Sports in the 90's
1990: One of boxing's biggest upsets occurred on February 11 in Tokyo, when Mike Tyson was knocked out in the 10th round by which fighter?
James "Buster" Douglas
In what year did Christopher Columbus first land in the Americas?
1492
This movie directed by Ridley Scott, won best picture and featured Russell Crowe as a Roman General
Gladiator
32
This disease causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal- cord to generate and die
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
How many different teams won the NBA championship from 1990 to 1999?
4
Detroit Pistons: 1990, Chicago Bulls: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, and 1998, Houston Rockets: 1994 and 1995, San Antonio Spurs: 1999
This famous 1803 purchase doubled the size of the US by acquiring land from France?
Louisiana Purchase
This 2007 movie is a Coen Brothers film, based on Cormac McCarthy novel and features Javier Bardem
No country for Old Men
Solve 5 raised to the power of 2 minus 3 times 4
13
25-12=13
This particle discovered in 1932 by James Chadwick, has no electric charge and roughly the same mass as a proton
Neutron
What was the year that Major League Baseball had no post-season and no World Series?
1994
On September 14, 1994, after a 34 day player's strike with no hope of resolution, the owners cancelled the rest of the season and the post-season.
This Supreme court case in 1896 upheld "separate but equal" segregation laws
Plessy V. Ferguson
This 2009 sports drama staring Sandra Bullock is seen as a mother adopting a NFL player
The Blind side
If the slope of a line is 3 and it passes through point (1,4) what is the y-intercept
1
Y=m(x)+b
4=3(1)+B
this type of cell division produces sperm and egg cells with half the usual chromosome number
Meiosis
Buffalo Bills
In 1945 this U.S military project led the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending WW2
Manhattan Project
This voice actor played Optimus Prime in Michael Bay's 2007 Transformers
This formula is how you find the area of a triangle
Not the name of the formula, the actual formula
area= 1/2 base times height
These 3 cranial nerves control eye movement
Oculomotor nerve (CN III)
Trochlear nerve (CN IV)
Abducens nerve (CN VI)
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What NFL quarterback famously led the Denver broncos to back-to-back super bowl championships?
John Elway
This 1970's scandal forced president Nixon to resign in 1974 after breaking and wiretapping were uncovered
WaterGate
Christian Bale plays a wall street yuppie with a dark double life, based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel
American Psycho
Solve the area of a circle with a diameter of 10 inches You can use calculator
Area = Pie R squared
78.5
This bond forms when atoms share electrons
Covalent Bond