Trivia! hosted by Nu Rho Psi/Neuroscience Club

Question 1

MUSIC: Started as a joke about how to deal with rowdy concert-goers, became this concept album

Accepted Answer

Pink Floyd's The Wall

Question 2

SCIENCE: Suffix denoting a sugar

Accepted Answer

ose

Question 3

SPORTS: Dr. Harris took undergrad stats with this Basketball player at Duke University

Accepted Answer

JJ Redick, Sheldon Williams

Question 4

TV: This was a literal box that recorded what viewers were watching to provide networks with "ratings"

Accepted Answer

Nielsen

Question 5

HISTORY: This since declassified program recruited ex-Nazi scientists to build America's space program.

Accepted Answer

Operation Paperclip

Question 6

SPORTS: How long is the Tour de France in days?

Accepted Answer

23

Question 7

SPORTS: This former Chicago Bull lives in Peoria, and donned the #23 jersey before MJ.

Accepted Answer

Oliver Mack

Question 8

WILD CARD: What is his name?

Accepted Answer

Rosco

Question 9

TV: The hell are these?

Accepted Answer

Snorks

Question 10

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which director has won the most Oscars

Accepted Answer

John Ford

Question 11

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: After holding a vote, Bradley University will, as of Spring 2022, be known as Chadley University

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Speedometers are calibrated with how much of a margin of error?

Accepted Answer

5%, Up to 10 mph over actual

Question 13

SCIENCE: A significant result means...

Accepted Answer

Reject the null, Do a dance

Question 14

SCIENCE: At higher altitudes, water boils at a lower temperature

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

WILCARD: The identity of this prank caller is a decades-long mystery. He's just catty corner to you.

Accepted Answer

Longmont Potion Castle

Question 16

HISTORY: Deep Blue : Kasparov :: ________: Ken Jennings

Accepted Answer

Watson

Question 17

ART: This sculptor's "Door to Hell" includes a nod to perhaps his more famous work, visible at the top

Accepted Answer

Rodin

Question 18

SCIENCE: Which of the following is NOT an Antarctic research base?

Accepted Answer

Europa

Question 19

HISTORY: Ironically named SCOTUS decision loosened restrictions on lobbying, labeling campaign donations "free speech"

Accepted Answer

Citizens United v FEC

Question 20

MOVIES: This director has become known for his meticulous use of rules/diagrams and time-bending plots.

Accepted Answer

Christopher Nolan

Question 21

ART: An often symmetric piece made from two panels connected by a hinge. Rorschach was probably a fan.

Accepted Answer

Diptych

Question 22

BRAINS: This term refers to the state of knowing you are dreaming, allowing you to control the content of your dream

Accepted Answer

Lucid dreaming

Question 23

ART: Who's hungry?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Question 24

WILD CARD: Who is not a member of Bradley's Department of Psychology?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Jennifer Jost

Question 25

BRAINS: How regal. This plane of section takes a view of the brain from the front (or back).

Accepted Answer

Coronal

Question 26

BRAINS: Over the course of development, this is the last structure to emerge in humans

Accepted Answer

Prefrontal cortex

Question 27

BRAINS: We only use 10% of our brains at any given moment

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

MOVIES: This 1988 anime features a young man, who acquires quickly escalating telekinetic abilities after an accident

Accepted Answer

Akira

Question 29

SPORTS: This baseball player is famous for a mistake, letting a grounder pass between his legs during the World Series

Accepted Answer

Bill Buckner

Question 30

SCIENCE: Honeybees communicate the distance and direction of food sources through this:

Accepted Answer

Waggle dance

Question 31

TV: Who has NOT hosted the Daily Show on Comedy Central?

Accepted Answer

Stephen Colbert

Question 32

BRAINS: This sheet of tissue is what gives the brain its wrinkly appearance, having been crumpled to fit in the skull.

Accepted Answer

Cortex

Question 33

MUSIC: This is the most sampled 6 seconds in all of music.

Accepted Answer

Amen break by the Winstons

Question 34

TV: This sketch comedy show gave us such comedic legends as John Candy, Harold Ramis, and Martin Short

Accepted Answer

SCTV

Question 35

WILD CARD: A fair coin is flipped 10 times. How many distinct sequences of heads and tails are possible?

Accepted Answer

1024

Question 36

WILDCARD: What is the minimum number of doors you had to pass through to get into Neumiller from outside?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 37

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: This aircraft model, now used primarily for cargo, has 3 engines

Accepted Answer

DC-10

Question 38

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Who is that former French president?

Accepted Answer

Jacques Chirac

Question 39

WILDCARD: Forget science, you can go out with a bang by donating your body to weapons testing

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

WILD CARD: Bacteria that double every 24 hours fill a lake after 60 days. On what day was the lake half full(number)?

Accepted Answer

59

Question 41

MUSIC: Who is NOT a member of the Wu-Tang clan?

Accepted Answer

D-Styles

Question 42

TV: He was the original Incredible Hulk

Accepted Answer

Lou Ferrigno

Question 43

MUSIC: What is Lady Gaga's real name?

Accepted Answer

Stefani Germanotta

Question 44

MOVIES: This bizarre horror cult classic pits a young woman against a mother-son pair of alien-cat-creatures

Accepted Answer

Sleepwalkers

Question 45

WILDCARD: This movie, dubbed "The Shining in Space" got stuck in my brother's VCR for 3 months (~200$ late fee)

Accepted Answer

Event Horizon

Question 46

ART: Ring-Ring, this often surrealist artist dabbled in a variety of media, including...crustaceans?

Accepted Answer

Salvador Dali

Question 47

ART: Who is responsible for this?

Accepted Answer

Mondrian

Question 48

HISTORY: THe March of Dimes was started to fund polio research as a birthday present for this president.

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 49

MUSIC: There is an avant garde genre that is dangerous to perform (piece requires the performer to remove their eye).

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

FINAL QUESTION HISTORY: Who was the LAST person to walk on the moon?

Accepted Answer

Harrison Shmitt

Trivia! hosted by Nu Rho Psi/Neuroscience Club

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