Louisville Trivia
The name of a trendy grocery store that voted to form one of its first unions in Louisville.
What is Trader Joes?
This riverine geographic landform is the reason for Louisville's settlement.
What are the Falls of the Ohio?
What is class struggle?
This French-British-Belgian-produced comedy starred Steve Buscemi as Nikita Krushchev.
What is the Death of Stalin?
This author of agricultural allegories for the USSR and dystopian visions of the future collated a list of suspected communists and homosexuals for the Attlee government.
Who is George Orwell? (accept Eric Blair)
The number of unionized Starbucks coffeeshops in Jefferson County.
What is 4?
Known for innovation in chocolate, waffles, and a bitter vegetable, this city serves both as its country's capital and the capital of the European Union
What is Brussels?
This concept, explored in the last section of the first chapter of Capital, describes the phenomenon of humans mistakenly assigning the agency and social relations of production not to the producers, but to the products.
What is commodity fetishism?
The capital of American filmmaking was in many ways complicit in the Red Scare. This was a HUAC-era system that barred communist party members and leftist affiliates from seeking employment or assistance from the entertainment industry.
What is the Hollywood blacklist?
This album isn't available on spotify because of its many unlicenced samples. Many will argue that Death Grips has yet to top this work, which starts with a monologue from Charles Manson.
What is Ex-Military?
The number of members in Jefferson County Teachers Association.
Over 6,000
The largest airport in the US, it spans over 135 km2, but it is only the fifth busiest in North America.
What is Denver International Airport?
Society is composed of two interdependent parts under this model, that which has direct economic influence, and the overlying culture of that society.
What is base and superstructure?
This famous Soviet director was constantly pushing the envelope of filmmaking and theory, earning Stalin's ire. His most famous works include Battleship Potemkin, Strike, and Ivan the Terrible. He is also known for developing the theory of montage.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?
On which part of the body is an angioplasty performed?
Blood vessels
Nicknamed 'Mayor for Life', this man was mayor of Louisville for an unprecedented 21 years in total.
Who is Jerry Abramson?
It is a country of deserts and steppes brimming with natural resources, most notably uranium. This Soviet republic was last to declare their independence from the USSR.
What is Kazakhstan?
An important distinction and a fun way to draw the ire of a true marxian theoretician, this is the capacity to perform work; More aptly, this is labour in the commodity-form.
What is labour-power?
[Full title required] General Jack Ripper fears the communists are coming to steal his fluids and calls down annihilation upon the Soviet Union in this Kubrick comedy-drama.
What is Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
Three six-sided dice are tossed. This is the probability that only one of them landed on 6.
what is ~.34
This now-defunct vehicle manufacturer faced a multiracial strike that lasted over 40 days in one of its manufacturing plants in Louisville.
What is International Harvester?
East of Cuba, this biodiverse Caribbean island with a rich history of racial conflict has been subject to US occupation three separate times between its two resident countries, Haiti and the Dominican Republic
What is Hispaniola?
Defined as the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society so that the worldview of the ruling becomes the accepted cultural norm or "common sense".
What is cultural hegemony?
This film was penned by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, who once said "Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now." The climax of this darkly satirical film depicts a bloodied young revolutionary with an assault rifle huddled behind a barricade constructed out of copies of Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung.
What is La Chinoise?
The longest known protein, Titin, has the longest IUPAC name. It has:
A. ~180 letters
B. ~1,800 Letters
C. ~18,600 Letters
D. ~86,000 Letters
E. ~189,000 Letters
What is E. ~189,000 Letters?