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1. A well known trivia/charity hybrid website specializes in vocabulary quizzes. For each question you answer correctly, what will be donated by the advertising sponsors?
2. Another specific group donates livestock to families in need. Your donation purchases a cow, a sheep or perhaps a water buffalo. This charity is called _______ International, Inc.
3. The OLPC project, founded by Nicholas Negroponte, aims to develop and provide what item to every child in the world?
4. The National Kidney Foundation in the United States has been earning money by collecting what large item since the late 1980s?
5. The Onesight program provides what service in clinics scattered all over the world?
6. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for reviving and popularizing the concept of microloans. These very small loans to assist business owners who might otherwise not qualify for credit have become very popular as an online charitable activity. Which was the first international website offering online microloans?
7. The group Charity:water started a unique campaign in 2007 to raise money for digging wells in Africa. People born in a certain month of the year ask that their friends donate money to the project instead of giving them presents. If you know the right month, you can name the mystery charity: Born in __________.
8. A shoe company has launched a campaign that recycles old pairs of their brand of shoes into new pairs for people in developing nations. Formerly called "Soles United," the project was rebranded in 2009 to include the company name: "_______ Cares." Name the company.
9. A New York based charity project brings scads of people from all ages together to knit scarves, hats and other yarnwork gifts for members of which military branch?
10. In 2000, an oil spill off the coast of Australia imperiled the Little Blue ("Fairy") Penguins. Initially the Tasmanian Conservation Trust asked for just a handful of one particular item to assist in the penguin rescue. The internet came through and sent thousands.
What item did people contribute to save the Fairy Penguins?
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