Comparative Pandemics
Personalities in Modern America
The Role of Culture
The Athlete's Art
The Last Guy
100
This movie franchise, in which a computer programmer battles machines and viruses for the future of the species, has a fourth installment scheduled for release in 2021.
What is The Matrix?
100
The incident, which involved a National Park Service employee, took place on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon. The victim was working at the time and needed to stop in order to receive treatment from the White House medical unit.
A White House press secretary publicly defended the assailant, saying "______ is still adjusting to new surroundings".
Who is Major, the Bidens' adopted German Shepherd?
100
Vogue published a piece on this phenomenon in May 2020, including the following advice:
"Just make sure to get a Pro account"
"Check your local laws"
"Even if you don’t enlist professional help, it’s probably a good idea to hand off tasks to any witnesses you will have"
"You might not be on a dance floor, but that doesn’t mean you can’t dance"
What are Zoom weddings?
100
This annual event, which started with 15 participants in 1897, now attracts an average of 30,000 people each year.
It went online for the first time in 2020, with participants from 50 countries.
What is the Boston Marathon?
100
Pushing back against a wave of criticism, especially from steel and aluminium manufacturers, he said "_____ _____ are good and easy to win".
What does Donald Trump think about trade wars?
200
Home to 24 million people, this country has kept total COVID cases to around 1100, despite not being part of the WHO.
What is Taiwan?
200
Former four-star general - alumnus of West Point, the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.
Served as commander of United States Central Command from 2013 to retirement in 2016.
Made headlines this year.
Who is Lloyd Austin, current US Secretary of Defense?
200
"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow we do it."
These are the opening lines of The Hill We Climb, by this poet.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
?
200
In 2020, Leon Draisaitl became the first German player to win the Art Ross Trophy, given to the league's leading scorer in this sport.
What is (ice) hockey?
200
He recalls - "I said, 'did you do it?' And he said no, I did not. Absolutely not." "I then asked him a second time in a totally different way. He said absolutely not."
"Somebody did say if he did do it you wouldn’t have found out about it. Which is a very interesting point."
How did Donald Trump get Vladimir Putin to tell the truth?
300
Domestically-manufactured vaccines in this country include Covaxin and Covishield.
What is India?
300
American businessman - CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989; Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. Travel Association; co-owner, member of the board of directors, and treasurer of the New York Giants.
Who is Jonathan Tisch?
300
A joke particular to this language goes -
"As you know, there are two troubles (referring to fools and roads). If one of them, at least theoretically, can be covered with asphalt and rolled out with a roller, then it is completely incomprehensible what to do with the roads."
The pun is in the words for fools and roads - "duraki i dorogi" (transliterated to English).
What is Russian?
300
In Europe the Fontainebleau grading is the most widely used, with grades from 1A to 9A. Examples -
2A-2C (yellow or green) - good holds, easy enough to be done in training/approach shoes.
4A-4C (blue) - require either specific arm or fingertip strength, and very often core strength.
6A-6C (black or white) - "simply desperate" and mostly involve techniques particular to Fontainebleau.
What is bouldering?
300
As his administration was pondering a national policy on __________, his personal views were reported as the following:
"Can you imagine.... all of a sudden this ______ is zig-zagging around the corner and you can't stop the f—-ing thing?"
"______ will never work."
"I don't trust a computer."
What are self-driving cars?
