Protections & Laws
This term describes the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights owed to a person and follow fair procedures.
What is Due Process?
This 1966 Supreme Court ruling established that police must inform suspects of their right to remain silent upon arrest.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This 1954 ruling overturned previous precedents to declare that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This defunct social media app allowed users to create and share comedy sketches that were exactly six seconds long.
What is Vine?
This 2023 biographical thriller about the "father of the atomic bomb" won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
What is Oppenheimer?
This is the official, certified record of all your grades and credits from the last four years, required for college applications.
What is a Transcript?
This specific legal status is granted to individuals who are forced to flee their home country to escape persecution or danger.
Who are Refugees?
This 1963 landmark decision guaranteed that the state must provide a lawyer to any defendant who cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This specific Amendment prohibits the government from imposing "cruel and unusual" punishments on those convicted of crimes.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This 2016 mobile game caused a global frenzy by using augmented reality to let users find digital monsters in the real world.
What is Pokémon GO?
This desert planet, also known as Arrakis, is the primary setting for the massive sci-fi epic based on Frank Herbert's novels.
What is Dune?
This is the term for a student’s primary area of study in college, which usually requires 30 to 60 credits in that subject.
What is a Major?
This 1896 legal doctrine allowed racial segregation as long as the facilities provided to each race were equivalent.
What is Separate but Equal?
This is the specific 5th Amendment right that ensures a person cannot be forced to testify against themselves.
What is Self-Incrimination?
This 1st Amendment right protects the ability of citizens to gather together and protest the government peacefully.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
These colorful, animal-shaped rubber bands were a massive elementary school "currency" and tradeable trend in the early 2010s.
What are Silly Bandz?
This 2022 film about a multiverse-jumping laundromat owner became A24’s highest-grossing movie and won seven Oscars.
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
This Latin term, meaning "Nourishing Mother," is used to refer to the school or college from which a person has graduated.
What is an Alma Mater?
This is the official legal process by which a non-citizen voluntarily becomes a citizen of the United States.
What is Naturalization?
This is the standard of evidence or "reasonable ground" police must demonstrate to a judge to obtain a search warrant.
What is Probable Cause?
This is the primary duty of the U.S. Supreme Court when reviewing a law in relation to the nation's founding document.
What is Interpretation?
This block-based sandbox game remains one of the most popular of all time, allowing players to survive "Creepers" and build worlds.
What is Minecraft?
This director is famous for his extreme "symmetry" and distinct pastel color palettes in films like The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Who is Wes Anderson?
On the first day of a college class, you receive this document which outlines every deadline, reading, and grading policy.
What is a Syllabus?
This 1st Amendment provision prevents the government from creating an official national religion or favoring one over another.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This 1967 decision struck down all state laws that prohibited people of different races from marrying one another.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This is the document that grants a person the legal right to live and work in the U.S. permanently without being a citizen.
What is a Green Card?
This 2014 mobile game featuring a pixelated bird was so frustratingly difficult that its creator eventually pulled it from app stores.
What is Flappy Bird?
This specific letter-number combination appears in nearly every Pixar film as a nod to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts.
What is A113?
To officially "accept" a college's offer of admission, students must typically pay this non-refundable fee by May 1st.
What is an Enrollment Deposit?