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MISC Trivia
100

This female rapper has opened up about her newfound sobriety, telling fans on Twitter that she is "loving life".

Responding to a follower who asked, "Are you high?", the musician and mom-of-one said: "No I’m sober and loving life." In a second tweet, she went on to add, "I used to be happy when I was high. Now I’m happy when I’m sober. No judgement to anyone. Be gentle with yourself."

Nicki Minaj

100

Prompt to act or respond; accepted and done of choice or without reluctance.

Willingness

100

This spectrum of disorders involve elements of thoughts( or obsessions) and behaviors (or compulsions). The disorders in this group share some characteristics but are different in many ways.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

100

chemical messengers that allow nerves to communicate with each other or with other structures in your body.

Neurotransmitters

100

Brannock Device is used to measure what?

Shoe Size

200

This actress initially kept her choice to abstain from alcohol a secret, only choosing to share it with the world after she'd been sober for two years (despite having previously been open about the substance abuse issues she faced as a teenager). She starred in ET.

Drew Berrymore

200

Steadfast despite opposition or adversity; able or willing to bear; to persist in an understanding in spite of counter influences.

Patience, Perseverance 

200

 This term is sometimes used interchangeably with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and is defined as an inability to stay awake, or to stay alert, during typical daytime hours. You may feel an uncontrollable need to sleep, or you may lapse into sleep or drowsiness unexpectedly.

Hypersomnia

200

This neurotransmitter is best known for its ability to boost your mood, but it also plays an important role in digestion and the immune system.

Serotonin

200

What is the building of the Presidential Palace in Djibouti?

Presidential Palace, Djibouti City

300

In a new interview with The Sunday Times, The popular Game of Thrones star candidly discussed his issues with alcohol and addiction, while both filming the TV show and after it wrapped. "I went through some pretty horrible stuff,"

Kit Harrington

300

The quality or state of being complete or undivided; soundness.

Integrity

300

This is a condition related to a stressor or a traumatic experience. It can lead to anxiety, mood symptoms, dissociation, and avoidance. The signs may be similar to PTSD symptoms, but these conditions differ based on the duration of symptoms.

People who develop this usually show symptoms immediately, and the signs can last for 3 days to 1 month  after exposure to a traumatic stressor. (ASD is the acronym used).

Acute Stress Disorder

300

This is both a neurotransmitter and a hormone. As a neurotransmitter, it’s a chemical messenger that helps transmit nerve signals across nerve endings to another nerve cell, muscle cell or gland cell. As a hormone, it’s released by your adrenal glands, which are hat-shaped glands that sit on top of each kidney.

Norepinephrine (Noradrenaline)

300

What do Roman numerals IↃ mean?

500

400

The super model told Vogue UK that in the past, she struggled to control her drinking. "The time between 1998 and 2005 was especially bad. During that time I avoided looking in the mirror, because I didn't like the person who was looking back at me. To be honest, there were times I thought I wouldn't survive. I used to have a lot of problems... amongst others I drank too much, so I joined Alcoholics Anonymous to get and stay sober."

Naomi Campbell

400

Alive and alert; vigilance in observing.

Awareness

400

This occurs when an individual travels or wanders, either in a seemingly purposeful or bewildered fashion, without knowing who they are. This involves amnesia of a person’s entire identity or for other important autobiographical information.

Dissociative fugue State

400

_______ memory involves the recall of previously learned information that requires conscious effort to receive. While _______ memory is unconscious and effortless. 

Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory 


Explicit memory fades in the absence of recall, while implicit memory is more robust and may last a lifetime even in the absence of further practice.

400

Daisy Hawkins was the original name of which Beatles hit song?

Elanor Rigby

500

Now sober from both drugs and alcohol for over 22 years, her wake up call came when she was regularly drinking two bottles of wine. "I found myself drinking two bottles of wine on the couch and I said, 'I think we've got a problem here.' I had problems with alcohol and I really had to get in contact with the pain, whatever that is, and then I had to get some other tools in how to deal with the pain. From that day on I went cold turkey." She recently found herself in news headlines because of something her husband did on live TV.

Jada Pinkett Smith

500

Unselfish concern that freely accepts another in loyalty and seeks his/her good to hold dear.

Love

500

This syndrome causes the hand to act as a separate, autonomous entity. The hand has the same strength as before and does not move sporadically, but in a controlled manner.  Patients report that it feels as if another person has taken over their hand. It has multiple causes, all related to Alzheimers, a damaged corpus callosum, and brain lesions.

Alien Hand Syndrome

500

These are defined as universal, primal symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious, as proposed by Carl Jung. They are the psychic counterpart of instinct. It is described as a kind of innate unspecific knowledge, derived from the sum total of human history, which prefigures and directs conscious behavior.

Jungian archetypes

500

What was Mountain Dew's original slogan?

Yahoo! Mountain Dew... It'll tickle your innards!