SPS!
Policy & Politics
Data, Data, Data
Legally Blonde
Roar, Lion, Roar!
100

SPS stands for this.

What is the School of Professional Studies?

100

A proposed law being debated in Congress is formally called this.

What is a bill?

100

This incredibly popular programming language is named after the British comedy troupe Monty Python and is the go-to for data analysis.

 What is the Python Programming Language?

100

This 1954 Supreme Court decision famously declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," overturning racial segregation in public schools.

 What is Brown v. Board of Education?

100

Founded in 1754, Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in this U.S. state.

What is New York?

200

This is what "POAN" stands for.

What is the Political Analytics Program?

200

 Every ten years, the U.S. conducts one of these to count the population, which determines representation in Congress.

What is the census?

200

In a spreadsheet or database, this is the term for a vertical column of data, like "Customer_ID" or "Sale_Price."

What are fields, variables, and/or columns?

200

This type of law deals with private disputes between individuals or companies, like lawsuits over contracts or injuries.

What is civil law?

200

This founding father and author of the Federalist Papers was an alumnus of King's College, which later became Columbia.

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

300

This person is the Director of POAN.

Who is Gregory Wawro?

300

This 1965 landmark law prohibited racial discrimination in voting, targeting barriers like literacy tests..

What is the Voting Rights Act?

300

 This type of chart uses bars to represent the frequency of data points within specific numerical ranges.

What is a histogram?

300

In a criminal trial, this is the formal charging document issued by a grand jury when it determines there is enough evidence for a case to go to trial.

What is an indictment?

300

Before becoming Columbia University in 1896, the school was known by this name, reflecting its royal colonial charter.

What is Kings College?

400

This is the youngest program within SPS/

What is Biodiversity Data Analytics?

400

This is the name for a tactic used to "talk a bill to death" in the Senate, used to delay or prevent a vote.


What is a filibuster?

400

 In machine learning, this is the name for the historical data you use to train a model to find patterns.

What is training data?

400

This is the legal term for money awarded by a court to punish a defendant for outrageous conduct and deter future wrongdoing.

 What are punitive damages?

400

This Columbia-affiliated annual award for journalism is considered one of the most prestigious in the world and is named after a famous publisher.

What is the Pulitzer Prize?

500

These are the three degree offering programs that can only be accessed online and part-time.

What is Biodiversity Data Analytics, Insurance Management, and Wealth Management.

500

This 1973 law requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing military forces and to withdraw them after 60 days unless Congress authorizes further action.

 What is the War Powers Resolution/Act?

500

In the programming language R, this fundamental data structure, denoted with c(), holds an ordered set of values of the same type.

What is a vector?

500

This controversial 2010 decision held that political spending by corporations and unions is a form of protected free speech, leading to the creation of "Super PACs."

What is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC)?

500

The centerpiece of Columbia's Low Memorial Library is not a book, but a massive marble figure representing this classical concept of wisdom and protection, for whom the building is named.

Who is Athena (the goddess of wisdom)?