Popculture
In 2021, a viral photo of this Vermont Senator sitting bundled up in mittens at the Presidential Inauguration.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
The oldest building on campus.
What is Eckhart Hall?
Who is Barack Obama
The stock market crash kicked off a decade-long period of severe worldwide economic downturn.
What is the Great Depression?
Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, this nomadic empire grew to become the largest land empire in history.
What was the Mongol Empire?
What is Barbienheimer?
State representative who graduated from AU.
Who is Barbara Hernandez?
These are the 2 largest cities in Illinois.
What are Chicago and Aurora?
The belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the entire North American continent.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This ancient, vast network of Eurasian trade routes connected Han Dynasty China with the Mediterranean world.
What was the Silk Road?
This 1983 music video directed by John Landis became a cultural phenomenon, forever popularizing zombie dances and red leather jackets.
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
When is 1893?
Illinois puts this official slogan on its license plates.
What is the "Land of Lincoln"?
He is the only U.S. President to serve more than two terms.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
This Macedonian king created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India
Who was Alexander the Great?
In 1964, a record-breaking 73 million viewers tuned in to the first live U.S. television performance by this British band.
Who are the Beatles?
This is the year that the Aurora, Illinois AU campus opened.
When is 1912?
This devastating 1871 disaster destroyed over three square miles of the city.
The discovery of gold in 1848 sparked a massive rush to this western state the following year.
What is California?
Ruling the British Empire for 63 years during the height of the Industrial Revolution, this 19th-century queen gave her name to an entire historical era.
Who was Queen Victoria?
In 1993, this musical artist legally changed his name to an unpronounceable love symbol to protest his restrictive contract with Warner Bros. Records.
Who is Prince?
The original school name for Aurora University.
What is Mendota College?
Although he ruled a massive criminal empire built on bootlegging, the federal government finally imprisoned Capone in 1931 for this specific financial crime.
Passed during the Vietnam War in 1971, the _______ lowered the legal voting age across the United States from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This collection of laws from an ancient Babylonian king famously established the legal principle of "an eye for an eye."