Significant Dates
November 11th: Though this is Veterans Day in the US, it also the date for this unofficial holiday in China celebrating those who are not in a relationship?
What is Singles Day?
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Once known as Raritan Township, this beautiful city contains parts of Oak Tree Road, a thriving South Asian shopping district, and is the best city in New Jersey
What is Edison?
This famous technology company is founded in Menlo Park, California in September of '98
What is Google?
In the brain, this is the largest part of it which manages all of one's conscious thoughts, actions and input from senses
What is the cerebrum?
Wuhan is also known as this windy city of China
What is Chicago?
Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico's victory over French troops in a battle that was won in this city
What is Puebla?
The Kingda Ka was a famous rollercoaster residing in Six Flags Great Adventure located in this New Jersey township
What is Jackson?
On January 17th, the President of the United States was exposed for having an affair with this woman
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
This cell division process creates 4 daughter cells called gametes and is responsible for creating egg and sperm cells
What is meiosis?
Wuhan was briefly the capital of China, once in 1927 under the KMT government and later again as a provisional capital during this globe-spanning war
What is World War II?
This national holiday in the Philippines is celebrated on July 4th and was once also called Independence Day
What is Republic Day?
This city in New Jersey is home to Little Palestine and is a sister city to Ramallah, Palestine
What is Paterson?
Three days before I was born, this classic video game was released on the N64 for the first time, detailing a young boy's journey from a forest to saving an entire kingdom 7 years later
What is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?
This type of white blood cell is a part of the innate immune system that fights by engulfing and destroying pathogens
What are macrophages?
In 1911, the Wuchang Uprising began in one of Wuhan's three districts which resulted in the end of this final dynasty of China, ending over 2,000 years of dynastic rule
What is the Qing Dynasty?
On June 19th this tiny nation at the head of the Persian Gulf and renowned for its massive oil reserves declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1961
What is Kuwait?
In 1784, this New Jersey city served as the capital of the newly-minted United States and was put under brief consideration to be the permanent capital alongside other cities like new York and Philadelphia
What is Trenton?
On April 10, this pivotal peace agreement was integral to ending The Troubles, a then ongoing conflict between the UK and Ireland
What is the Good Friday Agreement? Would also accept Belfast Agreement
The knee joint connects your thigh bone, the femur, to the shin bone, called this
What is the tibia?
First built during the Three Kingdoms Period, this famous Wuhan landmark stands over the Yangtze River and is located on Snake Hill
What is the Yellow Crane Tower?
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On 9/11, this democratically-elected South American leader perished at La Morena Palace due to a coup instigated by Pinochet
Who is Salvador Allende?
Ahead of all other states, New Jersey gave women and Black people the conditional right to vote from 1776-1807 if they owned this number of dollars in property?
What is $50?
In November, Valve Corporation releases its first first-person shooter video game, called this
What is Half-Life?
What is the enteric nervous system?
The signature dish of Wuhan which is called this name is a popular breakfast dish consisting of noodles with broth and usually contain soy sauce, sesame paste, and pickled vegetables (yes, you can use the English name)
What are hot-dry noodles? (reganmian)