Earth Day Quiz With Trivia Questions and Answers

Question: Who is credited with founding Earth Day?

Answer: Gaylord Nelson

Question: The founder of Earth Day is a senator from which state?

Answer: Wisconsin

Question: Who took Earth Day international?

Answer: Denis Hayes

Question: When is Earth Day?

Answer: April 22

Question: Earth Day's date was chosen because it falls between which two events on college campuses?

Answer: Spring break and final exams

Question: When was the first Earth Day?

Answer: 1970

Question: How many people recognized the first Earth Day?

Answer: 20 million

Question: How many indigenous people inhabit forests worldwide?

Answer: About 50 million

Question: Which bestselling book warned of the effects of pesticides?

Answer: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Question: Which Hollywood actors spoke to crowds in Union Square in New York City on the first Earth
Day?

Answer: Paul Newman and Ali MacGraw

Question: What region on Earth produces 20% of the planet's oxygen?

Answer: The Amazon rainforest

Question: How many people attended the first Earth Day rally in New York City's Union Square?

Answer: 20,000

Question: Earth Day detractors argued that the first celebration was really to honor whose 100th
birthday?

Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Question: How many countries (so far) have celebrated Earth Day?

Answer: 192

Question: Earth Day's founding was partially inspired by protestors against what?

Answer: The Vietnam War

Question: The first Earth Day eventually led to the creation of which government agency?

Answer: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Question: Which president created the EPA?

Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: Which U.S. president joined Gaylord Nelson for a multi-state conservation-themed tour?

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Question: In addition to establishing the EPA, President Nixon also passed which pieces of legislation in
1970 inspired by the Earth Day movement?

Answer: National Environmental Education Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean
Air Act

Question: When did the Clean Water Act pass?

Answer: 1972

Question: The United Nations has what name for Earth Day?

Answer: International Mother Earth Day

Question: Approximately how many people participate in Earth Day each year?

Answer: 1 billion

Question: Most of Earth's breathable air comes from where?

Answer: The ocean

Question: Which astronauts brought tree seeds with him into space that were later grown on Earth?

Answer: Stuart Roosa

Question: A single tree produces enough air to supply in its lifetime for how many people for a year?

Answer: Four

Question: Which president honored Gaylord Nelson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: In 2012, how many commuters in China rode bikes to protest carbon emissions and air
pollution?

Answer: 100,000

Question: In 1970, students at San Fernando State College passed out what to represent the future
famine the planet would face if environmental protections weren't enacted?

Answer: Rice and tea

Question: In 1970, students at Florida Technological University held a mock trial for what, accusing it of
air pollution?

Answer: A Chevrolet

Question: Gaylord Nelson was moved to create Earth Day after which disaster?

Answer: Santa Barbara oil spill

Question: Who wrote the Earth Day theme song?

Answer: Abhay Kumar

Question: How many college campuses participated in the first Earth Day?

Answer: About 1,500

Question: What singer sailed from New York City to Washington, D.C. for the first Earth Day?

Answer: Pete Seeger

Question: Who took a zero-carbon voyage from Europe to the United States to raise awareness of
climate change?

Answer: Greta Thunberg

Question: In Panama, 100 endangered species of what were planted for Earth Day?

Answer: Orchids

Question: In 2011, 28 million trees were planted in which country for the Earth Day "Plant Trees, Not
Bombs" campaign?

Answer: Afghanistan

Question: When did Earth Day go global?

Answer: 1990

Question: What holiday followed Earth Day in 1972?

Answer: World Environment Day

Question: Which President signed the Paris Agreement?

Answer: Barack Obama

Question: What 1968 book warned of the dangers of overpopulation on the planet?

Answer: The Population Bomb by Paul Erlich

Question: What American river caught fire in 1969 from all of the waste and pollution filling it?

Answer: Cuyahoga River

Question: What organization largely funded the first Earth Day?

Answer: United Auto Workers (also known as The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace,
and Agricultural Implement Workers of America)

Question: Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes originally planned for the first Earth Day to be what type of
event?

Answer: An environmental teach-in

Question: What was referred to as "The Dirty Dozen" in 1970?

Answer: Congressmen with poor environmental records

Question: What famous poet attended the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia?

Answer: Allen Ginsburg

Question: Who wrote the Earth Day single "Tomorrow's World?"

Answer: Pam Tillis and Kix Brooks

Question: When did Google introduce their first Earth Day doodle?

Answer: 2001

Question: Equinox Earth Day takes place when each year?

Answer: March 20

Question: April 22 is the birthdate of which famous conservationist?

Answer: John Muir

Question: What is the theme of Earth Day 2023?

Answer: Invest In Our Planet