Left Brain Misc
This mathematical property states that changing the order of addition or multiplication does not change the result.
What is the commutative property?
In 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching this first artificial satellite into orbit, kicking off the Space Race.
What is Sputnik 1?
This famous 20th-century artist created The Persistence of Memory, featuring melting clocks in a dreamlike landscape.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
This 2022 A24 film starring Michelle Yeoh became the first movie from the studio to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned Yeoh the Oscar for Best Actress.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
This 1983 dance craze involved quick footwork, sliding movements, and a signature run motion that helped define early hip-hop dance culture.
What is Running Man?
If all squares are rectangles, and all rectangles are quadrilaterals, then every square must be one of these.
What is a quadrilateral?
In 1962, this 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
n storytelling, this technique drops the audience into the middle of an action-packed scene before explaining the events that led there.
What is in medias res?
This artist’s 2023 album GUTS followed her record-breaking debut album SOUR.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
This traditional East Asian healing technique that involves gently scraping the skin with a smooth-edged tool to improve circulation and lymphatic
What is Gus Sha?
A sequence follows the rule: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30... The next number is this.
What is 42?
(Each term is n(n+1)n(n+1): 1×2, 2×3, 3×4, 4×5, 5×6, 6×7.)
This Polish labor movement, founded in 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under Lech Wałęsa, became a major force in ending communist rule in Eastern Europe.
What is Solidarity?
his large brass instrument is the lowest-pitched member of the standard orchestral brass family and is known for its deep, powerful sound often used in movie scores and marching bands.
What is the tuba?
This 2023 HBO series created by Sam Levinson starred a Shake It Up actress and became one of the most discussed teen dramas of the decade, despite controversy surrounding its production.
What is Euphoria?
This Argentine-born dance, known for its dramatic partner movements and close embrace, originated in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the late 19th century.
What is the tango?
You have 12 visually identical balls, but one has a different weight. Using only a balance scale, this is the minimum number of weighings needed to guarantee finding the odd ball and whether it's heavier or lighter.
What is three weighings?
In 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first Black president following the official end of this decades-long system of racial segregation.
What is apartheid?
This performer became the first person to win an Academy Award, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award (EGOT) while also achieving success as a singer with hits like “If I Ain’t Got You.”
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
This graphics processing company became one of the world’s most valuable companies due largely to demand for its AI chips, including its H100 GPU used in data centers.
What is NVIDIA?
This small, deep hip muscle is one of the six short external rotators of the hip. It serves as a key landmark because the sciatic nerve typically passes beneath it.
What is the piriformis muscle?
A farmer needs to transport a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage across a river. The boat holds only the farmer and one item. Leaving the wolf alone with the goat or the goat alone with the cabbage is not allowed. This is the minimum number of one-way crossings required.
The sequence is:
In 1991, this multinational military operation successfully forced Iraqi troops out of Kuwait after Iraq's invasion the previous year.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
Born Christopher Wallace, this Brooklyn rapper's career was tragically cut short in 1997. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest lyricists in hip-hop history.
Who is The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls)
These 4 Disney princesses appear in Shrek 3
Who is Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White?
In women’s artistic gymnastics, this scoring concept refers to the maximum challenge value a routine can achieve based on the skills performed, and gymnasts increase it by adding harder elements, connections, and combinations.
What is the Difficulty Score (D Score)?