Life and Times of John Nash
After Princeton, on the academic job market, Nash weighed two offers between this school and the University of Chicago. He picked the former.
What is MIT?
Before he was Bender, he was Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson's famous show about New York's bohemians.
Who is Anthony Rapp?
Born in Welch, this mustachioed Black man has hosted Family Feud since 2010.
Who is Steve Harvey?
There has to be a mathematical reason for...
What is, How bad that tie is?
This classic black-and-white game is the highest-grossing and best-selling game of all time.
What is chess?
This was the official diagnosis for Nash's mental ailment.
What is paranoid schizophrenia?
Who is Christof?
Born in Farmington, he was state representative, secretary of state, and governor of West Virginia before serving alongside Shelley Moore Capito in Congress.
Who is Joe Manchin?
Classes will dull your mind; destroy the potential for...
What is authentic creativity?
Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers are two properties owned by this American multinational conglomerate.
What is Hasbro, Inc.?
This was Nash's baccalaureate alma mater, named such until 1967.
What is the Carnegie Institute of Technology?
We don't see him take classes, but Paul Bettany's character is supposed to be a graduate student in this discipline.
What is literature?
Born in Fairmont, he gained fame as head coach of the LSU Fighting Tigers before working with the Miami Dolphins for a season. Now, Roll Tide!
Who is Nick Saban?
So how about it, Nash? You scared?
Terrified. Mortified. Petrified... By you.
What is stupefied?
Maker of grand strategy and 4X games, such as Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive is headquartered in this European capital.
What is Stockholm, Sweden?
Nash is portrayed trying to solve the Ziemann Hypothesis in the film, but he actually helped solve this open math problem.
What is Hilbert's nineteenth problem?
Russell Crowe sings professionally with this band, his band.
What is Roman Antix?
Born in Coalwood, this Rocket Boy looked to the October Sky and eventually left his blue-collar trajectory to work for NASA.
Who is Homer Hickam?
This class will be a waste of your--and what is...
What is infinitely worse, my time?
At 42 million copies sold, this battle royale game surpassed Minecraft (33 million) as the best-selling PC game of all time.
What is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)?
In 1994, Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics alongside John Harsanyi and this German.
Who is Reinhard Selten?
Not an actor, but integral to the film, he would later team up with Ron Howard, yet again, and write the screenplay for The Da Vinci Code (2006).
Who is Akiva Goldsman?
Born in Chelyan, he spent his fourteen-year professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers as point guard. Now his silhouette is arguably more famous than he is.
Who is Jerry West?
Marcee can't be real...
What is, she never gets old?
The quintessential paradox of game theory, this situation involves two individuals who are tested to cooperate with the police or with each other.
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma?