Q 01/05

Which animal on the World Wide Fund for Nature logo was inspired by Chi Chi, a London Zoo favourite?

A) Snow leopard

B) Giant panda

C) Mountain gorilla

D) Bengal tiger

Answer · why

B) Giant panda

A giant panda named Chi Chi had moved from Beijing Zoo to London Zoo in 1958, three years before WWF was set up. Naturalist Peter Scott designed the f...

Q 02/05

Which singer played both Live Aid concerts in 1985 by flying Concorde across the Atlantic?

A) Phil Collins

B) Mick Jagger

C) David Bowie

D) Freddie Mercury

Answer · why

A) Phil Collins

Phil Collins sang at Wembley, took a helicopter to Heathrow and a Concorde to New York, then a second helicopter to Philadelphia. He met Cher on the f...

Q 03/05

Which former US president led Habitat for Humanity's volunteer building weeks for over 30 years?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Bill Clinton

C) Jimmy Carter

D) George H. W. Bush

Answer · why

C) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn picked up hammers themselves, working beside more than 100,000 volunteers on homes in 14 countries.

Q 04/05

Which film star co-founded a salad dressing firm in 1982 that gives all its profits to charity?

A) Robert Redford

B) Clint Eastwood

C) Gene Hackman

D) Paul Newman

Answer · why

D) Paul Newman

Paul Newman and writer A. E. Hotchner first mixed the dressing at home and gave it to friends as gifts. Newman left the whole food company to its char...

Q 05/05

Which country singer's Imagination Library has mailed free books to young children since 1995?

A) Reba McEntire

B) Dolly Parton

C) Loretta Lynn

D) Shania Twain

Answer · why

B) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton began the scheme in her home county in Tennessee as a tribute to her father, who never learned to read. Each child gets a book a month un...