Celebrities
Global Existential Risks
Global Poverty
Meta-EA
Animals
100

This world-famous Princeton philosopher is considered one of the founders of the EA movement, and has written extensively on animal rights and global poverty.

What is Peter Singer?

100

These are three risks that could cause 10% or more of the population to die.

What is global pandemics, meteor strike, nuclear war, artificial intelligence, extreme climate change?

100

This famous EA organization rigorously analyzes charities to find the best organizations to donate to.

What is GiveWell?

100

These are three EA organizations.

What is ...?

100

This corporate outreach charity has been on Animal Charity Evaluators' list of recommended charities for at least 10 years (as of late 2024).

What is The Humane League?

200

This famous journalist is responsible for Vox's Future Perfect, an EA-adjacent section focused on reporting about effective ways of making the world a better place. They have also famously opposed and reported on SBF's FTX crisis during its peak in late 2022 and early 2023. 

Who is Kelsey Piper?

200

Name this famous historical incident that is the closest humanity has come to deliberate nuclear war.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

200

GiveWell roughly estimates that on average, a life can be saved with around $5,500 to this organization.

What is the Against Malaria Foundation?

200

This term refers to the act of researching where help is most needed in the world, to ensure that one is potentialising their impact. It's contrasted with "picking a cause because it's close to me".

What is cause neutrality, impartial altruism, or priorities research?

200

According to Wikipedia, this country has the highest proportion of people eating a vegetarian or vegan diet, with 28.8%.

What is India?

300

This famous longtermist philosopher is somewhat known as the early-days main figurehead of EA, and more known for reportedly repping it out at the gym.

Who is Will MacAskill?

300

Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, wrote this 2014 book on the threat of advanced artificial intelligence. Arguably, it convinced Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and others to declare their worry about AI.

What is Superintelligence?

300
This infectious disease was responsible for 300-500 million deaths in the 20th century. It was finally eradicated in 1979.
What is smallpox?
300

This pledge to donate 10% of one’s lifetime income has been taken by approximately 10000 people.

What is the Giving What We Can pledge?

300

According to foodimpacts.org, the amount of suffering inflicted on this animal species through factory farming trumps any other by a very large margin.

What are shrimp?

400

This famous entrepreneur and former Wall Street journalist is the president of Good Ventures, and oversees strategy at Open Philanthropy.

Who is Cari Tuna?

400
Two diseases have wiped out 5% or more of the world’s population in the past. One of them is the infamous black plague. Name the other one.
What is the Spanish Flu?
400

According to the WHO, in 2021, this is the number of people affected by hunger in the world. (Considered correct if within 25% of the right answer.)

What is 828 million?

400

These are the three main factors used to prioritize causes.

What is scale, neglectedness, and tractability?

400

A typical free-range, boiler chicken can live this many more times than what it does, in fact, live before getting slaughtered? (Margin: same order of magnitude)

What is 22.28 times? (14 weeks vs. 6 years)

500

This celebrity is the CEO of Effective Ventures US, and is currently transitioning to a Center for Effective Altruism role. They have become more famous in EA circles after giving the opening speeches at EAG London and EAG Boston 2024, both of which focused on growth and the future of EA.

Who is Zach Robinson?

500

Name 3 organizations working on existential risk/global catastrophic risk reduction.

What is the Cambridge Existential Risks Initiative (CERI), Centre for the Study of Existential Risks (CSER), Future of Life Institute (FLI)?

500

The median personal income in the UK falls under the richest ___ %. (Margin: 25% of right answer)

What is 4%?

500

As of 2024, this is the top recommended focus area on 80000 Hours.

What is AI Governance?

500
If humans grew at the same rate as this kind of factory-farmed animal, a baby would weigh 500 lbs by age 10 according to countinganimals.com (a ten-year old will weighs around 80 lb)
What is a chicken?