World in JEOPARDY
Key Terms
Characters on Fire (literal & figurative)
Visions of Democracy
Visual & Material Culture Fights Back!
1000
This is defined as state-led debilitation, or elimination of any of the political institutions that sustain an existing democracy.
What is Democratic Backsliding?
1000
This is a way for a group to make a decision; it is a procedure in which the "say" of the members of that group determines the decision.
What is democracy?
1000
In Mariana Enríquez’s "Things We Lost in the Fire", the self-immolating women are likened to this group, historically persecuted, and burned. The mention of this group in the story symbolizes both a history of oppression and reclaimed power.
Who are witches?
1000
The statement in the declaration of independence, “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that men are created equal…” is contradicted by the fact that the Constitution produced by the Founders carves out space for this practice.
What is Slavery?
1000
The art and resistance movement throughout Europe, spurred on by WWI, that declared an all-out assault on rational thought. One form of nonsense resistance to the macho culture of war and high art featured unexpected mustaches.
What is DADA? 
2000
This Korean uprising will have its 45th National Day of commemoration in a week and a half. It consisted of a series of student-led protests followed by police and state brutality.
What is the Gwangju Uprising? Or, what is the May 18 Democratization Movement?
2000
After the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Parliament declared England a free state and this, a term for a state without a monarch (and supported by John Milton).
What is a Commonwealth?
2000
This type of narrator is exemplified in Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
What is an unreliable narrator?
2000
For Wendy Brown, a major threat to Democracy comes from the neoliberalization of this cultural institution so vital for the production of an informed, and critically population.
What is Higher Education?
2000
This figures was famous for his role in the Amistad Mutiny and was memorialized in theater, painting and film, often depicted in a romanticized way, as he is in this portrait by Nathaniel Joceyln.
Who is Cinqué or Sengbe Pieh?
3000
Created by the US and its allies after The Second World War, this is what the LIO was intended to provide in world politics.
What is Certainty/Predictability/Stability?
3000
This punctuation mark is often used in horror stories to leave gaps in the narration of events, allowing for ambiguity and enhancing the feeling of unease or dread.
What is an ellipsis?
3000
This union organizer in Ionesco's play mistrusts journalists and reports of rhinos; he spouts Marxist slogans, and eventually joins the rhinos, showing that ideology itself is the problem, that both the left and the right are susceptible to "rhinoceritis."
Who is Botard?
3000
These two poets envisioned American democracy, real or wished for, using the image of singing.
Who are Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes?
"I hear America Singing" (W.W.)
"I too sing America" - (L.H.)
3000
Three components of the following painting that both literally and figuratively represent democracy on fire.
What is 3 of the following: The electric bulb (instead of the sun or eye of God) burning from above, the bull's tale as a flame on the left, the woman in the burning building on the right, and also the candle flame at the center (that might suggest some form of hope in this dark portrayal)?
4000
For Orestes and Conway, the reason industrialized nations increased their burning of fossils fuels, despite knowing that continuing to do so would render most of the planet uninhabitable by humans, was because they were "in the grip" of this "ideology."
What is Market Fundamentalism or Neoliberalism?
4000
Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, and Henry Fielding are writers well known for their works that exemplify this literary genre.
What is the novel?
4000
This character from history argued the Amistad case in the supreme court and won it, after also serving as president of the United States.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
4000
The Federalist Papers identifies these 4 institutional guardrails for American democracy.
What are Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers, Bicameralism and Federalism?
4000
This art movement inspired the poetry and painting below:
Cut down by the sky.
Between shapes moving toward the serpent
and crystal-craving shapes, I'll let my hair grow.
What is Surrealism? [Practitioners: Frederico García Lorca and Salvador Dali]
5000
In 2016, democracy can be seen to have changed. These 3 technological/political re: information and its transmission fundamentally changed America and reverberated around the world.
What is fake news; populist politics (and a blatantness about truth telling among politicians); micro-target of political messages online (selling personal information to political operatives). *In the OED, the word of the year in 2016 became "Post-truth"
5000
According to Hannah Arendt this fact about every human, that each of us occupies a unique perspective in time and place, explains why we can be free within an otherwise causally determined world.
What is our natality?
5000
These significant characters (name 5) in Human Acts are connected to Dung-ho and kept him alive through their memories and also possibly their feelings of guilt.
Who are 5 of the following: Dung-ho's mother, Jeong-dae, Eun-sook, Seon-ju, Jin-su, Han Kang?
5000
Between 1775 - 1787, these events formed up the beginning of American Democracy.
What is the War of Independence (1775), the Declaration of Independence written (1776), the Articles of Federation drafted (1777) and ratified (1781), the constitution drafted (1787)?
[Also, peace concluded with British (1783)]
5000
Graphic images with written text can be a form of protest in itself. Name 3 specific author/illustrators and/or genres, used in C & E lectures, that use visuals with text as a way to expose political crises and inspire resistance.
What are 3 of the following: Art Spiegelman's Maus, Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug's On Tyranny, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, anti-suffragist and climate change political cartoons.