Transcript Poverty Quiz - Caritas Australia

Food Quiz
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Question 1
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There is enough food grown to feed the
world’s population.
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There is enough food grown in the world today for everyone to
have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive
life.
Question 2
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How many people suffer from malnutrition?
A) 380 million
B) 680 million
C)1billion
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c) 1 billion
An Estimated 1 billion people in the world today suffer from hunger or malnutrition.
1.8 billion are overweight.
Question 3
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How many lives does poverty and
hunger claim every day?
A)10,000
B) 25,000
C) 50,000
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b) 25,000
About 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day of hunger or hungerrelated causes. This is one person every three and a half seconds; it is children who
die most often.
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Question 4
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How much food is wasted in Australia
each year?
A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 40%
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b) 25%
Australians are throwing away more than 3 million tonnes of food a year, mostly
because of over-shopping and waste at the table. This is more than one quarter of
edible food produced in Australia every year.
Question 5
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How many people in the world relied on
food aid from the World Food Program in
2008?
A) 22 million
B) 52 million
C) 102 million
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c) 102 million
In 2008, 102 million people benefited from the
World Food Program in 78 countries totalling 3.9
million tonnes of food.
Question 6
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What is the biggest single cause of
hunger ?
A) Natural
disasters
B) Poverty
C) Not enough
food produced
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b) Poverty
While there is enough food produced in the world to feed everyone,
people who are living in poverty don’t have enough money to buy or
produce food for themselves.
Question 7
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Which food listed below requires the
most amount of water to produce it?
A) 1kg beef
B) 1kg rice
C) 1kg soy beans
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a) Beef
It requires 16,000 litres of water to produce 1kg of beef, compared to 3,000L for 1kg
rice and 1,800L for 1kg of soybeans. www.waterfootprint.org
Question 8
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How long can you live without food?
A) 1-2 weeks
B) 4-6 weeks
C) 7-8 weeks
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b) 4-6 weeks
Most doctors and nutritionists state that the average person can live
about 4 to 6 weeks without food, but a week is a miracle without
water.
Question 9
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How many kilojoules (kJ) does the average
adult need to consume each day?
A) 4,700kJ
B) 6,700kJ
C) 8,700kJ
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c) 8,700kJ
An average adult needs to consume 8,700kJ or 2,100 calories per day.
These kJ or calories need to be obtained from a variety of sources in
order to consume the various nutrients the body needs.
Question 10
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For the world’s poor, what percentage of their income
is spent on food?
A) 30-40%
B) 50-70%
C) 80-90%
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b) 50-70%
2.6 billion people live on $2 a day or less. They spend approximately
50-70% of their income on food. Thus a person living on $2 a day
spends at least $1 a day on food. When food prices go up people are
forced to buy less food, or cheaper food that often doesn’t provide
the required nutrients.
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