Pop Culture Puzzlers
Hopkins Head-scratchers
Organic Chemistry Oddballs
100

This artist is the half-time performer for the upcoming Superbowl LIX (59)

Who is Kendrick Lamar?

100

The year Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore, Maryland

What is 1876?

100

The name of a ring structure with 6 carbons and 3 double bonds

What is benzene?

200

This movie was famously snubbed at the 2024 Golden Globes (much to my dismay, I saw it twice in theaters 🤠)

What is Wicked: Part 1?

200

The first president of Johns Hopkins University

Who is Daniel Coit Gilman?

200

These substituents direct future substituents to be placed either on the carbon directly across from or right next to it

What is an ortho/para director?

300

This pop artist recently set a record for the most monthly listeners on Spotify, joking on social media that he will soon be able to pay off his debt.

Who is Bruno Mars?

300

The last names of the first black undergraduate students to be awarded a degree from the Whiting School of Engineering and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, respectively 

What are Scott and Bates?

300

The name of a benzene with an OCH3 substituent

What is an anisole?

400

This is how long the marriage between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries lasted

What is 72 days?

400

This is the name of Ronald Daniel's dog, frequently seen with him on campus

What is Barney?

400

The name for a set of reduction reagents commonly used in basic mediums

What is Wolff-Kishner? (NH2NH2, KOH, Heat)

500

This actor voiced both Darth Vader and Mufasa

Who is James Earl Jones

500

This is the nickname of the mummy in the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Collections

What is "Boris"?

500
The university in which Dr. Nsengiyuvma taught at prior to his start at Hopkins

What is Washington Adventist University?

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