History
Which U.S. president abolished slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Finish the title of this short story: Death by ________
Scrabble
What is the opposite of a democracy?
A dictatorship
What is the name of the movie where one of the main characters is Kathrine Johnson?
Hidden Figures
Where was Trevor Noah born?
South Africa
Where did the first slave ship arrive to in the United States?
Jamestown, Virginia
Who wrote the short story The Tell-Tale Heart?
Edgar Allan Poe
When is the next U.S. presidential election, month and year?
November 2028
Where was Kumail in The Big Sick born?
Pakistan
Who are the indigenous people of New Zealand?
The Māori
What event happened in Northern Ireland on Friday, April 10, 1998?
The Good Friday Agreement
In The Tell-Tale Heart, what makes the narrator confess to the murder?
The beating heart of the murdered man
Which political party is represented by a donkey?
Democratic party
What cultural practice do Kumail’s parents try to pressure him into?
Arranged marriage
What sparked the 2020 BLM protest?
The murder of George Floyd
What year did the United Kingdom leave the European Union?
2016
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the author of which short story?
The Yellow Wallpaper
Who is the head of government in the United Kingdom?
The Prime minister
Who plays the lead role of Kumail in The Big Sick?
Kumail Nanjiani
What word does Adéla hate to see in formal essays?
Things
What was the name of the Irish region before it became Northern Ireland?
Ulster
In the short story Hills Like White Elephants, what does the “elephant” symbolize?
An abortion /a child
Which law in the U.S. Constitution gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms?
The Second Amendment
What were the women called who did calculations by hand at NASA in Hidden Figures?
(Human) Computers
What is it called when you take or use things from a culture that is not your own, without showing that you understand and respect this culture.
Cultural Appropriation