Academic Team: Social Studies

. The 13th Amendment effectively invalidated which one of the following four US Supreme Court decisions?

1. Plessy v Ferguson

2. Korematsu v US

3. Dred Scott v Sandford

4. Texas v Johnson

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3. In New Mexico, after seeing the horrible destructive power associated with nuclear fission, this individual quoted the Bhagavad Gita by stating, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

(J. Robert) Oppenheimer

A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which one of the following four regions?

1. US Midwest

2. Western Europe

3. Middle East

4. China

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After which major American Civil War battle did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

Arrange the following four capitals in the order they would be encountered when traveling east from London to Athens.

1. Bern

2. Vienna

3. Brussels

4. Sarajevo

3, 1, 2, and 4

Based on party affiliation, which one of the following four US presidents doesn't belong with the other three?

1. James K. Polk

2. Harry S Truman

3. William Howard Taft

4. Lyndon B. Johnson

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Cleopatra was the last ruler of which dynasty in Egypt?

Ptolemy (or Ptolemaic)

Complete the following economic statement with one of the four given choices. Absolute advantage and comparative advantage are terms related to

1. policies of the dual banking system.

2. nations engaged in trade.

3. comparative standards of living.

4. closed and union shops.

2

Complete the following statement using one of the three given choices. Enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was accomplished by

1. an agreement among European nations to stop colonization.

2. resistance from Latin American populations.

3. British naval power.

3

Complete the following statement with one of the four choices. Interest groups lobby the Federal courts through

1. direct, open contact with judges and justices.

2. contributions to judicial reelection campaigns.

3. filing amicus curiae briefs.

4. impeaching unpopular judges.

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Complete the following statement with one of the four choices. The "exclusionary rule" was created to

1. allow the House Rules Committee to refuse to schedule a debate on a bill.

2. ensure that bureaucracy enforces unpopular legislation.

3. enable the president to "impound" programmatic money appropriated by Congress.

4. prohibit police from using illegally seized evidence at trial.

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Complete the following statement with one of the four given choices.

According to the Supreme Court's decision in Lemon v Kurtzman (1971), which of the following is true about public aid to church related schools?

1. Any use of public funds for church-related schools violates the separation of church and state doctrine.

2. Only local governments may allocate public money to church-related schools.

3. Public aid to church-related schools must be matched by an equal amount of privately raised funds.

4. Public aid to church-related schools must have a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion.

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Complete the following statement with one of the four given choices. Fiscal policy refers to government control of

1. banks and stock markets.

2. the money supply and interest rates.

3. taxing and spending policy.

4. bonds and deficits.

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Complete the following statement with one of the four given choices. The United States' decision to continue with the planned invasion of Iraq, even after failing to gain approval from the United Nations Security Council, is an example of

1. containment.

2. isolationism.

3. deterrence.

4. unilateralism.

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During the 1814 bombardment of what US military installation did Francis Scott Key pen the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

Fort McHenry

Fill in respectively the two blanks in the following sentence with the missing US Constitutional Amendment number. Amendment (blank) prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages within the United States, but Amendment (blank) repealed that amendment.

18, 21

Fill in respectively the two blanks in the following sentence with the missing US Supreme Court cases.

(Blank) provided the framework for legal segregation in the United States, but the decision in (Blank) ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka)

Fill in respectively the two blanks in the following sentence with the word horizontal or vertical.

A (blank) merger is the joining together of two or more business firms, one of which is a supplier of the others, while a (blank) merger is the joining together of two or more competing firms within the same industry.

vertical, horizontal

Fill in the blank in the following sentence with one of the four given choices. The most imminent threat of a nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was __________________.

1. the Korean War.

2. the Vietnam War.

3. the fall of the Berlin Wall.

4. the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the missing economic term.

A world-renowned brain surgeon earns $2,000 per day. He is also a highly skilled woodworker. His wife wants him to take a day off to install new kitchen cabinets. A professional carpenter agrees to do the job for $1,000. The professional carpenter has a (blank) advantage over the surgeon.

comparative

Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the term elastic or inelastic. The majority of products purchased by the average consumer are items with (blank) demand.

elastic

Fill in the blank in the following sentence. In 1919, Friedrich Ebert became the first president of the (Blank) Republic

Weimar Republic

Fill in the blank in the following statement. French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was born on the formerly Italian island of (Blank).

Corsica

Fill in the blank. In Roe v Wade, the "right to privacy" under the due process clause of the (Blank) Amendment was cited as the basis for the US Supreme Court's decision.

Fourteenth

Fill in the blank. The point at which the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied are equal is known as (blank).

(market or economic) equilibrium

Fill in the blank. The psychological phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help an individual in distress is known as the (blank) effect.

bystander

Fill in the two blanks in the following sentence with the missing economic terms.

For a firm, the profit-maximizing quantity of output occurs when (blank) is equal to (blank).

marginal cost, marginal revenue (either order)

Give the common name of the program officially known as the European Recovery Program which provided approximately $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild struggling European economies after World War II.

Marshall Plan

Give the exact date for the fall of the Bastille.

July 14, 1789

Give the name of the 400 year period of prosperity and stability during the Han Dynasty that coincided with the Pax Romana in the West.

Pax Sinica

Give the name of the French revolutionary most closely associated with the "Republic of Virtue."

(Maximillien) Robespierre

Give the term for the lowest level of a stimulus that an organism can detect such as one candle on a clear night thirty miles away.

absolute threshold

Give the title of Machiavelli's book of political advice.

The Prince

Identify Alexander the Great's general who received Egypt as his share of the empire after Alexander's death and whose dynasty lasted until 31 BC.

Ptolemy

Identify each of the following four agencies as being created to support the US effort in either World War I or World War II.

1. War Industries Board

2. War Production Board

3. Office of War Information

4. Committee on Public Information

1. World War I

2. World War II

3. World War II

4. World War I

Identify respectively each of the following four as being associated with either the First or Second Great Awakening.

1. Social reform movements, such as abolition and temperance began to take root.

2. Universities, such as Dartmouth and King's College, were founded to train "New Light" ministers.

3. the formation of new Christian denominations, such as the Methodists

4. Revivals occurred in New York's "burned over district."

1. Second

2. First

3. First

4. Second

Identify respectively each of the following four as being part of the central nervous system or the peripheral nervous system.

1. somatic nervous system

2. spinal cord

3. sympathetic nervous system

4. cerebellum

1. peripheral

2. central

3. peripheral

4. central

Identify respectively each of the following four as being part of the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention.

1. Every state had equal congressional representation.

2. bicameral legislature

3. unicameral legislature

4. Congressional representation based on state population

1. New Jersey (Plan)

2. Virginia (Plan)

3. New Jersey (Plan)

4. Virginia (Plan)

Identify respectively each of the following four as being proposed by either the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey plan during the Constitutional Convention.

1. representation based on population

2. unicameral legislature

3. equal representation for all states

4. bicameral legislature

1. Virginia (Plan)

2. New Jersey (Plan)

3. New Jersey (Plan)

4. