science
This G-type main sequence star is the nearest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
This northern country is the world’s second largest.
What is Canada?
This royal title names Machiavelli’s influential political treatise.
What is The Prince?
This former Louisiana Governor who was assassinated in the capitol in 1935 graduated from Tulane.
Who is Huey Long?
This children’s television show featuring animated trains debuted on October 9, 1984.
What is Thomas the Tank Engine?
An average adult human has this many bones.
What is 206?
The Tigris and Euphrates flow near this country’s capital of Baghdad.
What is Iraq?
This famously dense and long-winded book takes its name from the romanized name of a wandering Greek hero.
What is Ulysses?
The residence hall next to Monroe and Irby is named for this man, Tulane’s 9th president.
Who is Robert Sharp?
On July 1, 1984, Liechtenstein became the final country in Europe to grant this right to suffragettes.
What is the right for women to vote?
Scientists awarded the Nobel Prize receive it in this country’s capital of Stockholm.
What is Sweden?
This region south of the Sahara and north of greener Africa takes its name from the Arabic word for “coast."
What is the Sahel?
This literary and artistic period of the late 19th century is named for its revival of an earlier period based in imagination and feeling.
What is Neo-Romanticism?
This northeastern state, home to Cape May and Liberty Park, is where Paul Tulane was born.
What is New Jersey?
In 1984, this drug was introduced to Los Angeles, allegedly by the CIA, eventually sweeping the country in a namesake epidemic.
What is crack cocaine?
If you were a horseshoe crab, your blood would be this color.
What is blue?
This romance language spoken by 3000 people is the fourth most popular in Switzerland.
What is Romansch?
This English family dominated 19th century novels with their stories of women in agonizing and dramatic situations, informed by their own lives.
Who are the Brontë sisters?
These furry mammals are researched in Tulane’s national research center on the northshore.
What are primates?
On January 1, 1984, citizens of Bandar Seri Begawan celebrated independence from Britain in this tiny southeastern Asian nation.
What is Brunei?
Named for a southeastern African country, this coastal microplate forms a fault with the Arabian Plate.
What is the Madagascar Plate?
This country that borders Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is one of two double-landlocked countries in the world.
What is Tajikistan?
The publication of this divisional, allegorical novel of 1947 saw its author threatened with assassination from Muslim countries.
What is The Satanic Verses?
Richard Yulman, primary funder of Yulman Stadium, was the former head of a US company specializing in producing this soft product.
What are mattresses?
This puzzle game, found in some studies to increase cognitive activity, treat PTSD, and cure lazy eye, was released on June 6, 1984.
What is Tetris?