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100

This was the first national park in the U.S., established in 1872.

What is Yellowstone?

100

The only incorporated city in the United States named Ceres is in this state.

What is California?

100

This U.S. law, passed in 2022, includes the largest federal investment in clean energy and climate action.

What is the Inflation Reduction Act?


100

In this popular team accountability model, each letter in MOCHA stands for a specific role in a project.

What is Manager, Owner, Consulted, Helper, Approver?

100

This fruit has more genes than humans.

What is a banana?

200

This Florida park is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist.

What is Everglades?

200

This Roman goddess is named Ceres. 

What is agriculture and fertility?

200

The Fujita scale is used to measure the intensity of these storm events.

What are tornadoes?

200

The EU’s climate disclosure rule, known by this four-letter acronym, is expected to cover over 60,000 companies by 2029.

What is CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive)?

200

This U.S. state has the most active volcanoes.

What is Alaska?

300

This park in Washington State includes rainforests, mountains, and coastal tidepools.

What is Olympic?

300

In collaboration with the United Nations and other partners, Ceres launched this landmark initiative in 1997 to standardize sustainability reporting worldwide.

What is the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)?

300

The country with the most installed solar energy capacity as of the 2020s

What is China?

300

Formed in 2021, this coalition of financial institutions aims to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions.

What is GFANZ? 

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero 

300

This planet rotates so fast, a day on it is only about 10 Earth hours long.

What is Jupiter?

400

This park holds the record for the highest point in North America.

What is Denali?

400

Founded in 1986 in South Africa the company Ceres produces what product sold in over 80 countries.

What is Fruit Juice?

400

This oceanic phenomenon causes prolonged warming in the Pacific Ocean and influences global weather.

What is El Niño?

400

This organization first introduced the concept of a "just transition" in its 2015 guidelines, framing it as essential to ensuring decent work, social inclusion, and poverty eradication during the shift to a low-carbon economy.

What is the International Labour Organization (ILO)?

400

This animal's heart is located in its head.

What is a shrimp?

500

This remote national park in Michigan can only be reached by boat or seaplane.

What is Isle Royale?

500

Named Ceres, this is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

What is a dwarf planet?

500

The world’s largest recorded hailstone fell in this U.S. state.

What is South Dakota?

500

This financial reporting body requires disclosure of material risks, including climate impacts, in municipal financial statements.

What is GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board)?

500

This sweet treat was once used as medicine and even sold in pharmacies.

What is chocolate?