The year 2011
On November 18th, 2011, Swedish programmer Markus Persson officially released what would go on to become one of the most popular games every sold. Microsoft would eventually buy the company Persson worked at for $2.5 billion dollars. What is the name of his video game.
Minecraft
The film Babadook was released in 2014. This tale of a cursed children pop up book would make a whooping thirty thousand dollars in its opening weekend. This low budget horror however would win best film, best director, and best screenplay at the AACTA awards, the Australian version of the Oscars. The word Ba-badook” translates roughly to "he is coming for sure" in Hebrew. What is Babadook an anagram for?
A Bad Book
How old is Eagle Rock High School
99 years
The Tuba is the bass of the brass family. Invented in 1835 by Wieprecht and Moritz somewhere in Germany, They patented the "bass tuba" (pitched in F) to bring power and stability to the low end of Prussian military bands. How many valves did the original tuba have?
5
Los Angeles is home to the Rams. The Rams moved to saint Louis in 1995 for twenty years before returning to city of Angeles in 2015. In February of 2022 they won their first Super Bowl in their home of Sofi stadium. How may months have 28 days.
12
Those born in 2011 are considered born in the year of the Rabbit. Other famous people born in the year oft he rabbit include Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Johnny Depp, and famed world war II general Douglas MacArthur. On October 20th, 1944 MacArthur famously proclaimed”I have returned.” Which country did he return to.
Phillipines
With low budgets and big audiences, horror has always been a money maker in Hollywood. A24 produced the biggest grossing horror movie of the year raking in almost 400 million worldwide for a movie the spent merely ten million to make. This blockbuster was a expansion on a series of shorts originally aired on YouTube. What is this movie.
Backrooms
Minh Thai graduated from Eagle Rock in 1982 when he was just sixteen. That same year he traveled to Budapest to compete in the first world championship of its kind. Scoring a winning time of 22.9 seconds, the current record is now 2.2 seconds, what puzzle did Minh solve to become its first world champion.
The Rubik's Cube
A capable tuba player could cover about three octaves. Each octave contains seven notes, eight if you count the repeating root note. The western musical interval was defined in the 6th century BCE by which famed mathematician who was also obsessed with triangles.
Pythagoras
Duncan lives right in the shadow of Dodger Stadium, home of the world famous Los Angeles Dodgers. The baseball club was originally established in 1883 in Brooklyn New York and became known as that Trolly Dodgers in 1932 before moving toLos Angeles in 1958. If a bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total and the bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
$.05
Duncan was born on October 23rd around 3:30 am at Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood. About ten minutes later a 7.2 magnitude earthquake caused wide spread damage in which country that connects two continents.
Turkey
Perhaps the scariest thing coming to LA soon, Dun will be getting his learners permit, and joining the rest of the terrible drivers on the road. America has the highest rate for accidents per driver amongst developed nations. Which Scandinavian country boasts to have the least?
Norway
Roger Bobo graduated from Eagle Rock in 1956, before attending the Eastman School of Music and establishing the Los Angeles Brass Quintet and eventually joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 1961 he became the first musician to perform at Carnage Hall as a soloist for what instrument?
The Tuba
On June 28th 2024, Katseye released their debut single fittingly called, Debut. While The k-pop style group has non Tuba players, it does feature a multinational group with members from the Philippines, The United States, Korea, and Switzerland. Just like Katseye, Switzerland is a multinational country. Name three of its four national languages.
French, German, Italian, Romansh
The NBA’s Lakers play here in downtown Los Angeles, a very arid city, known for not having any lakes. The team was dubbed the Lakers when they played in Minneapolis Minnesota, known as the land of ten thousand lakes. Which country has the most natural lakes?
Canada