933 national convention, where delegates liked them enough to adopt them as official dress.
Q 10On the FFA emblem, what does the cross section of an ear of corn represent?
Unity
Unity is the corn's meaning because it is grown in every state; it also forms the emblem's base, just as corn was historically the foundation crop of American agriculture.
Q 11On the FFA emblem, what does the owl represent?
Knowledge
Knowledge is what the owl stands for, a bird long recognized for its wisdom; the emblem's first designers borrowed it from a picture used by a young farmers' organization in Denmark.
Q 12What does the rising sun on the FFA emblem signify?
Progress
Progress is what the rising sun signifies, along with a promise that tomorrow will bring 'a new day, glowing with opportunity'.
Q 13Who wrote the FFA Creed?
E. M. Tiffany
E. M. Tiffany wrote the Creed in 1928, and it has outlasted an attempt to replace it: in 1990 an entirely new creed was put before the convention and was not adopted.
Q 21The FFA secretary is stationed by which symbol?
The ear of corn
The ear of corn is the secretary's station, to keep records and 'correspond with other secretaries wherever corn is grown and FFA members meet'.
Q 22Before 1969, FFA chapters chose a girl for which title?
Chapter Sweetheart
Chapter Sweetheart was the role: chosen by the boys, she represented the chapter at events and wore her own white or sky-blue jacket rather than the members' own.
Q 23Corey Flournoy, elected FFA's first African American national president in 1994, grew up in which big city?
Chicago
Chicago was home: Flournoy knew little about farming until he enrolled at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and he became the first national president from an urban background.
Q 14Learning and explaining the FFA Creed is a requirement for which FFA degree?
Greenhand
The Greenhand FFA Degree asks first-year members to learn and explain the Creed, which newcomers recite, the Official Manual says, to reflect their growing belief in agriculture.
Q 15Which FFA degree was approved in 2000 for middle-school members?
Discovery
The Discovery FFA Degree filled a gap: seventh and eighth graders had been allowed to join in 1988 but had no degree of their own until delegates approved this one twelve years later.
Q 16What does SAE stand for in FFA?
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Supervised Agricultural Experience is a condition of membership, not an extra: under the FFA constitution a member's agriculture course must include an SAE aimed at preparing for a career.
Q 17What does FFA call competitions such as meat evaluation, land judging and tractor driving?
Career Development Events
Career Development Events grew out of judging contests older than FFA itself: vocational agriculture students held a national livestock judging contest in 1926, two years before the organization existed.
Q 18Which FFA officer is stationed by the plow?
Vice president
The vice president is stationed by the plow, the symbol of labor and tillage of the soil, because the office helps direct the chapter's work; it also takes the chair when the president is away.
Q 19The FFA treasurer is stationed by an emblem of which historical figure?
George Washington
George Washington kept his farm accounts 'carefully and accurately', the treasurer says in the opening ceremony, adding that he served his country better for being financially independent.
Q 20Which FFA officer keeps the meeting room comfortable?
Sentinel
The Sentinel, stationed by the door, sees that it stays open to the 'many friends of the FFA', looks after the room and its paraphernalia, and helps the president keep order.
Q 24Why was the Future Farmers of America renamed the National FFA Organization in 1988?
To reflect agriculture's diversity
To reflect agriculture's diversity: delegates wanted a name covering the science, business and technology of agriculture as well as farming, though the letters still stand for Future Farmers of America.
Q 25Which president signed the bill that first gave FFA a federal charter?
Harry Truman
Harry Truman signed the charter into law in 1950, and seven years later, by then a former president, he came to address the national convention himself.
Q 26Who was the first sitting U.S. president to speak at a National FFA Convention?
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower addressed the 1953 convention, FFA's silver anniversary, and delegates sent him home with an Honorary American Farmer Degree.
Q 27Which future U.S. president was an FFA member in high school?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter held his first elected office in the FFA chapter at Plains, Georgia; he came back to address the national convention as a candidate in 1975 and as president in 1978.
Q 28FFA's former national headquarters near Alexandria, Virginia, stood on land once part of which historic estate?
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon's old farmland supplied the 28.5 acres FFA bought in 1939; a national camp stood there first, and the National FFA Center was dedicated on the site in 1959.
Q 29As of 2025, about how many student members does FFA have nationwide?
About 1 million
About 1 million: FFA counted 1,042,245 student members in 2025, double the half-million it reported in 2007.
Q 30Which award, one of FFA's first, was won by Carlton Patton of Arkansas in 1929?
Star Farmer of America
Star Farmer of America was sponsored for its first twenty years by a newspaper, the Kansas City Star; in 1939 identical twins Albert and Arthur Lacy of Texas became the only members ever to share the title.