Over the HILL
"MIT"
Mathletics
Music
Black History
1987
100

This flat entrance can be found here.

Notting Hill

100

This cartoon nerd is allergic to bee stings and has hypothyroidism. He is also lactose-intolerant and has a secret crush on his elderly boss.

Mr. Smithers

100

In David’s favourite comedic movie “Don’t be a Menace to Society...” the number of Dashiki’s house on Penetration Ave.

6969

100

This singer maintains homes in Los Angeles, Barbados, and in London's Holland Park.

Rihanna

100

On June 30, 2015, this ballerina became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theater’s 75-year history.

Misty Copeland

100

In spring of 1987, this illusionist led his team to the NBA title.

Magic Johnson

200

The first Latino American hip hop group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Cypress Hill

200

Identify this famous person born in 1947 in Detroit, MI.

MITt Romney

200

David played the trombone in a local production of The Music Man, a play that features this many trombones as a signature song.

76

200

The instrument used as the voice of Charlie Brown’s teachers

trombone

200

Founded as the African Institute in 1837, this was the US’s first HBCU.

Cheney University

200

This family debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987.

The Simpsons

300

Sugar Hill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight” in this year.

1980

300

At the end of this 2004 comedy, the character by the same name dances to this song.

Napolean Dynamite

300

David holds his high school’s record for heaviest single deadlift at 306kg. This is the world record weight for a single deadlift. (within 50kg)

501kg (or 1104.5 lbs)

300

David wrote an original composition of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia” for his university Jazz Composition Capstone class. Dizzy ran for this political position in 1964. 

US President

300

Nayvadius Wilburn is the real name of this popular rapper.

Future

300

Before this acronymous trio dropped their first studio album, they released the compilation heard here.

NWA

400

Identify this famous hill in California. 

Twin Peaks

400

Identify this product:

MarMITe

400

The number described by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as ‘the least random number’ because it is the most common choice when humans are asked to select a number between 1 and 20.

17

400

Name the tv show that aired in 1987. Listen here.

A Different World

400

A landmark Supreme Court case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriages.

Loving v. Virginia

400

Fourteen days after David was born, this team won the Super Bowl in the Rose Bowl Stadium.

NY Giants

500

“a town in the low mountains of the Indian subcontinent, popular as a high-altitude  holiday resort during the hot season”

hill station

500

“Lack of understanding, individual, or unusual features; impersonality.”

anoniMITy

500

The next number in the series: 2, 9, 30, 93, …


282 (multiply the previous number by three and then add three)

500

The most recorded standard composed by a jazz musician in history is this song, by Thelonious Monk. 

Round Midnight

500

This snack brand is working in partnership with BLM and with the initiative #AmplifyBlackVoices.

Doritos

500

This video game released in 1987, features the youngest boxing titleholder ever.

 Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out