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100

This is the year Yale was founded

What is 1701

100

What number is most commonly given as a person's "lucky number"?

7

100

This is the number of articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

They cover a variety of categories.

What is 30?

100

 This windmill-sparring book is considered the first “modern” novel and the highest-selling novel on Earth, after the Bible and the Quran, with 1/2 a billion copies in circulation.

What is Don Quixote? 

100

What is the psychological term for the ability to understand and share the feelings of another? 

What is empathy?

200

This the architectural style most Yale buildings are

What is Collegiate Gothic style

200

What is the probability of flipping a coin twice and flipping heads both times?

1/4 or 0.25


200

This former First Lady was directly involved in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

200

In the 2023-2024 school year, the U.S. banned these many books


What is 4,000+? 

200

How long are sleep cycles? 

How long is 90- 110 minutes? 

300

This specific shade is Yale’s university color

What is Yale Blue?

300

Most dice are made of identical squares and have 6 sides.  If you make a die with identical pentagrams instead, how many sides will it have?

the result is called a dodecahedron: 12 sides

300

The horrors of this conflict had the international community agree that violations of human rights would not be tolerated.


What is World War II?

300

Don’t be late to answer this, the most commonly used noun in the English language

What is "time"?

300

Secure, anxious, avoidant and disorganised are types of what? (Hint: These are key terms in developmental psychology)

What are mother-child attachment types?

400

This Olympic gold medalist just graduated from Yale College

Who is Figure Skater Nathan Chen?

400

According to a 2012 survey, what percentage of cat owners own more than one cat?

52%

400

This international body was established in 1945 and creates policies that make the respect of human rights an international priority.


What is the United Nations?

400

This is the single most popularly used font on Earth

What is Helvetica?

400

What part of the brain is primarily responsible for regulating emotions?

What is the amygdala?

500

Renowned Yale acapella group that. Students in this group are required to take a semester off to complete a world tour. 

What are the Whiffenpoofs?

500

According to a recent study, what percent of people have a reflex causing them to sneeze in bright light?


24% - this trait is partly genetic: 62% of sneezers' children had the reflex as well

500

He was a Canadian law professor who wrote the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


Who is Dr. (John Peters) Humphrey?

500

 It should bring you great joy to read any work by this, the first Native American US Poet Laureate, named in 2019

Who is Joy Harjo?

500

Which neurotransmitter is involved in regulating movement, memory, reward and motivation?

What is dopamine?

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