Environment Quiz

ENVIRONMENT
QUIZ
QM – JIM JACOB ROY
2011 MBBS

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ROUND 1
• 9 Questions
• Pounce & Bounce Format
• +10/-10

Q1.
• Those who are concerned with protecting the
environment often use the words X and Y. These two
terms are often confused and are used to mean the
same thing, although differences exist.
• X is the sustainable use and management of natural
resources including wildlife, water, air, and earth
deposits .
• Y, in contrast to X, attempts to maintain in their present
condition areas of the Earth that are so far untouched
by humans. Y denotes a fortress-like approach to
nature, walling off human influence in order to
maintain pristine “wilderness”.
• Identify X & Y .

ANSWER
• X - Conservation
• Y - Preservation

Q2.
• This African country (Image next slide) hosted the World
Environment Day Celebrations in 2016 as a sign of its
commitment to combatting the illegal trade in wildlife.
• The country lost many of its elephants during a long civil war,
which ran on-and-off from 1975 to 2002.
• The nation is also a transit country for ivory, with carved
goods coming over the border from the Democratic Republic
of Congo for re-sale, largely to Asian nations.
• In response to its problem, the Govt is introducing tougher
penalties for poaching, shutting down its domestic illegal
markets, and looking to provide alternative livelihoods for
those at the bottom of the illegal wildlife trade chain. They
are also training former combatants to become wildlife
rangers.

Q3.Identify X ,Y ,Z & A
• Founded in 1981 by X , Y is an educational and
humanitarian movement engaged in stress-
management and service initiatives. The organization
operates globally in 152 countries and has touched the
lives of over 370 million people .
• The programs are guided by X’s philosophy of peace:
"Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free
society, we cannot achieve world peace.“
• To celebrate the 35th anniversary ,Y hosted Z in the
banks of A .
• The program was associated with many controversies .

ANSWER
• X – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Y - The Art of Living
• Z - World Culture
Festival
• A - Yamuna

Q4.
 Guwahati became the first city in India to have its own city
animal after Kamrup metropolitan district administration
declared ............... as its official mascot in the 1st week of June
2016 .
The Kamrup metropolitan district administration had organized a
three-month long online and off-line voting process among
three protected animals to decide the ‘city animal’ .
 These three animals were ……………. (local name: Sihu), Greater
Adjutant Stork (Hargila) and Black Softshell Turtle (Bor Kaso).
These three animals are on the verge of extinction.
 In this voting process …………… had received highest 24247 votes
out of 60003 total votes.
 Which animal are we talking about ? (it is also known as “The
Tiger of Ganga”)

ANSWER
• Gangetic River Dolphin

Q5.
• ………….. (Image next slide) is an annual international photo
contest of the natural monuments, where participants picture
protected areas and upload their photos to Wikimedia
Commons.
• The goal of the project is, on one hand, to picture under a free
license as many natural monuments and protected areas as
possible, on the other hand, to contribute to nature protection
by raising public awareness. These pictures are to be used to
illustrate articles on Wikipedia and other Wikiprojects .
• The first ………………. competition was held in 2013 in
the Ukraine as pilot project.In the next years the competition
become international and spread to other countries.

ANSWER
• Wiki Loves Earth (WLE)

Q6.
‘The Green House Law’ .
• If the quantity of carbonic acid [CO2] increases in geometric
progression, the augmentation of the temperature will
increase nearly in arithmetic progression.
• This was proposed by a Swedish scientist in 1896 .
• He was the first person to predict that emissions of carbon
dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion
processes were large enough to cause global warming .
• He won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1903.
(He devised the 1st modern definition of acids & bases)

Q7.
• Robert Angus Smith (1817 –1884) was
a Scottish chemist, who investigated
numerous environmental issues.
• He is famous for his research on air pollution in
1852, in the course of which he discovered what
came to be known as ……….. He is sometimes
referred to as the 'Father of ………..'.
• The image shown next slide is that of a book he
published in 1872 .
• FITB

Q8.
This is the advertisement of a Company established in
1934 .
Name the Company .
What is its importance in Indian history ?

