Welcome to this month's eco-queez! If you think you know your environment, try these questions. All correct entries would get a surprise gift along with a mention of their name here next month. So what are you waiting for? Get into the quizzing zone!

The winner of the July Eco-Queez is:
David Powner,
E-mail: dgp@filter.co.uk
Address: 1 Blackthorn Place, Newcastle, ST5 7BE, UK

July 2002 The answers of the quiz are mentioned below
1.	The Great Indian Hornbill is facing extinction in this state, which is also the home to the largest varieties of this endangered species in India. Name the state. Ans. Arunachal Pradesh
2.	At Hampton Court, Henry VIII's courtiers frequented the Great House of Easement. What was this place? Ans. This was a large communal lavatory. There were two rows set back to back on each of two floors, with views over the east and west fronts of the palace. Each seat was a single plank of oak with holes at regular two-foot intervals; so at breaks in court proceedings the loos must have been quite cosy.
3.	Bt cotton. What is this Bt in Bt cotton? Ans. Bacillus thuringiensis
4.	Smoky Mountain. A romantic name. Makes you dream of rose-tinted dusks with smoke spiraling out of your cottage in the woods. What is it and where is it? Ans. Asia's largest slum next to one of the highest garbage dumps. It's in Manila, Philippines.
5.	The disease is caused by one of the four closely related virus stereotypes of the genus flavivirus. The virus proliferates through a cycle that involves humans and Aedes aegypti, a day-biting, clean-water-breeding mosquito. What is the disease? Ans. Dengue
6.	Which Roman philosopher wrote, "We are the absolute masters of what the earth produces"? Ans. Cicero
7.	What is Russet Burbank and how is it connected to the fast-food restaurant chain, McDonald's? Ans. Russet Burbank is a variety of potato. In 1982, nearly 40 per cent of all potatoes planted in the US were Russet Burbanks. In Idaho and Oregon, it accounts for 95 and 72 per cent respectively. McDonald's buy the Russet Burbank wherever it grows.
8.	Who is or was Ken Saro-Wiwa? Ans. An Ogoni (a tribe that lives in the oil-rich delta region of Nigeria) writer and activist who stood up against oil companies, like Shell, in Nigeria.
9.	Ashwin C Shroff is the managing director of a company which produces the maximum quantity of Endosulfan in India. Name the company. Ans. Excel Industries
10.	Name this Professor of Zoology at Harvard University who died of lung cancer on May 20, 2002. Ans. Stephen Jay Gould

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