Brain
Memory
Malcolm Gladwell
Fun Facts
100
the elongated ridges on the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain, thought to be the center of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system.
What is the hippocampus?
100
The capacity for the brain.
What is infinate?
100
Malcolm Gladwell's race(s).
What is half White half Jamaican
100
For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million...
What are ants?
200
the part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.
What is unconscious?
200
Duration of short term memories.
What is 20-30 seconds?
200
Malcolm's job.
What is an author?
200
The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth...
What is $527 Billion?
300
the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.
What is the cerebellum?
300
The drug that increases alertness, but not memory performances.
What is caffiene?
300
His fathers job.
What is a mathematics proffesor?
300
Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were...
What is “Money can’t buy life.”
400
either of two masses of gray matter lying between the cerebral hemispheres on either side of the third ventricle, relaying sensory information and acting as a center for pain perception.
What is the thalamus?
400
Can trigger memories.
What are smells?
400
His first book written.
What is The Tipping Point?
400
Diamonds.
What does it rain on Jupiter and Saturn?
500
a broad band of nerve fibers joining the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
When you first com out of the womb.
What is the start of memory?
500
The tipping point was written.
What is 1996?
500
Friday the 13th.
What is every month that begins with a Sunday?
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