This quiz was conducted by me as a collaboration between environment club & IISER MOHALI QUIZ CLUB on Environment Day.

1. 1. On this day in 1972, the Stockholm
Conference on Human Environment was
held in Sweden. Since then the _________is
celebrated on this day.

2. 2. Fuel?

3. 3. This species of bird native to North
America was considered to have been
one of the most numerous birds on
earth. Intensive shooting and the
destruction of the birds’natural
breeding ground brought about a
sudden fall in their numbers. The last of
this species on earth died in a zoo in
Circinnati in 1914. Name this bird.

4. 4. Which is the first Indian state to
implement the path-breaking
proposal that environment should be
included as a separate subject in
schools?

5. 5. In the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986,
31 people died, 129 others suffered acute
radiation and many thousands are expected to
die prematurely as a result of exposure to
radiation released from the stricken plant. Name
the site of this mishap.

6. 6. The ____________, which has been the subject of much debate,
proposes to build 30 major dams,
135 medium sized dams and 3000 smaller dams on the X river and its
tributaries. The major concerns regarding this project are
The project will submerge over 4000 sq. km. of
forest, cultivated land and grazing land
Between 1 & 1.5 million people will be
displaced
At least 40% of the land to be irrigated is prone
to water-logging and salination

7. 7. Bjorn Lomborg, known to many as 'The
Skeptical Environmentalist' and named one of
the world's 100 most influential people by Time
Magazine, has criticized current expectations of
climate change and the consequences in his
book. Many leading experts on environmental
topics have commented on this. NGO's such
as ____________, an organization of which
Lomborg used to be an active member, have
attacked him on various occasions

8. 8.

9. 9. Where was the earth summit held and when? Agenda 21 was released
here.

10. 10. The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the
moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual
observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event.
The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in
the atmosphere, as has happened after forest fires in
Sweden and Canada in 1950 and 1951, and after the
eruption of _______in 1883, which caused the moon to
appear blue for nearly two years. Other less potent
volcanos have also turned the moon blue. People saw
blue moons in 1983 after the eruption of the El
Chichon volcano in Mexico, and there are reports of
blue moons caused by Mount St. Helens in 1980
and Mount Pinatubo in 1991