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1. What percent of the global population does not have access to either of these?
10%
40%
60%
2. Micronutrient malnutrition could be:
Vitamin A deficiency
Iron deficiency
Iodine deficiency
All of the above
3. The first 1,000 days are the most important for preventing malnutrition; this window of opportunity is when children are in greatest need of adequate nutritious food.
4. True or False: Diarrhea is no longer a major cause of death in the developing world.
True
False
5. Which disease was eradicated in 1977 due to a large global effort led by the World Health Organization?
Smallpox
Polio
Tuberculosis
Malaria
6. True or False: China, India, and Bangladesh are all undergoing a “nutritional transition”: malnutrition has been lowered substantially but increasing rates of obesity are now a serious health concern.
True
False
7. Deficiencies of Vitamin A are the primary cause of preventable childhood blindness.
8. True or False: One-fifth of the world’s hungry and malnourished are under the age of five.
True
False
9. This mosquito can spread:
Malaria
Yellow Fever
Dengue Fever
All of the above
10. In which continent did The Green Revolution take off?
Africa
North America
Europe
Asia
11. True or False: Hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
True
False
12. In which region do the majority of the world’s hungry live?
Asia and the Pacific
13. Globally, the number of undernourished people reaches almost _______ people.
1 million
1 billion
2 million
2 billion
14. More than 90 percent of the world’s stunted children live in ___________.
North and South America
Asia and Africa
Africa and South America
South America and Asia
15. Name this American agronomist and Nobel laureate who is often referred to as the “father of the Green Revolution”.
Norman Borlaug
16. More than half of all guinea worm disease is now found in one country. Which one is it?
Burkina Faso
Niger
Sudan
Ethiopia
17. True or False: According to the United Nations, children in rural areas are nearly twice as likely to be underweight as those in urban areas.
True
False
18. Where was hybrid rice first developed and commercialized?
Bangladesh
United States
Mexico
China
19. This African nation has experienced significant deteriorations in hunger, largely due to ongoing conflict and political instability. With three-quarters of the population undernourished, it also has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world.
Democratic Republic of Congo
20. Because of a large scale dairy development program, _________ transitioned from a major dairy importing nation up until the 1970s to a present day top global producer of milk.
China
Argentina
India
Kenya
21. In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman’s maternal mortality risk is 1 in ____, compared to 1 in 5,600 in developed regions.
3
30
300
3,000
22. These cattle may be suffering from a disease which has recently been eradicated. Other than smallpox, it is the only case of global eradication of an infectious disease.
Rinderpest
23. True or False: Once you contract HIV, you have AIDS and will soon die.
True
False
24. This Ghanaian diplomat was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006 and was the one to initially propose the establishment of the Global AIDS and Health Fund in 2001.
Kofi Annan