Chiefs Threepeat 23 2425 Flashcards
“Inspired by her work with terminally ill patients, what Swiss American psychiatrist introduced the five stages of grief in her 1969 book on death and dying?
And for a bonus, what was Allison’s mnemonic for the five stages? Because if you remember, we had this in ours.”
“Kubler-Ross.
Dabda.
D-A-B-D-A. Oh, good.”
“So yes, it is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance equals Dabda. All right.
Question three.
Odds, as in gambling, are expressed as ratios. Here’s a story problem for you. Oh boy.
No blows.
Andy and Deva walk into a casino in downtown Las Vegas and find a roulette table. One of them bets on black and the other bets on red. What are the true odds that both of them will lose?”
2/38
1/19
“So there are 18 red spaces, 18 black spaces, and two green spaces, which makes the odds of the true odds being two to 38, or simplified to one in 19.”
“variation of the percentage sign that indicates a number is divided by 1000 instead of 100.”
“There is a symbol. It’s like a percent sign, but the bottom part of the percent has an extra zero.”
Having opposing functions, “abductors” and “adductors” are two groups of what body part?
Muscles
What kind of athletes participate in an event known as the “Super G”?
Skiers
What leader traditionally receives a ceremonial gold ring called the Ring of the Fisherman?
Pope
In 1993, who became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison
Which early geological time period got its name because of the assumption that, at the time, it was like hell on Earth?
Hadean
“LSD is a drug derived from mysurgic acid. Who first synthesized LSD in 1938? I should say, apparently, people in Australia are smarter than Americans.
Because some of these are a little bit tough. I actually dumbed some of them down for this audience.”
“The correct answer is Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman.”
From Brain Ladle Trivia: Episode 287-Cult Classics, Nov 21, 2023
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-ladle-trivia/id1378610256?i=1000635514230&r=427
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“who wrote the song White Rabbit,? The hard mode for 15 points.
Which album did the song White Rabbit appear on?”
“It was Grace Slick, and it was on the album Surrealistic Pillow”
performed by Jefferson Airplane
“And question four is a movie Tri-Bond. I’m going to give you three movies. You tell me the actor that it has in common.
It happened at the World’s Fair. The computer wore tennis shoes and the horse in the gray flannel suit.”
Kurt Russell
“What is centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California?”
Chinatown
“Who was the founder of the Chin Dynasty as well as the first emperor of a unified China?”
Discover the story of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang
MONEY & NUMBERS
George Washington appears on both sides of which U.S. state’s quarter, which shows him crossing the Delaware River?
New Jersey
The name of which religion comes from a term for its founder, taken from the Sanskrit word for “Awakened One”?
+100
correct
Buddhism
SCIENCE & TECH
Inspired by Greek mythology, which term describes a seemingly useful computer program that is secretly malicious?
Trojan horse
ANYTHING GOES
Its name derived from the Gaelic word for “purse,” a sporran is an accessory to which article of clothing?
Kilt
ANIMALS & NATURE
Bacteria are the only living things in which body of water, because the high salt density quickly kills any fish brought in by rivers and streams?
+100
correct
Dead Sea
BIOGRAPHIES
Eventually trading Geoffrey the Giraffe for Alex Cross, who cowrote the Toys ‘R’ Us jingle 11 years before publishing the novel Along Came a Spider?
+100
correct
James Patterson
Beating Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Nat King Cole, who was the first comedian to win a Grammy Award for album of the year?
+100
correct
Bob Newhart
GEOGRAPHY
Both Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes and Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess did time in which historic prison?
Tower of London
The ancient super strong concrete from this group was self healing thanks to what extra ingredient
Romans
Volcanic ash
The Ash in Roman concrete interacted with seawater to actually make Roman seawalls stronger overtime
Blake Sheldon appeared for a record 23 seasons on this reality competition show
The Voice
Shelton appeared on 23 consecutive seasons and coached a record nine winners on The Voice before leaving in 2023
Before Osborne Dorsey invented this latches and ropes were used in place of it
1878
Doorknob
