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This legal stimulant doesn’t create energy in the body. Instead, it works by preventing the brain from recognizing the chemical that signals tiredness.
What is caffeine? Accepted answers: caffeine stimulant, caffeine
Correct answer 400 If stolen 800
Addiction is commonly described as a chronic disorder that changes brain circuits involved in reward, motivation, and this ability that helps a person control impulses and make decisions.
What is self-control?
Accepted answers: impulse control, decision making, executive control
Correct answer 500 If stolen 1000
This chemical compound, produced when yeast converts sugars during fermentation, is the intoxicating ingredient found in beer, wine, and spirits.
What is ethanol? Accepted answers: ethyl alcohol, ethanol alcohol
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What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
SWIMS
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Nicotine reinforces addiction largely because it triggers a surge of this neurotransmitter responsible for the brain’s reward and pleasure system.
What is dopamine? Accepted answers: dopamine release, dopamine reward pathway
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Long-term substance use alters this brain chemical strongly associated with reward, reinforcement, and motivation.
What is dopamine?
Correct answer 600 if stolen 1000
Before alcohol can be fully broken down in the body, ethanol is first converted by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase into this toxic compound that contributes to hangover symptoms.
What is acetaldehyde?
Correct answer 600 if stolen 1000
Jimmy’s mother had three children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday. What is the name of the third child?
R/W
Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had 3 children.
Correct Answer 1000
Incorrect 800 to the other team
Research has shown that this common dietary ingredient can trigger dopamine activity in the brain’s reward system similar to some addictive substances, especially when consumed in highly processed foods.
What is sugar? Accepted answers: added sugar, refined sugar
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This part of the brain, responsible for judgment, planning, and impulse control, is often weakened by long-term addiction.
What is the prefrontal cortex? Accepted answers: frontal lobe, prefrontal cortex of the brain
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Alcohol enhances the activity of this major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, which slows neural activity and contributes to alcohol’s relaxing and sedating effects.
What is GABA? Accepted answers: gamma-aminobutyric acid, GABA neurotransmitter, GABA inhibitory neurotransmitter
Correct Answer 900 if stolen 1500
I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
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An eyeball
correct answer 900
Incorrect 1200 to the other team
Despite being legal and socially normalized, this stimulant is considered by many researchers to be the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world.
What is caffeine? Accepted answers: caffeine stimulant, caffeine
Correct answer 800 if stolen 1600
Many scientists describe addiction as a chronic, relapsing condition affecting the brain, but recovery programs emphasize personal responsibility and behavioral change. This word describes that balance between illness and responsibility.
What is accountability? Accepted answers: personal responsibility, responsibility for actions
Correct answer 800 if stolen 1600
In severe alcohol withdrawal, this medical emergency can develop 48–96 hours after the last drink and may include hallucinations, seizures, extreme confusion, and dangerous spikes in heart rate and blood pressure.
What is delirium tremens? Accepted answers: DTs, alcohol withdrawal delirium, delirium tremens syndrome
Correct answer 800 if stolen 2000
In the human body, this is the only bone not connected to another bone.
R/W
What is the hyoid bone?
Correct answer 1200
Incorrect 2000 to the other team
After inhalation from a cigarette or vape, nicotine travels from the lungs through the bloodstream, crosses the blood–brain barrier, and activates the brain’s dopamine reward circuitry in approximately this amount of time.
What is 7–10 seconds? closest wins 1000
Range 3-15 seconds
Addiction is often described as a chronic condition because even after long periods of abstinence, this intense mental experience—triggered by memories, stress, or cues—can suddenly return.
What is a craving? Accepted answers: drug craving, urge to use, intense urge, obsession to use
Correct answer 1500 if stolen2500
Excessive alcohol use was responsible how many deaths per day in the United States in 2024?
What is about 488 deaths per day?
Closest wins 2000 (Range 467-499)
The blue whale, the largest animal ever known to exist, primarily feeds on this tiny shrimp-like creature.
What is krill?
Correct answer 3000