Tuesday 22 August 2017

Environment Quiz 49

Environment Quiz 49

The latest set of questions for Green Olympiad, Wild Wisdom Quiz and similar environmental quiz contests


1. The One-horned Rhinocerous, the Asiatic Elephant and the Bengal Tiger are three WWF priority species. On which banknote, do all three appear?
10
50
100
1000

2. Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day is celebrated on
May 29
July 29
July 9
April 21

3. The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series presented on Animal Planet, becoming the network's highest-rated series at the time. It was hosted by an Australian zookeeper and conservationist nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter". Who is he?
Steve Irwin
Jeff Corwin
William Holden
Leo Carrillo

4. The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It known widely in the name of a crop mostly outside Ireland. Name the crop
Tomato
Potato
Wheat
Maize

5. Which one of the following gases form 95% of the atmosphere the planet Mars?
Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen
Argon
Oxygen

6. Which planet has the strongest magnetic field?
Mars
Earth
Saturn
Jupiter

7. A inexpensive therapy developed by a team led by an American professor of Indian origin Pinaki Panigrahi has been found to reduce the risk of an infectious disease in newborn children by 40 per cent. Name the disease
Sepsis
Pneumonia
Hepatitis
Smallpox

8. Who was selected for the prestigious Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2017 by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)?
K Chandrasekhar Rao
M S Swaminathan
Ratan Tata
Akhilesh Yadav

9. Scientists recently named a 100-million-year-old damselfly after the veteran broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Where was the damselfly found?
India
Great Britain
Myanmar
Sri Lanka

10. Israel has successfully launched its first spatial environmental research vehicle designed for orbital monitoring of Earth's vegetation. What is the name of the satellite?
Venus
Amos 6
RISAT-2
Ofek-9

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