Environment Quiz as a part of the Cotton College Hub Quiz Event , Sadda-Adda in Cotton College

1. ई हमरा पर्ाावरण बा
The environment quiz
- by PRITOM SARMA

2. THE RULE-BOOK
 30 questions in the quiz.
 It’s a written quiz
 +1 for each correct answer.
 No negatives. Take your best shot.
 “Starred Questions” will be used in case of a
tie. (Q. 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, 16, 19, 22, 26, 30)
Golden Rules of any quiz:
 The Quiz Master IS THE BOSS (till the end
of the quiz at least).
 SWITCH OFF your mobile phones.

3. So lets begin…………

4. The X was adopted in ___ , on 11 December
1997 and entered into force on 16 February
2005. The detailed rules for the implementation
of the agreement were adopted at COP 7 in
Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred
to as the "Marrakesh Accords.“ The X is an
international agreement linked to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which commits its Parties by setting
internationally binding emission reduction
targets. X?
Q1. What is X?

5. Q2. Who is X?
In 2006, Melissa Etheridge received the 2006
Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I
Need to Wake Up." Upon receiving the award,
she noted in her acceptance speech:“Mostly I
have to thank X, for inspiring us, for inspiring
me, showing that caring about the Earth is not
Republican or Democrat; its not red or blue, its
all green’. Give me X.

6. Q3. Which Company
Promotional poster of which famous company?

8. Q4.Which famous event?

9. Q5.Who am I talking about?
On her journey to the USA from China she got
into trouble when US banned her entry calling
her ‘a communist good’. She was kept in
London for time’s sake and became a major
attraction there. Who is she? OR Give me the
organization to which she is unanimously
related.

10. Q6. Connect.
Video

11. Q7. Which popular brand?
Which popular brand takes its name from a
particular species of deer native to South Africa?

12. Q8. What is it popularly known as?
The Indian television series ‘Living on the edge’
was the first in Asia to win the prestigious Panda
Award. By what popular name is this award
known?

13. Q9. What is X?
X is a tribe from western India. They belong to
the first race of environmentalists in the world.
They are the followers of Guru Jambeshwar and
are famous worldwide for their 29 principles that
are all eco-friendly ?

14. Q10. Name the car?
This is India’s first electric car which was
launched by Mahindra. What is its name?

15. Q11. What is X?
In 1905, a Glasgow public health official and civil
engineer, Dr H A Des Voeux coined a term X to
describe a condition of impaired visual response
due to the rise in the Suspended Particulate Matter
content above a critical level in the atmosphere.
The term X is arguably one of the most popular
portmanteau words in the context of environmental
sciences. Give me X?

16. Q12. What is X?
First synthesized in 1874, X’s special properties were
not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great
success in the second half of World War II to
control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.
The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for
his discovery of the high efficiency of X as a contact
treatment against several arthropods.“ After the war, X
was made available for use as an consumer product,
and soon its production and use skyrocketed. What is
X?

17. Q13. Connect to a person.

18. Q14. Which phenomenon or
process?
Which phenomenon was discovered by Joseph
Fourier in 1824, first reliably experimented on by
John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported
quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896?

19. Q15. Name the author or the
movement
The author of this book started a very famous
environmental movement in India. This
movement was one of it’s first in India. Name the
author.

21. Q16. What is X and Y?
X is a process, which has its place in Y‘s conservation
and, although not a stand-alone solution, recent
successes demonstrate that, used alongside other
methods, X can be used to protect Y. Due to the invasive
nature of X, it should only be considered as a last resort
under conditions of severe threat. For example, although
X is not routinely practised in Kenya, but for the small
population of Northern White Y, X is routinely done due
to the exceptional conservation value of being the last
remaining individuals of the subspecies. In 2014, the
concept of X was brought up for introduction in Assam
also but met with heavy criticism and was later dropped.

22. Q17. Connect

23. Q 18. X Into The Unknown
X geared up for a famous event that year, by exploring the country's Amazon for a
special BBC documentary. In this special documentary film, X flies 5,000 miles to
South America, staying briefly in Rio de Janeiro and then on to Manaus in the heart of
the rainforest. From there he and his friends Derek White and Dave Gardner travel by
motorbike and boat, guided by locals as they visit the tiny community of Angelin,
cross the river Negro to the banks of the Cuieras River and travel deeper into the
rainforest to meet the remote Yanomami tribe. The documentary grossed more than a
million dollars in combine sitcom telecast and neflix telecast. And X donated half of
the gross to environmental relief in Brazil.
Identify the famous personality.

