Davidson
What is 1964?
In the 1970s and 1980s, this conservative founder of the Eagle Forum led a successful campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
The West African city that in the 1940s was the birthplace of highlife, a popular musical style that blended Akan and Ewe rhythms and melodies with international instruments and harmonies.
What is Accra?
An agreement between Spain and Portugal in 1494 to divvy up the world in half so that they could wreak havoc without getting in each other’s way.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The member of the history department who served as the first chair of the GSS department.
Who is Prof. Patricia Tilburg?
The Native nation whose homeland Davidson College sits on.
What is the Catawba Indian Nation?
This African-American Civil Rights leader argued that the sit-in movement that began in 1960 was "Much Bigger than a Hamburger," and encouraged civil rights activists to form decentralized groups that practiced gender and class equality.
Who was Ella Baker?
The peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China.
What was the Treaty of Nanjing?
The network of land-based and maritime trade routes connecting the East and West, which was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Europe between the 2nd century B.C.E. and the 18th century C.E..
What was the Silk Road?
The place where Profs. Dietz and Berkey met (and yes, they are married).
What is Princeton?
The first student organization at Davidson.
What is the Eumenean Society?
In June 1948, a boat arrived in Britain from Jamaica. Its passengers were the first of what became known as this.
What is the Windrush Generation?
The Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire was facilitated by a civil war fought between these two Incan half-brothers.
Who were Huáscar and Atahualpa?
The reformed monastic order of which 12th-century spiritual master & crusade caller Bernard of Clairveaux was a member.
Who were the Cistercians?
The number of languages in which Prof. Mangan is fluent/has reading ability (sorry, Prof. Mangan, I found your CV online).
What is four? (Fluent in Spanish, Reading ability in Nahuatl, Portuguese, Quechua).
The 19th c. book of illustrations that the main characters of the film, American Animals (filmed at Davidson), try to steal.
What is The Birds of America?
This joint US-Mexico labor agreement hired Mexican men to fill labor needs in the United States beginning in WWII.
What was the Bracero Program?
The 1947 operation which the Indian state decided to mount after immense pressure from families to locate, recover and, if necessary, 'rehabilitate' women abducted during the partition of India and the ensuing communal violence.
What is the Central Recovery Operation?
This document—actually a collection of separate agreements between the prophet Muhammad and the Arab community in Yathrib, the oasis which came to be known as Medina—established the outline of the first Muslim state.
What was the “Constitution of Medina”?
The name of the book (spotlighted in a WRI 101 course) that inspired a song written by our very own Prof. Wertheimer.
What is Age of Fracture (by Daniel T. Rodgers)?
The year that the first woman was Davidson's valedictorian.
What is 1975?
This fin-de-siècle European royal, who was known for her extreme dieting, hair care, and frenetic travel, whose son died in a murder-suicide pact with his teenage mistress/first cousin, and who herself was later assassinated by an Italian anarchist in 1898, was said to have once quipped, “Madness is truer than life.”
Who was the Empress Elisabeth of Austria (also known as Sisi)?
The first pictorial magazines in South Africa to feature glossy, glamorous images of Black women, cementing the stardom of Dolly Rathebe [pronounced Ra-TE-be] , Miriam Makeba [pronounced Ma-KAY-ba], and others. (Contestants only have to name one)
What are Zonk! And Drum Magazine (also known as The African Drum)?
In the late eighteenth century, this rebellion shook the foundations of Spanish colonial rule in the Andean highlands (and it also shares a partial name with a US-born rap artist).
What was the Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II?
The city in which Prof. Aldridge served as a public defender before going back to school & getting his Ph.D.
What is Los Angeles?