ONE Act a Week: Test your global hunger knowledge

Oct 28th, 2011 11:01 AM UTC
By Malaka Gharib

Action: 18. Time: 20 minutes. Level of difficulty: Difficult. For the results of last week’s action, click here.

For this week’s ONE Act, we’d like for you to take this global hunger quiz. It’s a little harder than the famine quiz we gave you a few weeks ago, and you won’t find the answers as easily on ONE’s website.

These questions were taken from a quiz from our Agriculture Griot program, a six-week online course that trains advocates to become global hunger experts. Although some of these questions may be tricky, we’re confident that you’ll learn a lot about the subject as you take the test.

As an extra incentive, we’ll enter your name into a drawing for this awesome FEED bag (pictured below) if you get all the questions right. We’ll announce the winner on Friday, November 4. Good luck!

Write your answers for the quiz questions in the form below.

HUNGER QUIZ

1. How many people in the world are undernourished?
a. 1,500,000,000
b. 925,000,000
c. 900,000,000
d. 875,000,000

2. Most of the hungry people in the world reside in Africa
a. True
b. False

3. Hunger and malnourishment occur primarily because there is just not enough food to go around
a. True
b. False

4. What percentage of child deaths are caused, directly or indirectly, by maternal and child undernutrition?
a. 35%
b. 25%
c. 20%
d. 18%

5. What percentage of the global burden of disease comes from maternal and child undernutrition?
a. 11%
b. 15%
c. 7%
d. 17%

6. How much does hunger cost developing nations each year?
a. US$ 100 billion
b. US$ 150 billion
c. US$ 425 billion
d. US$ 450 billion

7. Which of the following is NOT a pillar of Ghana’s success in alleviating hunger and poverty?
a. National school feeding program
b. Raising tariffs on all imports to 15%
c. Political stability
d. Farmer extension program

8. Which Ghanaian crop doubled in production from 2002 to 2005?
a. Palm oil
b. Cocoa
c. Soybeans
d. Maize

9. What is the return on a dollar spent improving a child’s nutrition?
a. 39:1
b. 5:1
c. 25:1
d. 100:1

10. Who is the largest donor to the United Nations World Food Programme?
a. The United States Government
b. The Gates Foundation
c. The French Government
d. The United Nations

ONE Act a Week is a weekly anti-poverty action to get you thinking, talking, sharing and learning about our issues. If we all just donated a few moments of our time each week, we can make some serious magic happen.

TAGS: Agriculture, Agriculture Griots, Fight the Famine, ONE, ONE Act a Week