Evolution & Extinction
Gender in Global Perspective
Black Women Writers
Race & Ethnicity in the US
UW Madison Street Knowledge
100

Features of organisms that have no apparent purpose or function, often resembling parts that are in use by other organisms

What are Vestigial Structures?

100

Book that is often used to mark the beginning of the second wave of feminism

What is The Feminine Mystique?

100

Artistic and intellectual revival of African-American culture in the United States that took place from the end of World War I to the Great Depression

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

100

Our tendency to ignore evidence that contradicts our beliefs

What is Confirmation Bias?

100

Dessert always served in UW Madison dining halls

What is Soft Serve?

200

The amount of kinds of amino acids used by all life

(double points for how many humans can make directly inside our bodies)

What is 20?


(10, the other 10 we must get from food)

200

The assumption that cis women and cis men are innately attracted to each other

What is Compulsory Heterosexuality?

200

Deadliest slave rebellion in US history

What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?

200

A contractual agreement among homeowners not to sell to non-whites

What are Restrictive Covenants?

200

Day of the week that frats do not usually throw, even though it seems like they should

What is Friday?

300

Proved that some fossils were the remains of once living things

Who is Nicolas Steno?

300

The year women were first able to get credit cards without a co-signer

What is 1974?

300

Presents the story of a virtuous, but helpless woman who is seduced by a man that will eventually betray her

What is a Seduction Novel?

300

Shift in economy during which well-paying jobs were wiped out, left central cities more isolated with more concentrated poverty

What is Deindustrialization?

300

Average cost of a Badger Bus ticket

What is $25?

400

The biggest element that can be synthesized inside of stars, anything heavier are created during supernovae

What is Fe (Iron)?

400

Links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring

What is the Care Chain?

400

Popular literary school or movement that some have described as an extreme form of realism, deterministic, indifferent, fatalist universe

What is Naturalism?

400

Nickname for tactic politicians use to convey hidden racialized messages, use coded language

(double points for an example)

What are "Dog Whistle" Politics?

(welfare queen, urban unrest, "get tough on crime", illegal immigrants, etc.)

400

Red building on UW Madison campus said to be haunted

What is Science Hall?

500

The idea that American species are not as interesting as "old world" creatures due to "unfavorable conditions"

(double points for which US president this prompted to get involved in the search for fossils in the US)

What is American Degeneracy?

(Thomas Jefferson)

500

Founder of the National Association of Colored Women

Who is Mary Church Terrell?

500

Harlem Renaissance writer who explored themes of race, identity, and social dynamics, wrote Quicksand and Passing

Who is Nella Larsen

500

The percent of human genes that are the same as all other humans

What is 99.9%?

500

Minimum floor you can take the elevator to without being heckled in Sellery or Witte dorms

What is the Fourth Floor?

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