Horror Movies
What is the name of the clown in "It"?
Answer: Pennywise
Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer both opened in theaters on July 21, 2023. What was the name of the meme that emerged in the weeks leading up to their release?
Answer: Barbenheimer
What is the earliest agent of socialization?
Answer: Family
C. Wright Mills argued that the sociological imagination helps individuals distinguish between these two things: personal troubles and this.
Answer: Public issues
What year was the first Apple iPhone released in the United States?
Answer: 2007
How many survivors are there at the end of "The Thing"?
Answer: 2 (Childs and Macready)
Before he was the frontman for Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl was the dummer for which band?
Answer: Nirvana
This type of research collects data in numerical form and is often analyzed using statistical techniques.
Answer: Quantitative research
Conflict Theory was largely inspired by this sociologist’s critique of capitalism and his work on class struggle.
Answer: Karl Marx
Which planet spins clockwise?
Answer: Venus
What horror movie from the 1980s starred a child actor who had no idea they were acting in a horror film?
Answer: The Shining
What TV show aired the first interracial kiss in the United States?
Answer: Star Trek
The belief that one's culture is inferior to another culture is called...
Answer: Ethnocentrism
This concept, used in Symbolic Interactionism, describes the unwritten rules and expectations that guide social interactions.
Answer: Social Norms
Which two teams have won the Super Bowl the most times?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots
What is the name of the alien species in the Alien franchise?
Answer: Xenomorph
Whitney Houston famously covered “I Will Always Love You”—who sang the original?
Answer: Dolly Parton
What is it called when participants may change behavior because they know they are being studied?
Answer: The Hawthorne Effect?
This theory developed by Emile Durkheim; each part of society works together to benefit the whole
Answer: Structural Functionalism
What’s the best-selling video game console to date?
Answer: The PlayStation 2
What was the first horror film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar?
Answer: The Exorcist
What singer holds the record for most Grammy nominations?
Answer: Beyoncé, who has 88 nominations
What is the sociological term for a sense of normlessness?
Answer: Anomie
Erving Goffman, a key figure in Symbolic Interactionism, developed this theory that compares social interactions to theatrical performances.
Which country was the first to use paper currency?
Answer: China