Medical Breakthroughs
Louis Washkansky was the first patient to survive this procedure. He died of pneumonia 18 days later, to the chagrin of his doctor, Christiaan Barnard
What is a heart transplant?
Thing 2 (1957)
What is The Cat in the Hat?
The British Government fought two wars with China after China refused to legalise this good
What is opium?
The SI unit of power, named for the man who added a second condenser to the steam engine
What is Watt?
When film frames are captured at a faster rate than they are played back at
What is slow-mo?
Daily Double!
John Snow is known as a father of epistemology, thanks to how he traced this disease through Soho
Edward Lupin (2007)
What is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
A term more associated with Nazism, they were shut down in 1902 after a report by the Fawcett Commission
What are concentration camps?
The man who said 'I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da!'
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
3-5 seconds of direct contact with one of these weapons will cause loss of balance, loss of muscle control and mental confusion
What is a stun gun?
This man published 'An Essay on the Shaking Palsy' in 1817
Who is Dr (James) Parkinson?
Rodion Raskolnikov (1866)
What is Crime and Punishment?
The 2001 act, named after an intergovernmental organisation, under which Corporal Donald Payne was convicted on a charge of inhumane treatment
What is the International Criminal Court Act?
The actor known for 'A Woman in Paris', 'City Lights' and 'The Great Dictator'
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
What is Hocus Pocus?
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery that the regular accumulation and dissemination of the protein PER controls this bodily process
What is the circadian rhythm?
Bernard (1931)
What is The Waves?
The English translation of the phrase ‘terra nullius’. It was used to refer to Australia in 1788
What is nobody's land?
The group that Emmeline Pankhurst founded, which the Daily Mail mocked by calling them 'the suffragettes'
Who is the WSPU (Women's Social Political Union)? (accept Women's party)
A Beatles song, made to sound 'dirtier, filthier and louder than The Who'
What is Helter Skelter?
This inventor of the polar area diagram founded their eponymous school in St Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Shelob (1954)
What is The Two Towers?
The Prime Minister to be, who bribed the Austrian Netherlands to not extradite the cashier of the South Sea Company, Robert Knight
Who is Robert Walpole?
The first person to correctly define an Ichthyosaur, who 'sells sea shells by the seashore'
Who is Mary Anning?
The song which starts with the lyric 'A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom'
What is Tutti Frutti?