Michigan Stuff
Brains in Pop Culture
Brain
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Decision/Philosophy/
Computation/Linguistics
100

The current UM president.

Who is Mark Schlissel?

100

This indie band shares its name with a brain structure related to memory.

What is Hippocampus?

100

The weight of the human brain.

What is 3 pounds?

100

This eboard member is our social chair.

Who is Jill?

100

This 18th-century philosopher is known for his strong influence on ethics.

Who is Kant?

200

Michigan traditionally plays this rival team on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

What is Ohio State?

200

This term describing memory loss is also the name of a hit 2014 song by 5 Seconds of Summer.

What is Amnesia?

200

This posterior lobe of the brain is responsible for vision.

What is the occipital lobe?

200

The date of our next meeting.

What is September 23rd?

200

While syntax refers to sentence structure, this term refers to sentence meaning.

What is semantics?

300

This river flows through the Arb.

What is the Huron River?

300

This TV show featured different illusions and interactive games to demonstrate topics in pop psychology.

What is Brain Games?

300

This part of the brain is responsible for fear.

What is the amygdala?

300

The regular date and time of our meetings.

What is Thursdays from 6-7pm?

300

This 20th century mathematician developed the concept of a universal computing machine that could solve any math problem.

Who is Turing?
400

Every summer, Ann Arbor hosts this big event that typically includes live music, displays, and other activities.

What is Art Fair?

400

This DreamWorks character is known as "the most brilliant but least successful supervillain the world has ever known."

Who is Megamind?

400

Damage to this area causes fluent, but incomprehensible speech.

What is Wernicke's area?
400

Our club's big event held every year during March or April.

What is the CSC Colloquium?

400

A philosophical dilemma about the choice to pull a lever and kill one person, or to not act at all and let five people die.

What is the Trolley Problem?

500

This famous Michigan athletic coach traditionally hands out donuts on first day of class each year.

Who is Juwan Howard?

500

A Frank Ocean song with the lyrics "brain like Berkeley."

What is Novacaine?

500

Parkinson's disease involves a low level of this neurotransmitter.

What is dopamine?

500

This will be our first social of the year.

What is the potluck picnic?

500

The phenomena in which a person cannot recognize familiar faces.

What is Prosopagnosia?

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