Humans and Other Animals
Humans have this type of aptitude for play.
What is 'autotelic'?
American women gained the right to vote in this year.
What is 1920?
This titular Shakespeare character dies by suicide. (you will get 25 extra points for each additional character you name that also fills this criteria.)
Who is Romeo/Juliet/Othello/Antony/Cleopatra?
This founder of calculus was also obsessed with alchemy.
Who is Newton?
This is the name of the horse who most recently passed away.
Who is Poncho?
This popular beast fable is commonly misread as a critique of Marxism.
What is Animal Farm?
These red-headed pureblood wizards were twins practically indistinguishable from each other, until one of them died in the battle of Hogwarts.
Who are Fred and George Weasley?
Macbeth hallucinates this object leading him to Duncan's bedroom.
What is a dagger?
Who is Leibniz?
This is the FULL NAME of Anna's title.
What is the Julian Steward Chair of Social Sciences?
Descartes wrote a brief treatise making this claim about animals. A colleague was so convinced by his argument that he mercilessly kicked a pregnant dog.
What is "animals are machines"?
This is the call sign of Maverick's former wingman, who died in what was ruled a tragic accident.
What is "Goose"?
Max Weber's oft-used (but never cited) definition of a state.
What is the organization with a monopoly on violence?
The derivative of (2x^2)(cos(x)).
These are the last five DS presidents, listed in backwards chronological order.
Who are Sue Darlington, David Neidorf, Louis Fantasia, F. Ross Peterson, and L. Jackson Newell?
This bird marks the dawn--and imminent danger--for two young lovers doomed to die.
What is the lark?
After hiking for a few hours up Mount Whitney, a 19 year-old backpacker begins uncontrollably wheezing. After conducting your ABC's and checking his vitals, you notice a respiratory rate of 27 breaths/min. You expect to find this prior condition in his SAMPLE history, and intend to recommend this treatment.
What is a history of asthma? What is "2-3 puffs of his rescue inhaler"?
This chorus prosecutes Orestes.
What are the Furies?
The integral of (2x^2)+cos(x)
(1/3)x^3-sin(x)
Our favorite DS07 alum's partner was the paralegal for this 2015 landmark case.
What is Obergefell v. Hodges?
This 2019 Macedonian documentary tells the story of a well-intentioned beekeeper who helps her neighbor establish his own bee colony.
What is Honeyland?
This is Howard Zinn's most famous--and groundbreaking--book. (100 extra points if you can name Peter Iron's book that was inspired by Zinn's book.)
What is A People's History of the United States? (What is A People's History of the Supreme Court?)
Nietzsche paints a dichotomy between modes of reality, and commends Greek tragedy for being a mixture of both. These are the names of the two parts, which are constantly competing with each other for dominance.
What are the Dionysian and the Apollonian?
This is the formal definition of a limit (in English or notation!).
What is "A function f(x) has a limit L if ∀c>0, ∃∂>0 : 0<|x-a|>∂ ⟹ |f(x)-L|<ε."
This is Andy Kim's district.
What is district three of New Jersey?