ELECTORAL COLLEGE
The number of electoral votes required to win the presidency.
What is 270?
This is the author of "We The Animals," whom Salon Magazine named Most Foxy Author of 2011.
Who is Justin Torres?
In this type of government, God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, and the God's or deity's laws are interpreted by the authorities.
What is a "theocracy"?
A 2010 law in France bans women from wearing this garment in public.
What is the niqab or burka?
This institution dates back to 2350 BCE, when the first recorded ceremony took place in Mesopotamia.
What is marriage?
Electors who do not vote for the candidate they pledged to vote for, and instead vote for another candidate or abstain from voting.
What are "faithless electors"?
This is the narrative perspective of the first chapter of "We The Animals."
What is first person plural ("we")?
This leader, who called himself the "King of Kings," led a "White Revolution" in Iran as an effort to westernize the country.
Who is Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi? (Acceptable: "The Shah" or "Reza Shah")
This type of voting, which involves a single transferable vote, is used for national elections in Ireland and Malta, the Australian Senate, and for regional and local elections in Northern Ireland.
What is ranked-choice voting?
This is the name of the protagonist-narrator of "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
What is Humbert Humbert?
Each state has AT LEAST this number of electoral votes.
Unlike autobiography, this type of book frames the writer's life by limiting and selecting what is included.
What is "memoir"?
This man, who became Supreme Leader of Iran in 1979, asserted that Western culture was a plague to be eliminated.
Who is the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? (also acceptable: Ayatollah, Khomeini)
This is a word that means "a newly coined word or expression," and often combines existing words to create an entirely new one.
What is a "neologism"?
This philosophical term means "the subjective, conscious, first-person experience of the world."
What is "qualia"?
This state has the most electoral votes, with 55.
What is California?
In "We The Animals," these are the names of the narrator's brothers.
What are Manny and Joel?
In 1981, Azar Nafisi was expelled from this university for refusing to wear the veil.
What is the University of Tehran?
After a divided and controversial senate hearing, this person was recently elected to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
This author of "Three Cups of Tea" was discovered to have fabricated much of the content of his books, including an account of a Taliban kidnapping.
Who is Greg Mortenson?
Joe Biden won the presidential election in 2020 with more than 6 million popular votes, and THIS many electoral votes.
What is 306?
Mami works the graveyard shift at this job.
This U.S. president placed sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran beginning in 1979 due to numerous humorous rights violations.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Although originally released in 1994, this song was #1 across the charts at the beginning of 2020.
What is "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey?
This influential imagist poet wrote "The Embankment" about a fallen gentleman reflecting on his past and craving the warmth of a blanket.
Who is T. E. Hulme?