U.S. Politics/News
Who is the current Secretary of State?
Marco Rubio
Prof. Rodgers hesitated to apply to Georgetown Law because of the basketball rivalry with ____
Syracuse
Despite claims that she had been abducted by Syrian refugees, Lisa F was missing because _______
She had run away to hide from her parents due to difficulties in school
Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, called reports of a search to replace _____ with a new Secretary of Defense candidate "fake news".
Pete Hegseth
When did Prof. Mhajne become a U.S. citizen?
2024
What did Trump name April 2nd of this year when he launched his new tariffs?
Liberation Day
What was the first U.S. city Prof. Mhajne traveled to?
Cincinnati
In 2014, Richard Stengel accidentally tweeted #UnitedforGaza instead of _____
#UnitedforUkraine
Operation Denver was an active measure by the KGB in the 1980s claiming that the U.S. _________
Invented HIV/AIDS
Professor Ohanyan was put on a Russian list of 500 sanctioned Americans directly after this president.
Barack Obama
This U.S. representative tweeted the following after Pope Francis' passing: "Today there were shifts in global leaderships. Evil is being defeated by the hand of God"
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Rodgers
This Connecticut senator co-sponsored a bill wit Senator Bob Partman titled "Counter Information Warfare Act", accusing Russia of using discrimination to undermine U.S. national security
Chris Murphy
This Russian group, based in Saint Petersburg, is known for troll farming and election interference in 2016
Internet Research Agency (IRA)
This professor once lived across from the Moulin Rouge in Paris
Prof. Buckman
This weekend, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed a prisoner exchange with this country to send them U.S. deportees in exchange for political prisoners.
Professor Buckman started college as a _____ major.
Math
The Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) was replaced by this center in 2016.
The Global Engagement Center
Chicago police officers claimed that this NBA team was connected to the MS-13 gang
Chicago Bulls
In an interview sheet officers wrote "wearing a Chicago Bills hat represents [that] they are a member in good standing with the MS-13"
Which professor lived abroad for a year in middle school?
Prof. Scholz (Germany in the 6th grade)
Before Cory Booker's recent delivery of the longest speech in Senate history (Over 25 hours), which U.S. Senator held this record?
Senator Strom Thurmond (South Carolina)
24 Hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act in 1957
Prof. Scholz has taught ___ sessions of Power, Order, and Justice.
29
This program was ended by Russia in 2014 after a Russian teen sought asylum for his sexual orientation.
Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX)
A Reuters report found that in 2020, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to discredit COVID-19 vaccine safety in this country
The Philippines
Aimed to discredit the safety and efficiency of Sinovac, China's COVID vaccine
The Exorcist stairs