Hour 7, Brain Surgery and Rocket Science--put together by our neuroscientist Brian Hirshman and our astrophysicist Joe Gangestad--was, ironically, less challenging, though the scores were buoyed by the 15 50/50 questions at the start. Several people were able to recognize a few rockets, though and most of you could tell a human brain (and Pinky & the Brain) when you saw them. The final pop culture section was well-converted by most terms, and the rocketry questions seemed more gettable, though many teams had trouble distinguishing their perigee from perihelion and the like.
Is it Brain Surgery or Rocket Science?
| Num |
Answer |
| 1 |
Brain surgery |
| 2 |
Brain surgery |
| 3 |
Rocket science |
| 4 |
Rocket science |
| 5 |
Rocket science |
| 6 |
Brain surgery |
| 7 |
Brain surgery |
| 8 |
Rocket science |
| 9 |
Rocket science |
| 10 |
Brain surgery |
| 11 |
Brain surgery |
| 12 |
Brain surgery |
| 13 |
Brain surgery |
| 14 |
Rocket science |
| 15 |
Brain surgery |
Name the Brain
| Num |
Answer |
| 16 |
Rabbit |
| 17 |
Dog |
| 18 |
Elephant |
| 19 |
Human |
| 20 |
Pinky and the Brain |
Name the Rocket
| Num |
Answer |
| 21 |
Saturn V |
| 22 |
Titan IV |
| 23 |
Soyuz |
| 24 |
Atlas V |
| 25 |
Falcon 9 |
| 26 |
Delta IV (Heavy) |
| 27 |
Long March (IV) |
| 28 |
PSLV (Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) |
| 29 |
Estes rocket |
| 30 |
Kerbal X |
Neurosurgery for Beginners
| Num |
Answer |
| 31 |
12 |
| 32 |
4 |
| 33 |
3 |
| 34 |
The area of danger / triangle of danger / danger triangle |
| 35 |
Vision |
| 36 |
Sylvian fissure / lateral sulcus |
| 37 |
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) |
| 38 |
MRI |
| 39 |
Basilar artery |
| 40 |
Foramen magnum |
| 41 |
Glioblastoma |
| 42 |
Ruptured intercranial aneurysm |
| 43 |
Epilepsy (accept seizures) |
| 44 |
Spinous process |
| 45 |
Yes - the spinal cord is unaffected by brain death |
Rocket Science for Beginners
| Num |
Answer |
| 46 |
Perigee |
| 47 |
Apogee |
| 48 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| 49 |
Closest |
| 50 |
Oberth Effect |
| 51 |
Aries |
| 52 |
Hypergolic |
| 53 |
Liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2) |
| 54 |
Hydrazine |
| 55 |
Xenon |
| 56 |
Alan Shepard |
| 57 |
John Glenn |
| 58 |
Huntsville, AL |
| 59 |
Dog |
| 60 |
Laika |
Brain Surgery and Rocket Science in Popular Culture
| Num |
Answer |
| 61 |
Sanjay Gupta |
| 62 |
Ben Carson |
| 63 |
Adam Stanton |
| 64 |
Lobotomy (accept variants) |
| 65 |
7 |
| 66 |
Young Frankenstein |
| 67 |
But Sometimes I Hit London |
| 68 |
The vomit comet |
| 69 |
Apollo 13 |
| 70 |
October Sky |
| 71 |
Bananas |
| 72 |
Buzz Aldrin |
| 73 |
A cannon |
| 74 |
2 |
| 75 |
Rocket surgeon |
