Music
This artist's 1982 album 'Thriller' remains the best-selling album of all time, and his signature move, the moonwalk, debuted on a 1983 Motown special.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Bryan Cranston won four consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor playing Walter White in this AMC drama that premiered in 2008.
What is Breaking Bad?
This Asian language, spoken by 126 million people almost exclusively in one country, uses two syllabaries and logographic characters to form its writing system. It is Jacob's second language.
What is Japanese/日本語?
In this 2010 Obsidian-developed spinoff of a beloved RPG series, a courier left for dead in the Mojave Desert awakens to unravel a conspiracy in the ruins of a Post-Nuclear Las Vegas.
What is Fallout: New Vegas?
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, this Jesuit university in Chicago is where Jacob will be studying Computer Science starting in the fall.
What is Loyola University Chicago?
This musician broke racial barriers performing in segregated America, racking up 13 Grammy wins across a career that earned her the title 'First Lady of Song.'
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This 1999 television series stars James Gandolfini as a New Jersey mafia boss who struggles to control his crime family and his own mental health.
What is The Sopranos?
This instrument made in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, though originally made for classical music, is often associated with jazz. Jacob used to play this instrument.
What is the Saxophone?
This Capcom fighting game franchise, born in 1987, revolutionized the genre by introducing a worldwide character roster and the combo system and remains one of the best selling fighting game series of all time.
What is Street Fighter/ストリートファイター?
Located in San Diego County, this Southern California city of roughly 100,000 people is where Jacob calls home.
This Motown prodigy, blind since infancy, went on to master piano, harmonica, and drums as a solo artist, earning him over 25 Grammy Awards.
Who is Stevie Wonder/Stevland Morris?
Bob Odenkirk stars as Jimmy McGill, a small-time Albuquerque lawyer whose slow moral descent into becoming a criminal fixer is the subject of this 2015 Breaking Bad prequel.
What is Better Call Saul?
Popularized in late 19th century China and later adapted into numerous regional variants, this tile-based strategy game's name translates to 'Sparrow' in Chinese. Jacob plays the Japanese variant
What is Mahjong/麻雀?
This 2018 Rockstar epic follows outlaw Arthur Morgan across the dying American frontier of 1899, widely praised as one of the greatest open world games ever made.
What is Red Dead Redemption 2?
Developed by Damien Elmes and released in 2006, this free flashcard application uses a spaced repetition algorithm to optimize long term memory retention and is a core part of Jacob's Japanese study routine.
This New Orleans trumpeter's gravelly voice and virtuosic playing made him a jazz icon, earning him a Grammy for best male vocal performance.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This Japanese reality television show stars six people, three men and three women, as they move into a house live together. It was discontinued after the tragic passing of one member.
What is Terrace House/テラスハウス?
This competitive high school activity places students in simulated courtroom settings where they argue cases as attorneys and witnesses.
What is Mock Trial?
The fifth entry in this long-running Atlus RPG series follows a group of Tokyo high schoolers who enter a supernatural realm to steal the corrupt desires of wicked adults and change their hearts.
What is Persona 5/ペルソナ5?
This blonde American Shotokan karate master trained in the mountains with his rival Ryu, is known for his flashy fighting style and fiery Shoryuken, and is Jacob's main in Street Fighter 5 and 6.
Who is Ken Masters/ケン・マスターズ?
This 1940s vocal group, now enshrined in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, pioneered a style featuring falsetto leads and spoken interludes and had no desire to set the world on fire.
Who are The Ink Spots?
This 1987 Hirohiko Araki manga series, now spanning nine parts and multiple anime adaptations, follows the Joestar bloodline's multigenerational battle against evil with the beauty of humanity as its central theme.
What is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure/ジョジョの奇妙な冒険?
Taking the the color palette of a video game character and improving it is the purpose of this hobby of Jacob.
What is Palmodding?
In this 2005 psychological horror game, three doctors enter a town deep in the Russian Steppe to cure a disease in 12 days.
What is Pathologic/Мор. Утопия?
In 2012, this obscure YouTuber started making videos about old computer games, old movies and shows, and even food and has collaborated with the YouTuber PeanutButterGamer. His catchphrase is "I have not seen such bravery," and he is Jacob's favorite YouTuber.
Who is brutalmoose?