Free Samples
Stop, collaborate, and listen; 1994's hit "Ice Ice Baby" heavily samples this 1981 collab between Queen and David Bowie.
What is Under Pressure?
This cerulean pet and working animal accompanies folk hero Paul Bunyan on many of his adventures. He's also featured in several massive statues by Bunyan's side.
Who is Babe the Blue Ox?
This 1954 landmark case partially overturned the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision which for a time confirmed the doctrine later known as "separate but equal".
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
DAILY DOUBLE
This 1952 novel by Ellison includes the following quote; "I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind".
This bird can roller-skate, swim, sing, draw, and even ride a unicycle. He has many foreign "cousins" including a bright blue Brasilian variety known as "Garibaldo".
Who is Big Bird?
In an SRS(an acronym for this phrase), all subsets of the sampling frame have an equal probability of being selected. As a method, it's less useful for comparative analysis between different subgroups within a population.
What is a Simple Random Sample/Simple Random Sampling?
This sinister water-spirit of Celtic folklore typically takes the form of a black horse with reversed hooves and frequently lures children to their demise in a body of water.
What is a Kelpie?
This 1857 decision ruled that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in territories and that Black Americans had no right to sue in Federal Court. The name comes from the enslaved man who attempted to gain freedom for himself and his family including two daughters Eliza and Lizzie.
What is Dred Scott/Dred Scott v. Sanford?
More like the great American stageplay; Arthur Miller penned this "based on a true story" tragedy in which a family falls apart post WWII after the patriarch Joe Keller skirts accountability for knowingly sending the Air Force cracked cylinder heads which resulted in the deaths of 21 pilots.
What is All My Sons?
DAILY DOUBLE
This bird has the largest eyes of any land animal (5 times larger than it's brain).
This Joni Mitchell track River off of this colorful 1971 album samples Jingle Bells in the piano backing - but there's not much Christmas cheer to be found.
What is Blue?
This 20th-century animal fable teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it contradicts their self-interest. The 'villain' shares a name with a 1980s German hard rock band - ouch, that stings.
What is the Scorpion and the Frog/Frog and the Scorpion?
This 2010 Supreme Court decision ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations and other organizations including labor unions and non-profits - in other words, money is speech.
What is Citizens United/Citizens United v. FEC?
This 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the multi-generational story of the Buendia family whose patriarch founded the fictional town of Macondo. The title could also describe Luke's time on the toilet.
What is 100 Years of Solitude?
Work smarter, not harder? The Red Necked Phalarope spins in circles on the water's surface creating one of these to bring up the food to them.
What is a vortex?
Believed to be one of the most sampled tracks of all time (over 1300 documented uses), Funky Drummer by this artist known as "Mr. Dynamite" and "Soul Brother No. 1" features in much old school hip hop - including Run DMC's "Run's House".
Who is James Brown?
One of Aesop's fables features a dog who loses the meat/cheese from his mouth after he sees this; it inspired multiple proverbs including "all covet, all lose" and "don't relinquish substance for shadow".
What is his reflection?
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ruled that this amendment requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own, extending the right to counsel to the States as well as the Federal Government.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This Chilean author is known for her work in magical realism - her catalog includes The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna. She was also forced to flee Chile in the 1970s after her father's first cousin committed suicide during a military coup.
Who is Isabel Allende?
This bird can sleep for short periods in flight and fly up to 49,700 miles without touching land with the help of its massive wingspan. The Northern Pacific variety features a salt gland above the nasal passage that helps desalinate their bodies, protecting them from the large amount of ocean water they imbibe.
What is an Albatross?
In this alliterative method of sampling, subsets of the data sets or population are created based on a common factor and samples are randomly selected from each subgroup.
What is Stratified Sampling?
In the story of the Blue Jackal from this country, a hungry jackal performs a coup on the lion and declares himself protector of the jungle(or Chandru) in exchange for food and shelter after accidentally dying himself blue. Eventually, he is discovered as an ordinary jackal and chased off - never to be seen again.
What is India?
Marbury v. Madison(1803) ruled that "it is explicitly the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is" - this gave the power to the courts to strike down laws interpreted as unconstitutional - a power otherwise known as this 2 word phrase.
What is judicial review?
This Southern Gothic author of "Wise Blood" was better known for her short stories(which I love) and published letters. One of the latter included the following quote; "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and change is painful".
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
The nutcracker genus is a lesser-known element of this family of birds, generally known to be clever and opportunistic with the highest brain-to-body ratio of any bird family.
What are Corvids/the family Corvidae?