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100

What was the first Medtronic device implanted in a human?

What is the first implantable pacemaker? 

100

What famous toy originally came from tossing pie tins in Connecticut?

What is The Frisbee (from Frisbie Pie Company tins)? 

100

What is the official state dessert?

What is Boston cream pie?

100

In a famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in June 1987, President Ronald Reagan exhorted Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down what structure that symbolized the division of Germany?

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

This pop star and NFL player are currently in a high-profile relationship

What is Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

200

How many patients worldwide benefit from Medtronic therapies every second?

What is two patients every second?

200

Connecticut is one of only four U.S. states to ban what kind of roadside advertisement?

What is Billboards?

200

What is the red brick or painted line on the ground running through Boston?

What is The Freedom Trail?

200

What forest located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg is also a variety of smoked ham produced in Germany?

What is Black Forest?

200

This James Cameron epic won best picture in 1998

What is Titanic?

300

What was Medtronic’s first headquarters location?

What is a small garage in Northeast Minneapolis?

300

What type of food was invented at Louis' Lunch in New Haven in 1895?

What is The hamburger? 

300

What is the name of the Boston’s highway reconstruction project that involved “burying” the major routes through the city 

What is The Big Dig?

300

Which German physicist received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of energy quanta?

What is Max Planck?

300

He won best actor for playing the Joker in 2019

Who is Joaquin Phoenix?

400

Who were the founders of Medtronic?

What is Earl Bakken and Palmer Hermundslie?

400

What major compromise, proposed by Connecticut at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, shaped U.S. Congress?

What is the Connecticut Compromise (or Great Compromise)?

400

The world’s first computer, Whirlwind I, that operated in real-time was invented at which school in this state?

What is MIT?

400

What is the name of the German currency that was replaced by the Euro in 2002?

What is Deutsche Mark (DM)?

400

The “Eye of the Tiger” montage appears in this boxing film

What is Rocky III?

500

What is the nickname for Medtronic’s hybrid closed-loop system for diabetes?

What is Artificial Pancreas? 

500

What was the name of the first American submarine, built in Connecticut in 1776?

What is the Turtle?

500

This game was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts

What is basketball?

500

A Frankfurt doctor was told by a patient "I have lost myself" and he observed and studied her over a period of five years. This patient became the basis for his paper and lecture in 1906 which ultimately led to his name being associated with what disease?

What is Alzheimer's?

500

What are the full names of all 4 founders of Hogwarts?

Who is Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin?