U.S. Politics
This person was elected as the mayor of New York City.
Who is Zohran Mamdani?
On “Liberation Day,” Trump announced these on many countries and goods.
What are tariffs?
This new AI-app from OpenAI has prompted controversy over disinformation, creating offensive content of historical figures (ex. MLK), and copyright infringement of media (ex. Disney, Pixar).
What is Sora?
This country made headlines recently for a sweeping social-media ban for all citizens under the age of 16.
What is Australia?
A debate speech should always begin with this engaging speech tactic.
What is a hook? (Esteemed dels., honorable chair also acceptable)
This U.S. department was renamed on September 5th, 2025 via an Executive Order.
What is the Department of War? (Formerly the Department of Defense).
This is the political ideology of Japan's first female prime minister, elected by the new parliament.
What is ultra-conservative/right wing/republican?
This OpenAI competitor shares a name with a recently dead local "hero."
What is Claude AI?
A plane crash in this country was the biggest plane crash of 2025, killing at least 260 people in a Boeing 787.
What is India?
This technology company was "sued" by delegates who represented the Residents of the Mission District at an LCM class.
The first time a president mobilized a state's National Guard without governor consent since 1965 happened in this city.
What is Los Angeles?
These are the cities and countries where COP30 and the G20 summits were held.
What are Belém, Brazil and Johannesburg, South Africa?
On January 27, 2025, Nvidia dropped 17% and the Nasdaq fell because of this foreign technology company, which emerged in January.
What is DeepSeek?
This country is the birthplace of electric-car company BYD, which has surpassed Tesla in sales volume.
What is China?
To stop the government shutdown, LCM delegates needed to reach an agreement on these THREE issues.
What are 1) Overall Spending Levels, 2) Healthcare & Social Programs and 3) Border Security & Immigration?
This archaic law has been cited as the legal basis for Trump's aggressive and rapid deportation campaigns.
What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798?
Although the 2025 Gaza ceasefire allowed some aid deliveries, this major border crossing between Israel and Egypt remains closed.
What is the Rafah crossing?
Larger data centers can use up to this many gallons of water per day, usage equivalent to a town of 10,000-50,000 people. (+/- 500,000 gallons)
What is 5 million gallons? (4.5 mil-5.5 mil acceptable)
Boats originating from this country, which were destroyed by the U.S., prompted an investigation into Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense.
What is Venezuela?
This real-world conference, which LCM attended, is comprised of 19 countries and the EU & AU.
What is the G20?
The long government shutdown was partly due to this power that the minority party of Congress holds.
What is the filibuster?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will reform state-owned energy companies after investigators accused his close associates of doing this illegal action.
What is embezzlement/stealing 100 million dollars from the Ukraine's nuclear power company?
These “Magnificent Seven” companies (name all 7) now make up nearly a record 37% of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization and consistently outperform the index.
What is Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla?
The conflict between these two Asian countries is a long-running, unresolved border dispute that became violent in the second half of 2025, resulting in dozens of deaths and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
What is Thailand and Cambodia?
During the UPenn Crisis, UPenn was accused of breaking this federal educational privacy law.
What is FERPA?