Video Games
While not the first video game, this game popularized gaming and brought video games into the mainstream
What is Pong?
This phenom played famously played football with the Oakland Raiders and Baseball with the Kansas City Royals
Who is Bo Jackson?
President Biden announced this sort of forgiveness in August of 2022
What is student loan forgiveness?
This man is perhaps the most famous of all the poets and write Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Hamlet
Who is Shakespeare?
This symbol was popularized by the Crusaders Hospitallers along with the Geneva Convection, and is a now common sign for medical assistance
What is the Red Cross?
This game has far and away the most sales of any game on any platform
What is Minecraft?
He is the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series
Who is Deion Sanders?
This car company announced they would discontinue their famous Challenger and Charger models in the near future
What is Dodge?
This female writer penned the famous "Because I could not stop for Death" and was drawn to topics such as isolation, natural beauty, and death
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This popular antibiotic was found in a laboratory entirely by accident
What is penicillin?
This popular RPG series takes place in the 22nd century after a cataclysmic nuclear war
What is Fallout?
After leading the Broncos to the playoffs in 2012, this QB tried his luck with Major League Baseball with the Mets' minor league teams
Who is Tim Tebow?
A heat wave in September of 2022 threatened the power grid and capabilities of this state in the western U.S.
What is California?
This poet has famously become known as "the master of the macabre" and wrote "The Raven" along with "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
During the civil war, this caused more fatalities than outright combat
What is infection?
This time-killing game used to come standard with most windows operating systems
What is Minesweeper?
This NFL quarterback was drafted by the Rockies before he went pro in football and still occasionally shows up to Yankee Spring Training
Who is Russell Wilson?
This team defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in order to capture the Stanley Cup
Who is the Colorado Avalanche?
This poet was also a painter and printmaker who concerned himself with "the body of God" and wrote "The Tyger" and "Jerusalem"
Who is William Blake?
This practice was inspired by the archaic belief of the balance of the 4 bodily humours and is now rarely performed
What is bloodletting?
Italy's favorite plumber actually made his debut in this game, and not Super Mario Bros.
What is Donkey Kong?
This legend has won a gold medal in both the pentathlon and decathlon, played professional football for 13 years, in the MLB for seven years and professional basketball for at least two years.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
The FBI raided this estate in order to recover alleged "missing sensitive information"
What is Mar-a-lago?
This man wrote the endearing and influential "Song of Myself" and helped bridge the movements of transcendentalism and realism
Who is Walt Whitman?
This man made hundreds of (at the time) newly-efficient microscope which led to the discovery of the germ
Who is Leeuwenhoek?