Evolution & Extinction
Features of organisms that have no apparent purpose or function, often resembling parts that are in use by other organisms
What are Vestigial Structures?
Book that is often used to mark the beginning of the second wave of feminism
What is The Feminine Mystique?
Artistic and intellectual revival of African-American culture in the United States that took place from the end of World War I to the Great Depression
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Our tendency to ignore evidence that contradicts our beliefs
What is Confirmation Bias?
Dessert always served in UW Madison dining halls
What is Soft Serve?
The amount of kinds of amino acids used by all life
(double points for how many humans can make directly inside our bodies)
What is 20?
(10, the other 10 we must get from food)
The assumption that cis women and cis men are innately attracted to each other
What is Compulsory Heterosexuality?
Deadliest slave rebellion in US history
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
A contractual agreement among homeowners not to sell to non-whites
What are Restrictive Covenants?
Day of the week that frats do not usually throw, even though it seems like they should
What is Friday?
Proved that some fossils were the remains of once living things
Who is Nicolas Steno?
The year women were first able to get credit cards without a co-signer
What is 1974?
Presents the story of a virtuous, but helpless woman who is seduced by a man that will eventually betray her
What is a Seduction Novel?
Shift in economy during which well-paying jobs were wiped out, left central cities more isolated with more concentrated poverty
What is Deindustrialization?
Average cost of a Badger Bus ticket
What is $25?
The biggest element that can be synthesized inside of stars, anything heavier are created during supernovae
What is Fe (Iron)?
Links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring
What is the Care Chain?
Popular literary school or movement that some have described as an extreme form of realism, deterministic, indifferent, fatalist universe
What is Naturalism?
Nickname for tactic politicians use to convey hidden racialized messages, use coded language
(double points for an example)
What are "Dog Whistle" Politics?
(welfare queen, urban unrest, "get tough on crime", illegal immigrants, etc.)
Red building on UW Madison campus said to be haunted
What is Science Hall?
The idea that American species are not as interesting as "old world" creatures due to "unfavorable conditions"
(double points for which US president this prompted to get involved in the search for fossils in the US)
What is American Degeneracy?
(Thomas Jefferson)
Founder of the National Association of Colored Women
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
Harlem Renaissance writer who explored themes of race, identity, and social dynamics, wrote Quicksand and Passing
Who is Nella Larsen
The percent of human genes that are the same as all other humans
What is 99.9%?
Minimum floor you can take the elevator to without being heckled in Sellery or Witte dorms
What is the Fourth Floor?