24. Q19. Identify X and Y
Pench National Park is situated in Seoni and
Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in India. It
derives its name from the Pench River that flows through
the National park from north to south dividing the park
into almost equal western and eastern halves-the well
forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts
respectively.
This park is also famously called as X Land, since its the
original setting for Y. Two films, one in 1967 and the
other in 2016, were also set in this national park. What is
X & Y?

25. Q 20. First travel system in the world
to be approved by Gold Standard
Gold Standard foundation --a globally accepted
certification standard for carbon mitigation projects.
Compared to the United Nations rate for one carbon
credit (70 cents), the Gold Standard carbon offset carries
a price premium (4-5 Euros).
Which famous travel system was the first one to be
awarded the same for energy efficiency ?

26. Q 21. Which company’s Earth day
ad in 2014 and Funda ?

27. Q 22. What's special about this song ?
Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae)are more than a rare
breed; they're almost extinct. An estimated 400of these animals still
inhabit the wilds of Indonesia, and that number is only expected to drop
with threats from poaching and habitat destruction. Scientists have
predicted that the beautiful beasts, which are listed as critically
endangered on the IUCN's Red List, may go extinct in the next 30
years.(Its relatives the Bali tiger and the Java tiger have already
suffered that fate.)
Announced on Earth Day, anew initiative from the Smithsonian's
National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute hopes to raise
awareness about the plight of these majestic animals. The Zoo teamed
up with Alaskan rock band „Portugal The Man‟ to create what the are
calling an "endangered" song, produced on only 400 records.
Each record is made with a special blend of polycarbonate and sent to
400 people in music, film, social media and journalism.
What is so special about this song?

28. s

29. Q23. Which company?

31. Q 24. Which Organization
Which organization which was in national news last year, is been
referred to here? (Person speaking: Patrick Moore)

32. Q 25. What is this film about?

33. Q 26. What is this term X?
X is a term Narendra Modi used to refer to
losses due to delays in projects out of delay in
getting environmental clearances during the
UPA-2 rule, allegedly due to personal policies of
the then officials of the environment ministry.
Modi referred to the price that the country paid
due to these delays as X. What is X?

34. Q 27. Definition of what?
A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide
(CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions of a
defined population, system or activity,
considering all relevant sources, sinks and
storage within the spatial and temporal boundary
of the population, system or activity of interest.
Calculated as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
using the relevant 100-year global warming
potential (GWP100).

35. Q 28. Which incident?
• Renowned wildlife and marine photographer Justin
Lyons' 2014 interview to a TV channel, was the subject
of much discussion among enthusiasts of the field. In
this he spoke of an event from 2006:
“I panned with the camera as it swam away and I
didn’t know it had caused any damage. It was only
when I panned the camera back that I saw him
standing in a huge pool of blood. It was a jagged
barb and it went through his chest like hot butter. He
calmly looked up at me and said 'I'm dying.' And that
was the last thing he said.”
What incident is being referred to?
1 2

36. Q. 29 What is X?
This is an image released by a research group of Harvard.
According to them X(blanked out) is the deadliest animal. The most
dangerous variety of X is found areas of high coliform content due to
extensive pollution. Give me X?

37. Q 30. Connect.
Connect the following to Malus domestica

38. Exchange your answer sheets……

39. Answers

40. The X was adopted in ___ , on 11 December
1997 and entered into force on 16 February
2005. The detailed rules for the implementation
of the agreement were adopted at COP 7 in
Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2001, and are referred
to as the "Marrakesh Accords.“ The X is an
international agreement linked to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which commits its Parties by setting
internationally binding emission reduction
targets. X?
Q1. What is X?

41. X: Kyoto Protocol

42. Q2. Who is X?
In 2006, Melissa Etheridge received the 2006
Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I
Need to Wake Up." Upon receiving the award,
she noted in her acceptance speech:“Mostly I
have to thank X, for inspiring us, for inspiring
me, showing that caring about the Earth is not
Republican or Democrat; its not red or blue, its
all green’. Give me X.

