The Brain
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Sleep deprivation can increase your risk for this neurodegenerative disease

What is Alzheimer's disease?

200

This 3D survival sandbox video game that had a 2025 film adaptation was first released in 2009 

What is Minecraft?

200

This Michigan delicacy was originally baked in steel trays designed for use in automotive factories

What is Detroit-style pizza?

200

2010: This English boy band formed on the "X Factor" TV talent competition

What is One Direction?

400

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is more commonly known as this, a sensation caused by rapid temperature change

What is brain freeze?

400

This iconic slasher created by John Carpenter shares a name with the actor who voices Shrek

Who is Michael Myers?
400

This hotel on Mackinac Island boasts the world's longest porch

What is the Grand Hotel?

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1961: This actor, known for his roles in Cheers, True Detective, and The Hunger Games, was born in Midland, Texas

Who is Woody Harrelson?

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Studies have shown that the posterior part of this brain structure is larger in London taxi drivers, demonstrating enhanced spatial memory 

What is the hippocampus?

600

After being selected 3rd overall in the 2024 NFL draft, this quarterback led his team to Super Bowl LX in 2026

Who is Drake Maye?

600

The southern shore of this lake, where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank, is known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes"

What is Lake Superior?

600

1925: This New York Yankee hit his first of 23 career grand slams

Who is Lou Gehrig?

600

This team member and their siblings all share the same middle name

Who is Isabelle?

800

While the human brain weighs about 3lbs, this animal has the largest brain at 17lbs

What is the sperm whale?

800

This portmanteau is used to describe the departure of Prince Harry & his wife from the British royal family

What is Megxit?

800

At the conclusion of an 1836 war, Michigan ceded control of the Toledo Strip to Ohio in exchange for this

What is the Upper Peninsula?

800

1967: The first successful transplant of this organ was performed on 19-month-old Julie Rodriguez by Dr. Starzl at the University of Colorado

What is the liver?

1000

The communication network between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system, connected by the vagus nerve, is known as this

What is the gut-brain axis?
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This 2001 song from UK artist Sophie Ellis-Bextor had a resurgence after its use in a 2023 film starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan

What is "Murder on the Dancefloor"?

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In 1846, Michigan became the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish this controversial justice practice

What is capital punishment / the death penalty?

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1885: This 18th President of the U.S. died of esophageal cancer at age 63

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

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