General Trivia
Nervous System and Brain
The Brain
Timothy Gave Kyler Free Range (and that was a mistake) - Run
UBC
100

What year did World War II end?

1945

100
Which part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system
100
Which part of the brain is located in the middle and is responsible for vision and hearing?
What is the midbrain
100

Cyan and yellow make what color in subtractive colour mixing

Green

100

How many students were admitted in 2022 for the first cohort of the Neuroscience Program?

150

200

In what year was pride and prejudice (the most recent filmed movie) released?

2005

200
Which part of the nervous system contains all the other nerves in our body?
What is the peripheral nervous system
200
Which part of the brain is responsible for breathing, sleeping, and swallowing?
What is the hindbrain
200

If i give my favorite rat (Remy aka #16) a ton of amphetamines what brain region causes the stereotyped motor behavior

Dorsal Striatum

200

What PhD does 17th President and Vice-Chancellor, Benoit-Antoine Bacon hold?

PhD in neuropsychology

300

how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop +/- 10 - median (bonus 1000 points if you get the range exactly right tho)

1996 study by undergraduate students at Swarthmore College concluded that it takes a median of 146 licks (range 70–222) to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

300
Which cells provide transmission electrical and chemical signals that regulate all the processes in our body?
What are Neurons
300
Which part of the brain is responsible for complex mental activities?
What is the forebrain
300

Timothy really scares me, if I want to chemogenetically deactivate my amygdala when i'm around him what drug would I typically use?

Clozapine N-oxide (CNO) 


Also will accept Compound 21 or DCZ

300


How many Libraries does UBC have


15 libraries across campus

400

What song did ghost busters rip off the beat from?

I Want a New Drug, Huey Lewis and the news

400
Which cells make up About 90% of all the cells in the brain?
What are glial cells
400
Which side of the brain is responsible for language, reading, and mathematical calculations?
What is the left side
400

If I inject myself with WAY-100635 what does that antagonize? Hint: We want the receptor people.

5-HT1A Receptors

400


Which is the most funded Undergraduate society


Commerce Undergraduate Society ($1.2 million)

500
What system is involved with learning,memory,emotion,and motivation?
What is the limbic system
500
Glial cells play a critical role in what process?
What is the learning process
500
What connects the left and the right side of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum
500

This paradoxical phenomenon involves a mismatch between sensory input and predicted sensory consequences of one’s own movement, and is thought to be suppressed by efference copies during voluntary actions.

What is sensory attenuation (or corollary discharge)?

500


What year was UBC Founded


1908

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