Famous Literary Figures
This African novelist wrote Things Fall Apart, a foundational work of postcolonial literature.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
This coach won NBA championships with three different teams: the Lakers, Celtics, and Heat.
Who is Pat Riley?
In 1886, Chicago was the center of this labor movement event that turned violent in Haymarket Square.
What is the "Haymarket Affair"?
The “G” in 5G stands for this.
What is generation?
What you do is more important than what you say.
What is "actions speak louder than words?"
This Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is credited with popularizing magical realism.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
The only NBA team to have a perfect 16-0 record in a single playoff season, achieving the feat in 2017.
Who are the Golden State Warriors?
This Illinois public university has a mascot that commemorates a historic 1871 event.
What is "UIC Flames"?
This open-source operating system, named after a Finnish student, powers most of the world’s servers.
What is Linux?
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
What is your left hand?
This British novelist created the detective Hercule Poirot and is often called the “Queen of Mystery.”
Who is Agatha Christie?
The only NBA franchise to win a championship as a National Basketball League (NBL) team before the NBA’s formation in 1949.
Who are the Minneapolis Lakers?
The library of Des Plaines, Illinois's Maine North High School, which had been closed in 1981, was given a second life when it became the principal setting for this popular 1985 film.
What is "The Breakfast Club"?
This company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) became the backbone of modern AI training.
What is NVIDIA?
I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
What is a keyboard?
This Russian author penned Crime and Punishment and explored deep psychological themes in his work.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This player recorded a quadruple-double in a single game in 1994, a feat achieved only four times in NBA history.
Who is Nate Thurmond?
In Chicago’s street grid, this famous intersection is considered the city’s (0,0) point, dividing east from west and north from south.
What are State and Madison?
This kind of network connects everyday objects, like lights, thermostats, and doorbells, to the internet.
What is the Internet of Things?
How can the number four be half of five?
What is IV?
This Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner wrote love poems and political works, including Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
On February 14, 1990, Michael Jordan wore this jersey number for a single game after his usual #23 jersey was stolen from the Orlando Magic's visitor's locker room.
What is #12?
This number of former Illinois governors have gone to prison.
What is four (Otto Kerner Jr., Dan Walker, George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich)?
Quantum computing relies on these two-state units that can exist in superposition.
What are qubits?
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
What are married people?