Who Said That?!
2020
Guess That Trainee
Famous People in Neuroscience
Neuroanatomy
General Neuroscience
GT Trivia
100

From a cult 80's classic, " I am your Father"

Darth Vader

100

Elon Musk recently used pigs to demonstrate the brain implant from this company

Neuralink

100

This person has broken 4 bones, had 3 concussions, and should wear a helmet more often when riding a bike

Sean O'Connell

100

The two men responsible for the mathematical model explaining the initiation and propagation of the action potential

Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley

100

Bilateral lobes, partially responsible for speech and language

Temporal lobes

100

The #1 cause of dementia in the U.S.

Alzheimer's Disease

100

The GT mascot's name

Buzz

200

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein

200

The release of this film on Disney Plus led to a 74% increase in downloads of the app.

Hamilton

200

This trainee grew up trilingual

Lisa Meyer-Baese

200

Coauthor of "Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems" with Peter Dayan

Larry Abbott

200

The relay center of the brain

The thalamus

200

The first neurotransmitter to be discovered

Acetylcholine

200

The primary colors of Georgia Tech

Tech Gold and White

300

"My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

Kanye West

300

Winner of the Best Picture award at the Oscars and the first international film to do so

Parasite

300

This person grew up in 4 different countries

Lou Blanpain

300

Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

300

The variety of glial cells that keep peripheral nerve fibers alive and form the myelin sheath

Schwann cells

300

Part of the frontal lobe associated with speech production

Broca's area

300

GT's official tagline

Creating the Next

400

"At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side...Oh no, not I, I will survive"

Gloria Gaynor ("I Will Survive")

400

This popular Nintendo Switch game led to record breaking sales in March

Animal Crossing

400

This trainee has a black belt in Taekwondo

Brianna Karpowicz

400

Spanish neuroscientist responsible for detailed neuron drawings such as this one 

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

400

The three main components of the brainstem

Midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata (medulla)

400

Substance responsible for the pigmentation of neurons in the substantia nigra

Neuromelanin

400

The year GT was founded

1885

500

“If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.”

Johnnie Cochran

500

This play on words was widely used by the media to address Prince Harry and Meghan's decision to 'step back' from the royal family

"Megxit"

500

This person once made a chocolate shake for Prince

Sihoon Moon

500

Italian biologist who developed a silver staining technique to visualize nervous tissue that was named after him

Camillo Golgi

500

Group of nuclei responsible for the production and release of serotonin

Raphe nuclei

500

This class of hormones includes epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine and is released during stress

Catecholamines

500

The original name of Georgia Tech

Georgia School of Technology

600

"Is this your king?!"

Killmonger (Black Panther 2018)

600

The recent discovery of this substance on Venus is thought to be a potential sign of life

Phosphine

600

This trainee once ate a pet rabbit without the owner's permission

Kyle Johnsen

600

In a 2014 film adaptation of his life, Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed this British mathematician who is widely considered the father of artificial intelligence

Alan Turing

600

The innermost layer of the meninges

Pia mater

600

A distorted human body representation of the proportions of the brain dedicated to motor and sensory processing

Sensory/motor homunculus, cortical homunculus

600

This famous Atlanta Eatery was founded by GT Alumnus Frank Gordy and is still standing to this day

The Varsity

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