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Wild Card
100

How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)

What is a film about the effects of inflation on American public life 

100

Amanda 

Who is "your" supermodel wife that left you in 1980s NYC

100

“Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)

What is a song that glorifies American Southern culture? 

100

Prop 13 (1978)

What is the first in a series of state tax revolts 

100

Sunbelt

What is the Southernization of American Life...examples?

200

The Godfather (1972)

What is a film about de-assimilation in American life. How so?

200
the busing crisis 

What is a critical episode recounted by MacDonald in All Souls

200

Okie from Muskogee (must give a decade) 

What is hailed as the song of the silent majority during the Nixon presidency 

200

War Powers Act (1973)

What is legislation designed to limit the power of the presidency passed in the aftermath of Watergate. 

200

"The Third Way"

What is one interpretation of Clinton the presidency that holds it shepherded in a more tolerant, cosmopolitan and post-industrial political culture (as opposed to what interpretation?)

300

Medium Cool

What is footage from DNC in 1968

300

"What did they expect, spitballs?" 

What is Oral testimony taken from non-student residents of Kent State 

300

"Ohio" (1971)

"Four Dead in Ohio"

"We're Finally on Our Own"

300

DOMA

What is the Defense of Marriage Act---legislation signed into law under the Clinton administration defining marriage as between a man and a woman federally

300

devolution

What is Nixon era policy of transitioning funding of public programs to the states?

400

"Film Rouge" 

What is Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) or After Hours (1985) or...?

400

Kevin MacDonald

Who is the sibling of Michael MacDonald in ALL SOULS

400

"Disco Inferno"

What is a tame disco song about black pride.

"burn baby burn" and the Watt Riots

400

"We are all Keynesians Now" 

What is Nixon's conciliatory economic declaration during his presidency 

400

identity politics 

WHAT IS...

-collapse of the New Deal coalition/"re-tribalism of American life" 

-men's rights movement, feminist movement, black power movement, chicano movement, white ethnic cultural nationalism (ALL SOULS) 

-yuppies??

-knowledge workers??

-MAGA??
-something else??

500

The Deer Hunter (1978)

What is a film about the Vietnam War.....(fill in the blank)

500

"The Male Machine" by Marc Fasteau

What is a men's movement piece of literature that advocated men should....

500

 “Chocolate City” George Clinton (1975)

What is a song about embracing black cultural nationalism

500

Terry Dolan 

Who is the founder of NCPAC*, which perfected the direct mail method of political communication

*National Conservative Political Action Committee 

500

the shadow city 

What is a private mega-premises like strip malls and Universal City Walk