Hammurabian Statutes
Under Hammurabi's Code, this was the punishment for a builder whose house collapsed and killed the owner.
What is death?
In Act II Scene IV of Henry IV Part I, Falstaff spends most of the scene doing this mundane activity at the Boar's Head Tavern.
What is drinking and telling stories?
I Kan't believe the first name this philosopher who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason."
What is Immanuel?
This 1801 invention by Joseph Marie Jacquard used punched cards to automate pattern weaving and directly influenced early computing.
What is the Jacquard loom?
In his routine administrative correspondence, Chávez typically opened formal letters with this simple two-word salutation rather than anything more elaborate.
What is "Dear Friend"?
Hammurabi's Code specified that a wet nurse who substituted a different child without the parents' knowledge could have this done to her.
What is having her breasts cut off?
In this Shakespeare play, two minor characters spend the majority of their stage time waiting for someone who never arrives — a premise later borrowed by Samuel Beckett. [Double Points if you guess both characters correctly]
What is Hamlet? (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern)
This Scottish empiricist's name sounds like a cross between whom and you.
Who is David Hume
Ada Lovelace wrote what is considered the first computer algorithm to specifically compute these types of numbers, intended for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
What are Bernoulli numbers?
Chávez's internal memos to UFW staff were typically typed on letterhead bearing this short organizational motto alongside the union's eagle symbol.
What is "Viva La Causa"?
This many provisions constituted the full text of Hammurabi's Code as inscribed on the stele discovered in 1901.
What is 282?
In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff's primary scheme involves hiding in this ordinary household object to avoid detection.
What is a laundry basket?
This French philosopher famously proclaimed "I think therefore I am" sounds like he was ripping da cart a bit too much.
Who is René Descartes?
This is the name of the specific vacuum tube configuration, developed in the 1940s, that stored binary data using mercury delay lines in early computers.
What is the mercury delay line memory?
The UFW's official newsletter, which Chávez used to communicate organizational updates to members, was called this.
What is El Malcriado?
Under Hammurabi's Code, if a man could not pay a debt, he could hand over his wife, son, or daughter to work for the creditor for this many years.
What is three years?
This is the approximate number of lines spoken by the First Servant in King Lear, one of Shakespeare's least consequential named characters.
What is three?
This philosopher's social contract theory was a Rousseau-nding hit with revolutionaries across Europe.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The ENIAC, completed in 1945, weighed approximately this many tons.
What is 30 tons?
Chávez's 1972 memo to organizing staff outlined this many specific criteria for evaluating the readiness of a new local for strike action.
What is… (nobody knows!!)
The Babylonian statute known as the "ana ittišu" primarily governed contracts in this professional domain.
What is apprenticeship and craft training?
In Act III of The Winter's Tale, this stage direction is perhaps the most famous and least dramatic in all of Shakespeare.
What is "Exit, pursued by a bear"?
When asked about his philosophy of common sense, this Scottish thinker said the answer was Reid in front of you all along.
Who is Thomas Reid?
This 1962 video game, developed at MIT on a PDP-1 and considered one of the first interactive computer games, involved two players firing torpedoes at each other.
What is Spacewar!?
In his correspondence with Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Chávez primarily requested federal support for this specific legislative goal.
What is collective bargaining rights for agricultural workers?