| U.S. Presidents | Fiction Authors | Companies and Adverts | American Colleges and Universities | In Need of a Sick Day |
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Who is Ronald Reagan?
This president implored Russian leader Mr. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
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Who is Leo Tolstoy?
War and Peace + Anna Karenina
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What is Snickers?
"You're not yourself when you're hungry."
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What is Princeton?
The no. 1 ranked college on the 2023 US News Ranking List.
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What is heart disease?
This type of disease is the leading cause of death in the US.
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Who is George Washington?
This president warned against political parties, long-term foreign alliances and strict geographical divides in his farewell address.
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Who is Suzanne Collins?
She penned the wildly successful Hunger Games series.
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What is Geico?
This company used cave men in their ads during the mid-2000s.
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What is Oberlin?
In 1837, this college became the first to admit women in the US.
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What is Yersinia Pestis?
The Black Death was caused by this bacteria.
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Who is John Adams?
This president signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts.
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Who is Mary Shelley?
This author wrote the following:
"Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful... but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance." |
What is Gatorade?
This company created the "Be Like Mike" ad, seeking to capitalize on Michael Jordan's immense fame.
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What is Columbia?
For its 30 years, this Ivy League School was named "King's College."
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What is ALS?
Lou Gehrig's disease is also known by this name.
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Who is Martin Van Buren?
He was the first American-born president.
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Who is William Shakespeare?
This author's written works have generated the most sales in all of fiction-writing history.
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What is Apple?
Directed by Ridley Scott, this corporation's futuristic ad aired during a super bowl, drawing inspirations from a work of George Orwell's.
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What is the University of Chicago?
The first nuclear reactor was built under this university's football field.
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What is Smallpox?
The first vaccine developed against a contagious illness was developed in response to this deadly disease.
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Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This president mediated the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War.
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Who is Octavia E. Butler?
This author wrote Kindred - a story about a black woman in 1979 being transported through time to the Antebellum South. It was turned into a tv show on Hulu in 2022.
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What is Google?
This company's popular ad paid homage to the hit Christmas movie Home Alone decades after its release, even including a 38 year-old Macaulay Culkin.
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What is Stanford?
Students from this college have won a medal at every Olympics since 1908.
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Spain was neutral in WWI and their news media extensively covered the pandemic. Other countries refused to admit having cases, so it looked like Spain was bearing the brunt of the pandemic which was not true.
Why was the Spanish Flu labeled as "Spanish?"
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