Big Brain Game

George Orwell

100

This dystopian science fiction novel is Orwell's most famous book and was published in 1949

Literally 1984

200

Orwell was born in 1903 in this country, whose modern day capital is New Delhi

India

300

Orwell published this "fairy story" in 1945 as a parallel to the Trotskyist-Stalinist conflict in the early Soviet Union 

Animal Farm

400

Orwell gained his distrust for central authority after his early days as a colonial police officer in this country, which borders India and Thailand

Burma or Myanmar

500

Orwell published this book in 1938 about his first hand experience participating in the Anarchist Spanish Revolution 

An Homage to Catalonia

Russian Revolution

100

This revolutionary leader's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, which he changed to this secret identity during his time in London

Lenin

200

This holy man was known as a womanizer and a scoundrel by the Russian court, but was adored by Tsarina Alexandra for his perceived role in healing her son

Grigori Rasputin

300

This "first revolution" forced the Tsar to abdicate and established a provisional government which only lasted 10 months

February Revolution

400

This White Army general was the leader of the Cossacks and attempted to Restore the Tsar during the "July Days" of 1917 

Lavr Kornilov

500

This peasant bandit and leader of the Black Army was considered something of an "anarchist robin hood" and saved the revolution by outflanking General Denikin during his march on Moscow

Nestor Makhno

types of fruit

100

This fruit's most popular variety is red delicious, it grows on trees and is most popular in the fall.

Apples

200

This tropical fruit is grown in regions around the equator, especially in Hawaii and China. It is notable for it's spikes and is often regarded as a symbol of hospitality.  

Pineapple

300

This pink and green fruit is notable for it's white inside speckled with black seeds and it's mystical reptilian nomenclature 

Dragon Fruit

400

This sweet and spikey little nut has sweet and tender flesh with a rosy undertone and grows in the mountains and foothills in southwestern Asia

Lychee

500

This smelly Asian fruit is banned in many public places, such as buses, trains, and airports

Durian

migratory birds

100

This bird comes in regular and Canadian verities, and is notable for it's fatty liver and aggressive personality

geese 

200

This wetland bird has a rotund beak and is the courier to many a baby 

storks

300

These small birds roost intricate flocks which speckle the sky like stars 

starlings

400

These small gilded birds share a name with a luminous stone and a donna tart novel  

Goldfinches 

500

This "great" wetland bird stands on one leg at a time for hours on end in order to dry itself 

Great Blue Heron

presidential assassinations

100

committed on April 14th by John Wilkes Boothe in revenge for the defeat of the south in the civil war 

Abraham Lincoln

200

committed by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22nd, 1963 on the grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas

JFK

300

committed by Anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosz on September 14th, 1901 at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo

William McKinley 

400

Failed assassination committed by Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara on February 15th, 1933 that killed the mayor of Chicago during a parade in Miami

FDR

500

committed by Charles J. Guiteau on 2nd of July while this president was boarding a train at the B and O railroad station in Washington D.C. after being refused the ambassadorship to Chile

Andrew Garfield