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What city is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
100
What is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit?
Marginal Cost
100
The period of European history that lasted from the 14th to the the 17th century is known as what?
The Renaissance
100
Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?
Dogs
100
What Amendment states: States cannot deny the right to vote based on age (18+)
The 26th Amendment
200
What U.S. state has the nickname "Land of 10,000 Lakes"?
Minnesota
200
Who described economics as the dismal science?
Thomas Carlyle
200
Who is credited with suggesting the word "hello" be used when answering the telephone?
Thomas Edison
200
In Freud's theory, which part of personality is focused on fulfilling the most primal and basic urges?
The id
200
A system of government in which power is divided between one central government and several regional governments (dual or cooperative).
Federalism
300
Suriname is a country located on which continent?
South America
300
The labor theory of value is most often associated with which school of econimics ?
Marxian
300
American mobster was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for tax evasion?
Al Capone
300
What is the fear of clowns called?
Coulrophobia
300
What is the right of the accused to see a judge and be told the charges against him/her?
Habeas Corpus
400
Wellington is the capital city of which island nation?
New Zealand
400
The publishing of what book in 1776 was described as the effective birth of economics as a separate discipline ?
The Wealth of Nations
400
Ruling for 64 years, which Queen was the longest-reigning British monarch before Queen Elizabeth II?
Queen Victoria
400
At which university did psychologist Philip Zimbardo conduct a prison experiment that had to be ended earlier than expected due to its participants taking their roles to an extreme level?
Stanford University
400
Prohibits discrimination based on race or gender in employment or public accommodations (restaurants, hotels). Created EEOC to enforce. Based on Congress's interstate commerce clause power (discrimination impacts interstate commerce). The most important federal civil rights law.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
500
San Marino is a microstate in Europe completely surrounded by what country?
Italy
500
I was born in 1881 and died in 1973. I attended the University of Vienna. I titled my treatise on economics "Human Action". Who am I?
Ludwig von Mises
500
Which major battle of WWII started on August 23, 1942 and was fought in what is now the city of Volgograd?
The Battle of Stalingrad
500
Which psychologist investigated obedience using electric shocks?
Stanley Milgram
500
Commerce clause case (1824). Decision greatly enlarged Congress' interstate commerce clause power by broadly defining the meaning of "commerce" to include virtually all types of economic activity. Pair with Lopez & Morrison cases (limiting commerce power).
Gibbons v Ogden