Tanisha
What is Tanisha's dog's name?
Mojo
Tanisha's birth was an explosive moment in World History, but there was another big moment 2001 is remembered for. What was it?
9/11
This extremely famous musician was born in 2001.
______ _______ Pirate Baird O'Connell
Billie Eilish
This founder started the world's biggest fast food chain at 52 years old.
Ray Croc, McDonalds
Which chocolate-sponge cake, filled with sour cherries, whipped cream and a splash of Kirsch, is named after a wooded mountain region in southwest Germany?
Black Forest
Tanisha could have been a ________ citizen today if not for her parents' decision to move back.
Dutch
During the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, which pop superstar performed with a live albino Burmese python draped over her shoulders?
Britney Spears
Who is the Italian tennis player currently ranked World No. 1?
Jannik Sinner
At 27 years old, Sarah Blakely founded ______ in 1998 with just $5,000 from her personal savings while working as a door-to-door fax machine salesperson.
Spanx
Translating literally as “three milks,” what light sponge dessert is soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and whole milk across Mexico, Nicaragua and beyond?
Tres Leches
deshpande family where in India are they from
Pune, Maharashtra
The most controversial US Presidential election in history concluded in Jan 2001.
For 100 points: who won the election?
For 200 points: who lost the election?
George HW Bush | Al Gore
Born in 2001, this actress recently starred in a Disney movie.
Rachel Zegler
______________ was an obscure single mother in her early 20s, living on welfare and teaching, with dreams of writing. By 24, she was far from famous – in fact, she was struggling financially while working on a book idea in cafés. It wasn’t until 1997, at age 31, that she finally published the first book of the most successful literature franchise of all time.
JK Rowling
What type of cake, popular in the Southern United States, gets its distinctive reddish color from food coloring and cocoa powder, and is traditionally topped with cream cheese frosting?
Red Velvet
One of Tanisha's jewelry pieces is on a permanent lease from Shaurya. Which one?
Swarovski Tennis Bracelet
Tanisha lost the first one, and Shaurya replaced it on the condition that if the second one is ever lost, she will have to compensate him.
In the late-90s, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company invented an extremely small (for the time) flash storage drive that could hold 10x the data of a typical CD disk.
In October 2001, the first personal device using this storage drive was launched. Name the device.
Apple iPod
Lifestyle vlogger whose self-titled YouTube channel has accumulated more than 12 million subscribers through vlogs, lookbooks, DIYs, hauls, and more. She was featured on the TIME 100 Next list in 2019. She won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Web Star in 2019 and she was named Social Star of 2020 at the Peoples Choice Awards.
Emma Chamberlain
_________ was a quantum chemist in East Germany and virtually unknown outside academia into her early 30s. At 24 (in 1978) she was pursuing her science career with no public profile. It wasn’t until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 – when _______ was 35 – that she made a late entry into politics.
Angela Merkel
Italian ________ cake is made with three simple ingredients: room temperature eggs, granulated sugar, and low-protein flour. The recipe can be modified to include extracts — lemon, for example, is the most traditional flavor used in Italian baking.
Italian Sponge Cake
Tanisha travelled to London to watch Taylor Swift live at Wembley in June 2024.
How many days in advance did she book the tickets for this concert? (round to nearest 5)
349 days.
Tickets booked on July 10, 2023.
Concert on June 23, 2024.
We will accept any number between 335 and 365.
Released in 2001, Lagaan was a Bollywood period drama which blended themes of sports and colonialism.
Which year is Lagaan set in? We will accept a 50 year range.
1893
This Georgian footballer, nicknamed "Kvaradona", was born in 2001 and is the star player of the ultra-successful Paris St Germain team that won the Champions League, French League, and the French Cup this year.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
___________ spent decades as a working actor without major recognition. At 24, he was a little-known theater performer and had only landed minor film/TV roles. In fact, he toiled in obscurity through his 20s and 30s – even appearing in bit parts or children’s TV (The Electric Company) – but nothing that made him a household name. His breakthrough only came in 1987, when at age 50 he earned an Oscar nomination for Street Smart, finally garnering wide acclaim.
He later appeared Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
Morgan Freeman
_____ have been used in baking since the Middle Ages, when conventional sweeteners were otherwise scarce.
Hint: a popular type of cake gets its name directly from the "sweetener".
Carrots