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100

This is the technical term for the little "feet" that cap ends of letters in certain font styles.

What are serifs?

100

These are the three main Adobe design programs: one for drawing, one for photography, and the other one for layout.

What are Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign?

100

According to James Monaco, this is "a logical twist that gives

the elements of a sign—the signifier and the signified—a new relationship to each other."

What is a trope?

100

According to semiotics, this is the sum of the signifier and the signified.

What is a sign?

100
Yesterday this country broke the record for diagnoses of COVID-19 in a single day.

What is India?

200

This is the standard unit of measurement for fonts.

What is a point?

200

The tri-fold brochure template we used is composed of this many pages in total.

What is six?

200

This term refers to the modification of time in film.

What is a montage?

200

This branch of psychology is dedicated to the idea that "everything on the visual plane matters."

What is Gestalt?

200

Yesterday the IOC announced that they would offer COVID vaccines to all participants in this summer's Olympics in this city.

What is Tokyo?

300

This term refers to any stroke of a letter that goes below the baseline.

What is a descender?

300

These are three different drawing tools in Illustrator. 

What are the pen tool, rectangle tool, ellipse tool, etc.?

300

Texts authored before the last two thousand millennia did not mention this color.

What is blue?

300

This term refers to "blank space that is brought to the visual fore."

What is negative space?

300

This month, the most popular song on Spotify is "Montero" by this now-controversial artist.

Who is Lil Nas X?

400

This term refers to numerals that take up uniform widths of space.

What are lining numerals?

400

These are the names of the two arrow tools in all Adobe programs.

What are the selection tool and the direct selection tool?

400

This term refers to "world-building" or "the sum of a film's denotations."

What is diegesis?

400

This blog by Brandon Stanton, known for its posts on social media, has reached hundreds of thousands of followers with its unique combination of personal quotations and photography.

What is Humans of New York?

400

Last month this British monarch passed away at the age of 99.

Who is Prince Phillip?

500

This term refers to the organization of typographic content, emphasizing some elements and downplaying others.

What is hierarchy?

500
The two main basic components of color in these programs are stroke and ____.

What is fill?

500

Laura Mulvey coined this term, used to describe how women are depicted in film, in 1975.

What is the male gaze?

500

Rene Magritte's famous "Treachery of Images" painting depicts this object.

What is a pipe?

500

Last month Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts of murder and felony assault in the death of this Minneapolis man.

Who is George Floyd?

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