10 YEARS OF GM WATCH - QUIZ TIME!
As a fun way to celebrate 10 years of GM Watch, we're planning a series of quizzes and here's the first one!
Some questions may require a bit of googling, but don't worry, we're not looking for perfection, just your best shot. Send your answers to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
PRIZES
The 2 people with the highest score on each of the GM Watch quizes will get a DVD of Marie Robin's brilliant new movie The World According to Monsanto, which plays in English, French or German.
If you come in the top two in more than one of the quizes, you'll only get one copy of the DVD - the prize will go to the next highest scoring individual - BUT the person with the highest overall score on all the quizes will receive a copy of the book Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, in addition to the DVD.
CONDITIONS
No squabbling over the answers. Our verdict's final!
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QUIZ 1: So who's designing your food?
1.Which biotech corporation was involved in research on uranium for the Manhattan Project and operated a nuclear facility for the US government until the late 1980s?
2.Name two biotech corporations that were once part of the German chemical firm at the financial core of the Nazi regime and which supplied Zyklon-B during the extermination phase of the Holocaust?
3.Which biotech firm other than Monsanto was a major supplier of Agent Orange, as well as manufacturing napalm?
4.In relation to which Alabama town, where the undertaker who lived across the street from the Monsanto plant said he always thought he was burying too many children, was the company found guilty of conduct "so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society"?
5.What happened on October 21 2007 to Valmir Mota de Oliveira, also known as Keno, during a protest at an experimental GMO farm owned by Syngenta?
6.In 2005 the Bollywood star, Nana Patekar toured India's main cotton growing area of Maharashtra promoting Monsanto's Bt cotton to poor farmers. What made him announce the following year that he would no longer support Monsanto or promote its Bollgard Bt cotton?
7.Monsanto says, "Integrity is the foundation for all that we do". How many current and former Indonesian government officials and their family members are known to have received illicit payments on the company's behalf?
8.Who was in overall charge of business operations in Indonesia when the bribes scandal got underway?
9.Which country has a bilateral agreement with the US for the development of its agriculture, including the promotion of GMOs, overseen by a board that includes Monsanto, ADM and Wal-Mart?
10.Which Health Canada scientist told a Canadian Senate committee of being in a meeting where officials from Monsanto made an offer of between $1-2 million to the scientists from Health Canada -- an offer that she told the senators could only have been interpreted as a bribe. Additionally, she also recounted how notes and files critical of scientific data provided by Monsanto were stolen from a locked filing cabinet in her office.
Send your answers to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by June 22 at the latest.
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