Priya
Ameya
New York City
Misc
Food & Drink Misc
100
Name of Priya's favorite Bollywood movie
What is Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?
100
Ameya lived in the same house as this terrorist
Who is Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski?
100
Every November, this giant event ends near Macy's Herald Square.
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
100
(AMEYA AND PRIYA ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ANSWER THIS ONE)
The way that Ameya and Priya met
What is the app Hinge?
100
This Italian dessert style involves pouring a hot shot of espresso directly over a scoop of vanilla gelato or ice cream.
What is an affogato?
200
2 of Priya's favorite cuisines
(Double points: name a dish that would combine both cuisines)
What is Korean and sushi?
(Double points: "kimbap")
200
The highest rank in Ameya's favorite video game
What is Predator (in the game Apex Legends)?
200
New York University's athletic teams are officially known as this
What are "The Violets"?
200
3 official languages of Belgium
What are French, Dutch and German?
200
For a drink to be considered "bourbon" it must contain at least 51% of this crop
What is corn?
300
The name of the elementary school that Priya attended (double points if you also know her middle school)
What is The Kew-Forest School?
(Double points: also the Kew-Forest School because she attended K-12 there)
300
Where Ameya's parents lived when he was born
100 points: city name
200 points: street name
300 points: for further details
Acceptable answers: Santa Clara, on Pruneridge Ave, Oakridge Apts
300
Before becoming New York City, the city was known by this name.
What is New Amsterdam?
300
The Bollywood film based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
What is Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (acceptable answer: Ram Leela)
300
The only U.S. state that can be typed using only one row of a standard QWERTY keyboard
What is Alaska?
400
Name of Priya's roommate in the second year of NYU
(Double points if you can give the English translation of the name)
Who is Drishti?
(Double points: drishti = vision)
400
This person bet Ameya that he cannot run a mile in under 6 minutes
Who is Ameya's boss?
400
The New York Public Library's two stone lions are named these.
What/who are Patience and Fortitude?
400
The number of brains that an octopus has
(Double points: if you ALSO correctly name the number of hearts an octopus has)
What are 9 brains?
(Double points: 3 hearts)
400
This natural chemical compound is responsible for giving hot chili peppers their signature spicy, burning kick.
What is capsaicin?
500
One unusual thing that Priya cannot travel without
What is her own pillowcase?
500
In 2013, Ameya advanced to the finals of the Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge for their project Magnitact with these two boys
Who are Prem Nair and Nikhil Sathe?
500
This place is widely considered the most haunted park in New York City
What is Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village?
500
Original name of University of Michigan (two acceptable answers)
What is "Catholepistemiad" or the "University of Michigania"?
500
This cooking method briefly plunges food into boiling water, followed by an ice bath to stop the cooking.
What is blanching?