Cultural/Human
Geography
Geography
Art History
World History
U.S. History
Psychology
100
This term describes the shared beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people.
What is culture?
100
The artist who cut his ear off.
Who is Van Gogh?
100
The man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This document was signed on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This famous experiment required participants to become prisoners or guards, leading to the “prisoners” becoming subject to extreme psychological abuse by the “guards.”
What is the Zimbardo/Stanford prison experiment?
200
A border that is made by other nations, without the input of the nations affected.
i.e. The Berlin Conference/Scramble for Africa. Europeans created the boundaries for Africa without any African input.
What is an imposed boundary?
200
What is Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright?
200
The motto that defined the Mongols.
What is Brutal in War, Tolerant in Peace?
200
The document that Hamilton published to end a scandal. It also broke his wife's heart.
What is the Reynolds Pamphlet?
200
This famous study investigated whether participants would listen to an authoritative figure in hurting another person through progressive shocks.
What is the Milgram study?
300
What is a population pyramid?
300
The Palace of Versailles was built to be a theme park for nobles. It had a variety of rooms and chambers however it did not have a single _____.
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What is a bathroom/restroom/toilet?
300
The Mughal emperor who threw a guy off a balcony, went down the stairs, brought him back up, and threw him off again.
Who is Akbar the Great?
300
This battle is called the turning point of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
300
This theory was tested in Bandura’s experiment whether children would mimic the actions of an adult.
What is the social learning theory?
400
The bacterial infection that is often associated with lettuce, cows, and corn. This raised food safety concerns about agricultural practices in the U.S.
What is E. Coli?
400
The "Big Three" artists of the Renaissance period.
Who is Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Raphael?
400
The Empress who trapped her "odd" husband in a dungeon and ruled the Russian empire in his name while simultaneously having numerous affairs with several other Russian nobles/aristocrats.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
This 1911 disaster in New York City led to significant reforms in labor laws and workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
400
This researcher came up with the psychoanalytic theory in which behavior is based on the unconscious model (the ego, superego, and id).
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
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A country that is currently in Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model.
What is Japan/Croatia/Greece/Italy/Portugal/Ukraine/Germany/Estonia?
500
The tomb built for Shah Jahan's favorite wife that is now a cultural landmark.
What is the Taj Mahal?
500
The Japanese way of the warrior. It promotes loyalty, honor, and fighting to the death.
What is the Code of Bushido?
500
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This disorder involves the deterioration of social, physical, and cognitive functions over time. Patients suffer from a range of symptoms, from hallucinations to “word salad” to catatonia.
What is schizophrenia?