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What is Coca-Cola?
This soda company famously uses Santa Claus in most of their Christmas advertising
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What is zero?
Sharks have this number of bones (not counting teeth)
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What is Danville?
In non-COVID years, the Huang lab has an annual BBQ at Yadong’s home in which Bay Area city?
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What is 1906?
In what year was the first Alzheimer’s Diagnosis given?
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What is Lombard Street?
This brick-paved road in San Francisco has been called 'the crookedest street in the world.'
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What is a dreidel?
This traditional spinning top is adorned with letters from the Hebrew alphabet on the sides
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What is Uranus?
This far-flung planet in our solar system is the only one that rotates vertically instead of horizontally (like Earth)
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Who is Ramsey - just had another baby girl?
Which previous lab member just announced the newest member of the extended Huang lab family?
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What is the entorhinal cortex (or locus coeruleus)?
In what region of the brain does tau pathology start?
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What is Ghiradelli Chocolate Company?
This chocolate company was founded in San Francisco in 1852, and is now the oldest continuously operating U.S. chocolate manufacturer.
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What is the winter solstice?
The shortest day of the year, this day's name literally means "when the sun stands still"
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What is a Velociraptor?
Only around 3 feet tall but a vicious hunter, this tiny dinosaur’s name means “swift thief”
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What is GCTA, the 4 nucleic acids of DNA?
Why is the name the Gladstone Center for Translational Advancement particularly cool (hink - think acronym!)?
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Who is Stanley Pruisner?
Which UCSF faculty, known for his research on toxic proteins in neurodegeneration, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries?
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What is Alcatraz Island?
One of SF’s famous triathlons includes a 1.5 mile swim to “escape” from this landmark prison.
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What is Kwanzaa?
A non-religious celebration, this holiday’s name is derived from Swahili and means “first fruits of the harvest”
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What is a Tardigrade?
This nearly indestructible little animal can go decades without food or water, and can even survive in a vacuum
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Who is Victoria?
Which lab member plays the harp?
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Who is Glan Campbell?
Which famous country singer, known for hits like Rhinestone Cowboy, has gone public with his diagnosis of AD?
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What is Karl the Fog?
San Francisco residents have fondly given the city’s fog this name.
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What is a mistletoe?
This traditional winter holiday plant is actually a parasite, stealing nutrients from the host trees on which it grows
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What is burnt gunpowder?
According to Apollo astronauts, what does the moon smell like?
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What is 17?
How many PhD students have graduated from the Huang lab?
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What is 146?
From 1998 to 2017, how many AD drugs have failed in clinical trials?
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What are the 49ers?
This San Francisco football team is named after participants of California’s famous 19th century gold rush.
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