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100
Widely used today in text messaging, ____ were introduced by Japan in the 1990s for weather reports or business information.
What are Emojis?
100
First patented in Japan in 1983, the ____ (a camera accessory) was considered a useless invention at the time, only to become Time’s magazine 25 best inventions and a symbol of vanity 30 years later.
What is the Selfie Stick?
100
Dating back to 1,500 B.C., the Chinese were curing this with salt. Today, we like to say, "___ makes everything better!"
What is Bacon?
100
He has a reading disorder, but you own a book that he wrote.
Who is Charles R. Schwab? Chuck is dyslexic, but was unaware of it until the age of 40, when he learned his son is also dyslexic.
100
Derived from a designer British clothing brand, the word "beobeori" is sometimes used by Koreans to refer to the ___.
What is the trench coat?
200
Used by 70 million people in the world, this language was first developed in the 17th century.
What is Sign Language? Sign Language uses facial expression, hand movement and position/gestures and body language to communicate. ~500,000 people in the US speak American Sign Language (ASL).
200
Check mate! The precursor of chess originated in this country in Asia around 280-550 CE.
Where is India?
200
This taste, in Japanese, translates as “pleasant savory taste” and it’s prominent in foods like Parmesan cheese, mushrooms and anchovies.
What is Umami? This is one of the five tastes discovered by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908.
200
At the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Frank Haven Hall, inventor of the Braille typewriter, was famously approached by _____ who thanked him with a hug and a kiss. She went on to become the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Who was Helen Keller? Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She earned her degree from Harvard.
200
In this country, it's encouraged to take powernaps while at work.
Where is Japan?
300
Common item used in the shower. The original Hindi word means "to massage or knead".
What is Shampoo? The word shampoo entered the English language from the Indian subcontinent during the colonial era. It dates to 1762 and is derived from Hindi chāmpo (चाँपो [tʃãːpoː])
300
______ became the first black woman to become a self-made millionaire by inventing hair straightening.
Who was Madame C. J. Walker?
300
This type of food is traditional to the African American experience and takes its origins mostly from Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama (a collection of states commonly referred to as the Deep South).
What is Soul Food?
300
According to a study, China's labor market in 2010 reached the Lewis Turning Point, named after Sir William Arthur Lewis, who in 1979 became the first black person to win the Nobel prize in _____.
What is Economics? The Lewis Turning Point is defined as a situation where surplus rural labor is fully absorbed into the manufacturing sector.
300
One in four of these iconic Wild West frontiersmen were black.
Who were the cowboys?
400
This French-based language is spoken by a small portion of the African American population—mostly in Louisiana.
What is Creole?
400
A professor of animal science at Colorado State University, Temple Grandin in 2010 was listed in the Time Magazine’s list of most influential people in the world. As a youth, she invented the "___ Box" for people with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to calm their anxiety.
What is the Hug Box? Temple invented the Hug Box or “Squeeze Box” to calm people with ASD and anxiety disorders based on an experience she had on a farm in her youth, observing cows. She went on to revolutionize stockyards.
400
According to the American with Disabilities Act, there must be at least 1 of these for every 25 outside of a restaurant.
What is an Accessible Parking Spot? The American with Disabilities Act, or ADA, enforces that a restaurant must provide accessible spaces in its parking lot that are at least 8 feet in width, be on a level surface with a slope of 2 percent or less, and there must be at least one accessible parking spot for every 25 parking spaces in a restaurant’s lot.
400
Women's soccer star, ____, holds the record for scoring the most international goals, also had a club foot and had to wear casts as a child to fix it.
Who is Mia Hamm?
400
~5M, ~20M or ~50M? In the United States, this is the number of people living with a disability.
What is ~50M people? As of 2010, 56.7 million people were reported as living with a disability, which can include sign/hearing/speech impairment, mobility, intellectual, mental, learning, ASD, emotional and more—anything inhibiting normal daily functioning.
500
In the 17th century, the Chinese made a sauce of pickled fish and spices. Later discovered by English explorers, its name is now used for this condiment. Hint: Don't ask for this on your Chicago-style "Hatdogeu"!
What is Ketchup? The Chinese called it kôe-chiap or kê-chiap (鮭汁), meaning the brine of pickled fish or shellfish.
500
The earliest known recorded recipes for this were written in a military manuscript compiled in 1044 in China. HINT: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November. The __ Treason and Plot.
What is Gunpowder?
500
Most likely adopted from those made by Japanese immigrants to the United States in the late 19th century, ____ (food item) is similar to the Greek concept of Aleuromancy, which means the use of flour for divination.
What is the Fortune Cookie? In its original form, the Greeks would bake slips of paper with sentences on them inside of balls of flour.
500
Honored in the Catholic Church as the Saint of Calcutta, and worshipped as a deity by some Hindus, ____ once said, "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."
Who was Mother Teresa?
500
Cataract surgery was first performed in ____ (Asian country) using a curved needle to remove the cataract, the eye would later be soaked with warm clarified butter and then bandaged.
Where is India? Maharshi Sushruta, an ancient Indian surgeon, first described the procedure in “Sushruta Samhita, Uttar Tantra”, an Indian medical treatise (800 BC)