International Politics
Loyola Political Controversies
World History
Political Theory & Ideology
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100
This former president of Venezuela was captured by U.S Special Forces at the beginning of 2026, and is currently detained in Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center on charges of drugtrafficking.
Who is Nicolas Maduro?
100
This anonymous social-discussion app for college students is where you can find many controversial political takes, and (usually) unhealthy dialogue.
What is Fizz?
100
These two languages were the most predominantly spoken in the Roman Empire.
What is Latin and Greek?
100
T/F: Plato's Republic was written in defense of Athenian democracy.
What is False.
100
"I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars."
Who is President Donald Trump?
200
This maritime choke point was closed following U.S Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in February of 2026.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
200
This Loyola dorm was visited by Census Bureau officials, who were mistaken as ICE officers by university students.
What is Bellarmine Hall?
200
This treaty ended the 30 Years War from 1618-1648, guaranteeing the territorial sovereignty of states.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
200
This author wrote the Two-Treatises of Government.
Who is John Locke?
200
"We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."
Who is Joe Biden?
300
This U.N organ has the primary responsibility of maintaining international peace and stability, with the authority of initiating peacekeeper deployments.
What is the U.N Security Council?
300
On May 1st 2026, Loyola professors led by Faculty Forward LUC conducted this type of organized labor movement on North Sheridan Rd. to pressure the university for fairer salaries and the fulfillment of stalled contract negotiations.
What is a strike?
300
This Meso-American culture was famous for sculpting these kinds of heads: 
Who are the Olmecs?
300
Works like Sun-Tzu's Art of War, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the Arthashastra by Chanakya, Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, and Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau pioneered this school of international relations theory.
What is realism?
300
"The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, of Ukraine."
Who is George Bush Jr.?
400
This flag represents this intergovernmental organization.
What is ASEAN? (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
400
Recent on-campus protests represented by the wearing of the "kuffiyeh" scarf has been aimed at addressing this political and territorial conflict.
What is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict/Gaza War
400
This early medieval Chinese dynasty was renowned for its urban cosmopolitanism/cultural diversity, the widespread of Buddhism, its central and west Asian military conquests, China's first and only female emperor, and is considered China's "Golden Age of Poetry".
What is the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)?
400
"Political power comes from the barrel of a gun", was said by this socialist revolutionary.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
"Everyone agrees that slavery was the.............WORST thing this country has ever done".
Who is Tucker Carlson?
500
Among the three classifications of polarity in the international world order, this type of polarity for a world order is considered the most unstable.
What is a multipolar world order/multi-polarity?
500
On September 3rd 2026, members of this conservative Catholic group demonstrated with rosaries and prayers against the arrival of guest speaker Father James S. Martin in front of the Mundelein Center, due to his outreach efforts for the LGBTQ+ community.
What is the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP)?
500
The name of this Arab conqueror of Spain is where the name "Strait of Gibraltar" comes from.
Who is Tariq ibn Ziyad?
500
Political science author Francis Fukuyama claimed that human development has reached its final destination with the triumph of global capitalism and liberal democracy, resulting in the end of this chronology of the human past.
What is history?
500
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?