Geography
This city was founded in 1638 and is home to ~objectively~ the best university in the world
What is New Haven?
This variant of a certain disease has caused a surge of cases in countries such as India, the UK and the US
What is the Delta variant?
This animal is the mascot of Yale
What is the bulldog?
This ethnic group is native to the area known as Xinjiang
What is Uighur?
These team members have a vocabulary of two words– bestie and girlboss
What are Alex and Holly?
This transcontinental country is a cradle of civilization, has iconic monuments and formerly had a writing system based on symbols
The United States recently pulled its forces from this county
What is Afghanistan?
This is the name of the annual football game between Yale and Harvard
What is the Harvard-Yale Game?
This area is contentious, but one YIRLI speaker does not foresee this devolving into a nuclear crisis
What is the Kashmir region?
This team member’s humor is dryer than the Sahara Desert
What is Wei-Ting?
This country consists of a little over 7,600 islands and has a variety of natural resources
What is the Philippines?
This “positions” singer recently married an LA real estate agent
What is Ariana Grande?
The number of residential colleges at Yale is this number
What is fourteen?
This term describes the historical tendency of white Western powers to control foreign nations’ affairs
What is colonialism? (Imperialism also works!)
This team member uses all the hot water with his 30+ minute showers and singing sessions, making a sauna out of the Hype House bathroom
What is Deven?
This country is one of the most densely populated in the world, and is currently participating in the Olympics under a different name
What is Taiwan?
This country has recently been suffering from wildfires, which have caused thousands to evacuate
What is Turkey?
John Kerry, the Bushes and William Howard Taft were all famous members of this mysterious secret society at Yale
What is the Skull and Bones?
This term describes how to use “and” “or” and “not” in research searches
What is Boolean Logic?
This team member has never left the gates of their residential college, and probably knows their way around Harvard better than they do Yale
What is Tim?
This Hawaiian island contains the state’s capital city
What is Oahu?
This country swore in a new president a few days ago, who is also an ultra-conservative judiciary chief
What is Iran?
A copy of a 1455 Gutenberg Bible can be found in this Yale building
What is the Beinecke Library?
This strategy deployed by the Soviet Union, and later the Russian Federation included the spread of disinformation, espionage, deception, and more
What are Active Measures?
This team member frequently has mental breakdowns
What is Sandhya?