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This Supreme Court case ended the legal doctrine "separate but equal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution kicked off a wave of early-2011 Middle East protests now known by what two-word name?
Bonus if you can name the leader that was removed.
What is Arab Spring?
Ben Ali (Zine el Abidine)
To greet someone upon arrival.
What is to welcome?
The Tell-Tale Heart is a representation of this literary period.
What is Romanticism?
This activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner said, "One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world."
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Pam, Michael, Jim, and Creed can all be found in this TV show.
Bonus if you can name the missing main character.
What is The Office?
Bonus: Dwight or Angela
The only mammal capable of true powered flight belongs to this order.
What is Order Chiroptera? (Bats)
The year the iPhone was released.
Bonus if you can name the month.
What is 2007? (released in June)
Since 1952, what international organization has been headquartered in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, at a complex that stretches more than six blocks?
What is the United Nations?
A house, apartment, or other place of residence
What is a dwelling?
Given the quadratic equation: y=x^2+4x-5, this is the equation of the axis of symmetry.
What is x=-2?
"I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Who is Daisy Buchannan from The Great Gatsby?
Taylor Swift appeared in this sitcom as a guest star that ran away with the jilted groom. Bonus: whose wedding was it?
What is New Girl? Bonus: CeCe's wedding
This animal has the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth, weighing up to about 9 kilograms (20 pounds).
What is the sperm whale? (will also accept Ms. Hack herself)
Due to being rich in potassium, this food is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than it.
What is a banana?
About one third of the U.S. government's revenue came from liquor and alcohol taxes and fines until a 1913 Constitutional amendment allowed for the government to impose this.
Bonus if you can include the amendment number!
What is income tax?
Bonus: 16th amendment
Edema is the medical term for this condition, which often occurs when excess fluid collects in body tissues.
What is swelling?
Frequently caused by a stroke or head trauma, the inability to comprehend or formulate language.
What is aphasia?
“There are no multiples of Allan. He’s just Allan.”
Barbie Movie (narrator)
The fictional African nation ruled by T'Challa is known by this name.
What is Wakanda?
(RIP T'Challa)
Hermione Granger's (and Ms. Dunn's) patronus is represented by this occasionally water-bound animal.
What is an otter?
The opposite sides of a die always add up to this.
What is seven?
This term describes the distribution of power within international relations characterized by two superpowers, each with their own sphere of influence.
What is bipolarity?
After eating ribs, before a medical procedure, when soap and water aren't available, and when administering minor first aid: these are times you might need one.
What is a towelette? (moist towelette or antiseptic towelette)
This is the composer of Flight of the Bumble Bee.
Who is (Nicolai) Rimsky-Korsakov?
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some." The (unnamed) narrator of this dystopian novel. Bonus: you can provide the 'name' used for her.
What is The Handmaid's Tale? Bonus- Offred, June Osborne
Which movie, part of a 4 movie franchise, was the top-grossing movie of 2014?
What isHunger Games: The Mocking Jay Part 1?
The axolotl is famous among biologists because it can regenerate entire limbs, parts of its brain, and even portions of this vital organ.
What is its heart?
Chainsaws were first invented for this purpose before being used for wood-chopping..
What is childbirth?
Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton all have this role in common.
What is US Secretary of State?
Many scholars trace the core principles of international relations back to this 1648 document that ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
The random movement of particles suspended in a fluid resulting from collisions with the fluid atoms or molecules is this.
What is Brownian movement?
"All adventures — especially into new territory — are scary." — the first American woman to fly in space
Who is Sally Ride?
The songs "You Can't Stop the Beat" and "Good Morning Baltimore" are featured in this movie musical set during the civil rights era.
What is Hairspray?
This bird, native to New Zealand, has nostrils at the end of its beak, an unusual feature among birds.
What is a kiwi?
Identify the logical fallacy which is defined as an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
What is a non sequitur?
The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion most often used in economics and policy to measure this.
What is income distribution?
Rich, vibrant colors inspired by gemstones such as emerald, sapphire, and ruby are collectively known as these.
What are jewel tones?
The area under the curve in a velocity vs time graph represents this.
What is displacement?
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families". This comment from a 1987 interview is among her most widely recognized and debated remarks.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
These are the opening lines to Law and Order.
What is: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories." will also accept
"In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories."
Dogs are canine. Cats are feline. This animal is lupine.
What is a wolf?