Neuroscience
Area of the brain associated with non-fluent aphasia
What is Brocas area
This hemisphere is typically dominant for language in right-handed individuals
What is the left hemisphere
City for the 2024 Olympics
What is the Big East Conference
The species that arrived at the DC zoo after much anticipation
What are the pandas?
This bundle of fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is crucial for interhemispheric communication.
What is the corpus callosum
This branch of linguistics deals with the sounds of human speech and how they are produced, transmitted, and perceived
What is phonology?
Summer music era defined by Charlie XCX
What is Brat Summer?
Cheer that means “what rocks”
What is Hoya Saxa
This widely used scale evaluates stroke severity by scoring neurological function in areas like consciousness, motor ability, and speech
NIH stroke scale
Damage to this brain region may cause difficulty with planning and organizing speech sounds, known as apraxia of speech
What is the motor cortex
Place in the brain that is responsible for language comprehension
What is Wernicke’s area
The feud between two rappers that resulted in multiple diss tracks
What is Kendrick vs. Drake
Number of National Championships Georgetown has won in Mens basketball
What is one
What is the name of CRL dog?
What is Pippa?
EEG stands for ______ and measures ERPs
electroencephalogram
This term refers to the smallest units of meaning in a language, which can be words, prefixes, or suffixes
What is a morpheme
Beetles song on Beyoncé's album released in 2024
Georgetown’s alumni include this former U.S. president, who graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 1968
What is Bill Clinton
This type of stroke, often called a "mini-stroke," involves a temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain and resolves without permanent damage
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
This term refers to a blockage in an artery that prevents blood from reaching the brain
What is an ischemic stroke
Gene is associated with speech and language development in humans
What is the FOXP2 gene
The celebrity of the DC look alike contest held in November
What is Jack Schlossberg
What building on Georgetown's campus was completed in 1928
What is Healy Hall?
Where is Noam Chomsky?
Brazil