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Ted Trivia
100

A person of Latin American origin or descent (used as a gender-neutral or nonbinary alternative to Latino or Latina).

Latinx

100

The overall scientific study of plants, encompassing the relationship between humanity and the effects plants have on everyday life.

Botany

100

Prolonged, cruel, or unjust treatment or control.

Oppression 

100

The first food to be grown in space, these versatile and starchy vegetables are best known for almost devastating an entire country. 

Potatoes

100

Where did Ted last travel

Morocco 

200

Psychedelic substance with culturally significant roots in South America

Ayahuasca

200

Countries previously described as third world countries

Global South

200

A political and social movement that focuses on the multidimensional aspects of the oppression of Black women in the United States and other countries.

Black feminism

200

The fruits coming off of this otherwise uninviting plant are colorful and edible, often made into jelly or candy.

Prickly Pear Cactus

200

What type of restaurant does Ted's family own

A sushi restaurant 

300

The quality or condition of being modern. 

Modernity

300

the geological age of humanity

Anthropocene

300

Focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitlyregarding European culture as preeminent.

Eurocentrism

300

A festive and cultivated winter squash without a scientific name.

Pumpkin

300

What's the name of Ted's dog?

Lucky OR Panda

400

Name any plant that has been spread across continents as a result of colonization. 

Idk there are a lot of potential answers for this. 

400

Knowledge of a specific idea or topic



Epistemology

400

Give a potential reason why standpoints of oppressed groups are discredited and suppressed by the more powerful and dominate groups.


Individual standpoints can stimulate oppressed groups to resist their domination.

400

Purple flowering plant from Central and South America with seeds that become fuzzy when put in water

Salvia hispanica (Chia)

400

What middle school did Ted go to

Thales Academy, Apex

500

The act of traveling domestically or overseas to visit spiritual places in search of enlightenment. (Often to the detriment of native people)

Spiritual tourism

500

the use of plants in primitive societies and comprises the complete registration and understanding of the classification, uses, and practical, religious, and superstitious concepts concerning plants in primitive or unlettered societies


Ethnobotany

500

According to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, knowledge exists in two forms within the context of Black Feminism. Explain one of these forms. 

The first level includes the everyday, taken-for-granted knowledge shared by members of a given group.

The second level of knowledge, the more specialized knowledge furnished by experts who are part of a group and who express the group's standpoint.

500

The name of this colorful single flower refers to a mythical creature.

Dracula Orchid

500

What is Ted's ethnicity

Thailand 

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