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100
What are the two types of photoreceptors in the human eye?
What are rods and cones?
100
What is the resting potential of a neuron? (units count)
What is -70mV (+/- 10mV)?
100
Which Penn alumnus is married to Chrissy Teigen?
Who is John Legend?
100
Which non human primate passed away on May 28th, 2016?
Who is Harambe?
100
What company, helmed by Heather Bresch, recently encountered controversy over their autoinjector device for a common drug?
What is Mylan?
200
What common drug blocks the action of adenosine on its receptor?
What is caffeine?
200
What is the main neurotransmitter at the neuromuscular junction?
What is acetylcholine?
200
Who was last year's commencement speaker?
Who in Lin-Manuel Miranda?
200
What Netflix Original homage to 1980s sci-fi gained 14million viewers in the first month of its release this summer?
What is Stranger Things?
200
What executive, currently indicted for securities fraud, was the former founder and CEO of both Retrophin and Turing Pharmaceuticals?
Who is Martin Shkreli, Pharma bro?
300
During which stage of sleep do we dream?
What is REM sleep?
300
Which cranial nerve is sometimes manipulated through a device placed near the heart to control epilepsy?
What is the vagus nerve?
300
Who were the past 3 Spring Fling headliners?
Who are Chance the Rapper, Ke$ha, and David Guetta?
300
Which Hunger Games actor/actress graduated from the University of Pennsylvania?
Who is Elizabeth Banks?
300
Who knows what's going to happen to the Affordable Care Act...what Penn professor was critical in writing it?
Who is Zeke Emanuel?
400
Synaptotagmin is a sensor of what substance in a cell?
What is calcium?
400
Name a nonselective opioid antagonist.
What is naloxone?
400
Who was president of Penn before Amy Gutmann?
Who is Judith Rodin?
400
Who were the US entering and exiting flag bearers at the 2016 Rio Olympics?
Who are Michael Phelps and Simone Biles?
400
What does CAR-T stand for?
What is chimeric antigen receptor T-cells?
500
Name 3 types of macroglia
Acceptable answers: Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, Ependymal Cells, Radial Glia, Satellite cells, Enteric Glial cells
500
What is the name of the neurologist that mapped the brain into 52 different areas according to their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics?
Who is Brodmann?
500
Name all 12 of Penn's schools (graduate + undergraduate)
What are the Annenberg School for Communication, Graduate School of Education, PennDesign, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Law, School of Nursing, School of Social Policy & Practice, School of Veterinary Medicine, Wharton School
500
Serena Williams set the record for 23 Grand Slam titles in the Open era. Who was the previous record holder?
Who is Steffi Graf?
500
Who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy?
Who is Yoshinori Ohsumi?
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