The World in DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Food for Thought:
Appetizers for the Senses:
History A-ddition
Characters who Count:
2000

This animal went on the verge of extinction with only 500 left by 1890 due to a decades long massacre.

What are Bison?

2000

This organization served up eggs, bacon and orange juice for children in Oakland, California for over a decade.

Who are the Black Panthers?

2000

These "short, plump little cakes" "moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell" sparked Proust’s memory of a childhood garden.


What are petites Madeleines?

2000

These are the "Big Three College Dining Companies".

What is 4? (Compass (1) + Aramark (3) + Sodexo (0))

2000

After the director of this film passed away, potatoes, a key motif of the film were spread on the front of her property.

What was "Gleaners and I"?

4000

This concept describes the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination "intersect" to create unique dynamics.

What is intersectionality? 

4000

This "sweet" artist created a giant Sphinx made of Domino Sugar, sadly too big to sweeten my tea!

Who is Kara Walker?

4000

This collaborative piece of sculpture and poetry, unveiled in 2008 near London’s version of Wall Street was presented to commemorate this event. 


What is the 200th anniversary of the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

4000

This crop that if fed to cows can be the simplest solution to the e-coli infection and this annual American event resembles what scholars identified as relgious spectacles within ancient civilizations.

What is 1? (Grass(1) + Superbowl (0))

4000

In Everything I Learned, I Learned From a Chinese Restaurant, this city was host to Curtis Chin’s family restaurant, Chung’s.

What is Detroit, Michigan? 

6000

We lay waste our powers on this.

What is "Getting and Spending"?

6000
This term can be defined as a rule-governed structure of production and consumption on a world scale.  

What is a food regime?

6000

The creator of the following painting that drew a connection between sugar and the transatlantic slave trade.


Who is Lubaina Himid?

6000

This CBS documentary captured the experiences of food insecurity within different demographic across many Southern states including Alabama, and, this widely used term on food labels that conveys nada information.

What is 4? (Hunger in America(2) and Natural(2))

6000

This is Carlo Bonvincini's profession in the short story "American Parmigiano." 

What is a Historian? 

8000

This company designed and patented the genetically modified then RR soybeans that allowed for the extensive sprain of weed killing pesticides.

What is Monsanto?

8000

This movement focuses on ensuring universal access to nutritious, affordable, and culturally-appropriate food for all.

What is the Food Justice Movement?

8000

This painter created the following work:


Who was Jean François Millet (1857)?

8000

This country where there have been over 300,000 farmer suicides over the last 30 years, and, this act repealed in 1943 that excluded a particular Asian country.

What is 2? (India(1) and Chinese Exclusion Act(1))

8000

The last words we hear him speak is "O so juicy so terbel juicy".

Who is Punch?

10000

This 700 acre property provided 1500 people with freshly grown produce, giving autonomy to peoples of color to cultivate their own food.

What are the Freedom Farms?

10000

This is the sort of music that film spectators can hear but that is not heard by the characters in the film.

What is "extra-diegetic" (music)?

10000

The words left out of the line that follows this excerpt:
"Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes,
Hearts __________ as well as __________.
Give us _______ but give us ___________." 

What are "starve," "bodies," "bread," "roses"?

10000

This equitable agreement that gave equal rights to both white and blue collar workers, and, this 20 year exchange program that invited Mexican laborers into the U.S to work within their agricultural industry.

What is 5? (Fair Deal (2) and Bracero Program (3))

10000

These three immigrant women in Jurgis Rudkis' family faced similar or even more challenging situations than their male counterparts in Packingtown.

Who are Ona, Marija and Elzbieta? 

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