Brooks lore
What is Brooks' favorite music genre?
Jazz
The first video game Brooks ever played.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
This man is the most overrated President of the 20th Century
Teddy Roosevelt (nothing on my GOAT Woodrow Wilson)
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Nikita Khrushchev
This book is about a dystopian, totalitarian England
1984
What is the name of Brooks' lizard
Bonus points if you know what he named him after
Belisarius
named after Belisarius Cawl from Warhammer
Brooks' favorite game of all time.
William Jennings Bryan
This war over an Asian peninsula was never properly resolved, and still technically continues to this day.
The Korean War
This science fiction novel inspired the titular rings from the Halo video games
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Bonus 200 points if you can say what percentile of listenership he was in.
Green Day.
Top 0.01%.
This 2008 game allows you to play as a parkour runner in a dystopian city-state.
Mirror's Edge
This man ran as a third-party candidate against Bill Clinton and George HW Bush in 1992.
Ross Perot
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during its final years.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This novel written by HP Lovecraft describes the protagonist's encounter with a cult dedicated to an ancient, aquatic God.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
What state was Brooks born in?
Bonus points if you can name the city
Portsmouth, Virginia
What is the name of Brooks' scattergun in TF2?
FedEx Package Scanner
Phyllis Schlafly
This battle during Vietnam was widely viewed as symbolic of its brutality and utter pointlessness. The Battle of ____ Hill.
The Battle of Hamburger Hill
This science fiction novel is about the crew of a damaged, constantly accelerating sub-light spacecraft as they experience ever increasing time dilation.
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
What two states does Brooks have an unhealthy attachment to
Virginia and Vermont
This 2007 singleplayer RTS game puts the player in the shoes of a US Army commander in a Third World War in 1989. What game is it?
World in Conflict
This man headed a committee to investigate illegal CIA human experiments in the mid 1970's. He later ran for president in 1976 and this committee is named after him.
Frank Church
This thing strip of land in West Germany was viewed as being strategically vital to NATO's defense in a war with the Soviet Union
The Fulda Gap
This science fiction novel is about a power armor-wearing soldier in a war against a violent, hive minded race of insects.
Armor by John Steakley