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100

What are the two components of the Human Nervous System?

2 possible answers: The Sympathetic and Parasympathetic, or Central and Peripheral. 

100

What is the Judaism's best known day of fasting?

Yom Kippur, a 25 hour period of no eating!

100

According to Pew Research Center, how many Americans have adopted at least one form of social media by 2018?

69%. 

100

What does RAM stand for?

Random Access Memory. 

100

What is a prime number?

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.

200

Explain the experiment that enabled Pavlov to set the frameworks of classical conditioning?

Pavlov rang a bell every time he gave his test dogs cookies. After making a habit of this bell ringing and cookie giving, he practiced just ringing the bell without providing a cookie. Even without the food given, the dogs expected food and their mouths watered. 

200

What caused the split of Shiite and Sunni Muslims?

They chose sides following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in AD 632. A dispute over succession to Islamic prophet Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin.

200

What is the Twitter Bird's name?

Larry!

200

What did Charles Babbage invent when he designed his analytical engine in 1833?

The Computer.

200

When you take the 5th root of X, what are you doing?

Finding the number which, multiplied by itself 5 times, becomes X.

300

What type of Psychologist compares Animal behaviors to Human behaviors?

A comparative Psychologist.

300

The Upanishads were the first written texts to influence a large number of beliefs in East Asia. From which civilization did they come?

The ancient Indus Valley civilization.

300

What was the most commonly used self descriptor on LinkedIn profiles in 2017? (Think: Buzzwords)

"Motivated"

300

Is Linux an operating system? If not, what is it?

It is a Kernel. Add the shell, applications, and user, and THEN you have an OS.

300

What is X? Every multiple of X can be separated into single digit integers, and when those integers are added, the resulting numbers are also divisible by X.

X = 9.

400

Name at least 9 of the 10 DSM-V listed Personality Disorders.

Possible Answers: Paranoid PD, Schizoid PD, Schizotypal PD, Antisocial PD, Borderline PD, Histrionic PD, Narcissistic PD, Avoidant PD, Dependent PD, and Obsessive-compulsive PD.

400

What is the religious belief that God created the world and left it as it was, without ever intervening again?

Deism.

400

Which common social media have a "Story" feature?

Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, but Facebook's was a failed replication attempt more than anything...

400

What is the shortcut to switch to a scientific calculator on windows?

Alt-2.

400

What is i to the 2783rd power?

-i.

500

How could damage to the Ventromedial Hypothalamus affect your diet?

Damage to the Ventromedial Hypothalamus can cause Hyperphagia, or an insatiable appetite causing mass over consumption. This is due to the VMH's heavy role in satiety, or "feeling of fullness."

500

What is the oldest surviving religion? 

No one can say for sure! Some say Jainism, some say Zoroastrianism, some say Hinduism. However, there is no definitive answer.

500

What is the creator of Reddit's username?

u/spez.

500

What is a grep?

A command line text search utility in Unix-like operating systems.

500

What is the slope of the tangent line to the graph of y = x^3 at the point (2,8)

12.