Recycling
On average, how many aluminum soda cans are used in the United States each year?
a. 500 million
b. 80 billion
c. 40 billion
d. 3 billion
What is 80 billion?
What creates Earth's magnetic field?
a. The core
b. The crust
c. The atmosphere and gases
d. We don't really know
What is the core?
This layer keeps us “not too hot in the summer” and “not too cold in the winter.” Scientists call this the ________ effect.
a. greenhouse effect
b. seasonal effect
c. ocean effect
d. lake effect
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
Which university has had a student win a medal in every Olympics since 1908?
a. Stanford
b. University of Florida
c. Berkeley
d. University of Michigan
What is Stanford?
What is the most spoken language in the world (by population of native speakers)?
A. Spanish
B. Hindi
C. English
D. Mandarin
Wat is Mandarin?
How much does the average American consume in paper, wood, and other products made from trees each year?
a. 1 tree
b. 5 trees
c. 7 trees
d. 15 trees
What is 7 trees?
How long is a day actually?
a. 23 hours 59 minutes 20 seconds
b. 23 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds
c. 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
d. 23 hours 55 minutes 9 seconds
What is 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds?
How has the global average temperature changed since the Industrial Revolution?
a. Cooler by 0.1 degree C (0.2 degree F)
b. Warmer by 0.1 degree C (0.2 degree F)
c. Warmer by more than 1 degree C (2.1 degrees F)
d. Warmer by almost 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F)
What is warmer by more than one degree C?
How many colleges and universities exist in the USA?
a. 2000
b. 4500
c. 5000
d. 6500
What is 5000?
Which country consumers the most chocolate per capita?
A. Germany
B. Switzerland
C. The United States
D. Ireland
What is Switzerland?
How much energy does recycling just one aluminum can save?
a. Enough to power a microwave for 30 minutes
b. Enough to power the average American home for 4 days
c. Enough to power a computer for 15 minutes
d. Enough to power a TV for 3 hours
What is enough to power a TV for 3 hours?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth is called the what?
a. troposphere
b. stratosphere
c. exosphere
d. mesosphere
What is the troposphere?
When was the last time in Earth's history that CO2 was as high as it is now?
a. This is the highest it's ever been
b. CO2 was at least this high during the warm periods between the ice ages
c. CO2 has not been this high for almost one million years.
d. The last time CO2 was this high was 3 million years ago.
What is 3 million years?
What university did beer pong originate from?
a. University of Arizona
b. Dartmouth
c. Tulane
d. Notre Dame
What is Dartmouth?
What is the distance between the earth and its moon?
A. 138,900 mi
B. 188,900 mi
C. 238,900 mi
D. 338,900 mi
What is 238,900 miles?
A typical glass bottle would take how many years to decompose
a. 100 years
b. 4000 years
c. 8000 years
d. It will never break down
What is 4000 years?
Earth is moving around the sun at what speed?
a. 20,000 mph
b. 37,000 mph
c. 67,000 mph
d. 80,000 mph
What is 67,000 mph?
The solar radiation that bounces off the Earth back toward the atmosphere is mostly what?
a. gamma radiation
b. x-ray radiation
c. nuclear radiation
d. infrared radiation
What is infrared radiation?
Which of these schools does not call the tiger its mascot?
a. Princeton University
b. University of Missouri
c. Clemson University
d. University of Arkansas
What is the University of Arkansas?
The unicorn is the national animal of which country?
A. Scotland
B. Ireland
C. Finland
D. Iceland
What is Scotland?
How many plastic bags are used per minute and what percentage of them are recycled?
a. 100,000 and 5%
b. 400,000 and 2%
c. 1,000,000 and 1%
d. 1,200,000 and 2.5%
What is 1,000,000 and 1%?
What metallic element gives the brilliant red and green color to rubies and emeralds?
a. Chromium
b. Tin
c. Manganese
d. Vibranium
What is Chromium?
What causes the annual up-and-down fluctuation in CO2 in the atmosphere?
a. People use more energy in the winter
b. Plants take up more CO2 during the Northern Hemisphere summer
c. Oil refineries are shut down periodically in the summer
d. During the Southern hemisphere's winter, strong winds circulate CO2 down into the Southern Hemisphere
What is plants take up more CO2 during the Northern Hemisphere summer?
Before transferring to Columbia, President Barack Obama was enrolled at this institution:
a. The University of Hawaii
b. Occidental College
c. UCLA
d. George Washington University
What is Occidental College?
What music genre does Fahmy listen to the least?
a. Rock
b. Kpop
c. EDM
d. Country
What is rock music?