Fork 'Em
ASU's charter defines the university's success not by the traditional measure of whom it excludes, but by these two principles of access and achievement.
What are "whom it includes" and "how they succeed"?
This portmanteau described the 2023 summer box office clash that saw movie fans flocking to a double feature of a pink-drenched fantasy and a 3-hour historical drama.
What is "Barbenheimer"?
The possessive form, a contraction for “they are,” and a word indicating a location are this trio of commonly confused homophones.
What are their, they’re, and there?
A presidential veto isn't the final word; a bill can still become law if it's passed again by this specific supermajority in both the House and the Senate.
What is a two-thirds (2/3) vote?
Frequent challenges over its use of racial slurs and mature themes have made this novel about a Southern lawyer defending a Black man a perennial fixture on banned book lists.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
In a 2-to-1 statewide vote in 1958, Arizona citizens officially changed the school's name to Arizona State University from this previous title.
What is Arizona State College?
This 4-letter slang term for charm or romantic appeal was so ubiquitous it was named Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year.
What is rizz?
This pair of sound-alikes distinguishes between the verb for “to receive willingly” and the preposition for “with the exclusion of.”
What are accept and except?
The phrase "You have the right to remain silent" is the most famous part of the rights established for criminal suspects by this 1966 landmark Supreme Court case.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Since its 1951 publication, this novel has been a magnet for censorship due to its main character's profanity-laced tirades against "phonies" during a two-day trip through New York City.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
This new ASU school uniquely integrates expertise from the Global Futures Laboratory, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the W. P. Carey School of Business.
What is the Rob Walton School of Conservation Futures?
Featuring songs like "Formation" and "Sorry," this artist's groundbreaking 2016 visual album tackled themes of generational trauma and Black feminism, leaving fans asking, "Who is Becky with the good hair?"
Who is Beyoncé (with the album Lemonade)?
The head of a school, a pal you can count on, shares a pronunciation with this word for a fundamental rule or belief.
What are principal and principle?
Best known for revolutionizing women's sports, this 1972 law requires gender equity in any educational program that receives federal funding.
What is Title IX?
A Utah school district cited "vulgarity and violence" as its reason for banning this sacred text, which contains numerous plotlines involving warfare, betrayal, and sordid affairs.
What is the King James Bible?
This ASU research enterprise, led by an ex-NNSA administrator, focuses on developing and transitioning solutions for national security challenges.
What is the Global Security Initiative (GSI)?
This 1985 Kate Bush classic found new life and topped the charts in 2022 after it was used to save Max Mayfield from the villainous Vecna in season 4 of Stranger Things.
What is "Running Up That Hill"?
A word of praise contains an “i,” as in, “I like your style!”; this word, with an “e,” refers to something that makes things excellently complete.
What are a compliment and a complement?
This term for drawing partisan electoral maps was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a district so strangely shaped it was compared to a salamander.
What is gerrymandering?
In 2022, a Tennessee school board controversially banned this Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, citing "inappropriate language" and a panel depicting nudity in its allegorical retelling of the Holocaust.
What is Maus?
Frank Lloyd Wright's stunning design for the Gammage Auditorium was repurposed for ASU after the original plan to build it as an opera house in this Middle Eastern capital fell through.
What is Baghdad, Iraq?
In 2014, Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly was deemed so culturally significant that it became one of the first hip-hop albums to be archived in the library of this Ivy League university.
What is Harvard University?
A prosecutor’s job is to do the first of these verbs to get information about a defendant’s activities of the second adjective.
What are elicit and illicit?
Political scientists use this three-word metallic metaphor to describe the mutually beneficial, and often unbreakable, policy relationship between a congressional committee, a federal agency, and an interest group.
What is the iron triangle?
A North Dakota school board famously ordered 32 copies of this novel to be burned in a furnace, citing the profanity and anti-religious themes in its story of a WWII POW who becomes "unstuck in time."
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?