Rock & Roll
Premodern History
Literature
Writing
Media Literacy
100

This US city is the home of Motown Records. 

Detroit

100

This series of wars were fought primarily between Christians and Muslims over control of the Holy Land.

The Crusades

100

This teenage heroine volunteers to take her younger sister's place and eventually becomes the face and symbol of rebellion that deposes President Snow.  

Katniss Everdeen

100

A sentence that contains a dependent clause presented as a complete sentence is known as this type of error.

Fragment

100

Electronic social networking and independent multimedia production on interactive IT platforms.

Social Media

200

The rise of rap group NWA is chronicled in this 2015 biopic. 

Straight Outta Compton

200

This Carthaginian general shocked the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War by leading an army, including war elephants, across the Alps.

Hannibal

200

This Pulitzer Prize winning novel follows Scout Finch as she witnesses racial injustice in the American South and has been challenged for racial slurs and the novel's treatment of race.

To Kill a Mockingbird

200

In an academic essay, this statement presents the writer’s main argument or controlling idea.

Thesis Statement 

200

Examples include PR, advertising, and influencing.  

Strategic Communication

300

This hard rock band of the 80s was fronted by sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson

Heart

300

Established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella, this institution sought to identify and punish religious heresy in Spain.

Spanish Inquisition

300

This allegorical novel where farm animals overthrow their human master only to arrive at a new form of oppression has been banned or restricted in several countries.

Animal Farm

300

This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without a conjunction.

Semicolon

300

In the year of the first moon landing, the US Dept. of Defense demonstrated the earliest version of this medium of communication.

The Internet

400

In 1958, Elvis left Rock and Roll for his new career with this organization. 

United States Army

400

This duchess inherited one of the wealthiest territories in medieval Europe, participated in the Second Crusade, and became queen of both France and England during her lifetime.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

400

Challenged for its use of profanity and sexual content, this novel follows Holden Caulfield's adolescent experience filled with grief and alienation.

The Catcher in the Rye

400

Aristotle identified three rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and this appeal based on logic and evidence.

Logos

400

Communicating with someone not with you in space or time.

Mediated Communication

500

Famous for songs like “Born on the Bayou,” Creedence Clearwater Revival was formed in this state.

California

500

Following the assassination of Julius Caesar, this leader established the Roman Principate and became Rome's first emperor.

Gaius Octavius (Augustus Caesar)

500

This modernist novel follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin and led to a famous obscenity case in the United States.

Ulysses

500

This logical fallacy attacks the person making an argument rather than addressing the argument itself.

Ad Hominem Fallacy

500

This invention launched the era of mass communication.

The Printing Press