POLIS 101
These three Greek letters make up the official name of POLIS.
What are Pi Lambda Sigma?
Every state, regardless of population, has this many U.S. senators.
What is two?
This president was nicknamed "Honest Abe."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This country launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
What is Russia?
This reality dating show is famous for contestants receiving texts and shouting, “I've got a text!”
What is Love Island?
POLIS was originally founded at this Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York.
What is Cornell University?
The president can reject legislation passed by Congress using this constitutional power.
What is a veto?
This famous speech begins with the words “Four score and seven years ago.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This 2015 international agreement seeks to limit global warming through national climate commitments.
What is the Paris Agreement?
Kendrick Lamar's 2024 feud was primarily with this Canadian rapper.
Who is Drake?
POLIS was originally founded in this year.
What is 2016?
This is the number of Supreme Court justices on a full Court under current law.
What is nine?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision recognized a constitutional right to abortion before being overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This UN body has five permanent members with veto power.
What is the Security Council?
This 2023 Christopher Nolan film tells the story of the scientist who led the Manhattan Project.
What is Oppenheimer?
This civil rights leader is quoted on the POLIS homepage asking, “What are you doing for others?”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This term describes the practice of drawing electoral district boundaries to favor a particular political party.
What is gerrymandering?
This 1947 American initiative provided economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This narrow waterway between Iran and Oman is a critical route for global oil shipments and has been prominent in 2026 Middle East coverage.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This actor portrayed the Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight.
Who is Heath Ledger?
Besides Cornell, these three Ivy League universities have established POLIS chapters.
What are Penn, Columbia, and Dartmouth?
This is the only crime specifically defined in the original text of the U.S. Constitution.
What is treason?
This 1944 legislation provided education and housing benefits to millions of returning World War II veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
This international financial institution warned in October 2026 about AI's potential disruption to labor markets while discussing global economic growth.
What is the International Monetary Fund?
This fictional restaurant chain appears throughout the TV series Breaking Bad.
What is Los Pollos Hermanos?