Parkinson's
Common physical movement symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
What are tremors, muscle stiffness, or slow movement?
After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S history.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Known as "America’s pastime"
What is baseball?
The capital of Spain
What is Madrid?
The "King of Rock 'n' Roll"
Who is Elvis Presley?
This famous actor, diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991, created a foundation to fund research for a cure.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
The era that marked a switch from agricultural practices to industrial practices.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The least amount of players allowed on the ice per team, during a professional ice hockey game
What is four players per team?
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
This British band took the world by storm in the 1960s with hits like Hey Jude and Let It Be.
What is the Beatles?
A type of therapist that assists individuals with Parkinson's in improving their speech and voice quality.
What is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
In 1945 scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb.
What is New Mexico?
This person has won the most Olympic gold medals
Who is Michael Phelps?
The driest continent on Earth
What is Antarctica?
This 1980s arcade game featured a yellow character that eats pellets while avoiding ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.
What is Pac-Man?
The neurotransmitter that is primarily affected in Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
The country that the United States bought Alaska from
What is Russia?
A sport that involves a pommel horse, uneven bars, and rings
What is gymnastics?
The two countries that border Mount Everest
What are Nepal and China (Tibet)?
This animated family from the Stone Age debuted on TV in 1960 and featured characters named Fred and Barney.
What is the Flintstones?
A neurosurgical procedure that involves implanting electrodes in specific brain areas and connecting them to a pulse generator, which delivers electrical pulses to regulate abnormal brain activity and treat movement disorders like Parkinson's disease and essential tremors.
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this during his speech addressing the attack on Pearl Harbor: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941…”
What is "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy"?
The only NFL team to go undefeated for an entire season
What is the Miami Dolphins?
The names of the five Great Lakes
What are Superior, Ontario, Erie, Michigan, Huron?
This iconic phrase, first spoken by Captain Kirk, describes the mission of the USS Enterprise: ‘To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go…’"
What is "where no man has gone before"?