PSU & Portland
Did You Do The Reading?
Resources
For The Culture
Brain Rot
100
This is the amount of credits a student must have completed in order to graduate from PSU.
180 Credits
100
According to Baldwin, these are the 3 Elements of Organization
Supplies, Space & Same Time, Same Place
100
This place provides assistance with SNAP applications, finding affordable housing, emergency funding, and more.
The Basic Needs Hub
100
This famous city, named similarly to a western city, is the center of a billion dollar creative industry that includesactors such as: Shah Rukh Khan & Aishwarya Rai
Bollywood!
100
What is this young man doing?
Aura Farming
200
Founded in 1946, this was the original name of Portland State University.
Vanport Extension Center
200
According to De Lucia, these are the 3 Levels of Familial support.
Encouragement & Support; Mixed Messages; and Disinterest & Negative Messages
200
This resource helps students build their resumes, learn how to network, and even provides headshot photos.
The University Career Center
200
An atoll is considered to be a ring shaped, reef, island, or chain of islands. Name 3 island nations that have atolls in their territories
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, FSM, Fiji, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Tonga, Palau, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea
200
In 2024/2025, the popular influencer, Dr. Umar Johnson went viral for sayinging “I’ve waited for 3 and a half years...” Finish the quote.
“white man did it in one week”?
300
Providing over 200 degrees and certificates, PSU is known to have this many colleges within the University.
10 College Departments
300
This type of Procrastinator is known to push back work because they experience anxiety and are worried about their work not being good enough, including the right things, or many other scenarios.
Fearful Loafer
300
This is where the mind-spa, counseling, and other health support services are available for students registered for a minimum of this amount of credits.
Center for Student Health and Counseling
300
This health practice uses pennies to treat symptoms such as colds, flu, pain, and fever in various East and Southeast Asian cultures.
Coinning (Gua Sha, Cao gio, Kerokan)
300
In the Oscar Award-winning movie, Wicked, the press interview between Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the moment became a meme. What are they doing in this photo?
What is holding space?
400
In Oregon, this incident forced a mix of Japanese, Filipino and Korean workers from their homes by white mobs and into internment camps across Oregon in 1925.
Toledo Incident
400
This memory aid helps one remember information by creating associations, using techniques like acronyms, rhymes, and imagery
Mnemonic Device
400
It was on this day the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2026-2027 academic year opened. (Ans: October 1st, 2025)
October 1st, 2025
400
Daily Double!
Often categorized under the PIAA or AAPI umbrella, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans commonly share space. What are 3 things that are found in common between these communities? (Scores given based on creativity)
*Judges Decide*
400
In 2021, on the Wendy Williams show, the interviewer asked Wendy Osefo from Real Housewives, “are you a nicki fan?” In her response, she recites Nicki’s line from the song Monster as?
"Pull up in the Sri Lanka WHAT?"
500
On this date, Vanport was flooded by the Columbia River leading to a migration of many low-income and BIPOC individuals into the what is Albina district
Memorial Day 1948
500
According to Uluo, this is a major issue that impacts both the Asian and Pacific Islander Community.
The Model Minority Myth
500
These are the 9 centers at Portland State dedicated to different identities and cultural communities on campus.
PAC, PIAAA, MENASA, LaCasa, NASCC, WRC, QRC, VRC, Dreamer’s Center
500
This 1996 law reclassified COFA residents as “non-qualified immigrants,” cutting them off from Medicaid until its partial restoration in 2020.
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)?
500
This popular creator on Vine edited and posted a scene from the Season 9 reunion of The Real Housewives of Orange County, widely known for the line, “THAT’S MY OPINION!”.
Who is Quenlin Blackwell (@quensadilla)?