1. What area of land and sea is covered by natural World Heritage sites?
a) 70,000 hectares
b) 10,000 hectares
c) 177 million hectares
d) 1 billion hectares
The correct answer is c) 177 million hectares
2. Which famous marine World Heritage site is home to 400 species of coral and 1,500 species of fish?
a) Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
b) Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
c) Great Barrier Reef, Australia
d) Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
The correct answer is c) Great Barrier Reef, Australia
3. Which Asian national park, home to a rare rhinoceros, was saved from a river diversion project following pressure from the World Heritage community?
a) Malaysia’s Kinabalu Park
b) Nepal’s Royal Chitwan National Park
c) India’s Sundarbans National Park
d) Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve
The correct answer is b) Nepal’s Royal Chitwan National Park
4. Which World Heritage-listed 25 million year-old lake is known as the oldest freshwater lake in the world?
a) Lake Como, Italy
b) Lake Geneva/Lac Léman, Switzerland/France
c) Lake Baikal, Russian Federation
d) Lake Titicaca, Peru/Bolivia
The correct answer is c) Lake Baikal, Russian Federation
5. In which country did pressure from the World Heritage community stop the expansion of a salt factory that threatened a whale sanctuary?
a) India
b) Argentina
c) Mexico
d) Spain
The correct answer is c) Mexico
6. Which African site, with the world’s largest concentration of wild animals, was removed from the World Heritage Danger List in 1989 due to management improvements?
a) Mount Kenya National Park
b) Serengeti National Park
c) Ngorongoro Conservation Area
d) Lake Malawi National Park
The correct answer is c) Ngorongoro Conservation Area
7. How many countries have an area designated as a World Heritage site?
a) 120
b) 81
c) 153
d) 10
The correct answer is b) 81
8. Of the 911 currently listed World Heritage sites, how many are ‘natural’ as opposed to cultural or ‘mixed’ sites?
a) 675
b) 180
c) 25
d) 830
The correct answer is b) 180
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