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Art for Art's Sake
100
Her 1962 book Silent Spring led to the establishment of the EPA.
Who is Rachel Carson?
100
This company has over $300 billion in annual sales.
What is Walmart?
100
The passage of this 1972 law had the goal of establishing gender equity in US universities.
What is Title IX?
100
This company invented the "tradition" of buying a diamond engagement ring.
What is De Beers?
100
Maya Lin created a famous memorial for veterans of this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This author of School and Society revolutionized American Education.
Who is John Dewey?
200
This minority group owns approximately 3% of US land.
Who are Native Americans?
200
John Dewey established his famous Lab School in this city.
What is Chicago?
200
This company was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton.
What is Walmart?
200
Thomas Cole and Frederick Church are the most famous representatives of this school of painting.
What is the Hudson River School?
300
This 19th century social critic coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" to characterize American's appetite for bigger and better things.
Who is Thorstein Veblen
300
At their peak, approximately 50 million of these animals roamed the American plains.
What is the American Bison?
300
This approach to education emphasizes volunteer work.
What is service learning?
300
This country has the world's largest single-nation economy.
What is the USA?
300
George Caitlin is most famous for his portraits of these people.
Who are native Americans?
400
This advertising executive says that ads lie by creating a "world that is not our world" but an ideeal one designed to sell products.
Who is Jay Chiat?
400
According to the National Academy of Sciences, this chemical was responsible for saving more than 500 million lives from malaria.
What is DDT?
400
This expression negatively describes schools and educators that are out of touch with practical circumstances.
What is the Ivory Tower?
400
This country is the single largest supplier of goods for the world's largest retailer.
What is China?
400
This famous painter did not begin her career until she was over 60 years old.
Who is Grandma Moses?
500
This architect is responsible for creating the "country-side" atmosphere of Manhattan's Central Park.
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead?
500
In 1870, members of this profession were described by the Harvard president as being "ignorant and generally incompetent."
What is medicine?
500
There are approximately this many Walmart stores around the world.
What is 5000?
500
In 1990, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center generated a controversy by exhibiting sexually explicit photos by this artist.
Who is Robert Mapplethorpe?