ANSWER
• Union Carbide India Limited
• Bhopal Tragedy

Q9.
• Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into 9 groups, set through
criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic
distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmentation.
• Extinct (EX) – No known individuals remaining.
• Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a
naturalized population outside its historic range.
• …………. (CR) – Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
• ………….. (EN) – High risk of extinction in the wild.
• ……………(VU) – High risk of endangerment in the wild.
• …………….(NT) – Likely to become endangered in the near future.
• Least concern (LC) – Lowest risk. Does not qualify for a more at-risk
category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.
• Data deficient (DD) – Not enough data to make an assessment of its risk
of extinction.
• Not evaluated (NE) – Has not yet been evaluated against the criteria.

ANSWER
• CR - Critically endangered
• EN - Endangered
• VU - Vulnerable
• NT - Near threatened

RULES
• 12 Questions (related to members of the
Animal Kingdom) – The first question is a
written .
• Pounce & Bounce Format
• +10/-10 on Pounce

Q1.
• Corals are marine invertebrates in
the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria. They
typically live in compact colonies of many
identical individual polyps
• Name the Coral types shown in the images in
the coming slides
• (Take a good look at the Corals ).

Q2.
• X (Image next slide) is a marine hydrozoan of the
family Physaliidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, as
well as the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its
venomous tentacles can deliver a painful (and
sometimes fatal) sting.
• X comprises four separate polyps.
• It gets its name from the uppermost polyp, a gas-
filled bladder, or pneumatophore, which sits
above the water and somewhat resembles an old
…………..
• What is X ?

ANSWER
• Portugese Men of War

Q3.
• ……… are the only living mammals that wear bony
shells. The Aztecs called them “turtle rabbits”.
• …………. are often used in the study of leprosy, since
they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits and mice
(on their footpads), are among the few known species
that can contract the disease systemically.
• They are particularly susceptible due to their unusually
low body temperature, which is hospitable to the
leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae .
• FITB .

Q4.
• These animals are the 3rd largest type of land mammals on
Earth .
• They spend up to 16 hours a day submerged in rivers and
lakes to keep their massive bodies cool under the hot
African sun. They are graceful in water, good swimmers,
and can hold their breath underwater for up to five
minutes. However, they are often large enough to simply
walk or stand on the lake floor, or lie in the shallows. Their
eyes and nostrils are located high on their heads, which
allows them to see and breathe while mostly submerged.
• Which animal am I talking about ?
• What does their name mean ?
• What is the Malayalam term for these animals ?

ANSWER
• Hippopotamus
 Hippos – Horse
 Potamus –River
 River Horse
• Neer Kuthira

Q5.
• The ……… (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-
sized antelope in eastern and southern Africa .
• This animal is known for its two characteristic
leaps that constitute an anti-predator strategy .
• The IUCN classifies the ……….. as a species of
least concern; the black-faced subspecies,
however, has been classified as a vulnerable
species.
• An automobile introduced first in 1958 and still in
production was named after this animal .
• Name the animal .

Q6.
• The fallacy of the image
depicted on the left is
that the Penguins and the
Polar bears are on the
two ends of the planet
Earth and they never
meet .
• A small, slender white
bird that travels from the
North to the South as a
part of its migration
meets them both !!
• Which bird ?

Q7.
• In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , The …….. is one of
the many animals that washes up from the Pool of Tears in
Chapter Three.
• In order to get dry, it proposes that everyone including the
Lory , the Eaglet , and the Duck run a Caucus Race where
the participants run in patterns of any shape, starting and
leaving off whenever they like, so that everyone wins.
• In this passage , Lewis Carroll incorporated references to
the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which
Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and
the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina
Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the ………. was Lewis
Carroll , and the Duck was Rev. Robinson Duckworth .
• FITB.

ANSWER
• Dodo (Charles Dodgson)

Q8.
• ………… is a giant sea creature with glowing eyes and a nasty
habit of crushing ships and devouring ocean-going humans.
• With its enormous body and scaly skin, ……….. is usually
referred to as a giant monstrous fish, but is also commonly
described as a serpent, crocodile or marine mammal.
• It is mentioned numerous times in the Old Testament, but it
is sometimes unclear whether this creature was created by
God or Satan.
• According to some ancient religious texts, God may have
originally created a male and female ……………, but
destroyed the female in order to protect the world from
the possibility of a multitude of angry monsters roaming
the seas.

