Environmental Quiz

Key

1. Smoky Mountain. A romantic name. Makes you dream of rose-tinted dusks with smoke spiraling out of your cottage in the woods. What is it and where is it?

Ans. Asia's largest slum next to one of the highest garbage dumps. It's in Manila, Philippines.

2. Which Roman philosopher wrote, "We are the absolute masters of what the earth produces"?

Ans. Cicero

3. What is Russet Burbank and how is it connected to the fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's?

Ans. Russet Burbank is a variety of potato. In 1982, nearly 40 per cent of all potatoes planted in the US were Russet Burbanks. In Idaho and Oregon, it accounts for 95 and 72 per cent respectively. McDonald's buy the Russet Burbank wherever it grows

4. Which was the first country on the world to estimate its environmental worth in economic terms?

Ans. Brazil. The government-owned Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Resources reported in 2000 that the total financial value of Brazil's biodiversity is $2.072 trillion, roughly four times the annual gross domestic product.

5. The scientists from the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad have initiated a project to clone which animal?

Ans: The Indian cheetah

6. Which is the first country to ban genetically modified foods and when?

Ans: Sri Lanka, May 1, 2002

7. More than half the people of Bangladesh are facing poisoning from drinking water contamination... of what substance?

Ans: Naturally occurring arsenic

8. On which island did Charles Darwin study and consequently develop the theory of ' Origin of Species'?

Ans: Galapagos

9. Shahtoosh shawl is made from the wool of an endangered animal. Name the animal.

Ans. Chiru / Tibetan antelope

10. The world's biggest solar electric power plant - as huge as 57 soccer fields will be built in the Murcia region. In which country is it?

Ans. Spain

11. Farm animals infected by BSE would commonly be suffering from what?

Ans: Mad Cow disease

12. Ruling regarding water given by the Supreme Court of India, based on article 21 of

constitution guaranteeing right to live was?

Ans: Clean drinking water is a fundamental right of all citizens

13. Long distance air travel in cramped seats of economy class can cause fatal blood clots this in term is called economy class syndrome. What is it called in medical terms?

Ans: deep vein thrombosis

14. Which protocol binding industrialized countries to cut their green house gas (GHG) emission by about 5% below 1990 level during 2008-2012 was rejected by U.S. president Bush claiming that it would be harmful to the US economy and too lax on the developing countries?

Ans. Kyoto Protocol

Environmental Quiz

1. Smoky Mountain. A romantic name. Makes you dream of rose-tinted dusks with smoke spiraling out of your cottage in the woods. What is it and where is it?

2. Which Roman philosopher wrote, "We are the absolute masters of what the earth produces"?

3. What is Russet Burbank and how is it connected to the fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's?

4. Which was the first country on the world to estimate its environmental worth in economic terms?

5. The scientists from the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad have initiated a project to clone which animal?

6. Which is the first country to ban genetically modified foods and when?

7. More than half the people of Bangladesh are facing poisoning from drinking water contamination... of what substance?

8. On which island did Charles Darwin study and consequently develop the theory of ' Origin of Species'?

9. Shahtoosh shawl is made from the wool of an endangered animal. Name the animal.

10. The world's biggest solar electric power plant - as huge as 57 soccer fields will be built in the Murcia region. In which country is it?

11. Farm animals infected by BSE would commonly be suffering from what?