43. X: Al Gore

44. Q3. Which Company
Promotional poster of which famous company?

46. Union Carbide

47. Q4.Connect. (To a famous event)

48. The Rio Conference a.k.a Earth
Summit, 1992

49. Q5.Who am I talking about?
On her journey to the USA from China she got
into trouble when US banned her entry calling
her ‘a communist good’. She was kept in
London for time’s sake and became a major
attraction there. Who is she? OR Give me the
organization to which she is unanimously
related.

50. The Chi-Chi Panda, official mascot
of WWF

51. Q6. Connect.
Video

52. Narmada Bachao Andolan
video

53. Q7. Which popular brand?
Which popular brand takes its name from a
particular species of deer native to South Africa?

54. Reebok

55. Q8. What is it popularly known as?
The Indian television series ‘Living on the edge’
was the first in Asia to win the prestigious Panda
Award. By what popular name is this award
known?

56. The green oscar
( The Whitely Awards)

57. Q9. What is X?
X is a tribe from western India. They belong to
the first race of environmentalists in the world.
They are the followers of Guru Jambeshwar and
are famous worldwide for their 29 principles that
are all eco-friendly ?

58. The Bishnois

59. Q10. Name the car?
This is India’s first electric car which was
launched by Mahindra. What is its name?

60. Mahindra Reva
Surprisingly, It’s priced above 4 Lakhs

61. Q11. What is X?
In 1905, a Glasgow public health official and civil
engineer, Dr H A Des Voeux coined a term X to
describe a condition of impaired visual response
due to the rise in the Suspended Particulate Matter
content above a critical level in the atmosphere.
The term X is arguably one of the most popular
portmanteau words in the context of environmental
sciences. Give me X?

62. Smog

63. Q12. What is X?
First synthesized in 1874, X’s special properties were
not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great
success in the second half of World War II to
control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.
The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for
his discovery of the high efficiency of X as a contact
treatment against several arthropods.“ After the war, X
was made available for use as an consumer product,
and soon its production and use skyrocketed. What is
X?

64. DDT: Dichloro Diphenyl
Trichloroethane

65. Q13. Connect to a person.

66. Wangari Mathaai

67. Q14. Which phenomenon or
process?
Which phenomenon was discovered by Joseph
Fourier in 1824, first reliably experimented on by
John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported
quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896?

68. The Green House Effect

69. Q15. Name the author or the
movement
The author of this book started a very famous
environmental movement in India. This
movement was one of it’s first in India. Name the
author.

71. Sudarlal Bahuguna of the Chipko
Movement.

72. Q16. What is X and Y?
X is a process, which has its place in Y‘s conservation
and, although not a stand-alone solution, recent
successes demonstrate that, used alongside other
methods, X can be used to protect Y. Due to the invasive
nature of X, it should only be considered as a last resort
under conditions of severe threat. For example, although
X is not routinely practised in Kenya, but for the small
population of Northern White Y, X is routinely done due
to the exceptional conservation value of being the last
remaining individuals of the subspecies. In 2014, the
concept of X was brought up for introduction in Assam
also but met with heavy criticism and was later dropped.

73. X: Dehorning, Y: Rhinos

74. Q17. Connect

75. Weird Cabinet Meetings
• Underwater Cabinet Meetings. The government of the Maldives has held a cabinet
meeting underwater to highlight the threat of global warming to the low-lying Indian
Ocean nation.
• Worlds Highest Cabinet Meetings. The Nepali Government's historical high-altitude
cabinet meeting was held on the base camp at Kalapatthar(foothills of Mt. Everest) to
draw the global community's attention toward climate change and its impact on
melting Himalayas.

76. Q 18. X Into The Unknown
X geared up for a famous event that year, by exploring the country's Amazon for a
special BBC documentary. In this special documentary film, X flies 5,000 miles to
South America, staying briefly in Rio de Janeiro and then on to Manaus in the heart of
the rainforest. From there he and his friends Derek White and Dave Gardner travel by
motorbike and boat, guided by locals as they visit the tiny community of Angelin,
cross the river Negro to the banks of the Cuieras River and travel deeper into the
rainforest to meet the remote Yanomami tribe. The documentary grossed more than a
million dollars in combine sitcom telecast and neflix telecast. And X donated half of
the gross to environmental relief in Brazil.
Identify the famous personality.

