This document appears to be from a green quiz competition that took place in 2012. It provides the general rules for the preliminary round, which includes 20 multiple choice questions with no negative marking. Only the top 6 teams will qualify for the finals. The questions cover various topics related to the environment like important dates, organizations, policies, terms, and people. The document tests the participants' knowledge of green issues and aims to increase environmental awareness.

1. The Green
Quiz - 2012
How much ‘greenfected’
are you?

2. General Rules
 The Preliminary Round has 20 questions.
 The questions are dry and visual based.
 There is no negative marking.
 There are some internal tie breaker questions.
 Only TOP 6 teams will qualify for finals.
 Please don’t annoy the quizmaster. He is GOD.
His decision is final. Respect Him.
The Green Quiz - 2012

3. The Green Quiz - 2012
Lets get your
Green Cells
working…

4. Question 1
The Green Quiz - 2012
What is this?

5. Question 2
The Green Quiz - 2012
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly voted to
designate September 16 as X to commemorate the
signing of the Montreal Protocol on that date in 1987.
What is X?

6. Question 3
The Green Quiz - 2012
Water engineers often say, ‘The solution to pollution is
dilution’. This is true to some extent in the case of River
Yamuna. By the time it flows through Delhi, it is
considered highly polluted but on the way to Allahabad, it
is joined by another tributary and gets diluted, thereby
bringing down the pollution level. Name this tributary.

7. Question 4
The Green Quiz - 2012
In recent years, the environment has become a major
issue all over the world and various steps have been
taken for its protection. The United Nations held its first
international conference on Human Environment on 5
June 1972 in this city. Since then, the World Environment
Day is also celebrated on this day. Name the city.

8. Question 5
The Green Quiz - 2012
Don’t Make A Wave Committee is the predecessor to
which modern day environmental organization?

9. Question 6
The Green Quiz - 2012
Which company has launched this Plant a Tree For Me
Today campaign?

10. Question 7
The Green Quiz - 2012
To commemorate which day did Google have this
doodle?

11. Question 8
The Green Quiz - 2012
This phrase was coined by the Norwegian
philosopher Arne Næss in 1973. He helped give it a
theoretical foundation. Which phrase?

12. Question 9
The Green Quiz - 2012
Identify the logo.

13. Question 10
The Green Quiz - 2012
This party was established in Gairsain on 18th
January,2009 and in this historical movement P.C.Tiwari
was elected the president. It claims to be India’s first
Green Party and is a member of The Green Party
International. The party’s election symbol is a scissor
given below. Identify the party.

14. Question 11
The Green Quiz - 2012
Which Conference’s organized by the Ministry of
Environment logo is this? This was held in 2012.

15. Question 12
The Green Quiz - 2012
Why did the Arla Foods colour their Swedish milk
cartons black-grey, as distinct from the typical white-
green?

16. Question 13
The Green Quiz - 2012
This is a procedure used as a means of sealing an oil
well that is experiencing an uncontrolled eruption
of crude oil or natural gas. The process involves
pumping heavyweight drilling mud into
the manifolds connected to the top of the well. What is it
known as?

17. Question 14
The Green Quiz - 2012
Identify the plant and what is special about this? This
plant grows in Kerala and the western Tamil Nadu.

18. Question 15
The Green Quiz - 2012
Which famous environmentalist’s book is this?

19. Question 16
The Green Quiz - 2012
Which famous tree’s description is this?

20. Question 17
The Green Quiz - 2012
What is meant by ‘eutrophication’?

21. Question 18
The Green Quiz - 2012
First synthesized in 1874, X’s insecticidal 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
poison against several arthropods.“ After the war, X was
made available for use as an agricultural insecticide,
and soon its production and use skyrocketed. What is
X?
Hint – Now a harmful pesticide

22. Question 19
The Green Quiz - 2012
Expand. Simple.

23. Question 20
The Green Quiz - 2012
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 movement.

24. Question 21
The Green Quiz - 2012
Connect. A Nobel Peace Prize Winner
2004.

25. Question 22
The Green Quiz - 2012
PUC certificates are issued to all vehicles, they serve as
a guide to the performance of the vehicle and the
maintenance needed. What does PUC stand for?

26. Question 23
The Green Quiz - 2012
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?

27. Question 24
The Green Quiz - 2012
CFCs (chloro-flouro-carbons) are greenhouse gases
that have caused a rise of 0.3 ºC in the global
temperatures in the past century. Name the CFC that is
used in refrigerators.

28. Question 25
The Green Quiz - 2012
This means ‘the child’ in Spanish and refers to the baby
Jesus Christ. This effect is very popular and is a
common occurrence in South America. Which effect am
I talking about?

29. THANK
YOU
Best of Luck for the
Finals!
By – Soham Banerjee
sohamlive@ymail.com