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.

ANSWER

• Angola

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)

ANSWER

• Svante Arrhenius

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

ANSWER

• Acid Rain

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

ROUND 2

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 ).

1.

2.

3.

4.

EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS

1.

• BRAIN CORAL

2.

• STAG HORN CORAL

3.

• PILLAR CORAL

4.

• TABLE CORAL

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 .

ANSWER

• Armadillo

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 .

ANSWER

IMPALA IMPALA CARS

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 ?

ANSWER

• Arctic Tern

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)

FICTIONAL & MYTHICAL ANIMALS

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.

ANSWER

• Leviathan

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.

ANSWER

• Pegasus

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 ?

ANSWER

• Basilisk

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

ROUND 3

RIVERS

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 ?

ANSWER

• The Brook

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 .

ANSWER

• Meenachil River

ROUND 4

PROTECTED AREAS

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

ANSWER

• National Park

Q2.The diagram of ?

ANSWER

• Biosphere Reserve

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 ?

ANSWER

• THENMALA

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 ?

ANSWER

• TRAFFIC

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

ANSWER

• X – TIES• Naalu manikkattu (Evening Breeze)