Are You Positive?
Up to Interpretation
Thrilling Trivia
Figuratively Speaking
Crisis (Mis)Management
100
Present-day national statistics about this contradict conservative claims that it's at an all time high.
What is the crime wave?
100
You have a question, I have an answer.
What is an interview?
100
This King of Pop is still iconic for this zombie-filled music video and dance.
Who is "Michael Jackson"?
100
This figuratively refers to the excessive consumption of low-quality digital content. But also it literally happens as you do so.
What is brain rot?
100
An environment where fear is widespread and used for social control.
What is a culture of fear?
200
Brain scans of this "feel-good" chemical's release are studied alongside children's screentime habits
What is dopamine?
200
This research method involves observing and interacting with specific cultural groups in their natural environment, while researchers study their interactions and behaviors.
What is an ethnography?
200
Modern-day parody that sounds like Dawn of the Dead.
What is Shaun of the Dead?
200
The mall symbolizes this core American value and behavior in Dawn of the Dead.
What is consumerism?
200
This federal public health agency studies, prevents, and treats illnesses and injuries while providing national guidelines and standards.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
300
This social experiment demonstrated the pressures of conformity and groupthink.
What is the Asch Experiment?
300
This study of words and their histories can tell us a lot about how people making meaning over time... literally!
What is etymology?
300
This band's song "Zombie" has become an international anthem against violence and terror after the IRA bombed Warrington in 1993.
Who are The Cranberries?
300
From the Chinese word for "washing the mind," this suspected Cold War tactic was often associated with totalitarianism in zombie movies.
What is "brainwashing"?
300
This U.S. government agency coordinates disaster responses and provides resources to local and state authorities.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
400
Beware of the use of misleading percentages according to this sociologist... A health product only tested on 1 person, however successful, is "100% effective."
Who is Barry Glassner?
400
Name the movie: the Right interpreted zombies as communists. The Left interpreted zombies as pro-consumerist McCarthyists
What is Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
400
Romero's social commentary continues as this intelligent Black zombie leads a legion of the undead against Pittsburgh in "Land of the Dead."
Who is Big Daddy?
400
Seabrook's and Hurston's description of zombies as animals and automatons reflects this process by which people are stripped of their personhood.
What is dehumanization?
400
Examples of this voluntary behavior could include providing food, shelter, financial assistance, or even emotional support when government institutions fall short.
What is mutual aid?
500
Durkheim studied this social phenomenon, on the rise during the Industrial Revolution, by using the scientific method and quantitative data to examine contributing social factors
What is suicide?
500
Folklore suggests they're undead, but Haitian zombies were really given this psychoactive substance to become mindlessly obedient.
What is Datura Stramonium (or zombie cucumber)?
500
This Pittsburgh-native Vietnam war veteran turned makeup artist is the brains behind Romero's classic zombies.
Who is Tom Savini?
500
This zombie-like worker lives for the company, but is he really living?
What is "The Organization Man"?
500
According to Durkheim, this feeling arises amid societal breakdown, when the norms ain't norming.
What is anomie?