{"id":1686,"date":"2010-03-09T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:11:02","slug":"free-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/09\/free-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s more fun than playing a game?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/free-rice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1687\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/free-rice.png\" alt=\"Free Rice\" width=\"548\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing a game that matters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerice.com\/\">http:\/\/www.freerice.com\/<\/a> is a multiple choice website which quizzes your general knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>People spend hours wasting their time on games similar to this one, but the difference here is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When you answer correctly on FreeRice.com a <a title=\"Sponsor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wfp.org\/how-to-help\/companies\/donors\" target=\"_blank\">Sponsor<\/a> pays for a donation of Rice to the UN World Food Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The more you play, the more you get correct, the more rice gets donated.<\/p>\n<p>According to FreeRice&#8217;s FAQ section, FreeRice has:<\/p>\n<div>Fed 27,000 Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh.<\/div>\n<div>Provided take-home rations of four kilograms of rice for two months to 13,500 pregnant and nursing women in Cambodia.<\/div>\n<div>Fed 66,000 school children in Uganda for a week.<\/div>\n<div>Fed over 108,000 Bhutanese refugees for three days in Nepal.<\/div>\n<div>Fed 41,000 children for 8 days in Bhutan.<\/div>\n<div>Fed 750,000 cyclone affected people for 3 days in Myanmar.<\/div>\n<p>The website defaults to English Vocabulary words, but you can click on Subjects at the top of the page to change it to something more to your liking, such as: Famous Paintings, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to burn time on the internet doing something similar, why not do it here? 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