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Winthrop History
100

This nutrient is the body's main and preferred source of energy, especially for the brain.

What are Carbohydrates?

100

This term refers to a gradual increase in loudness over a passage of music, often used to build tension.

What is a Crescendo?  

100

This one-page document summarizes your education, experience, and skills and is used to apply for jobs.

What is a resume?

100

A structured movement process that individuals consciously and voluntarily engage in to improve or maintain fitness and overall health.

What is exercise?

100

The name of Winthrop's mascot.

Who is Big Stuff?

200

This famous conditioning experiment by Ivan Pavlov demonstrated that dogs could learn to associate a neutral stimulus with food.

What is classical conditioning?

200

This cinematic technique uses a series of shots edited together to condense time, often used to show a character's journey in a few seconds.

What is a Montage?

200

These four words form the accounting rulebook acronym "GAAP" which governs how financial statements are prepared in the United States.

What are Generally Accepted Accounting Principles?

200

This type of assessment lets teachers know whether their instruction is working and helps both teachers and students monitor learning progress.

What is a Formative Assessment?

200

The first president, David Bancroft Johnson, is buried under this building. 

What is the Little Chapel?

300

This quantum mechanical principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers.

What is the Pauli-Exclusion Principle?

300

This Renaissance painting technique uses fine, overlapping layers of translucent paint to create soft transitions between colors and realistic depth.

What is glazing?

300

These five words make up the internet security acronym "HTTP," the protocol that protects data sent between your browser and a website.

What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?

300

This term refers to the rate of disease or illness within a population, often used by public health officials to track community health trends.

What is Morbidity?

300

The year that Winthrop became fully co-ed.

What is 1974?

400

This 20th-century philosopher developed the concept of the "veil of ignorance" to argue for principles of justice in a fair society.

Who is John Rawls?

400

This type of stage extends into the audience and is surrounded on three sides, creating a more intimate performance space.

What is the Thrust stage?

400

This marketing concept is built around Produce, Price, Place, and Promotion- the four P's businesses use to plan how they sell to customers. 

What is the marketing mix?

400

This approach reflects concern for the values, potential, well-being, and interests of human beings.

What is humanistic tradition?

400

The year Winthrop obtained university designation(status) ?

What is 1992?

500

This process occurs in the stroma of chloroplasts using ATP and NADPH to convert  C02 into glucose during photosynthesis.

What is Calvin Cycle?

500

This modern dance pioneer developed the fall and recovery technique, emphasizing the interplay between gravity and movement.

Who is Martha Graham?

500

The term used to define a mixture of a firm's debt and equity structure.

What is capital structure?

500

This learning concept describes the range between what a child can solve independently with difficulty and what they can solve with guidance from more skilled adults or peers.

What is Zone Proximal development?

500

Winthrop's eighth president and the first woman to ever head the institution.

Who is Martha Kime Piper?