TV of Our Childhood
This eccentric third-grade teacher takes her class on magical, educational field trips in the 1994 PBS cartoon The Magic School Bus.
Who is Ms. Frizzle?
This alumnus is known for being the star of a successful science education PBS program.
Who is Bill Nye?
This founder of psychoanalysis is famous for many of his theories, including the clinical application of dream analysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Meryl Streep plays a hardworking, ex-singer mother in the movie adaptation of this 1998 musical.
What is Mamma Mia?
This group of nations was also known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
What are the Axis Powers?
This mean-spirited babysitter made the life of Timmy Turner harder in the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly Oddparents.
Who is Vicky?
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice since 1993 also got her Bachelor's degree here before moving on to Columbia Law School.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This 2-letter acronym is one of the most commonly used standard measures of intelligence.
What is an IQ?
This musical is better known for being the longest-running show in Broadway history than for being the adaptation of of a 1909 novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.
What is the The Phantom of the Opera?
While one of four countries to do so, this is perhaps the most famous to have switched sides during the war.
What is Italy?
This David Glen Eisley song was featured in a famous episode of Spongebob Squarepants and dominated the headlines for the 2019 Superbowl.
What is "Sweet Victory"?
This comedian, television host, and class of '78 alum is known for his sarcastic political commentary and his frequent arguments on social media.
Who is Bill Maher?
In Stanley Milgram's famous "experiment on obedience to authority figures" conducted at Yale University, participants believed they were administering these to researchers when the researchers failed to answer a question correctly.
What are electric shocks?
This American musical tells the story of the Jets and Sharks rather than the Montagues and Capulets.
What is West Side Story?
One of the founding purposes of this organization was to prevent another conflict like World War II from ever happening again.
What is the United Nations?
This name of this iconic Sesame Street character has also been used to describe a popular ice cream flavor with blue food coloring.
Who is Cookie Monster?
This actor and class of '74 alumnus is known for playing DC's Superman and for an accident involving a horse which left him a quadriplegic.
Who is Christopher Reeve?
This type of memory is formed a few seconds after observing something and tends to fade in less than a minute.
What is working memory?
The titular character of Les Misérables is known by this 5-digit number during his time in jail and by police inspector Javert afterwards.
What is 24601?
This country by a margin of 16 million lost the most lives during the course of the war.
What is the Soviet Union?
In an iconic episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob and Squidward brave the elements to deliver a pizza to a customer, realizing only upon arriving that they had forgotten this part of the order.
What is a drink?
This classic American author and class of 1921 wrote the well-received children's books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.
Who is E.B. White?
It is the psychological debate over whether genetic influence or environmental influence is more important to an individual's psychological characteristics.
What is the nature versus nurture debate?
The king of this country spoke the final words in Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
What is Norway?
Operation Overlord referred to the amphibious invasion of this coastal region.
What is Normandy?