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100

Identify 3 oceans that border Canada

The Atlantic, The Pacific and The Arctic Ocean

100

This mammal lays eggs instead of giving live birth, making it the ultimate oddball.

Platypus

100

This Swiss psychologist is best known for his theory of cognitive development in children.

Jean Piaget
100

Patricia Bauer earned a mentor award from this APA division, which is dedicated to understanding how humans grow and change from infancy through old age.

APA Division 7 (Developmental Psychology)

100

What is the name of the university where Patricia Bauer currently holds a named professorship?

Emory University

200

Which province produces the most maple syrup?

Quebec

200

Archaeologists have found this 3,000-year-old food that was found in a jar and found it still edible. What is this food?

Honey

200

This study involved children learning to imitate aggressive behavior from a doll

Bandura Bobo Doll experiment

200

This pachyderm, long associated with remembering, is featured on the cover of Patricia Bauer’s book "Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond." What is this animal?

Elephant

200

Patricia was Editor-in-Chief of this well-known, prestigious psychology journal

Psychological Science

300

Who is the current Prime Minister?

Mark Carney

300

This U.S. state has the most volcanoes.

Alaska

300

Maslow studied over 3,000 college students and found that none of them fully met the criteria for this top level of his hierarchy of needs.

Self-actualization

300

This state, home to Miami University where Patricia Bauer earned her PhD, is also where the Wright brothers invented powered flight

Ohio

300

This number matches the atomic number of Zinc, the length in days of several months in the calendar year, and the number of doctoral students she has supervised.

30 students!

400

How many provinces and territories are there?

10 provinces, 3 territories

400

This animal’s eyes are bigger than its brain.


Shrimp

400

The human brain is about 60% fat, and it uses approximately this percentage of the body’s total energy at rest.

Within 5% of the answer.

20%

400

This publicly available stimulus bank, used for research on self-derivation, shares its acronym with a word meaning perfect happiness or divine joy.

BLISS (Bauer Lab Integration and Self-Derivation Stimulus)

400

This collection of standardized tests, which Patricia Bauer helped develop, includes a measure of episodic memory.

NIH Toolbox

500

What is the name of the intergalactic TV series that was filmed here on Keele Campus, Toronto Canada.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds were filmed at YorkU specifically around Vari Hall and Scott Library.

500

What is the African country that sits closest to 0° longitude and latitude.

Ghana

500

Reflexes, rapid decision-making, and quick reactions all rely on neural signals traveling at roughly this speed. 

Best estimate to the nearest 100 (either mph or kmh)

536 km/h (350 mph)

500

Patricia Bauer was awarded an honorary doctorate by a university in 2021. This university is in a country known for Vikings and Legos.

What is the name of this university? 

Half points for just the country.

Aarhus University, Denmark

500

Though it shares its name with a large, resonant instrument, this “show me to how to make a ___” 3-step elicited imitation task measures how well children remember and imitate actions.

Gong