What date is election day this year (2024)?
Tuesday, Northeastern 5th
The theory that the action that should be done is the one that maximizes overall happiness.
Utilitarianism
What you could be doing but are giving up to do what you’re now doing
opportunity cost
True or False: You can come do work in the philosophy department common room whenever it is open.
True
This talk show host attended Northeastern.
Wendy Williams
The constitutional amendment that states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The 10th amendment
The two social classes that Marx describes modern capitalist society as being split into.
The bourgeoisie and the proletariat
He advocated for the specialization of labor, the market system, and the government’s role to be shaping the economy.
Adam Smith
This department icon has a BA in History, an MA in Political Science, and a JD (and is not a lawyer or professor).
Richard Conley (our co-op advisor!)
This American civil rights leader had a degree in philosophy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This many seats are in the House of Representatives.
435
The name of this table:
Truth table
This type of economy is centralized: the government determines production, investment, and prices. (ex: North Korea)
command economy
Northeastern has this many campuses across the world.
14
There are 6 working groups in the ethics institute. Name at least two. (double points for all 6!)
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Indigenous Studies Circle
Democracy and Social Choice Group
Environmental Philosophy Working Group
Rossetti Research Group
AI and Data Ethics Group
This President successfully ran for election with the slogan "Don't change horses midstream".
Abraham Lincoln
The formal name for the study of knowledge
Epistemology
In game theory, this is the name of a strategy that will make a player better off regardless of what other players choose to do.
Dominant strategy
If you live on Northeastern’s campus, who is likely your state representative?
Chynah Tyler
On this planet, a day is longer than a year.
Venus
Which of the following Supreme court cases addressed tribal sovereignty?
a) McGirt v. Oklahoma
b) Lawrence v. Texas
c) Nestle v. Doe
d) Kelo v. New London
a) McGirt v. Oklahoma
This philosopher famously wrote “cogito, ergo sum” commonly referred to as the phrase “I think therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes
A good for which demand increases as its price increases because it serves as a status symbol
veblen good
Northeastern's campus is this many acres (get within 10 for the points!)
73 acres
There are 8 species of bears. Name at least 5 (double points if you get all 8).
Brown bear, black bear, sun bear, spectacled bear, moon bear, polar bear, sloth bear, panda bear