East Coast (+Toronto)
Tavas
My Cognitive Science/ History of Neuroscience midterm prep
Medha
Misc
100

The capital of New York State

What is Albany

100
Tavas's age

What is 19?

100

The organ in the body that is responsible for thinking, memory, and making terrible decisions

What is the brain?

100

Medha's favorite color

What is dark red?

100

The name of the fictional university attended by Mike Wazowski and Sulley

What is Monsters University?

200

The name of the famous waterfall shared by New York and Ontario

What is Niagara Falls?

200

The university that Tavas is attending to become a professional non-showerer

What is Carnegie Mellon University

200

The famous psychological experiment that involved dogs learning to salivate at the sound of a bell

Pavlov's Dogs / Classical Conditioning

200

The city in which Medha lives

What is Ithaca?

200

The U.S. state that is the only one whose name can be typed using a single row of a standard QWERTY keyboard

What is Alaska

300

The Canadian landmark that was once the world's tallest freestanding structure

What is the CN tower?

300
The name of Tavas's Dog

What is Simba?

300

The brain region primarily responsible for forming new episodic memories - although in birds, this region is the pallium.

What is the Hippocampus?

300

The names of Medha's siblings.

What are Mahith and Mythri?
300

The TWo countries are tied for the most land borders with other countries, at 14 each

What are China and Russia?

400

The Ivy League School who's alumnus created The Very Hungry Catterpillar

What is Cornell
400

For Aayaan's birthday, Medha and Tavas accidentally accomplished what remarkable feat of uncoordinated coordination by buying him this.

What is a smiski touch lamp?

400

The first name of the famous 19th-century railroad worker survived an iron rod passing through his skull, changing our understanding of personality and the brain, or Ferb's brother.

What is Phineas (Gage)?

400

The bane of Medha’s existence, these forced networking rituals somehow consumed five separate slots on her calendar last week, requiring her to repeatedly explain her major, career aspirations, and entire life story to strangers.

What are coffee chats?

400

The year in which the Titanic sunk

1912

500

The two Great Lakes that are connected by the Niagara River

What is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?

500

What international diplomatic crisis that Medha and Tavas (and Karthik Sivakumar) researched together for National History Day 2022

What is the Iran Hostage Crisis

500

The famous Greek physician, often called the father of medicine, who argued that the brain, rather than the heart, was responsible for thought and sensation

Who is Hippocrates?

500

Medha is interested in antitrust law, which involves regulating monopolies and preventing big corporations from engaging in anticompetitive practices. Name the federal agency that is responsible for enforcing these laws alongside the Department of Justice.

What is the Federal Trade Commission?

500

The official, formal name of the hashtag symbol (#)

What is an Octothorpe