DO YOU REMEMBER?
25TH NIGHT OF DECEMBER
EARTH
WIND
FIRE
400
Memory consolidation is the process by which a memory transitions from this type of memory to a more permanent one.
What is short term?
400
On December 25th, 36 AD, the forces of Emperor Guangwu conquer the separatist Chengjia empire to reunite this empire.
What is China?
400
This soil-dwelling animal is sometimes called a nightcrawler, due to its habit of coming out of its burrow to munch... and mate, late at night.
What is an Earthworm?
400
This is movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space.
What is solar wind?
400
This is the act of intentionally setting fire to a property.
What is arson?
800
This is a type of false memory that occurs when many different people incorrectly remember the same thing, named for a particularly widespread misremembering.
What is the Mandela Effect?
800
The first documented celebration of this holiday occurs in Rome in 336 AD.
What is Christmas?
800
The Romans worshiped the Earth God Terra, while the Greeks worshiped her, a near exact counterpart.
Who is Gaia?
800
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in this region of Earth surrounding the equator.
What are the Tropics?
800
Historical documents show both ancient Roman and Hindu funerary practices involving this heap of combustible material.
What is a pyre?
1200
This type of memory is the shared pool of knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity
What is collective memory?
1200
In 1914, a series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front of this war to celebrate Christmas.
What is World War I?
1200
The gravitational force exerted by the Moon causes these, divided into four stages, low, high, flood and ebb.
What are the tides?
1200
Cervantes' Don Quixote mistakenly identifies windmills as these large creatures, though when he rides to fight with them he is knocked off his horse by their "blades".
What are giants?
1200
No, not like the one in 2017, this Celtic "fire" festival became known as Allhallowtide after a Catholic-approved rebrand in 609.
What is Samhain? OR Samuain OR any other similar enough pronunciation?
1600
This psychological effect occurs when a person forgets something as soon as they enter a room.
What is the "doorway effect"?
1600
The Nina, The Pinta, the... This one runs onto a reef off of Haiti on December 25, 1492.
What is the Santa Maria?
1600
One gram of soil can harbor up to 10 billion of these tiny living organisms, too small to be seen with the naked eye.
What are microorganisms or microbes?
1600
The series of typhoons said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets in the late 13th century were given this name, usually translated as divine wind.
What is Kamikaze?
1600
You're fired, mate. Well, maybe not fired in the UK, but rather, this term, originally referring to a workman picking up their things and leaving.
What is sack or sacked?
2000
Amnesia can occur due to damage to this part of the brain, used for decision-making and committing information to memory for future safety uses.
What is the hippocampus?
OR temporal lobe
2000
She is born on December 25th, 1949. At age 27, she would play Carrie White, in Carrie.
Who is Sissy Spacek?
2000
Images of Earth taken from space, particularly during the Apollo program, have been credited with altering the way that people viewed the planet that they lived on, called this effect.
What is the Overview Effect?
2000
Vāyu, Hindu god of the winds is praised as "the life breath of the world" in these texts, containing the most recent additions to the central teachings of Hinduism.
What are the Upanishads?
2000
"Ready, aim, fire!" is a common refrain from early fire-arm-carrying military captains, replacing this end to the command for archers from previous centuries.
What is "Loose"?