CNN Earth day quiz

Hey Earthling, how much do you know about this planet?

I only got 5/10 correct with the sample question below (I thought was the easiest question).


How old is the Earth?
A. 4.5 billion years
B. 1.2 trillion years
C. 624 million years
D. 8.4 billion years

I got 5/10. I have to say the test is not the best structure. "Who founded Earth Day" is about knowing politics, not the planet. I got it right by eliminating what I knew was wrong and guessing. "Largest organism" I would not call a plant an organism, maybe they are? And to call an animal "extinct due to man made climate change" sorry but that is pushing a political agenda.

Tough quiz
2/10

Quote: AZDuffman

I got 5/10. I have to say the test is not the best structure. "Who founded Earth Day" is about knowing politics, not the planet. I got it right by eliminating what I knew was wrong and guessing. "Largest organism" I would not call a plant an organism, maybe they are? And to call an animal "extinct due to man made climate change" sorry but that is pushing a political agenda.

For organism, I would have picked coral if it had been one of he choices.

5/10, mostly luck

5/10, the ones I got wrong were just
guesses. Nobody could get all 10
right.

Quote: AZDuffman

"Who founded Earth Day" is about knowing politics, not the planet. I got it right by eliminating what I knew was wrong and guessing.

I thought that 2 out of the 4 answers were easily eliminated. But I guessed wrong

I think these three questions are fairly well known.
Where is the largest active volcano on the planet?
How old is the Earth?
How many people live on Earth?

You can figure these questions fairly logically
Which US national park was the most popular in 2018?
Which country hosts most of the world's biological diversity?

The remaining are very specific knowledge or political knowledge
What was the first mammal known to have gone extinct due to "human-induced" climate change?
Who founded Earth Day?
What is the largest organism on Earth?

Earth Day was founded by a murderer who fled to France and is believed to have been aided by a member of a Canadian distillery family.
Plants sense their environment, recruit assistance and warn others of attack.

I stopped taking the quiz because I was irritated by each question.

Q1: having you locate the most active volcano by way of "which country" is stupid, bugging me even though I got it right.
Q2: I am trying very hard to forget who founded Earth Day. I think I will succeed and not be able to tell you tomorrow, yay!
Q3: what in hell does the answer have to do with environmental knowledge? I would want to take the quiz , do well or not, and say "I did well because I am interested in the environment, or "gee, did poorly , I should know these better"

did not go to Q4

my feeling that Earth Day is all wrong-minded crap has been confirmed

Well, it is CNN after all. They don't even know how old the earth is. (actually no one does)

Quote: pew

Well, it is CNN after all. They don't even know how old the earth is. (actually no one does)

Oh brother, where did you go to
school. We know almost exactly
how old it is, give or take a few
million years.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/how-do-we-know-how-old-the-earth-is