It could have been South Carolina’s version of the popular television quiz show “Jeopardy.”

The host Monday night was Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” The contestants were Govs. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.

The topic: agricultural products. The question was directed at Sanford.

“What’s your biggest agricultural product in South Carolina, governor?” Matthews asked.

“Uh ... timber is the biggest one,” Sanford responded.

Wrong.

“Tomatoes.”

Wrong again.

Sanford is not alone. Legislators questioned Tuesday didn’t know, either.

House Agriculture Committee chairman William Witherspoon, R-Horry, said, “Vegetables.”

Rep. Robert “Skipper” Perry, R-Aiken, insisted it is tobacco.

No one gave the correct answer.

Tobacco ranks fourth in its annual value to the state, said Becky Walton of the S.C. Agriculture Department. And while the state is the nation’s No. 1 producer of tomatoes, they are not much of a cash crop, Walton said.

And timber?

It’s not an agricultural product, Walton said. It’s a forest product.