Q 01/05

In which New Zealand city did French secret agents bomb and sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in 1985?

A) Wellington

B) Christchurch

C) Auckland

D) Dunedin

Answer · why

C) Auckland

Auckland became the scene of a scandal that cost the French defence minister his job. The ship had been about to lead a protest fleet toward a nuclear...

Q 02/05

Which toy maker did a 2014 Greenpeace video target over its decades-old partnership with an Arctic oil driller?

A) Mattel

B) Lego

C) Hasbro

D) Playmobil

Answer · why

B) Lego

Lego had put the oil firm's logo on toy sets since the 1960s. Greenpeace's parody film about the deal passed nine million views on YouTube.

Q 03/05

In which Canadian city did a small anti-nuclear committee turn itself into Greenpeace in the early 1970s?

A) Toronto

B) Montreal

C) Quebec City

D) Vancouver

Answer · why

D) Vancouver

Vancouver locals joke that in any bar you can sit beside someone who claims to have founded Greenpeace. The organisation itself says there was no sing...

Q 04/05

Greenpeace's Greenfreeze technology of the 1990s removed ozone-harming gases from which common household appliance?

A) Refrigerators

B) Air conditioners

C) Tumble dryers

D) Microwave ovens

Answer · why

A) Refrigerators

Refrigerators built the Greenfreeze way cool with hydrocarbons instead of CFCs. Greenpeace kept the design open for anyone to copy, and by 2011 more t...

Q 05/05

Which oil company gave up dumping its Brent Spar platform in the Atlantic after Greenpeace occupied it in 1995?

A) Exxon

B) Texaco

C) Shell

D) Total

Answer · why

C) Shell

Shell gave way after a boycott of its petrol stations spread across northern Europe. The giant storage buoy was later cut up and reused to build a qua...