DMPLA
Dartmouth Trivia
Foundations of Law
Legends in the Legal Field
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100

This is what the acronym DMPLA stands for.

What is Dartmouth Minority Pre-Law Association?

100

 This Dartmouth outdoor area is famous for picnics and relaxation in the Spring.

What is the Green?

100

This is the highest court in the United States.

What is the Supreme Court? 

100

Former First Lady and Secretary of State who is also a lawyer.

Who is Hillary Clinton?

100

Famously hires a summer associate who did not go to Harvard Law.

Who is Harvey Specter?

200

Most DMPLA Guest Speaker events have taken place in this cozy, café‑style room with comfy couches.

What is One Wheelock?

200

BEMA is an acronym that stands for this.

What is Big Empty Meeting Area?

200

LSAT is the common abbreviation for this exam.

What is the Law School Admission Test?

200

Before entering politics, this President earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge.

Who is Barack Obama?

200

This lawyer cracks the case by revealing that this specific type of hair treatment would be ruined by getting one’s hair wet too soon.

Who is Elle Woods?

300

This is a service DMPLA provides pre-law students that helps them prepare for a very important exam.

What is LSAT Tutoring/Resources?

300

In this year, Dartmouth went from an all-male institution to a co-educational college.

What is 1972?

300

The 1973 Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman’s constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.

What is Roe v. Wade?

300

The first woman ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court, confirmed in 1981.

Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?

300

This Italian New York lawyer, played by Joe Pesci, defends his cousin in a small-town Alabama murder trial.

Who is Vinny Gambini?

400

DMPLA was founded this year.

What is 2020?

400

In 2001, Dartmouth awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to this former U.S. Secretary of State and first woman to hold that position.

Who is Madeleine Albright?

400

The legal power that allows a court to declare a statute unconstitutional is this doctrine.

What is judicial review? 

400

The first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

400

Famously works as a “fixer” for political elites instead of getting some use out of her law degree.

Who is Olivia Pope?

500

This year will be the ____ time DMPLA has hosted its annual Law School Fair.

What is the 3rd?

500

This famous U.S. Supreme Court case in 1819 involved Dartmouth and helped establish protections for corporate charters.

What is Dartmouth College v. Woodward?

500

The famous Supreme Court case that overturned the “Separate but Equal” Doctrine.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

500

The first African‑American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and later become a federal judge; she helped dismantle segregation through the Bolling v. Sharpe case.

Who is Constance Baker Motley?

500

Tom Cruise famously plays this novice lawyer in the “jag” defending two marines accused of murder.

Who is Lt. Daniel Kaffee?