World History
The year WWI began
What is 1914?
Founder of psychoanalysis
Who was Freud?
The winners of the Super Bowl earlier this year
Who are the LA Rams?
Activist for female education who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, and later won the Nobel peace prize
Who is Malala?
This 2008 movie depicts Meryl Streep singing ABBA songs at the top of her lungs on a Greek Island
What is Mamma Mia?
The 100 years war was between England and this other country
What is France?
This part of the brain is significantly larger in London cab drivers
What is the hippocampus?
The team Tom Brady now plays for (a devastating loss for the Boston community)
This Polish scientist fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity and discovered two elements.
Who was Marie Curie?
The first sense to develop in utero
The city John F. Kennedy was killed in
What is Dallas?
The average amount of synapses each neuron connects with
What is 40,000?
The MLB team that has played in 40 World Series and won 27 of them (most appearances and victories than any other team)
Who are the New York Yankees?
The longest reigning empress of Russia (from 1762 - 1796).
Who was Catherine the Great?
Population of humans that require more anesthetic than others
Who are redheads?
This man founded the largest continuous empire in history
Who was Genghis Khan?
The average amount of thoughts generated per minute
What is 48.6?
The year the Bruins last won the Stanley Cup
What is 2011?
This woman threw herself in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby to protest women's suffrage (and later died).
Who was Emily Davison?
Odysseus' wife's name in The Odyssey
Who is Penelope?
The number of Celtic languages that are still spoken today.
What is six?
The approximate date of the first known writing about the brain - bonus points: what was it about?
4000 B.?C. (bonus points answer: about the euphoric sensation elicited from eating poppies)
The English Premier League team that won the FA cup last Saturday.
Who is Liverpool FC? (yay!)
This very famous woman just earned an honorary fine arts doctorate degree from NYU
Who is Taylor Swift?
One theory about why Vincent Van Gough was so odd was poisoning from this liqueur made from wormwood
What is absinthe?