Trivia and Outcomes Quiz

1 February 2007

CI’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Ground Rules

• Split into groups by birthdays• Allocate someone to write answers and

put hand up. • Answer must be written in full• Wrong spelling is okay but must be eligible• No use of blackberrys• No phoning Tom Brooks.• Hari’s decision is final

Spell Hari’s last name backwards

nainamarbusalab

QUESTION 1

CI’s first project in Madagascar was…..

a. The Zahamena project

b. The Manhattan project

c. Serge Rajaobelina

d. Ankarafantsika

e. Lemur cloning

QUESTION 2

Where did a CI biological field station burn down in the 90s?

Guatemala

QUESTION 3

In what year was this Photo taken?

CI Staff Retreat, March 3-5,

1993

at the Northern Virginia 4H Conference Center

QUESTION 4

In 1993, major water leaks caused hundreds of dollars worth of damage to the GIS Lab at the 1015 18th Street building. What caused the water damage?

• Russ’ toilet overflowing

QUESTION 5

Based on the most current information, how many High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas

have been designated?a. 2

b. 5

c. 6 (if you include Russ’ storage room)

d. 34 covering less than 2% of the Earths terrestrial surface

e. B or C

QUESTION 6

Where was the first CI field office established in December 1988?

• Costa Rica

PRIZE QUESTION

Name all five designated High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas?

• Amazonia

• The Congo Forests

• New Guinea

• The Miombo-Mopane Woodlands and Grasslands

• Deserts of North America

QUESTION 7

Based on the most current analysis, there are _____ biodiversity hotspots covering _____ % of the terrestrial surface area of the Earth

a. 13 covering 2.2%

b. 25 covering 2.8%

c. 41 covering 1.9%

d. 34 covering 2.3%

QUESTION 8

Which was the first Corridor Program to be implemented by CI in Brazil?

a. Cerrado/Pantanal

b. Amazonia/Pantanal

c. Atlantic Forest/Amazonia

d. Atlantic Forest/Brazil

e. None of the above

QUESTION 9

In which seascape was the epaulette shark discovered?

Bird’s Head

QUESTION 10

There are three key pillars that serve as the foundation to CI’s approach to conservation, what are they?

Science, partnerships, human welfare

QUESTION 11

The first field project to be conducted by CI in partnership with a major oil company took place in:

a. Louisiana, USA

b. Tambopata region of Peru

c. Lago Agrio, Ecuador

d. Mindanao, Philippines

e. La Amistad, Costa Rica

QUESTION 12

What are the criteria used to identify key biodiversity areas?

• Vulnerability – Site exceeds thresholds for the presence of globally threatened species (according to the IUCN Red List) and /or

• Irreplaceability – Site holds at least a threshold percentage of the global population of a species, at least for part of its life cycle (sub-criteria: 1) restricted –range, 2) globally significant congregations, 3) bioregionally restricted species, source populations, and species with large but clumped distributions

QUESTION 13

True or FalseCI has a dress code policy?

True

QUESTION 14

What was once referred to as the infected eye-ball?

A former CI logo

QUESTION 15

Spell Russ’ last name backwards

REIEMRETTIM

PRIZE QUESTION

What are CI’s targets for achieving species level outcomes?

IUCN globally threatened species

QUESTION 16

According to Peter Seligmann, fundraising is just like:

a. Hockey

b. Fishing

c. Bank robbery

d. A walk in the park

e. breathing

QUESTION 17

Following completion of the Canopy Walkway in Ghana’s Kakum National Park in

1994, the Park’s annual attendance increased from ~7,000 to:

a. ~10,000

b. ~25,000

c. ~45,000

d. ~ 60,000

QUESTION 18

What was kept as a pet in the DC office building at 1015 18th street until it escaped

into the ventilation system?

a. A parrot named Avecita

b. A turtle named Dr. Carr

c. An unnamed blue-tongued skink

d. A ball python named mystery snake

e. A hissing cockroach named Ratsirarson

QUESTION 19

What strict criteria triggers a key biodiversity area to be identified as an Alliance for Zero

Extinction site?

• The site must hold 95% or more of the global population of at least one species listed by IUCN as either Critically Endangered or Endangered.

QUESTION 20

In the early years of CI, which Senior Staff member survived an Eastern Airline crash that split the plane in two while taking off

from San Jose in 1988?

Peter Seligmann

QUESTION 21

Indo-Burma

Which hotspot has the largest land area?

• a)Cerrado• b)Atlantic Forest• c)Madagascar and

the Indian Ocean Islands

• d)Indo-Burma

QUESTION 22

Where was the first ever CI staff gathering held?

Tabard Inn

QUESTION 23

In what Hotspot did Karl Morrison and Jamie Bechtel first fall in love?

Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands

QUESTION 24

What are CI’s three major conservation outcomes?

Extinctions avoided, areas protected, and corridors consolidated

QUESTION 25

What is a Succulent Karoo?

a. An endangered Mexican cactus

b. A Jamaican Cocktail

c. A South African Hotspot

d. An Australian Flightless game bird

e. A dance performed by Marsha Mogowski to obtain funding for the Madagascar Program

QUESTION 26

What noteworthy event was associated with the February 1996 CI Board Meeting and

trip to Peru?

a. Most of the group was afflicted with diarrheab. The group saw a harpy eagle close-up in a

town called Hell (Inferno)c. A train carrying 40 CI staff and board members

derailed in the high Andesd. A+Ce. All of the above

QUESTION 27

What does TEAM stand for?

Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring

PRIZE QUESTION

What is AZE?

Alliance for Zero Extinction

QUESTION 28

Where was the first National Directory of KBAs produced?

• Turkey

• Philippines

• Madagascar

• Mexico

QUESTION 29

Which CI staff member is a private pilot as well as a commercial hot air balloon pilot?

Rod Mast

QUESTION 30

Name 4 CI Board members

Harrison Ford, Gordon Moore, Her Majesty Queen Noor, Meredith Brokaw, Edward

Wilson

PRIZE QUESTION

What is the “two fly”

a. A dance step created by CI-Suriname staff

b. A fishing contest at CI Board meetings

c. A Special type of multi-zippered pants used on CI RAP expeditions

d. An insect discovered by Adrian Forsyth

e. A potent aphrodisiac produced by a Peruvian shaman

QUESTION 31

Name a former CI intern who is now a Senior Director

Manuel Ramírez

Jamie Sweeting

PRIZE QUESTION

QUESTION 32

New Guinea with over 900 languages

Which of the 5 Wilderness Areas has the most indigenous languages?

Name the core outcomes monitoring indicator for species

Red List Index

QUESTION 33

Name the five languages that Fred Boltz speaks

Portuguese, Spanish, French, Malagasy,

English

PRIZE QUESTION

Name the two core outcome monitoring indicators for sites

Change in protection status of key biodiversity areas

Change in habitat extent in key biodiversity areas.

QUESTION 34

THANK YOU

Which country has the most AZE sites?

• Mexico

Which AZE site has the most trigger species?

• Massif de la Hotte, Haiti

What CI Program has produced a National Directory of KBAs?

• Philippines