World Series trivia
This former New York Yankees shortstop won five world series titles with the team between 1996 and 2009 and stepped down from his role as part owner of the Miami Marlins in 2022.
Who is Derek Jeter?
1980's: The Reagan administration faces heavy criticism for this Scandal that involved two countries; one in the Middle East and one in Latin America.
What is the Iran contra affair?
Ticks and fleas are common examples of this ecological relationship characterized by one species in the relationship being harmed and the other benefiting.
What is Parasitism?
The 17th amendment stipulates that members of this body be directly elected by voters as opposed to being elected by state legislatures.
What is the United States Senate?
After murdering John Lennon in 1980, police arrived to find Mark David Chapman reading this famous 1951 J.D Salinger novel. Later it was revealed that Chapman identified with the novel's main character and narrator, Holden Caulfield.
What is Catcher in the Rye?
Many fans of this Canadian franchise's fans felt cheated out of a world series title when a strike ended the 1994 season while this team had the best record (74-40) in the MLB.
Who are the Montreal Expos?
Daily double! 1990's: A genocide occurs in this small African nation during a civil war, likely killing over half a million members of the Tutsi ethnic group.
What is Rwanda?
This type of cell division's contrasts with mitosis in that its primary function is sexual reproduction instead of growth and repair.
What is Meiosis?
Article two of the constitution describes the function of this branch of government, which did not exist under the articles of confederation.
What is the executive branch? (Prompt on "President.")
This 1983 Brian Depalma directed film stars Michelle Pfeiffer alongside Al Pacino, who plays a drug lord that shares his surname with an NFL quarterback.
What is Scarface?
The city of Chicago celebrated when the Cubs won the World Series in 2016, defeating this team which was looking to win it all for the first time since 1948.
Who are the Cleveland Indians/Cleveland Guardians?
1970's: The USSR invades and becomes involved in a brutal proxy war in this Middle Eastern country, fighting against the Mujahideen until withdrawing in 1989.
What is Afghanistan?
The reverse process of this type is often used to filter water and involves the movement of a solvent across a semipermeable membrane.
what is Osmosis?
This oft debated practice was considered unconstitutional in the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman V. Georgia on the grounds that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the death penalty/capital punishment?
Daily double! In 1991, this African country moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja and now boasts the largest population of any country on the continent.
What is Nigeria?
This team became the first and only team to come back from down three games to none in a postseason series en route to sweeping the St Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
1960's: Now considered by some to be a false flag, U.S involvement in the Vietnam War increases significantly after this incident named after a Vietnamese body of water occurs.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
In evolutionary biology, this phenomenon occurs when one animal evolves to resemble another animal. Reasons for this often include protection from predators or even allowing species to hunt undetected.
what is Mimicry?
Protection from "cruel and unusual punishment" is listed alongside what other two "excessive" items mentioned in the eighth amendment?
What is fine and bail?
This ancient Greek mathematician born in Syracuse, Italy, is legendary both for supposedly saying "Eureka!" when he discovered buoyancy and for his purported last words, "Do not disturb my circles."
Who is Archimedes?
This player became the first and only pitcher to ever throw a perfect game in a World series, blanking the Brooklyn Dodgers in game five of the 1956 World Series.
Who is Don Larsen?
1950's: The USSR coerces seven Eastern European countries into signing this defense treaty named after a city in response to the formation of NATO six years earlier.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Also the name of a popular HBO series, this ecological phenomenon describes the gradual change and replacement of one ecological community by another.
What is succession?
This series of 85 essays written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, argued for the ratification of the constitution between 1787 and 1788.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This blues singer's biggest hit and last recorded song, (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay was released posthumously after he tragically passed away in a plane crash in December of 1967.
Who is Otis Redding?