Famous People or characters
A British journalist and author who wrote 1984 (in 1948) or Animal Farm, dystopian stories or speculative fiction.
Who was George Orwell? (1903-1950)
That's the name of the king whose nursery rhyme "divorced, beheaded and died, divorced, beheaded, survived" is referring to. He also broke away from the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is King Henry VIII ?
Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), Canada, Russia, Norway, and the United States all have that in common.
Which countries are bordering the Arctic Sea?
A squatter settlement in densely populated urban area characterized by substandard housing often built from makeshift materials. It lacks basic infrastructure like water, sanitation, electricity, and proper roads.
What is a slum or shanty town ?
It is the type of shot that will focus very closely on a person or an object.
What is a close-up ?
A Canadian author who wrote The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian story or speculative fiction.
Who is Margaret Atwood ?
He used to be a Senator from Ohio and he is now the current Vice-President of the USA.
Who is J.D. Vance ?
Located in New York City, it is an international organization established b on 26 June 1945 with the mission of maintaining international peace and security and promote international cooperation.
What are the United Nations?
A workplace, often a factory making garments, characterized by extremely poor working conditions, low wages, and long hours, in violations of international labor laws.
What is a sweatshop ?
The suppression of speech, public communication, or other information because such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". It can be conducted by governments and private institutions.
What does "censorship" mean ?
A Pakistani female education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17.
Who is Malala ( Yousafzai )?
The US Senator of Wisconsin who launched and gave his name to a "witch-hunt" against communists in the US government and other institutions between 1950 and 1954.
Who was Joseph McCarthy? (McCarthyism)
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Cyprus are all in that region.
Which countries are part of "the Middle East" ?
It describes a process where the character of a neighborhood / district changes through the arrival of wealthier residents (the "gentry") and more investment.
What's gentrification ?
The circumstances or situation prevailing at a particular time or underlying a particular event. A person's education, training, experience, social or cultural heritage. The scenery behind a main object in a picture, etc...
How can one define the word "background" ?
A South African Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his non-violent opposition to South Africa's apartheid regime and who headed the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" after apartheid to address human rights abuses.
Who was Desmond Tutu? (1931-2021)
The Tory (or conservative Party) Leader and UK Prime Minister nicknamed 'The Iron Lady' who served from 1979 to 1990.
Who was Margaret Thatcher ?
A city in India where lush farmlands have been replaced with buildings for new firms and engineering companies ever since the 1980s, now considered the Indian Silicon Valley.
What is Bangalore ?
Money charged by universities/ private schools to cover the cost of a course and academic life
What are "tuition fees" ?
The way a growing city spreads, in an uncontrolled and unplanned manner, over a large area.
What is urban sprawling ?
That's the character the segregation laws were named after, in the US between roughly 1877 and 1964.
Who was Jim Crow ?
A British politician who served as mayor of Greater Manchester between 2017 and July 2026 and succeeded Keir Starmer as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party.
Who is Andy Burnham ?
A US southern region characterized by strong religious beliefs, high church attendance, and a significant influence of religious values on politics and culture, where socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is prevalent.
What is the Bible Belt ?
A theory first coined by Laura Mulvey, a British professor of media studies: female characters in mainstream media are often overtly sexualized and objectified to please the male characters and viewers.
What is the "male gaze"?
The name of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion all over the USA in 1973. It was overturned in 2022, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and allowed individual states to regulate or ban it.
What is Roe v Wade ?