LINGUISTICS
ECONOMICS
HISTORY
PSYCHOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
1000
This is the most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.
Mandarin
GENEROUS: choose a team to get +0000 and it will be revealed at the end of the game. You cant choose yours
1000
This is the basic economic problem of having limited resources and unlimited wants.
Scarcity
Debuff: The group with the highest score loses 7,000
1000
This 12th-century Muslim leader famously recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187.
Saladin
All teams with 3 zeroes in their scores will get -5000
1000
This psychologist developed operant conditioning using rats and pigeons.
B.F. Skinner
PASS OR NOT:you have +2000. Would you keep it or double it to next team?
1000
The head of the executive branch in a parliamentary system.
Prime Minister
2 paper plates. one contains +10000, another has -10000. you know which is which but the other group will choose. Convince the other group which one they should choose.
2000
The study of meaning in language.
Semantics
x2 if you get it correctly
2000
This Scottish economist is known as the "father of modern economics."
Adam Smith
RAMPAGE: RESET the score of your chosen team to ZERO!
2000
This famous speech begins with “I have a dream…”
I Have a Dream
Left behind: you all get +10000 except 1 group of your choice.
2000
This Freudian concept contains unconscious drives and instincts.
Id
Choose one opposing team — they lose 5,000 points immediately.
2000
This philosopher wrote The Social Contract and believed in the "general will."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collateral damage: if the next group gets the question wrong or if they are unable to answer, you lose 3x the points of the question they have chosen.
3000
The writing system used in Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian.
Cyrillic
3000
The study of individual markets and decision-making by households and firms.
Micro-Economics
1UP: you get to pick again
3000
Ancient Athens is known as the birthplace of this political system.
Democracy
PEOPLE POWER: All of you must choose a team to vote. The most chosen team will be robbed from all their points and it will be divided evenly among the other team.
3000
The “little Albert” experiment showed how emotions could be classically conditioned by this psychologist.
John B. Watson
BE RATIONAL: 2 paper plates. one contains +10000, another has -10000. you know which is which but the other group will choose. Convince the other group which one they should choose.
3000
This Italian thinker’s 16th-century book The Prince is a guide to political realism.
Niccolò Machiavelli
4000
The study of language use in social contexts.
Pragmatics
4000
This is the opposite of a surplus in a budget.
Deficit
BOMB HAS BEEN PLANTED: choose and whisper which question you want to choose. if anyone picks it, they will get -8000. (still eligible for the points if they got it right.
4000
This medieval African ruler brought enormous wealth to Mecca during his 14th-century hajj.
Mansa Musa
4000
This emotion is often associated with the hormone cortisol.
Stress
4000
This political system merges religious authority with governmental rule.
Theocracy
5000
Which linguistic theory proposes that differences in tense, aspect, or number systems across languages may lead to fundamentally different cognitive frameworks among their speakers?
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
5000
The part of economics that studies large-scale indicators like GDP and inflation.
Macroeconomics
5000
This U.S. territory was annexed in 1898 and became the 50th state in 1959.
Hawaii
Next incorrect answer means instant score reset to your team. Choose wisely!
5000
This psychologist created the hierarchy of moral development stages.
Lawrence Kohlberg
5000
A system in which political power is held by a single ruler with no limits.
Absolute Monarchy
TREASURE HAS BEEN PLANTED: choose and whisper which question you want to choose. if anyone picks it, they will get +8000. your team cannot pick that question.