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Test Your Earth Day IQ

Posted on: Sunday, 22 April 2007, 19:05 CDT

Today, the 36th anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970, millions of green-minded carbon-based life forms will be participating in activities designed to raise awareness about good old Planet Earth. You can join the fun by taking the pop quiz below. Happy Earth Day to you!

Who is the founder of Earth Day?

- Eartha Kitt

- Johnny Appleseed

- Bunch of stinking hippies

- Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.)

Which of the following is an endangered species?

- Northern spotted owl

- Cuddly pandas

- Two-headed frogs

- Influential politicians taking action on climate change

What is the best solution for global warming?

- Why there's no such thing, silly

- Take a chill pill (brought to you by Dow Chemical)

- Use scientific knowledge to adapt mankind's self-destructive industrial activities

- More books by Democratic presidential losers

What can President Bush do to help?

- Reduce number of joy rides on dad's cigarette boat

- Drill up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

- Observe first annual Scorched Earth Day in Iraq

- Enact "No Penguin Left Behind" policy

What is the Kyoto Protocol?

- Bunch of propaganda pushed by tree-hugging manatee lovers

- Slice of raw octopus served with wasabi on a bed of rice

- Treaty among participating nations to reduce emissions of toxic gases

- Japanese rap group

What is a carbon footprint?

- Forensic evidence on "CSI: Planet Earth"

- Estimated amount of environmental degradation each human wreaks upon the planet

- Euphemism for emitting greenhouse gases in public

- To-die-for black pump by Gucci ($500)

In the future, automobiles will be powered by -----?

- Ethanol

- $8/gallon gasoline

- Teams of horses

- Paul Newman products

What is your favorite way to help the environment?

- Scoff self-righteously at people who drive SUVs and Hummers

- Save water by eliminating unnecessary personal hygiene

- Avoid all products that use "packaging"

- Reuse discarded food scraps to fashion homemade Christmas gifts

What is your favorite environmental cause?

- College Wildlife Defense Fund

- Three-Toed Sloth Coalition

- Rainforest Jihad

- Save the Human

What do you consider to be the environmental story of the year?

- Solar-powered, high-def plasma TVs

- U2's Bono pressuring rock industry to switch from energy- wasting, electric guitars to acoustic

- Bipartisan congressional initiative to produce energy by harnessing political hot air

- NASA's move from disposable to reusable astronaut diapers

Source: Boston Herald

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