Yale
How many residential colleges are there? (Bonus if you correctly state the best resco)
14 (acceptable answers are Trumbull and Murray)
Yale is how many years older than the Declaration of Independence?
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with 3.5 billion fans, but what is the second most popular sport?
Cricket
What TV show features a young bald monk and airborne bison as primary characters?
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The basic concepts of heredity were first described by Gregor Mendel, an Austrian-Czech monk who performed experiments on what type of edible plants?
Peas
What is the current Handsome Dan's name? (This is also the name of the 17th president of Yale University, which should be a tremendously helpful hint)
Kingman
In 1921, this man contracted an illness that left him paralyzed, but it didn’t stop him from getting elected to the presidential office four times. Who is that president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the nickname of this year's Super Bowl?
The Benito Bowl
What is the most Oscar nominated movie in history?
Sinners
What element, atomic number 3 on the periodic table, is an essential component of batteries often used to store harvested solar energy?
Lithium
What Connecticut town did Yale start in? (Hint: a residential college is name after this town)
Saybrook
What are the names of the two astronauts who walked on the moon in July of 1969?
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Which tennis player has won the most grand slams in the Open Era? (Bonus points for the exact number won)
Novak Djokovic (24)
Shoutout to Serena Williams with 23, half points awarded
What is Ryan Gosling’s highest grossing film?
Project Hail Mary
How many major types of rock are there? (Bonus if you can name all three)
3 (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary)
How many chess grandmasters attend Yale currently
1
In what year did Abraham Lincoln open a now-famous speech with "Fourscore and seven years ago"? (Bonus for the month in which he made the speech)
1863 (Bonus: November)
The USA has won the most FIFA Women's World Cup titles. How many have they won and when was their most recent win? (Bonus if you can name the years in which they won all those titles).
4 (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019)
If you get 4 without the most recent win, 200 points. If you know 2019 but don't get 4 titles, 200 points.
What book turned movie begins with the line “I'd never given much thought to how I would die.”
Twilight
How many teeth do humans have? (Hint: it's a power of 2)
32
In which year did Google launch gcal?
2009
What is the oldest European-founded city in the United States?
St. Augustine, Florida
(founded in 1565, in case you were curious)
The New York Yankees are the most successful North American sports franchise in history. How many World Series titles have they won?
27
What is the title of the lowest rated episode of Breaking Bad? Bonus points if you can state season and episode or the exact IMdB rating.
“Fly”, Season 3 Episode 10, 7.9/10
or “Open House”, Season 4 Episode 3, 7.9/10
Albert Einstein had perhaps the most productive year of any scientist ever at the beginning of the 20th century. What year was it, and what is this year referred to as?
1905, Einstein's annus mirabilis (wonderful/miraculous year).
250 for 1905, 250 for annus mirabilis