Brooks Jeopardy

Brooks lore

100

What is Brooks' favorite music genre?

Jazz

200

What is the name of Brooks' lizard

Bonus points if you know what he named him after

Belisarius 

named after Belisarius Cawl from Warhammer

300

What was Brooks' most listened to band on Spotify at the end of 2022?

Bonus 200 points if you can say what percentile of listenership he was in.

Green Day.

Top 0.01%.

400

What state was Brooks born in?

Bonus points if you can name the city

Portsmouth, Virginia

500

What two states does Brooks have an unhealthy attachment to

Virginia and Vermont

gaming

100

The first video game Brooks ever played.

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

200

Brooks' favorite game of all time.

Half-Life 2

300

This 2008 game allows you to play as a parkour runner in a dystopian city-state.

Mirror's Edge

400

What is the name of Brooks' scattergun in TF2?

FedEx Package Scanner

500

This 2007 singleplayer RTS game puts the player in the shoes of a US Army commander in a Third World War in 1989. What game is it?

World in Conflict

politics lore

100

This man is the most overrated President of the 20th Century

Teddy Roosevelt (nothing on my GOAT Woodrow Wilson)

200

This man was a three time Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1890s, and is most famously remembered for his "Cross of Gold" speech.

William Jennings Bryan

300

This man ran as a third-party candidate against Bill Clinton and George HW Bush in 1992.

Ross Perot

400

This woman is widely seen as the reason why the Equal Rights Amendment was never passed.

Phyllis Schlafly

500

This man headed a committee to investigate illegal CIA human experiments in the mid 1970's. He later ran for president in 1976 and this committee is named after him.

Frank Church

cold war stuff

100

This man was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

Nikita Khrushchev

200

This war over an Asian peninsula was never properly resolved, and still technically continues to this day.

The Korean War

300

This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during its final years.

Mikhail Gorbachev

400

This battle during Vietnam was widely viewed as symbolic of its brutality and utter pointlessness. The Battle of ____ Hill.

The Battle of Hamburger Hill

500

This thing strip of land in West Germany was viewed as being strategically vital to NATO's defense in a war with the Soviet Union

The Fulda Gap

Chud literature

100

This book is about a dystopian, totalitarian England

1984

200

This science fiction novel inspired the titular rings from the Halo video games

Ringworld by Larry Niven

300

This novel written by HP Lovecraft describes the protagonist's encounter with a cult dedicated to an ancient, aquatic God.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

400

This science fiction novel is about the crew of a damaged, constantly accelerating sub-light spacecraft as they experience ever increasing time dilation.

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

500

This science fiction novel is about a power armor-wearing soldier in a war against a violent, hive minded race of insects.

Armor by John Steakley