Environment Quiz Results
Wycombe Liberal Democrats ran an EcoQuiz recently, using a quiz I had compiled two years before.
It was great fun to find out even Liberal Democrat worthies took up my mad alternatives as answers! Tartrazine (one of those e numbers causing hyperactivity in children) being a coating for double glazing, and GAP (global action plan) being the Great Alaskan Project or Geothermal Auditing Programme.
A bit concerning that the Queen Bee is thought to lay 15,000 eggs each day. It is 1,500 which is three times her body weight, which is why it is difficult to find her – not only is she surrounded by the workers trying to feed her and the drones trying the do what drones do, but also her abdomen may well be stuffed down a breeding cell to lay an egg, and it is by the abdomen that you recognise a queen bee! I’m knowledgeable about bees because we have an observation beehive in The Environment Centre in High Wycombe, and I’m telling people about bees daily. Why not arrange a visit from your constituency association! (see www.ecobuzz.org.uk ) It was great to have Amersham Lib Dems visit The Centre recently!
More worrying is that so few quiz participants knew that most disposable nappies take some 200 years to biodegrade, and that 3 billion are sent to landfill each year. At www.naturalcollection.com more eco-friendly ones can be found.
And for your interest – California has at least 14,000 wind turbines, and they manufacture some 30% of wind powered electricity produced in the world. That started way before Arnie Schwarzenegger was elected.
Congratulations to Neil Timberlake, quiz addict from Wycombe, who won 1st prize, and to Alan Oxley from Beaconsfield who won 2nd prize. They both received their prizes from Lembit Opik at our Annual Dinner. Third prize goes to Prue Bray from Winnersh. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who took part!
Anyone wanting the quiz to use for their own constituency fundraising, please send £10 made out to The Environment Centre and 50% will be deducted from forthcoming hirings of the Centre to Wycombe Lib Dems, and I’ll send a copy of both questions and answers.
Frances Alexander – fundraising for both Wycombe Liberal Democrats and The Environment Centre. frances@ecobuzz.org.uk
