A-List
First non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars
What is Parasite?
Animals residing in Golden Gate Park, the first ones arrived in 1890 and were named Sarah Bernhardt and Ben Harrison
What are Bison?
Italian dish consisting of dough topped by tomato sauce, cheese, etc. baked at a high temperature
(Hint: Davide makes his from scratch!)
What is pizza?
Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley recorded from this model organism
What is squid?
The movie that won Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards (2025)
Oldest surviving structure in San Francisco, founded by 1776 by Francisco Palóu
What is Mission San Francisco de Asís? / What is Mission Dolores?
Base ingredient of gummy bears
What is gelatin?
This immediate early gene is expressed in neurons in response to stimulation and is commonly used as a marker of neural activity
What is c-fos?
First Walt Disney animated classic, also the first animated full-color movie made
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Company that uses a font called San Francisco
What is Apple?
Spongebob's favorite food
What is a Krabby Patty?
Located at the proximal axon, this structure is the site where action potentials are generated
What is the axon initial segment (AIS)?
Song that plays over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1
What is “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone?
The San Francisco Giants dedicate an annual night to this heavy metal band
(Hint: Fiona likes this band)
Who is Metallica?
This dish has a rhyming name that describes shrimp and steak
What is surf and turf?
This neurodevelopmental disorder is characterized by epilepsy, intellectual disability, and sudden death due to pathogenic variants in SCN1A with loss of function of the sodium channel subunit Nav1.1
Hint: Kaneko et al., 2022
What is Dravet Syndrome?
American writer/director who starred in several iconic European-produced "Spaghetti Westerns"
Who is Clint Eastwood?
Packing material banned in the city of San Francisco
What is styrofoam?
A feather in the hand is better than a bird in the air.
Lucky numbers: 6, 17, 25, 38, 49
What is a fortune cookie?
Name the intracellular kinase whose autophosphorylation at Thr286 converts it to a Ca²⁺-independent form that is critical for long-term potentiation
What is CaMKII?