"We didn't start the fire"
Transportation
All in your head
Gen Alpha
Movies from my childhood...or Brett's college days!
100

This actress is often associated with Hollywood glamour and JFK

Who is Marilyn Monroe?

100

This underwater appendage provides lateral resistance, helping prevent a sailboat from being pushed sideways by wind.

What is a keel? 

100

The largest part of the brain which is responsible for thinking, memory and voluntary movement. 

What is the cerebrum?

100

This famous tight end had many swifies tuning in to watch more NFL games then ever before.

Who is Travis Kelce?

100

This fictional device, housed in a DeLorean requires 1.21 gigawatts of power to initiate temporal displacement.

What is the flux capacitor? 

200

In this 1951 novel Holden Caulfeild wanders NYC after being expelled from a prep school.

What is the Catcher in the Rye?

200

This invention developed in the early 1800s, revolutionized travel and trade by allowing heavy loads and passengers to be moved long distances. 

What is the steam locomotive? 

200

This lobe processes visual information from the eyes.

What is the occipital lobe?

200

“Dial Drunk” and “Northern Attitude” are popular tracks by this rising indie-folk artist that can't seem to enunciate if you ask me

Who is Noah Kahan? 

200

Matthew McConaughey's breakout character repeatedly uses this phrase describing how he likes high school girls.

What is "alright, alright, alright"

300

This 19th-century frontiersman, folk hero and US congressman from Tennessee became famous for his exploits in the wilderness. 

Who is Davy Crockett?

300

This American company, originally know for bicycles, became a major WWII supplier of motorcycles for Allied forces.

What is Indian?

300

This "feel good" chemical released during exercise is often linked to a runner's high? 

What are endorphins? 

300

This streaming series features a group of kids in Hawkins battling creatures from the Upside Down.

What is Stranger Things? 

300

In Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction Vincent explains that in Europe a Quarter Pounder is not called a Quarter Pounder it's actually  called this

What is a Royale with cheese? 

400

Based in South Bend, Indiana, this company became one of the oldest U.S. automakers before closing in 1967.

What is Studebaker?

400

This aerodynamic phenomenon, named after a German physicist, describes the tendency of a spinning object in flight to deviate from its straight path due to pressure difference.  

HINT (think basketball and the Hoover Dam) 

What is the Magnus effect?


400

In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest Randle McMurphy ultimately receives this controversial surgery to reduce agitation and behavior. 

What is a lobotomy? 

400

This slang term describes someone who is overly obsessed or trying too hard for attention, often romantically.

What is a simp?

I will also accept 

What is a pick me?

400

In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure which historical figure takes over an exercise class

Who is Joan of Arc?

500

This failed 1961 U.S.-backed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro took place at a site called Playa Girón.

What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion? 

500

This principle explains how rockets generate thrust in space despite the absence of atmosphere, relying on conservation of momentum.

What is Newton's third law of motion? 

500

This part of the brain helps link emotions to memories and is strongly involved in fear-based learning.

What is the amygdala? 

500

This YouTube philanthropist and creator of extreme challenge videos is better known online as MrBeast

Who is Jimmy Donaldson?

500

This movie featuring a group of oil drillers sent into space by NASA to stop an asteroid was the first movie to make me cry....we know it wasn't the last

What is Armageddon?