Q9.
• This mythical animal is the son of Poseidon, god
of the sea, and the monster Medusa.
• He is portrayed as a beautiful winged horse,
sometimes white, sometimes white with gold
wings and sometimes gold all over.
• There are a couple of versions of the birth of X in
Greek mythology. In one, he sprang from
Medusa's neck when the hero Perseus beheaded
her. In another, X was born of the droplets of
blood that spilled from Medusa upon her death.

Q10.
• X was an acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel that lived during
the ice ages, attempting to store his prized acorn.
• During the days of the ice age, X took an acorn with him
everywhere, hoping to find a place to store it for the winter. X also
went out looking for other acorns so as to further his storage,
looking all over for acorns and nuts.
• Further on in time, through a mistake, X was responsible for the
separation of the continents, which divided Pangaea, the singular
landmass, into various continents. After this, X found a paradise
on Earth for himself: an island populated by advanced saber-tooth
squirrels known as Xlantis. After finding it, however, X sunk it by
mistake, stranding himself in a North American desert.
• At some point in his future, X was frozen in ice and survived the
ice ages, some twenty thousand years later, washing up in a block
of ice on a tropical beach. X lost his acorn and found a coconut,
which he treated the same as his acorn, though in storing it, X
started another cataclysm by mistake.

ANSWER
• SCRAT (SQUIRRELL + RAT)

Q11.
• In European legends , X is a legendary reptile reputed
to be king of serpents and said to have the power to
cause death with a single glance.
• According to the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder,
the X of Cyrene ( a Greek city in the present day
Libya) is a small snake, "being not more than twelve
fingers in length, that is so venomous, it leaves a wide
trail of deadly venom in its wake, and its gaze is
likewise lethal; its weakness is in the odor of
the weasel”
• What is X ?

Q12. Identify X & Z
• In Greek mythology, the X was a creature who was half-man and
half-bull, the offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull with which she fell
in love. (Pasiphaë was the wife of the king of Crete, Minos)
• Confined in Crete in a labyrinth made by Daedalus, the X was
fed with an annual tribute of seven virgins and seven young men
from Athens.
• Theseus set himself the task of killing the X with the help
of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. She gave him a
ball of thread, called Y which he unravelled as he went in and
used to trace his way out again after slaying the X .
• The noun Z appeared as a variant spelling of Y , of same
pronunciation. Not frequent until the 17th century, the form Z
has become the prevailing form of the word in the sense of a
fact or idea that serves to reveal something or solve a problem.

ANSWER
• X - Minotaur
• Y - Clew
• Z - Clue

Rules
• 6 Questions
• Pounce & Bounce
• +10/-10 on Pounce .

Q1.
• I come from haunts of coot and
hern;
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.
By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.
• Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
• This is a poem written by
Alfred Tennyson.
• What is the title of the
poem ?

Q2.
• Amazon River (South America)
• Nile River (Africa)
• X (Asia)
• Missouri – Mississippi River (North America)
• Y (Europe)
• Murray-Darling River (Australia)
• Onyx River (Antarctica)

ANSWER
• X – Yangtze River
• Y – Volga River

Q3.
• The Kingdom of ……. was an African kingdom located in
west central Africa .
• The name of the River X originated from the Kingdom of
…….. which was located on the southern bank of the river.
• The name Y is from a Portuguese adaptation of a word in
the local language meaning “river” .
• The river was known as Y during the 16th and 17th
centuries; X seems to have replaced Y gradually in English
usage during the 18th century, and X is the preferred
English name in 19th-century literature .
• It is the second largest river in the world by
discharge (after the Amazon)

ANSWER
• X – Congo
• Y – Zaire

Q4.This is a list of ?
• Prayag (Allahabad)
• Bhagamandala (Karnataka)
• Erode (Tamil Nadu)
• Tirumakudalu Narasipura (Mysore
• Moovattupuzha (Kerala)
• Indrakund (Mahararashtra)

ANSWER
• Prayag (Allahabad) - Ganges and Yamuna and the
invisible Saraswati River
• Bhagamandala (Karnataka) - Kaveri is joined by two
tributaries, the Kannike and the mythical Sujyoti river.
• Erode (Tamil Nadu) - The Cauvery, Bhavani and
Amudha (invisible river flowing underground)
• Tirumakudalu Narasipura (Mysore ) - Kaveri
, Kabini and Spatika Sarovara (a mythical lake )
• Moovattupuzha (Kerala) - Kaliyar (Kali river),
Thodupuzhayar (Thodupuzha river) and Kothayar
• Indrakund (Mahararashtra) - 2 Mythical rivers Aruna &
Varuna meet Godavari .

