Round 1: General Knowledge

Question 1
Name the song and artist which stayed at number
one in the UK singles chart for 15 consecutive weeks
earlier this year.

Question 2
"And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home
again!"... is the last line from which novel, by which
author?

Question 3
Name the eight US states that begin with the letter M

Question 4
Who did Andy Murray beat in the final to win this
year's Wimbledon Men's Singles title?

Question 5
Which company's headquarters is located at "1 Infinite
Loop"?

Question 6
Which prime minister did Queen Victoria make the
complaint: He speaks to me as if I were a public
meeting?

Question 7
What were the first and last regions to declare their
result for the EU referendum on 23 June?

Question 8
What is the name of the sleazy lawyer in the TV
series Breaking Bad?

Question 9
Which English brewery is best known for its
Broadside beer?

Question 10
Located 25 miles from Charing Cross, which London
Underground station is the furthest from central
London?

Round 1 Answers

Round 1 Answers: 1 - 10
1. One Dance, by Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L Frank Baum
3. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Michigan
4. Milos Raonic
5. Apple
6. William Ewart Gladstone
7. Gibraltar and Cornwall
8. Trades as Saul Goodman (real name James
Morgan Jimmy McGill
9. Adnams in Suffolk
10. Chesham on the Metropolitan Line

Round 2: Policy

Question 1
Name the only two non-island state nations which
were among the group to first ratify the Paris
Agreement on 22 April 2016

Question 2
According to the UNFCCC, which regions will host
the COPs in 2017 and 2018, respectively?

Question 3
Name the three coal-fired power plants that have
closed in the UK this year?

Question 4
Name the seven ministers of state who served at
DECC from 2008 to 2016

Question 5
What were the six official languages that the UN used
to publish the Paris Agreement?

Question 6
According to Hansard, which five MPs said the term
"climate change" in the Commons the most often
between March 2010 and Sept 2016?

Question 7
For an extra point, which of these MPs said the term
the most?

Question 8
Who said this in 2008?
"Britain is the first country in the world to formally
bind itself to cut greenhouse emissions and I strongly
believe this will improve our national and economic
security."

Question 9
2015 saw the UK's CO2 emissions fall to their lowest
level since which decade? For an extra point, which
decade saw the UK's emissions at their highest level?

Question 10
In how many of the nine full months in 2016 so far
has solar supplied more electricity to the UK than
coal?

Round 2 Answers

Round 2 Answers: 1 - 10
1.
2.
3.
4.

Somalia and the State of Palestine

Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe
Longannet, Rugeley, Ferrybridge C
Mike OBrien, Joan Ruddock, Charles Hendry,
John Hayes, Michael Fallon, Matthew Hancock,
Andrea Leadsom (and we forgot Greg Barker!)
5. Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French,
Russian and Spanish
6. Ed Davey (145), Barry Gardiner (129), Caroline
Lucas (112), Amber Rudd and Caroline Flint (90)
7. Ed Davey
8. Theresa May
9. 1920s; 1970s
10. 3: May, July, August

Round 3: Science

Question 1
In which year has the IPCC said it will publish the
synthesis of its sixth assessment report?

Question 2
What, to date, have been the five storms officially
named by the Met Office in 2016?

Question 3
Name five layers of the Earth's atmosphere.

Question 4
Name the first 10 elements in the periodic table,
according to their atomic number

Question 5
What is the name of Antarctica's largest ice shelf?

Question 6
Which US Republican Senator submitted a snowball
to the congressional record as "evidence" against
global warming? An extra point if you can name the
state he represents

Question 7
The headquarters of which scientific organisation
used to be based at the postcode - RG12 2SY?

Question 8
In which city is the US National Snow and Ice Data
Center based?

Question 9
List the planets of the solar system in order of their
mass, with the largest first. For an extra point, name
the largest moon in the solar system

Question 10
Fill in the missing year from this sentence taken from
the IPCC's first assessment report published in 1990:
"[BAU emissions] will result in a likely increase in
global mean temperature of about
1C above the present value by XXXX".

Round 3 Answers

Round 3 Answers: 1 - 10
1. 2022
2. Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake and Katie
3. Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere,
Stratosphere, Ionosphere and Troposphere
4. Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Carbon,
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon, Boron
5. Ross ice shelf
6. James Inhofe, Oklahoma
7. Met Office
8. Boulder, Colorado
9. 1) Jupiter, 2) Saturn, 3) Neptune, 4) Uranus, 5)
Earth, 6) Venus, 7) Mars, 8) Mercury. Plus
Jupiters Ganymede
10. 2025

Round 4: Special Guest questions

Question 1 Barry Gardiner

"After he resigned as executive secretary of the
UNFCCC, what was the first job Yvo de Boer had
where the words 'climate change' did not form part of
his title? And for a bonus point, in what year did he
start this job?

Question 2 Roger Harrabin

"Which minister supplied the brains to John
Prescotts brawn during the Kyoto negotiations?"

Question 3 Prof Jim Skea

"If the world is on an emissions path that is about as
likely as not to keep global temperature rise below
2C, what is the probability range of this happening,
according to IPCC uncertainty guidance?"

Question 4 Nick Hurd

"In May this year, coal generation on the UK grid fell
to zero for several periods of a few hours. Before this
month, for how long had coals supply of power to the
grid continued unbroken?" To clarify, we need the
decade coal power began in the UK.

Question 5 The Office of Jonathan Pershing,

US Special Envoy for Climate Change
"How many US states have wind turbines ( 2 states)?
And how many wind turbines are there across the
country ( 10,000)?"

Round 4 Answers

Round 4 Answers: 1 - 5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Director General of Global Green Institute, 2014

Michael Meacher
33 66%
1880s (1882)
40 US states, roughly 48,000 wind turbines

Round 5: Match the country to the climate

Round 5 Answers

1. Botswana
2. Barbados
3. Syria
4. Tonga
5. Portugal
6. North Korea
7. Uruguay
8. Iceland
9. The Gambia
10. Afghanistan

Round 6: Match the country to the emissions pathway

Round 6 Answers

1. USA
2. Brazil
3. Denmark
4. Germany
5. France
6. South Africa
7. Australia
8. Japan
9. Ukraine
10.UK

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