Indiana Studies
Geography
Psychology
Sociology
U.S. History to 1900
U.S. History after 1900
History Through Film
World History
Government
Economics
Current Events
100
What is the Indiana state tree?
Tulip Tree aka Tulip Poplar Tree
100
What line divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
Equator
100
What disorder involves repetitive ritual behaviors?
OCD
100
Which type of status is earned or chosen?
Achieved
100
Which U.S. President is responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
100
What New Deal program provided retirement pensions for elderly Americans?
Social Security
100
A South Carolina farmer is drawn into the American Revolution after the British threaten his family. He forms a militia group and uses unconventional tactics against British forces.
The Patriot
100
What is the name for the time period before written records existed?
Prehistory
100
What amendment guarantees freedom of speech?
First Amendment
100
What do economists generally use to evaluate the economic health of a country?
Gross Domestic Product
100
What country hosted the 2026 Winter Olympics in the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo?
Italy
200
What Native American tribe was led by Chief Little Turtle pictured below?
Miami
200
What type of climate is characterized by hot temperatures and heavy rainfall year round?
Tropical Climate
200
What personality test uses inkblots?
Rorschach Test
200
Which pre-industrial society has fewer than fifty people?
Hunting and Gathering
200
What system in the south involved farmers working land in exchange for a share of the profit?
Sharecropping
200
What U.S. senator led investigations into suspected communists in Government during the 1950s?
Joseph McCarthy
200
During World War II, a women’s professional baseball league was formed. Sisters and teammates navigate competition, relationships, and societal expectations.
Remember... "There's no crying in baseball!"
A League of Their Own
200
Which Greek city-state is known as the origin of democracy?
Athens
200
What is the minimum age to be elected President of the United States?
35
200
What is the name for a tax on imported goods?
Tariff
200
What prize did Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado win in October 2025?
Nobel Peace Prize
300
What city was once home to the Indianapolis Colts before they moved?
Baltimore
300
What type of map emphasizes a single idea or a particular kind of information about an area?
Thematic Map
300
What disorder involves nightmares and flashbacks after trauma?
PTSD
300
What is the most obvious aspect of culture?
Language
300
Who assumed the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
300
What muckraker wrote The Jungle exposing the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
300
An African American pianist hires an Italian American driver for a concert tour in the segregated South. The two men confront racism and their own differences along the way.
Green Book
300
What set of laws established strict punishments based on the principle “an eye for an eye”?
Hammurabi’s Code
300
Impeachment
300
Surplus
300
What major American steel company was bought by Japan’s Nippon Steel in 2025?
U.S. Steel
400
Which Brazil, Indiana native created a famous popcorn brand and popularized microwave popcorn?
Orville Redenbacher
400
What are the results of a process by which dry areas develop on the leeward sides of mountain ranges?
A Rain Shadow
400
IQ
400
What are the ways in which a culture expresses universal traits?
Cultural Particulars
400
What was the cash crop of Jamestown?
Tabacco
400
What socialist leader from Terre Haute ran for president from prison in 1920?
Eugene V. Debs
400
A naval commander leads an Allied convoy across the Atlantic during World War II. They are relentlessly pursued by German U-boats?
Greyhound
400
Which ancient seafaring people developed one of the first alphabets?
Phoenicians
400
What Supreme Court case established the power of judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison
400
What are the four factors of production?
Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship
400
What country was Nicolas Maduro leading when he was captured in January 2026?
Venezuela
500
Who captured British forts at Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Vincennes during the Revolution?
George Rogers Clark
500
Global Positioning System (GPS)
500
Who developed classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
500
Who coined the term sociological imagination in 1959?
C. Wright Mills
500
Colonists that were loyal to Britain during the American Revolution were known by two terms. One was Loyalists. What was the other?
Tories
500
Black Panther Party
500
A young woman from high society falls in love with a poor artist aboard the ill-fated ship. When the ship strikes an iceberg, survival becomes a desperate struggle.
Titanic
500
What region, whose name means “land between the rivers,” was located between the Tigris and Euphrates?
Mesopotamia
500
What amendment prevents members of Congress from receiving a pay raise until after the next election?
27th Amendment
500
This man’s term as the Chair of the Federal Reserve will expire this May, but he can remain on the Fed’s Board of Governors until 2028. What is his name?
Jerome Powell
500
Which two nuclear armed South Asian countries came close to war with air strikes and drone strikes, but ended with a ceasefire after three days?
Pakistan and India