ANSWER
• Sites of Triveni Sangam

Q5.Identify X ,Y & Z.
• Pishon, Gihon, X , and Y .
• These are the 4 rivers mentioned in the book
of Genesis in Bible .
• The rivers X & Y provided much of the water
that supported the development of the
ancient Z culture .
• Z means ‘ land between 2 rivers ‘.

ANSWER
• X – TIGRIS
• Y – EUPHRATES
• Z - Mesopotamia

Q6.
• According to legends , this river starts from the Kamandalu of great
sage Gauna Maharshi like the river Kaveri from Agasthya Maharshi's
Kamandalu. Hence this river got the name Gauna Nadi.
• Gauna Maharshi filled his Kamandalu with Sapthanadi Theertham
(water from the 7 holy rivers -Ganga,Yamuna, Saraswathy,Sindhu,
Narmmada,Godavari and Kaveri). A beautiful idol of Lord
Subrahmanya was also kept in his kamandalu.
• He was eagerly waiting for the Darshan of Lord Sree Rama in his
return journey to Ayodhya after killing Ravanan. Sree Raman was
accompanied by large number of devotees like Vibhishanan,
Sugreevan and Angada in the Pushpaka Vimana.So Maharshi Gauna
could not see Lord Sri Rama and Sita Devi properly. So the angry
Gauna threw the kamandalu away and the idol of Subrahmanya
Swami came out.
• This flow of water became a river and thus the present Gauna nadi
was formed .

RULES
• 7 questions
• Pounce & Bounce
• +10/-10 on Pounce

Q1.FITB
IUCN Protected Area Categories:
• Strict nature reserve - Category Ia
• Wilderness area - Category Ib
• ……………….. - Category II
• Natural monument and Natural feature - Category III
• Habitat management area and Species management
area — Category IV
• Protected landscape and Protected seascape - Category V
• Protected Area with sustainable use of natural resources -
Category VI

Q3.
• The Keibul Lamjao National Park is a National
park in the Bishnupur district of the state
of Manipur in India .
• To preserve the natural refuge of the endangered
Manipur Eld's deer or brow-antlered deer
or sangai , listed as an endangered species
by IUCN , the park which was initially declared to
be a sanctuary in 1966, was subsequently
declared to be a national park in 1977 through a
gazette notification.
• Why is this National Park unique ?

ANSWER
• The Only Floating Park in the World

Q4.
• The Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja recently in a
safari posed for pictures, along with his wife, in
front of a pride of lions. He also clicked selfies
with fans and some forest guards – he uploaded
them in his social media accounts & it became
viral in no time (Image next slide)
• The forest department of the state ordered an
inquiry in this matter as tourists are not
permitted to do get down from their vehicle
during a safari .
• Where did this incident take place ?

ANSWER
• The Gir National Park and Sanctuary ,Gujarat

Q5.
• X is the 1st National Park in Kerala established in
1978 .
• Prior to 1971, the area was managed as a game
preserve by the Kanan Devan Hills Produce
Company. The Government of Kerala resumed
control in 1971, and declared the X -Rajamala
Wildlife Sanctuary in 1975 to protect the habitat
of the endangered Y .
• Y is the state animal of Tamil Nadu .
• Identify X & Y .

ANSWER
• X – ERAVIKULAM NATIONAL PARK
• Y – NILGIRI TAHR

Q6.
• …………. Park in Andaman & Nicobar Islands is named in
commemoration of …….. Tytler.
• ……. Tytler the second wife of Robert Christopher
Tytler, a British army officer, an administrator, naturalist
and photographer, who was appointed Superintendent
of the Convict Settlement at Port Blair in the Andamans
from April 1862 to February 1864.
• …………… is remembered for her work in documenting
the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time
of the Revolt of 1857 in India.
• Most of us have seen the image of this National Park .
Where ?

