October
Facts
Brain Anatomy
NCAA Football
Name that generation
Expect the unexpected
100

Which German festival involving beer is held from late September into early October?

Oktoberfest

100

This part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing visual information?

The occipital lobe

100

How many points is a touchdown worth?

6 

100

What generation is most associated with growing up playing Oregon trail in computer labs?

Millennials

100

What dating show features contestants meeting each other while standing behind a wall?

Love is blind

200

Where does the biggest Halloween parade take place?

New York City 

200

What part of the brain is responsible for regulating breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure?

The oblongata

200

In what year was the first Rose Bowl played?

1902

200

What does AOL stand for?

America Online

200

What popular Midwest phrase means you're about to leave, even though you might stay for 45 minutes saying goodbye?

Iowa goodbye or a Midwest goodbye

300

What event caused the U.S. stock market to crash on October 29, 1929?

Black Tuesday

300

What fatty substance insulates nerve fibers and helps electrical signals travel faster?

Myelin

300

What was the original name of the Heisman Trophy when it was first awarded in 1935?

Downtown Athletic Club Trophy

300

What generation comes immediately before baby boomers?

The silent generation

300

What year did Omaha host the first College World Series?

1950

400

What pigment decreases in plants during autumn, making them lose their green color?

Chlorophyll

400

The first recorded drawing of a human brain waves was made by?

Hans Berger, a German psychiatrist in 1924

400

Which two schools played in the first college football game?

Rutgers and Princeton

400

This generation remembers having to wait for a song to play on the radio so they could record it onto a cassette tape?

Gen X

400

How much money did Father Flanagan borrow to rent the original home for boys?

$90.00

500

This U.S. president was born on October 14,1890, and later became the supreme allied commander during World War II.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

500

This protein forms the main structural component of the plaques commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease?

What is beta-amyloid

500

Who was the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy?

(Bonus) if you can tell me the year?

Ernie Davis (1961)

500

This generation grew up with Vine, Musical.ly, and eventually TikTok?

Gen Z

500

What is the world's most expensive cheese famously made using donkey milk?

Pule cheese