Charities
300 volunteers came together in 1971 to create this world-spanning charity, also called Médecins Sans Frontières
What is Doctors Without Borders?
Played by this man, sales manager David Brent returned in 2016, trying to get his rock band off the ground
Who is Ricky Gervais?
The main parts of a neuron are the cell body an axon & these branching out to receive input
What are Dendrites?
Adam Sandler's song "Lunch Lady Land" says, "yesterday's meatloaf is today's" this
What is sloppy joe?
August Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things
What is Organic Chemistry?
"Those who work for the good are those who do the good" said this TV star & founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Who is Danny Thomas?
These days he can be seen at Crackle.com hosting the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Who is (Jerry) Seinfeld?
Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient
What is Alzheimer's?
Good times never seem so good for this singer who received a fencing scholarship to New York University
Who is Neil Diamond?
Colors can be precisely specified by their brightness & this, their degree of intensity
What is saturation?
To fight excessive punishment along racial lines lawyer Bryan Stevenson founded this initiative EJI for short
What is Equal Justice?
This comedian was a regular on "Saturday Night Live". He made a string of movies since the 1990s, including one from 1996 about a washed-up hockey player turned golfer
Who is Adam Sandler?
This “in the back of the head” brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information
What is the Occipital lobe?
In some courses these are replaced by a pass-fail system
What are grades?
It was Ford's second big seller starting with the 1928 model year
What is the Model A?
A charity named for this actor who was paralyzed in 1995 aims to better the lives of those with spinal cord injuries
Who is Christopher Reeves?
Kevin Hart's inspirations for standup comedy include Chappelle, Pryor, Rock & this mentor & friend; the Ice Creaaaam! bit alone in Delirious in 1983 legendary
Who is Eddie Murphy?
This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul
What is the pineal gland?
The first state law allowing these more autonomous publicly funded schools passed in 1991; today over 40 states allow them
What are charter schools?
Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage
What is The Organ?
Last name of Evangeline elected general of the Salvation Army in 1934 the third in her family to hold the position
Who is Booth?
She was the first original member of Saturday Night Live to score a success with a second TV series
Who is Jane Curtin?
From the Latin word for “edge,” this primitive “system” of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding, fighting, & fleeing
What is the limbic system?
From the Latin for running it's a run-down of the courses the school offers
What is Curriculum?
The world's first of these began as a way for Cambridge U. computer scientists to know if the coffee pot in another room was full
What is a webcam?