What are the answers to CUB Energy Saver's quiz?
Sept. 26, 2011—Last week, we asked you to use CUB Energy Saver to answer five questions about how to cut your fall utility bills, and more than 1,000 of you responded. Thanks!

And Martha, a Chicago woman, won the $100 drawing. CUB is still trying to contact her so she can claim the prize.

The questions and correct answers are below, in bold. CUB Energy Saver has been showing people how to cut their utility bills by about $100 a year, so use it this winter to take the bite out of natural gas bills.


1) Which of the following actions recommended by CUBEnergySaver.com is likely to cut your heating bills the most?
- Hand-cleaning your oven
- Reducing your home temperature from 70 degrees to 62 degrees for eight hours at night during the winter months (86.2 percent of respondents got this correct)
- Lowering the thermostat from 70 to 55 degrees while on a two-week vacation


2) Closing the blinds on winter nights will...
- Save you money (87.5 percent of respondents got this correct)
- Cost you money
- Not save or cost you money


3) How much can you expect to save by replacing six 100-bulb strings of incandescent holiday lights with LEDs (assuming lights are on 8 hours per day, 40 days per year)?
- $0
- $8
- $16 (71.8 percent of respondents got this correct)


4) You can save money by putting a special blanket on your water heater. When you're shopping for a blanket it's good to know its resistance to heat flow, or its:
- Therms
- R-value (65.5 percent of respondents got this correct)
- EER Rating


5) Air infiltration (air leakage) accounts for roughly HOW MUCH of a home's energy usage?
- 5 percent
- 25 percent
- 35 percent (30.5 percent of respondents got this correct)