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How many Americans participated in the first Earth Day?

5 million

10 million

15 million

20 million

The Earth Day anthem uses which famous musical piece as its melody?

Ode to Joy (Beethoven)

Symphony No. 6 (Mozart)

Minuet in G Major (Petzold)

Toccata in D Minor (Bach)

The Ecology Flag, a symbol for the celebration, is patterned after the U.S. Flag and contains these three colors:

Red, white, blue

Green, white, and blue

Green, white, and yellow

Forest green, lime green, and white

Which book helped launch the modern environmental movement?

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

The End of Nature

A World Without Us

Silent Spring

The first Earth Day consisted of mainly environmental demonstrations, but helped propel these legislative actions:

Which federal program was introduced in 1980 to clean up abandoned toxic and hazardous waste sites?

Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation (EHP)

Superfund program

Waste Enforcement and Materials Management

Environmental Finance Program

April 22 was picked as the date for Earth Day because:

It's the birthday of Saint Francis of Assisi, who many consider to be the world's first environmentalist.

It was the same day as Arbor Day in 1970.

It was during spring break and would maximize the number of college students who could participate.

Who is considered the founder of Earth Day?

President John F. Kennedy

Senator Gaylord Nelson

Environmentalist John Muir

Peace activist John McConnell

This major oil spill in the U.S. spurred Senator Nelson to launch the first Earth Day:

Santa Barbara Oil Spill

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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San Francisco Bay Oil Spill

The annual Earth Day ceremony at the United Nations includes ringing the Peace Bell, a gift from:

France

Cambodia

Japan

Italy

About how many countries participated in Earth Day 1990, the year the event went global for the first time?

100

140

160

This event was the first major international conference on environmental issues:

Copenhagen Conference

Conference on the Human Environment

Earth Summit

Johannesburg Conference

Earth Day 1990 paved the way for the United Nation's Earth Summit, a conference held in this country to discuss sustainability, climate change, and the environment:

Brazil

South Africa

Australia

Denmark

The landmark Paris Agreement - signed on Earth Day 2016 by 195 nations - set a goal to keep warming below:

5°C

3°C

2°C

10°C

Today, approximately how many people worldwide participate in Earth Day each year?

250 million

500 million

750 billion

1 billion

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