Rhymes with Shmoogle
_______, launched in 2001, renders a 3D representation of our planet using satelitte imagery, GIS data, and aerial photography.
Google Earth
The author, living in Oxford in the 1950s, was inspired by objects in his setting to write the first book of this series (selling over 100 million copies to date) -- specifically, a lamp post, a lion head stone carving on a pillar, and two fawns guarding an ornate door.
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
100 point question
Havanna (originally by Camilla Cabello) Covered by: Pentatonix
In 1872, _______, the alma mater of Lin Manuel Miranda, became one of the first US colleges to admit women... but then changed its mind in 1909 following pressure from the board and went back to being a men's college, until 1970 when they admitted women again.
Wesleyan University
Classical conditioning (made popular by _______'s salivating dogs experiment) is one of the key concepts that drove the early 1900s psychological framework of behaviorism.
Ivan Pavlov
_______ is one of Google's MANY communication tools - this one allows users on Android phones to easily video-call Apple users, includes video filters, and video voicemails.
Google Duo
This series is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago. In this world, people are placed into one of five factions (based on personality traits - Dauntless for the brave and Amity for the kind).
The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
200 point question
Livin La Vida Loca (originally by Ricky Martin)
Covered by: Straight No Chaser
This small liberal arts college in Massachusetts is frequently on the list of US News' top 10 liberal arts colleges & was the alma mater of President James Garfield.
Williams College
_______ is most well-known for his work with operant conditioning in the 1930s, by using ________ boxes to isolate rats and pigeons & then offering them reinforcement to guide their behavior.
BF Skinner
_______ allows users to compare the relative search volumes for two or more terms over time.
Google Trends
The first book in this series was adapted as a Broadway musical and is about a teenager who discovers he is a demigod and goes on a quest to find Zeus' missing lightning rod.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
300 point question
Teenage Dream (originally by Katy Perry)
Covered by: the Warblers from Glee / Tufts Beelzebubs
This midwestern university named after one of the founding fathers, changed its name 3 times in its first 3 years following its inception & has been selected to host more presidential debates in history than any other university.
Washington University in St. Louis
_________, known as the father of modern linguistics, rejected the premises of behaviorism and instead posited that babies have an innate capacity for language.
Noam Chomsky
This Alphabet company, _______, originally began as an experiment within Google X, as a self-driving car project.
Waymo
This series has been adapted as a BBC series featuring James McAvoy, Lin Manuel Miranda, and Ruth Wilson, playing the characters of Lord Asriel, Lee Scoresby, and Mrs. Coulter, respectively.
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
400 point question
The Sign (originally by Ace of Bass)
Covered by the Barden Bellas
This public research university, located in the outskirts of Coventry (in the UK), is known for its business, law & medical schools. Famous alums include Australian feminist writer, Germaine Greer, and Stephen Merchant, the creator of The Office.
University of Warwick
This psychologist is most well known for his ethically questionable prison experiments with Stanford students in the 1970s.
Phillip Zimbardo
Created by the same engineers who made Google Maps, _______ (deprecated in 2011) was an early attempt at Slack (combining messaging, email, and productivity tools) and was not very successful.
Google Wave
The sequel in this two-book series released this summer. This series explores sci-fi themes of first contact as well as the dark side of the social internet & internet fame, the latter of which the author, half of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, is deeply familiar with.
The Carls by Hank Green
500 point question
Miss Independent (originally by Ne Yo)
Covered by Penn Masala
This small liberal arts school is located in Walla Walla, Washington, and used to be a seminary. Its graduates include Dorothy M Metcalf-Lindenburger, a former US astronaut.
Whitman College
This psychologist was a Holocaust survivor and laid the foundations for the field of positive psychology. He argued for the rehumanization of psychotherapy and for the role of meaning-making as a central motivational human driver.
Viktor Frankl