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100
This Northwestern JD holder practiced with a couple of private firms in Ohio before becoming a journalist with his own tabloid talk show that ran from 1991 to 2018.
Who is Jerry Springer?
100
You may be arrested if your child burps in this location.
What is church?
100
This Justice called the reasoning of a majority of the Court “pure applesauce.”
Who is Antonin Scalia?
100
On August 9, 1945 this iconic B-29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
What is Bockscar?
100
This state was the to abolish death penalty.
What is Wisconsin?
100
Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) was a lawyer in this movie.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
200
This famous man was the sole black student at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg when he enrolled in law school in 1943.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
It is illegal for a bar owner to sell beer unless they are simultaneously doing this activity.
What is brewing a kettle of soup?
200
This Justice coined the phrase “evolving standards of decency” in Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.
Who is Earl Warren?
200
Clarence Darrow, the famous American defense attorney who defended John Scopes in the infamous Scopes Trial, attended law school at this prestigious Midwest institution.
What is University of Michigan Law School?
200
This president was assassinated by an attorney.
Who is President James Garfield?
200
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) famously attended Harvard Law School in this movie.
(What? Like, it's hard?)
What is Legally Blonde?
300
This sports journalist practiced labor law—including client Willie Mays—before giving up the practice of law for fulltime sports broadcasting with the catch phrase “This is ____, telling it as it is.”
Who is Howard Cosell?
300
In this Nebraska town donut holes are prohibited from being sold.
What is Lehigh?
300
This Justice is credited for coming up with the phrase “the right to privacy” in an 1890 law review article.
Who is Louis Brandeis?
300
This flamboyant and outspoken PAC 12 football coach, famous for his off-topic pop culture rants in post-game press conferences, holds a law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law.
Who is Mike Leach?
300
This character framed Roger Rabbit.
Who is Judge Doom?
300
Lieutenant Daniel Keefe (Tom Cruise) was a lawyer in this movie.
What is A Few Good Men?
400
This San Francisco 49’r won the Superbowl in 1994—the same year he graduated law school, which ought to make you feel bad about how much you accomplished your last year of your JD.
Who is Steve Young?
400
In Waterloo, Nebraska, barbers are prohibited from eating this food between 7:00 am and 12:00 pm.
What are onions?
400
This Justice said about the prospect of broadcasting Supreme Court oral arguments “I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.”
Who is David Souter?
400
This musical notation that looks like a half-circle with a dot in the middle, is placed over top of a note and tells musicians to hold that note until the conductor cuts it off.
What is a fermata?
400
This man's was the first completely televised trial in America.
What was the trial of Adolf Eichmann?
400
Martin Vail (Richard Geer) was a lawyer in this movie.
What is Primal Fear?
500
This celebrity left his home in India at the age of 18 to study law at the University of London in 1888 though his paralyzing shyness made it hard for him to practice in London or Bombay.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
500
Having this condition can prevent you from getting married in the state of Nebraska.
What is venereal disease?
500
This president said of his Supreme Court nominees, “I made two mistakes as president, and both of them are sitting in the Supreme Court.”
Who is Dwight Eisenhower- regarding Brennan and Warren?
500
This meteorological measure of instability takes into account the amount of moisture and heat in the atmosphere in an effort to better predict thunderstorms.
What is CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy)?
500
These 3 presidents died on July 4.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Monroe?
500
Carl Lazlo (Peter Boyle) was a lawyer in this movie.
What is Where the Buffalo Roam?