Team Trivia
This team member once went swimming in the Amazon alongside anacondas, caimans, piranha and has a family cat named Tuxedo (he used to wear a small red bow tie, before an unfortunate amount of weight gain)
Who is Suhani?
Nabokov’s novels all began on 3×5 these, which he kept under his pillow in case of inspiration
What are index cards?
This temperature scale defines absolute zero as -273 degrees Celsius
What is Kelvin?
Jazz musicians & jockeys helped give New York City this nickname
What is "the Big Apple"?
This city is located across the river from Detroit
What is Windsor?
This team member has memorized all the Lion King and Shrek movies from start to finish and has read all of the JRR Tolkien books
Who is Halima?
In 2009 this, on which Cormac McCarthy produced 5 million words, sold for over $250,000 at auction
What is a typewriter?
The super-bright white dwarf on the edge of the Milky Way is 42 times hotter than this other star, which is a balmy 9,900 degrees Celsius
What is the sun?
If you’re under this, you’re at the circus
What is the big top?
This team member was once staffed in Ireland over St. Patrick's Day and has parents who owned an exotic bird store when they were growing up
Who is Jolene?
This team member had a sporty childhood - playing competitive hockey at a championship level and caddying until undergrad.
Who is Frank Thomas Wydra IV?
At London’s Charles Dickens museum, visitors can handle Dickens’ own pen of this type
What is a fountain pen?
With a Scoville score of 2.2M, these ironically named peppers are the hottest peppers in the world
What are Carolina Reapers?
The football stadium for the University of Michigan, and college home of football GOAT Tom Brady
What is the Big House?
This hip hop group from Hollis, Queens was founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell
What is Run-DMC?
This team member has vomited on four different continents and speaks fluent German
Who is Rob?
Raymond Chandler composed screenplays by talking into this machine, a brand name copyrighted in 1907
What is a dictaphone?
Yakutsk is the coldest inhabited city in the world, located in this country
What is Russia?
In France this feature of the night sky is known as “le casserole”
What is the big dipper?
You can make a flaming version of this tex-mex dish whose name means “little sashes”
What are fajitas?
This team member has been attacked by more than a dozen animals over the years and grew up in the Middle East
Who is Michael?
Steinbeck was obsessed with these; the Mongol 2 3/8 model came closest to the perfect point
What is a pencil?
This German physicist defined absolute hot as 100 million million million million million degrees Celsius - ouch!
Who is Planck?
This colloquial "index" is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity between two currencies
What is the "Big Mac Index"?
This 5-word line spoken by the soothsayer is a quote from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”