Climate Quiz

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Every week, Berty Ashley riddle's your climate smarts with our drawdown quiz, where questions range from "I totally know this" to "wait, that's a thing?!" So grab your end of day chai/coffee and hit Start.

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Question 1
Don’t Look Up is a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep. The movie's central ‘catastrophic event’ is an allegory for threats arising from climate change. What event are the protagonists trying to warn everyone about, that they believe will destroy human civilisation (just like climate change)?
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Super Volcano eruption
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B
Giant Tsunami
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C
Comet impact
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D
Mega Earthquake
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Question 2
By what acronym is The Health and Environment Alliance, that connects environmental issues such as air pollution, toxic chemicals, and climate change to public health known as?
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THAEA
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B
THE
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C
HEAL
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D
HEA
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Question 3
Bong Joon-ho’s film Okja follows a girl trying to save a genetically modified “super pig” from a corporation. What is the name given to genetically modifying livestock to produce valuable human medicines in their milk, blood, or eggs?
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Factory Farming
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B
Pharming
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C
Biogenics
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D
Medicloning
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Question 4
The Sunrise Movement is a youth-led U.S. climate movement strongly associated with campaigning for which political and economic climate programme?
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Green New Deal
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B
Marshall Plan
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C
Space Race
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D
Kyoto Protocol only
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Question 5
In the 2013 post-apocalyptic action thriller film Snowpiercer a failed attempt to stop global warming causes the Earth to freeze causing a Snowball Earth. What climate intervention idea does this refer to?
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Sequestration
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B
Earth Strike
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C
Energy Transition
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D
Geoengineering
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Boss level
Question 6
Sea ice reflects a lot of sunlight back into space. When it melts, darker ocean water absorbs more heat, causing further warming. What is this feedback linked to?
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Photosynthesis
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B
Albedo effect
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C
Biomagnification
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D
Nitrogen fixation
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Question 7
The IPCC uses scenarios and pathways to explore possible climate futures. Which term refers to pathways showing how society might develop in terms of population, inequality, energy use, and economics?
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SSPs
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B
GDPs
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C
CFCs
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D
PM2.5s
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Question 8
Mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes are important because they store large amounts of carbon in coastal ecosystems. What is this carbon commonly called?
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Grey carbon
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B
Red carbon
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C
Blue carbon
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D
White carbon
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Question 9
A country’s NDC under the Paris Agreement is its official climate action plan, including emissions reduction and adaptation goals. What does NDC stand for?
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Net Deforestation Count
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B
Natural Disaster Code
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C
Nationally Determined Contribution
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D
New Development Charter
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Question 10
Climate scientists often use “radiative forcing” to compare factors that warm or cool Earth. What does positive radiative forcing mean?
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More energy is entering or being retained in Earth’s climate system
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B
More oxygen is being produced by forests
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C
More rainfall is being absorbed by soil
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D
More heat is escaping to space, causing cooling
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Berty Ashley

Berty Ashley stands at the intersection of molecular genetics, music, education, and popular culture. As a Senior Scientist at the Dystrophy Annihilation Research Trust (DART), Bangalore.

Berty designs experiential learning programs that fuse neuroscience, design, and storytelling to spark curiosity in young minds.

He is also the author of multiple quiz books published by Rupa Publications, each designed to turn facts into narratives and learning into play. His lifelong mission is to make knowledge accessible, engaging, and unforgettable—a pursuit he calls “edutainment with empathy.”