Ruth Bader Ginsburg
European Landmarks
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Modernist Literature
The Police
100

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by this President

Who is President Bill Clinton?

100

Arc de Triomphe

What is Paris?

100

He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th Century, and is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll”

Who is Elvis Presley?

100

This writer, whose work fuses realism with the fantastic trained as a lawyer.  He is known for his novel The Metamorphosis in which salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a huge bug.  So well-known is this author’s style that often when work is compared to his, it is called (his last name)-esque

Who is Franz Kafka?

100

This former President of the United States also served as President of the NYPD, and his desk still sits in the Commissioner’s Office

Who is Theodore Roosevelt? 

200

Although she began law school at Harvard, Ginsburg transferred to and received her law degree from this institution

What is Columbia Law School?

200

Sagrada Familia

What is Barcelona?

200

Her greatest hits include “Proud Mary” and “What’s Love Got to Do With It”

Who is Tina Turner?

200

This American writer who was part of the expatriate community in Paris in the 1920s is known for his economical and understated style of writing, which he termed the “iceberg theory.”  His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926, and portrays American and British expatriates travelling from Paris to Spain to watch bullfights

Who is Ernst Hemingway?

200

This lead singer of The Police went solo in 1985 because of creative differences and backstage conflicts

Who is Sting?

300

Ginsburg was a lawyer for this organization, where she co-founded the Women’s Rights Project

What is the ACLU?

300

The Alhambra

What is Granada?

300

She is the youngest child of the Jackson family and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019

Who is Janet Jackson?

300

This painter painted a portrait of modernist writer Gertrude Stein, which currently hangs in The Met.  In the painting, he reduces her body to simple masses—a foreshadowing of his adoption of Cubism—and portrays her face like a mask with heavy lidded eyes

Who is Pablo Picasso?

300

NYPD officers carry nightsticks, which are 26 inches long, but they used to also carry an 11 inch wooden club called this

What is a daystick?

400

Because of her fiery dissents and refusal to step down from the Supreme Court, Ginsburg has been given a nickname, which references this rapper

Who is the Notorious B.I.G.?

400

Schönbrunn Palace

What is Vienna?

400

They are the best-selling band of all time, with certified sales of over 183 million units in the U.S. and estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide

Who are the Beatles?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!

This novel by Virginia Woolf details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman living in post-World War I England, as she prepares for a party she is hosting that evening.  The themes in this book were adapted into a novel by Michael Cunningham in 1998, titled The Hours

400

In 1980, the British rock band The Police released this song, the title of which is very apropos of our current situation

What is Don't Stand So Close to Me?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!

After graduating law school and clerking in the Southern District of New York, Ginsburg studied the legal system of this county

500

Belém Tower

What is Lisbon?

500

This band’s music was adapted in the successful musical Mamma Mia!

Who is ABBA?

500

This month, in the opening lines of the poem “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot, is defined as the “cruelest month.”

What is April?

500

Women have been employed by the NYPD since it was formed in 1845, but women were not allowed to be police officers until this decade

What are the 1960s?