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100
This is the tendency to favor information that conforms to pre-existing beliefs and discredit evidence that does not.
What is "confirmation bias"?
100
According to the Code of Hammurabi, justice was based mostly on this concept.
What is "retribution"?
100
The famous political cartoon seen here, a caricature of King Louis Philippe, had this appropriate title.
What is "Gargantua"?
100
The guarantee that Canadians have the right not to be arbitrarily detained can be found under this section of rights in the Charter.
What are "legal rights"?
100
The persecution of this ethnic group of Turkic people has prompted world leaders to accuse China of genocidal activity.
Who are the "Uyghur" peoples?
100
This is the crime of encouraging a perpetrator to commit an offense without providing any physical assistance.
What is "abetting"?
100
Symptoms of the Covid-19 coronavirus can appear between two and these many days after infection.
What is "14"?
200
These are given by knowledgeable or famous people to endorse a product or idea.
What are "testimonials"?
200
According to Plato, this is the fourth best type of government.
What is "democracy"?
200
In this electoral system, the winner of a constituency is the person that has more votes than the second runner-up; a majority is not required.
What is the "single-member plurality" system?
200
The minimal impairment of a right is an important component of this assessment.
What is the "Oakes Test"?
200
In the United States, this is the law that gives private individuals the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the "Second Amendment"?
200
This is the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another.
What is "specific intent"?
200
This legally binding international treaty, signed by 196 countries in 2015, focuses on addressing climate change.
What is "The Paris Agreement"?
300
This type of cognitive bias refers to the tendency of relying too heavily on the first piece of information attained.
What is "anchoring bias"?
300
During the Middle Ages in Europe, this method of adjudication was often used to determine the guilt of women accused of being witches.
What is "ordeal by water"?
300
The political cartoon seen here, entitled "Join or Die", is attributed to this scientist, also known for conducting a famous kite experiment.
Who is "Benjamin Franklin"?
300
The Ontario Human Rights Commission lists 16 of these; race and family status are two of them.
What are "grounds of discrimination'?
300
These are patterns of behavior, policies and practices that are part of the structures of an organization that create and perpetuate disadvantages for a specific group.
What is "systemic discrimination"?
300
In the context of collecting impressions for evidence, these are the general attributes of an object.
What are "class characteristics"?
300
This is a nucleic acid molecule that is an infective agent and multiplies rapidly within living cells.
What is a "virus"?
400
This propaganda technique tries to convince you to believe something because everyone else does.
What is "bandwagon"?
400
This source of law includes legislation such as the Criminal Code of Canada.
What is "statute law"?
400
This Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon by Bill Mauldin, entitled "I Won the Nobel Prize In Literature. What Was Your Crime?", features this classic cartoon technique.
What is "irony"?
400
In this landmark case, the first to challenge section 35 of the Charter, the ancestral rights of Aboriginal peoples were upheld.
What is the "R v. Sparrow" case?
400
Coal, crude oil and natural gas are examples of these.
What are "fossil fuels"?
400
This is issued by a judge when an accused person fails to appear in court.
What is a "bench warrant"?
400
This peninsula was recently mobilized by the Russian military in preparation for a potential conflict with the Ukraine.
What is "Crimea"?
500
This is the tendency to blame external factors when bad things happen and to credit oneself when good things happen.
What is "self-serving bias"?
500
In 1450, this was established by the Iroquois Confederacy; guidelines on adoption and treason were included.
What is "The Great Binding Law"?
500
In this system, the percentage of popular votes is directly reflected in the total amount of seats distributed in a legislature.
What is "proportional representation"?
500
In the Vriend v. Alberta case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the province's Individual's Rights Protection Act violated this section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is "section 15"?
500
On April 8th, 2021, as cases of Covid-19 continued to rise at an alarming rate, Doug Ford issued this kind of order.
What is a "Stay-at-home" order?
500
In this type of assault, an offender can receive a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
What is "aggravated sexual assault"?
500
The mission of this body of the United Nations is to promote and protect human rights around the world.
What is the "UN Human Rights Council"?