Social Science S1
Literature S4
Science S1
Economics S1
Art S1
100
This amendment took effect on January 17, 1920, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages and marking the beginning of the "noble experiment."
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
100
This famous writer wrote the essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age" in 1931, looking back nostalgically at the decade that made him famous.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
The Greek word for amber, "elektron," led philosopher William Gilbert to dub a mysterious force observed when rubbing certain materials together by this name in 1600.
What is the electric force?
100
According to the text, the average supermarket carries approximately this many different items. (Closest Wins)
What is 31,530?
100
These are the two modes of analysis that art historians use: one focuses on visual qualities of the artwork itself, and the other looks outside the work to determine its meaning.
What are formal analysis and contextual analysis?
200
This amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920, granted women the right to vote in all forty-eight states.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
200
According to Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age came to "a spectacular death" in this month and year when the stock market crashed.
What is October 1929?
200
This American founding father, who never ran for president, became popular in France partly due to his experiments with kites and thunderstorms proving that lightning was electrical.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
Economics assumes people make choices using this type of decision-making, comparing benefits and opportunity costs to select the action yielding the greatest net benefit.
What is rationality (or rational decision-making)?
200
Art historians today define this term very broadly to include almost any kind of visual material created by people and invested with special meaning or valued for aesthetic appeal.
What is art?
300
This pandemic originated in the United States in 1918 and claimed nearly 700,000 American lives—fourteen times the number of American soldiers killed in World War I.
What is the Spanish flu (or influenza pandemic)?
300
Fitzgerald describes this younger generation of women who "dramatized themselves" and became the symbol of Jazz Age rebellion.
What are flappers?
300
Protons have a positive charge and electrons have a negative charge, but this third type of particle in the atom's nucleus has zero electric charge and is electrically neutral.
What are neutrons?
300
This inescapable fact of human existence means that resources are limited while human desires are insatiable.
What is scarcity?
300
These basic visual components of a work of art include line, shape, form, space, color, and texture.
What are formal qualities (or elements of art)?
400
This President arrived in Paris in December 1918 to great fanfare and proposed his famous Fourteen Points peace plan.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
In his 1924 essay with this title, Fitzgerald humorously reflected on his excessive spending and poor financial decisions despite earning substantial income.
What is "How to Live On $36,000 a Year"?
400
Electric charge is measured in this unit, named after the French scientist who discovered the law describing the electric force in 1785.
What are coulombs?
400
This is the value of the next best alternative that you give up when making a choice, and it is not necessarily the same as the monetary price you pay.
What is opportunity cost?
400
This technique creates the illusion of depth by making objects appear lighter, more neutral in color, and lacking contrast when viewed from a distance, replicating the effects of fog and airborne particles.
What is aerial perspective (or atmospheric perspective)?
500
This mass movement saw over one million African Americans relocate from the South to northern cities between 1915 and 1920, eventually totaling six million by the 1970s.
What is the Great Migration?
500
Fitzgerald describes the Jazz Age as feeling like this type of event "taken over by the elders" once older generations joined in the social revolution.
What is a children's party?
500
A proton is approximately this many times more massive than an electron, which is why electricity mainly involves electron movement rather than proton movement.
What is 1,800 (or about 1,000/over a thousand)?
500
The field of economics is traditionally divided into these two broad subfields, one focusing on individual behavior and particular markets, the other on overall national economic performance.
What are microeconomics and macroeconomics?
500
This term refers to a style that uses the status of figures or objects to determine their relative sizes within an artwork, commonly seen in ancient Egyptian art.
What is hierarchical scale?
600
This 1920 scandal involved Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepting $400,000 in bribes for oil drilling rights on federal lands in Wyoming and California.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
600
Fitzgerald published many of his essays in widely read magazines including Esquire and this popular publication where he also sold short stories.
What is the Saturday Evening Post?
600
This device uses a vertical conveyor belt that rubs materials together to gather electrons on a metal sphere, and touching it can make your hair stand on end.
What is a Van de Graaff generator?
600
This type of economics uses tools of economic analysis to describe and explain phenomena and make predictions, focusing on cause-and-effect relationships and being essentially value-free.
What is positive economics?
600
The term "Baroque" generally refers to artworks from the late sixteenth through mid-eighteenth century, characterized by this quality that differed from the static nature of Renaissance works.
What is a greater sense of movement and energy (or drama)?
700
This charismatic founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) promoted Black nationalism and the slogan "Africa for the Africans."
Who is Marcus Garvey?
700
Fitzgerald says the Jazz Age began around the time of these 1919 riots, when police rode down demobilized soldiers in Madison Square.
What are the May Day riots?
700
According to Coulomb's law, the electric force is this type of law, meaning if you double the distance between charges, the force becomes one-fourth as strong.
What is an inverse square law?
700
This type of economics combines economic analysis with value judgments about the relative merits of different possible outcomes, addressing what "should be" rather than what "is."
What is normative economics?
700
This movement emerged in the early twentieth century and included styles such as Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.
What is Modernism?
800
This Attorney General led the Red Scare crackdowns on suspected radicals from 1919-1920, conducting raids that arrested nearly 2,000 people.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
800
Fitzgerald claims this constitutional prohibition led older generations to discover that "young liquor will take the place of young blood," joining the younger generation's rebellion.
What is Prohibition (or the Eighteenth Amendment)?
800
When an otherwise neutral object is exposed to a strong electric field, it can become this, with positive charges moving one way and negative charges moving the other way.
What is polarized (or electrically polarized)?
800
This Italian economist, who lived from 1848 to 1923, developed an important efficiency criterion stating that an outcome is efficient if there's no way to improve one person's well-being without reducing someone else's.
Who is Vilfredo Pareto?
800
Art history has been revised in recent years particularly by these historians, who noted that traditional art history largely focused on white men, leading to a broader, more inclusive field.
Who are feminist historians?
900
This Supreme Court case established the "clear and present danger" test for limiting free speech during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
900
Fitzgerald argues that the period produced this type of "living" literature that frankly explored human sensuality and feelings of longing and alienation in postwar American life.
What is modernist literature (or modern/contemporary literature)?
900
This type of cage, named after a famous scientist, shields whatever is inside from electromagnetic radiation, which is why your phone won't work inside a microwave or why a car protects you during lightning.
What is a Faraday cage?
900
This efficiency criterion describes a situation where the only way anyone can be made better off is by reducing the well-being of one or more other people, but it doesn't provide a basis for choosing between alternative efficient distributions.
What is Pareto efficiency?
900
This printmaking technique works opposite from relief printmaking, with lines incised into a plate through processes called engraving or etching.
What is intaglio printmaking?
1000
This 1924 international agreement, led by a major Chicago banker, provided a $200 million loan to Germany and restructured reparations payments.
What is the Dawes Plan?
1000
Fitzgerald describes the commodification of the Jazz Age's "blatant superficialities" as this process by which revolutionary ideas were simplified and turned into mass market products, causing the initial thrill to be lost.
What is commercialization (or mass production/popularization)?
1000
This constant, represented by the Greek letter epsilon with a subscript zero (εo), is known as the permittivity of free space and appears in Gauss's law relating electric flux to enclosed charge.
What is the permittivity of free space (or epsilon naught)?
1000
According to this 18th-century economist quoted at the beginning of the text, we expect our dinner not from the benevolence of the butcher, brewer, or baker, but from their regard to this.
What is their own interest (or self-interest/self-love)?
1000
This principle of composition refers to the equal distribution of visual weight in a work of art and can be achieved through symmetrical, approximate symmetry, or asymmetrical arrangements.
What is balance?