Your NIEHS Center
There Oughta be a Law
You Heard it Here
Flirting with Disaster
Who Said That?
100
The number of zeros in the Center's six digit NIH grant serial number
What is FIVE (000002)
100
This automobile pollution control technology became universally adopted following the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970
What is the catalytic converter
100
This component of organic dust exposure is associated with sustained effects on lung function in Shanghai textile workers
What is endotoxin
100
The worst nuclear power plant disaster in history
What is Chernobyl (April 26, 1986)
100
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
Who is Lee Iacocca, CEO, Chairman, Chrysler Corporation
200
This Center-sponsored funding mechanism supports use of internal and external facilities, services & resources
What are Facility Access Funds (FAFs)
(formerly "mini-pilots")
200
This UN treaty, ratified by 197 nations, phased out production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances
What is the Montreal Protocol
200
These plant derived compounds have been associated with decreased prevalence of asthma
What are phytoestrogens
200
This disaster in upstate New York, led to the formation of the Superfund program, which helps pay for the cleanup of toxic sites
What is Love Canal (1978)
200
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."
Who is Ben Franklin
300
In 1962 this HSPH Professor became the founding Director of the Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
Who is James L Whittenberger
300
The "igniting" of this Ohio river was one of several events leading to the 1972 Clean Water Act.
What is the Coyahoga River
300
Due to a genetic mutation, flatiron mice have trouble regulating this
What is iron or manganese
300
Considered to be the worst industrial accident ever, over 15 thousand were killed and half a million affected by this pesticide plant accident
What is Bhopal, India (Union Carbide plant)
300
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Who is Dan Quayle (yes, this may not be a true quote, but it may actually be...)
400
The average amount of pilot grant funding awarded by the Center annually
What is $200,000
400
In 1996, the EPA passed legislation requiring that home buyers and renters be informed of the presence of this in their dwellings.
What lead based paint
400
This environmental hazard may interfere with the beneficial effects of folic acid in prevention of birth defects
What is arsenic
400
More than 100 million tons of floating debris - entangling marine life and leaking toxins into the ocean
What is The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
400
"The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy"
Who is Kurt Vonnegut
500
Who is Linda Birnbaum, current Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
500
The Kyoto Protocol, signed by virtually every country in the world except the USA, set limits on this environmental pollutant
What is greenhouse gases or CO2
500
This level of carbon dioxide was previously thought to be benign, but has been shown to be associated with cognitive performance deficits.
What is 1000 parts per million
500
Following the wreck of the Exxon Valdez, Captain Joseph Hazelwood, unable to find work as a ship's captain, did this instead
What is taught Navigation at the NYU Maritime Academy
500
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs,
from sea to oily sea."
Who is George Carlin