77. X: David Beckham

78. Q19. Identify X and Y
Pench National Park is situated in Seoni and
Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in India. It
derives its name from the Pench River that flows through
the National park from north to south dividing the park
into almost equal western and eastern halves-the well
forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts
respectively.
This park is also famously called as X Land, since its the
original setting for Y. Two films, one in 1967 and the
other in 2016, were also set in this national park. What is
X & Y?

79. X : Mowgli
Y : The Jungle Book

80. Q 20. First travel system in the world
to be approved by Gold Standard
Gold Standard foundation --a globally accepted
certification standard for carbon mitigation projects.
Compared to the United Nations rate for one carbon
credit (70 cents), the Gold Standard carbon offset carries
a price premium (4-5 Euros).
Which famous travel system was the first one to be
awarded the same for energy efficiency ?

81. Delhi Metro

82. Q 21. Which company’s Earth day
ad in 2014 and Funda ?

83. Apple

84. Q 22. What's special about this song ?
Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae)are more than a rare
breed; they're almost extinct. An estimated 400of these animals still
inhabit the wilds of Indonesia, and that number is only expected to drop
with threats from poaching and habitat destruction. Scientists have
predicted that the beautiful beasts, which are listed as critically
endangered on the IUCN's Red List, may go extinct in the next 30
years.(Its relatives the Bali tiger and the Java tiger have already
suffered that fate.)
Announced on Earth Day, anew initiative from the Smithsonian's
National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute hopes to raise
awareness about the plight of these majestic animals. The Zoo teamed
up with Alaskan rock band „Portugal The Man‟ to create what the are
calling an "endangered" song, produced on only 400 records.
Each record is made with a special blend of polycarbonate and sent to
400 people in music, film, social media and journalism.
What is so special about this song?

85. s

86. The record is manufactured to go
extinct, unless it’s digitally reproduced
Each record is made with a special blend of polycarbonate that
degrades after a certain number of spins.
If people don't conserve the song digitally, it won't survive. This
canonical to endangered tiger conservation, the species will go
extinct, if there is no interventional reproduction

87. Q23. Which company?

89. Tesla

90. Q 24. Which Organization
Which organization which was in national news last year, is been
referred to here?

91. Greenpeace

92. Q 25. What is this film about?

93. Man-elephant conflict.

94. Q 26. What is this term X?
X is a term Narendra Modi used to refer to
losses due to delays in projects out of delay in
getting environmental clearances during the
UPA-2 rule, allegedly due to personal policies of
the then officials of the environment ministry.
Modi referred to the price that the country paid
due to these delays as X. What is X?

95. Jayanthi Tax

96. Q 27. Definition of what?
A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide
(CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions of a
defined population, system or activity,
considering all relevant sources, sinks and
storage within the spatial and temporal boundary
of the population, system or activity of interest.
Calculated as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
using the relevant 100-year global warming
potential (GWP100).

97. Carbon Footprint

98. Q 28. Which incident?
• Renowned wildlife and marine photographer Justin
Lyons' 2014 interview to a TV channel, was the subject
of much discussion among enthusiasts of the field. In
this he spoke of an event from 2006:
“I panned with the camera as it swam away and I
didn’t know it had caused any damage. It was only
when I panned the camera back that I saw him
standing in a huge pool of blood. It was a jagged
barb and it went through his chest like hot butter. He
calmly looked up at me and said 'I'm dying.' And that
was the last thing he said.”
What incident is being referred to?
1 2

99. Steve Irwin’s death

100. Q. 29 What is X?
This is an image released by a research group of Harvard.
According to them X(blanked out) is the deadliest animal. The most
dangerous variety of X is found areas of high coliform content due to
extensive pollution. Give me X?

102. Mosquito

103. Connect.
Connect the following to Malus domestica

104. Apple Mac OS X Version
Malus domestica is the scientific name of Apple
Apple's Mac OS X versions are named after wild cats: 1. Cheetah,
2. Puma, 3. Panther, 4. Tiger, 5. Leopard, 6. Snow Leopard and
7. Lion