Happiness Around the World
What is the happiest country in North America, eh? (World Happiness Report)
Canada
Researchers believe that these types of people who share almost identical makeup are prime candidates for happiness research?
Identical twins
Name a country that has/had a television show by the name of “Happiness”
South Korea, The United Kingdom, or The United States
Who sings the 1988 song, “Don’t Worry Be Happy?”
Bobby McFerrin
What is the name of the field of science that is dedicated to studying happiness?
Positive Psychology
What is the happiest country in South America? (World Happiness Report)
Uruguay
Researchers have discovered that 50% of the differences in our happiness levels is determined by our?
Genes or Our Genetic SetPoint, or Our Genetic Set Range
What is the name of a TV show on HBO that also means, a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness?
Euphoria
What Year was Pharrell Williams’s song, “Happy” released?
2013
If we think in non pharmaceutical terms, what is said to be the best medicine?
Laughter
According to Marie Kondo, you should get rid of things that do not spark _______.
Joy
What is a saying/idiom involving a drinking glass and some form of liquid to convey that a person is optimistic?
The glass is half full
In the Disney Classic, Peter Pan, Wendy, John, and Michael had to do two things in order to fly 1) be sprinkled with Tinker Bell’s magic fairy dust and 2) _________.
Think happy thoughts
The children’s song, “If You're Happy and You Know It" is a popular repetitive children’s song. The song has been noted for its similarities to "Molodejnaya", a song appearing in a 1938 musical titled Volga-Volga, from what country?
Russia
What is said to be the body’s natural pain killer and or organic “happy pill”?
Endorphins
What country continues to rank at the top of the world happiness report?
Finland
What bodily system is a network of biological processes that protects an organism from diseases and impacts your level of happiness?
Your immune system
What 2006 film starred Will & Jaden Smith that covered the life of a struggling salesman?
The Pursuit of Happyness (The film is spelled this way)
What neurotransmitter is released when a human listens to music?
Dopamine
Which American founding father, who was also a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher stated, “ The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it for yourself”?
Benjamin Franklin
What 2006 animated film takes place in the arctic and features penguins that sing and dance?
Happy Feet
What activity can you do naturally or forcibly that helps you to fight off stress through the release of neuropeptides?
Smile/Smiling!
What 2006 film starred Steve Carrell, Abigail Breslin, and Bryan Cranston by telling the story of a family who piled into a VW bus to attend a children’s talent show?
Little Miss Sunshine
According to a study done by US psychologists Ferguson and Sheldon, how many minutes a day does a student have to listen to “happy” music to feel happier and experience higher elevations in the mood.
12 minutes
What is the name of the 2010 documentary that highlights cutting-edge science from the new field of "positive psychology" with real-life stories of people from around the world ?
Happy!