Christmas Traditions
In Latin America this food is traditionally eaten around the Christmas holidays.
What are tamales?
This CEO has repeatedly tried to defy Alameda county lockdown orders to reopen his company.
Who is Elon Musk?
Taylor Swift decided that one album wasn’t enough this year and released these two in short succession.
What are “Folklore” and “Evermore”?
With the potential to prevent many deaths and developed in record time, this type of medication is going into humans for the first time in 2020 as a COVID19 prevention.
What is an RNA vaccine?
This boy band makes fans around the world swoon and was named the 2020 Entertainer of the Year.
Who are BTS?
This was what my true love gave to me on the 10th Day of Christmas according to a popular song.
What are 10 lords a leapin’?
After rocketing to fame in the early days of quarantine this person appeared on dancing with the stars this year.
Who is Carol Baskin?
This movie duo went on an adventure to White Castle.
Who are Herald and Kumar?
In the 2020 election this state became the first in the nation to elect a trans state senator, Sarah McBride.
What is Delaware?
Baby elephants sure are cute, but with a gestational period this long they better be!
What is 18-22 months?
This restaurant chain had a remarkably successful advertising campaign in 1974 that made it a holiday staple in Japan.
What is KFC?
The crew of this mission was made to quarantine two weeks after their return for fear of starting a pandemic of extraterrestrial origin.
What is Apollo 11
This American astronaut got to go on a year-long mission to the ISS while his identical twin brother Mark stayed behind to enable a study on the effects of space travel on the body.
Who is Scott Kelly?
The World Health Organization declared this continent free of polio in 2020.
What is Africa?
This hormone is released when we look at something cute.
What is dopamine?
In Austria and Bavaria this is the devilish companion of jolly old Saint Nick.
Who is Krampus?
This professional athlete is said to have invested in Zoom in early 2018, meaning his investment would now have grown by 4,000%.
Who is Andre Iguodala?
This was the last movie that Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen appeared in together.
New York Minute
Ex Sacramento State softball star Alyssa Nakken, didn’t even have to leave the state to become the first female coach in MLB history in 2020, when she was hired by the team.
Who are the San Francisco Giants?
Babies are cute, pudgy, and oddly enough born without these bones.
What are kneecaps?
This was the first year a Christmas tree was placed at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City (within 5 years).
What is 1931?
This pharmaceutical company’s 2 day conference in February is now thought to be linked to as many as 300,000 cases of COVID.
What is Biogen?
These two pioneers of gene-editing technology were the first all-female recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.
Who are Jennifer doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier?
In 2020 the 3,900 solar panels this ex-politician put on his farm provided more than half the energy for his hometown of Plains, GA.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This primate became internet famous for its endearing big eyes, but it is can also make a potent toxin by mixing saliva with a secretion from its sweat gland.
What is a slow loris?