ANSWER
• Mount
Harriet
National
Park
• On the
reverse side
of Mahatma
Gandhi
series of 20
rupee note

Q7.
• ……………. is a tourist place near Punalur
town, Kollam district in Kerala.
• …………is the first planned eco-tourism destination
in India .
• The place is famous for its honey - the noney
collected from this forest region is of good quality
and of high medicinal value because of the
unique floristic composition of the forests.
• The place is ?

Round 5
ORGANISATIONS & ACTIVISTS

RULES
• 7 Questions (4th is written)
• Bounce & Pounce Format
• +10/-10 on Pounce .

Q1.
• X is a global independent non-
profit and NGO working to
address the inter-connected
global challenges of security
, poverty eradication
and environmental
degradation through a
combination of advocacy and
local projects.
• It was founded by former Soviet
Union President and Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Y in 1993, building
upon the work started by the
1992 Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro , Brazil.
• X is headquartered at Geneva .

ANSWER
X - GREEN CROSS
INTERNATIONAL Y - MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

Q2.
• What was special about the cabinet meeting
of Maldives Govt held in October 2009 ?
• The meeting lasted for about 30 minutes and
was attended by 11 ministers (out of 14) ?

ANSWER
• THE MEETING WAS HELD UNDERWATER !!

Q3.
• X is a global partnership
of conservation organisations that
strives to conserve birds ,
their habitats and global biodiversity ,
working with people towards
sustainability in the use of natural
resources.
• It is the world's largest partnership of
conservation organisations, with over
120 partner organisations.
• It was founded in 1922 as
the International Committee for Bird
Protection by American ornithologists ,
T. Gilbert Pearson and Jean Theodore
Delacour
• They changed their name in 1993 to X

ANSWER
• BirdLife International

Q4.Crack X ,Y, Z, A ,B & C
• X was a a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two
expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery
Expedition, ( 1901–1904) and the ill-fated Terra Nova
Expedition ( 1910–1913) .
• On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by
marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau,
on which the South Pole is located.
• During the second venture, X led a party of five which
reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that
they had been preceded by Y ‘s Norwegian expedition.

• On their return journey, X 's party discovered
plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once
forested and joined to other continents.
• At a distance of 150 miles from their base
camp and 11 miles from the next depot, X
and his companions died from a combination
of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.

• Z was the son of X .
• Z displayed a strong artistic talent and he
became known as a painter of wildlife,
particularly birds .
• Z’s BBC Natural History series, Look, ran from
1955 to 1981 and made him a household name.
• Z was a cofounder of the environmental
organisation A in 1961 .

• Perhaps the most remembered contribution
of Z to A may be the B ,which was modified
later .
• Another co founder of A was C .
• C was the first Director of UNESCO & also the
first President of the British Humanist
Association.

ANSWERS
• X – ROBERT SCOTT
• Y – ROALD AMUNDSEN
• Z – PETER SCOTT
• A – WORLD WILDLIFE FUND (WWF)
• B – THE PANDA LOGO
• C – JULIAN HUXLEY

Q5.
• In 1976 , WWF and IUCN created a wildlife trade
monitoring network that works to ensure trade in wild
plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation
of nature .
• Its vision is of a world where wildlife trade is:
managed in a way that maintains healthy wildlife
populations and ecosystems; contributes to meeting
human needs; supports local and national economies;
and helps motivate commitments to conserve wild
species and habitats.
• What is it known as ?

Q6.
• X a non-profit professional organization, established in 2004
by a group of experts from the field of education,
management and conservation which works closely on
current and emerging environmental issues in order to
develop and implement sustainable solutions.
• They led the Tree Naming Project in the Medical College
Campus .
• They also helped plan India’s first community powered
roadside ecotorism project (responsible tourism that
addresses environmental conservation & the needs of the
local community),which is ………….
• Identify X & FITB .

ANSWER
• X – TIES
• Naalu manikkattu (Evening Breeze)

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