2023
What was the highest grossing film of 2023
Barbie
Brothers Walter and Roy founded what animation company?
The Walt Disney Studio
The BDI is a "depression inventory" named for an American psychiatrist with what surname and presumably no relation to the singer of '90s indie hit "Loser"?
Beck
What famous Missouri author was from Hannibal, MO, also the setting of many of his most famous novels?
Mark Twain
While humans appear very different from one another, we share approximately how much DNA?
99.9%
What film won the academy aware for best film in 2023?
Everything Everywhere All at Once
What 45-foot tall icon was established on Mount Lee, in California?
The Hollywood Sign (originally The Hollywoodland Sign)
The four major lobes of the human brain are the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe, and what?
Temporal lobe
What is the state bird of Missouri?
Bluebird
In 1953, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins discovered that DNA takes what shape?
A corkscrew double helix
How much money did Taylor Swift's Eras tour contribute to the US economy?
Around 5 Billion Dollars
What movie studio was formed by four brothers, Albert, Samuel, Jack, and Harry?
Warner Brothers
What 20th century German developmental psychologist with an “E” name coined the term “identity crisis”? His last name is a derivation of his first name, as he rejected the last name given to him by his stepfather, as part of his personal crisis.
Erik Erikson
At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, MO, what edible ice cream delivery system was introduced?
The Waffle Ice Cream Cone
The Human Genome was first sequenced in what year after a 13 year effort costing an estimated 3 Billion dollars?
2003
This artist's sophomore album Guts was the best selling album of 2023?
Olivia Rodrigo
Formerly the center of the Ottoman Empire, what country was founded in 1923?
The Republic of Turkey
The Rorschach test is a psychological test that involves subjects' perceptions of what black and white design?
Inkblots
Missouri ties the state of Tennessee in bordering how many neighboring states, the most in the country?
8
Our closest extant genetic relatives are what African primates, with out genetics diverging 6-8 million years ago?
Chimpanzees and Bonobos
Who was elected speaker of the US House after 15 rounds of voting following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy?
Mike Johnson (R-LA)
What popular magazine debuted, with former US Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon on the cover?
Time Magazine
In 1920, John Watson used behavorial stimuli to condition a baby known as Little ______ to be afraid of mice. Fill in the blank, also the first name of a well known theoretical physicist.
Little Albert
This became the official Missouri State Fossil on June 16th, 1989.
Crinoid
About 5-8% of the human genome is composed of remnants of what infective agents?
Virus