Benin
Benin’s capital city is Porto-Novo, but this is the country’s most populous city and economic capital.
What is Cotonou?
This river separates Harvard from downtown Boston.
What is the Charles River?
In 2015, CMU mistakenly sent out 800 acceptance emails to 800 rejected applications for this master’s program.
What is Computer Science?
The Dallas Cowboys play their home games in this nearby city.
What is Arlington, Texas?
The first internet emoticon, the smiley :), was created by a computer scientist at this university.
What is Carnegie Mellon University?
Benin gained independence from France in this year.
What is 1960?
The annual Harvard-Yale football game is known by this name.
What is “The Game”?
The famous prison break scene in the Dark Knight Rises was filed outside this key research building of the Chemistry department.
What is The Mellon Institute?
With the surname Raymond, but common known by his first name, this famous singer was born October 14, 1978 in Dallas.
Who is Usher?
This Pittsburgh staple restaurant invented a sandwich, with fries and coleslaw added, during the Depression so that labors could hold their entire lunch in one hand.
What is Primanti Bros. Sandwich?
Benin is a tropical country with an economy heavily dependent on this agricultural product. (There are two options)
What is cotton or palm oil?
Harvard University was founded in this year.
What is 1636?
During the 2025 Emmys, in addition to the 10 CMU alumni who took home Emmys, this alumnus, who was a main character on The Good Place, was honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.
Who is Ted Danson?
From the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Tanner and Josh became know as “the Texas guys” while traveling around the world on Season 27 of this CBS competition reality show.
What is The Amazing Race?
This is the largest single-artist museum in North America, celebrating the life and work of a Pittsburgh-born pop art icon.
What is The Andy Warhol Museum?
Benin transitioned to a democratic government in the early 1990s after abandoning this prior political system.
What is Marxism-Leninism?
Harvard admitted their first female student in this year.
What is 1920?
The film, A Beautiful Mind, was based on this mathematical genius and 1948 graduate of CMU.
Who is John Forbes Nash?
Although he lives in Retroville, this Nickelodeon “boy genius” was originally invented and animated in Dallas, Texas.
Who is Jimmy Neutron?
With 446 bridges through the city, more than Venice, Italy, Pittsburgh has earned the following title.
What is the “City of Bridges”?
Benin participates in this French-backed monetary system used across West Africa.
What is the CFA franc system?
This is the number of U.S. Presidents tat have earned degrees from Harvard University.
What is 8? (Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Quincy Adams and John Adams)
Gabriel Macht, a 1994 graduate of CMU, plays a Harvey Spector, a prominent lawyer and Harvard Law School graduate in this TV show.
What is Suits?
Named in Forbes magazine’s Top 10 Most Powerful Women every year since 2010, this Dallas-born former computer scientist received only 2% of her former husband’s roughly $100B wealth when they divorced in 2021.
Who is Melinda French Gates?
This McDonald’s item, which is considered the world’s most famous hamburger, was invented near Pittsburgh in 1967.
What is the Big Mac?