Chinese New Year
What was the Zodiac animal for this last year?
What is a snake?
President Trump pulled the U.S. out of a climate agreement named for this city
What is Paris?
This podcast host is known for in depth interviews of famous AI researchers and others in the tech industry
Who is Dwarkesh Patel?
In 1968, riots erupted across DC following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., causing damage particularly along this commercial corridor.
What is 14th Street / 14th and U?
This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name
What is Q?
In 1912, this final Chinese dynasty fell just weeks after the Lunar New Year, ending over 2,000 years of imperial rule.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
Before the Montreal Protocol, scientists warned that continued CFC use could create this phenomenon - a severe thinning of stratospheric ozone, particularly over Antarctica
What is a hole in the O Zone?
This Atlantic technology writer covers AI and automation, including pieces on how artificial intelligence might reshape employment. He is also a co-author of a book about reshaping Democratic policy priorities
Who is Derek Thompson?
This 1963 event saw over 250,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial for a speech
What is the March on Washington?
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire attributes the fall of Rome to - controversially - the rise of ____
What is Christianity?
On Chinese New Year 2013, over 3.4 billion of these were sent in China, breaking records as people used technology to send traditional greetings.
What are Red Envelopes on WeChat?
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson about pesticides is credited with launching the modern environmental movement
What is the Silent Spring?
The original editors of The Information came from which leading U.S. newspaper publication?
What is The Wall Street Journal?
This Frenchman designed Washington DC's distinctive layout with wide diagonal avenues radiating from circles and squares.
Who is Pierre Charles L'Enfant?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the construction of this ancient wonder, which was already over 2,500 years old when she was born
What are the Great Pyramids of Giza?
Elders give children money in these red packets, which must never contain this unlucky number of dollars.
What is four?
This 1987 international treaty successfully phased out CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances, becoming one of the most effective environmental agreements ever.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This Wall Street Journal reporter won a Pulitzer in 2019 for investigating Theranos and exposing Elizabeth Holmes' fraudulent blood-testing claims
Who is John Carreyrou?
One of the congressional office buildings is named after this bald, socially nervous former house majority leader know for "hating the railroads"
Who is Sam Rayburn?
Oxford University is older than this Mesoamerican civilization, which didn't begin until around 1428 while Oxford was teaching by 1096.
What is the Aztec Empire?
According to legend, this mythical beast would terrorize villages on New Year's Eve until people discovered it feared the color red, loud noises, and fire
What is Nian?
In 1997, this protocol set binding emission reduction targets for developed countries, though the U.S. never ratified it.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed a historian named ____ who is writing a three part biographical series on Joseph Stalin and has published ___ of the 3.
LBJ's plan for DC included this ambitious urban renewal project nicknamed 'Black Broadway,' though the 1968 riots derailed much of the planned revitalization of the U Street corridor.
What is the Shaw Urban Renewal Project?
Despite having no students, no faculty, and no classes, this Massachusetts institution chartered in 1780 still technically exists as America's oldest 'university' that never actually opened.
What is the University of Northern Berkshire?