Jasper Chen
The date of Jasper Chen's birthday (Month/Day/Year)
What is December 8, 2011?
This December 7, 1941 surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy pulled the United States directly into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This iconic Late Cretaceous apex predator rules popular culture with a name that literally means "Tyrant Lizard King."
What is the Tyrannosaurus rex?
Contraction of this large, dome-shaped muscle separates the chest from the abdomen and drives human breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
It's the economic term for a sustained, widespread increase in prices that erodes the purchasing power of a currency.
What is inflation?
The pokemon that Jasper likes the most.
What is Venasaur?
Striking quickly like its name suggests, this German military strategy relied on swift, concentrated force using tanks and air support.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Dinosaurs first evolved during this geological period, which began roughly 252 million years ago following the Earth's largest mass extinction.
What is the Triassic Period?
René Laennec invented this essential acoustic diagnostic tool in 1816 so he wouldn't have to place his ear directly against a patient's chest
What is a stethoscope?
This three-letter acronym refers to the milestone event where a private company sells its stock to the public for the first time.
What is an IPO?
The three tennis centers Jasper trained at when he was playing tennis in Tuscon Arizona.
What is Reffikin, Raquet Club and JCC?
Celebrated as "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by George S. Patton, it was the standard-issue American infantry rifle.
What is the M1 Garand?
This duck-billed dinosaur boasted a long, hollow, backward-curving crest used like a natural brass instrument to trumpet sounds.
What is Parasaurolophus?
This rare, fatal neurodegenerative condition is caused by misfolded prions and acts as the human variant of "Mad Cow Disease."
What is Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?
This cognitive bias describes an investor's tendency to fixate on the original purchase price of a stock rather than its current value.
What is anchoring bias?
The country outside the U.S. Jasper has liked the most visiting.
What is the Netherlands?
Over 700 American servicemen tragically died during this April 1944 D-Day dress rehearsal ambush at Slapton Sands.
What is Exercise Tiger?
This massive, 100-mile-wide impact crater in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula marks the exact asteroid strike that ended the Mesozoic Era 66 million years ago.
What is Chicxulub?
In 1796, Edward Jenner used this mild viral disease to inoculate a young boy, creating the world's very first vaccine.
What is cowpox?
Published in 1973, this Nobel Prize-winning mathematical model provides a definitive formula for pricing financial derivatives and options.
What is the Black-Scholes-Merton model?
The day of the week Jasper Chen was born.
What is Thursday?
The names of these two massive 60cm self-propelled Karl-Gerät siege mortars deployed by Germany to smash Sevastopol in 1942.
What are Odin and Thor?
Discovered in Colorado in 1869, the first fossil fragment of the Allosaurus was originally given this now-forgotten scientific name.
What is Antrodemus?
Under physical duress, individuals with a hereditary deficiency of this oxygen-binding skeletal muscle protein can suffer acute kidney failure.
What is myoglobin?
These privately issued credit substitutes were legally questionable emergency scripts used by clearinghouses during the Panic of 1907.
What are Clearing House Loan Certificates?