Middle School Dance
Public Enemies
but is it art?
THIS is the Bad Place
More White Excellence
100
This 2007 hip-hop song with a famous "YOUUUUU" line became a wildly popular 2000s dance that everyone in middle school except Mitch learned.
What is Crank That (Soulja Boy)?
100
He's not Baby Face Nelson, but this conventionally attractive 1930s bank robber was seen by many as a real-life Robin Hood and hated his own well-known moniker. His life and death was romanticized and immortalized in a Woody Guthrie song.
Who is Pretty Boy Floyd?
100
Name the artist.
Who is Mark Rothko?
100
This Japanese dystopian novel, which predates The Hunger Games by 9 years, features an authoritarian government that forces middle schoolers to fight each other to the death.
What is Battle Royale?
100
This former governor is best remembered for his staunch stance against racial integration, exemplified by his infamous declaration for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?
200
In the second verse of her hit song "Our Song," Taylor Swift returns home after a long day to discover that her boyfriend snuck into her bedroom while she was out and left these two things for her.
What are roses and a note?
200
This Roman emperor was declared hostis publicus by the Senate, literally "public enemy," making him the first person in recorded history to hold the title. He was rumored to have started the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE.
Who is Nero?
200
This style/technique closely associated with abstract expressionism, depicted below by Jackson Pollock, emphasizes the physical act of creating the art as an essential aspect of the finished work.
What is action painting?
200
The titular character in V for Vendetta cites this real historical event which occurred on November 5th, 1605 as his historical inspiration.
What is the Gunpowder Plot?
200
This successful 1915 silent film is credited with directly inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century.
What is Birth of a Nation?
300
The music video for "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance features cheerleaders wearing this while performing on stage with the band.
What are gas masks?
300
This bloody event, named after the holiday that it occurred on, gained Al Capone the official title of America's first "Public Enemy No. 1" in the press.
What is the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre?
300
He painted the Modernist classic "Nude Descending a Staircase," but is perhaps more famously remembered for submitting the below urinal as a "readymade sculpture" to an art exhibition.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
300
In his novel Nineteen Eighty-four, Orwell coined this term for the idea of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, or accepting clear falsehoods as truth. The Party slogan "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" is an example of this.
What is Doublethink?
300
At the 2015 Oscars, in a move that was seen as typifying "white feminism," this actress controversially implied that people of color owed white women for civil rights during her acceptance speech about the gender pay gap.
Who is Patricia Arquette?
400
In the music video to "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne, punk-Avril knocks nerd-Avril into a body of water by hitting her with this.
What is a golf ball?
400
This pirate gained the moniker of "the gentleman pirate" because he left his cushy white collar life as a wealthy landowner to buy a ship and become a pirate for kicks. He also sailed temporarily as a member of Blackbeard's crew.
Who is Stede Bonnet?
400
Joseph Kosuth's conceptual artwork One and Three Chairs displays a 1) physical chair, 2) an enlarged photograph of the chair, and 3) this.
What is the dictionary definition of chair?
400
This megacorporation dominates the remnants of human society in WALL-E.
What is Buy-n-Large (BNL)?
400
This Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former U.S. Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford was controversially awarded the Nobel despite being what many have called a war criminal.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
500
"Viva la Vida" by Coldplay was named after a painting by this Latin American artist, who also inspired the album that this song was on.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500
Blackbeard started his piracy career as a promising member of this pirate's crew. Later in life, this dirty snitch of a pirate accepted a royal pardon and became a pirate hunter.
Who is Benjamin Hornigold?
500
In 1989, Dread Scott's artwork What is the Proper Way to Display the U.S. Flag? incited intense controversy and criticism primarily for inviting viewers to do this.
What is stepping on the U.S. flag?
500
This 1726 satirical book by Jonathan Swift is often considered a precursor to the dystopian literature genre. This book describes the titular character's travels to several fantastical settings which seem utopian at first, but which each contain fatal flaws that satirize certain elements of English society and government.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
500
This former actress recently finally pled guilty to her high profile role in the University of Southern California admissions scandal, in which she bribed her mediocre daughters' way into college by passing them off as fake athletic recruits.
Who is Lori Loughlin?