Jew Among the Thorns
Slave Children in Scotland
"Thus will Giovani Do"
Growing up in Voc Batavia
Current Events
100

The antagonist of The Jew Among the Thorns.

Who is the Jew?

100

One name for the passage from West Africa to the Americas during the colonial period.

What is the Middle Passage?

100

This ritual was often associated with the decreased participation of individuals with youth groups.

What is marriage?

100

This Malay phrase is used to described legitimized children of the VOC.

What is Anak Kompanie?

100

This singer/songwriter recently broke ticketmaster selling tickets for her upcoming "The Eras" tour.

Who is Taylor Swift?

200

This is the amount the servant received from the rich man for 3 years of work.

What is 3 farthings?

200

This was commonly used to identify slaves in Early Modern Scotland, in place of branding that was more popular in the colonies.

What is a collar?

200

This practice helped Jewish adults enforce their views on Jewish youth in academic relationships.

What is writing letters?

200

Participation in this organization’s rituals were essential for being considered a legitimate child of a European father of the VOC.

What is the Dutch Reformed Church?

200

This country is hosting the 2022 Fifa World Cup, amidst many accusations of worker abuse and human rights violations.

Where is Qatar?

300

This is given to the servant by the Jewish man, in return for the servant to stop forcing him to dance.

What is a purse of gold?

300

This religious institution may have helped incorporate some slaves into broader Scottish communities by individualizing them in the eyes of white society.

What is The Church of Scotland?

300

This poem, found in the Tanakh, experienced a shift in interpretation in the Early Modern Period as it became associated with temporal experiences of love.

What is Song of Songs?

300

Sons had the right to receive care from their parents until 18. Daughters required care until this age.

What is 15 years old?

300

The replacement for Henry Cavill in Netflix's fantasy drama The Witcher.

Who is Liam Hemsworth?

400

This object obtained by a wish is used first by the servant in The Jew Among the Thorns.

What is a gun?

400

Enslaved peoples in Early Modern Scotland where primarily forced into this type of service.

What is domestic service?

400

Differing from the secret marriages of the wider Jewish population, secret marriages in Jewish-Italian communities were primarily arranged by these people.

Who are father’s and adults?

400

Batavia was located in which capital city, of what modern nation?

Where is Jakarta, Indonesia?

400

This country has had at least 1/3 (32,000,000) of its population displaced by flooding in fall of 2022.

Where is Pakistan?

500

These two were the “best at jumping” when the servant plays his fiddle to avoid being hung.

Who is the Judge and the Jew?

500

This case is described by the Caledonian Mercury saying “It must give very high satisfaction to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, that the freedom of Negroes has obtained its first general determination in the Supreme Civil Court of Scotland.”

What is Knight v. Wedderburn?

500

These institutions were supervised by adults and designed to keep Jewish-Italian youth away from the temptations of the streets.

What are confraternities?

500

After this year the VOC stopped hiring children born and raised in the education system of Batavia, considering them lazy, stupid and corrupted by their close proximity to slaves.

What is 1713?

500

The lauch of this rocket, after several delays, marks NASA's newest efforts to return to the moon.

What is the Artemis 1?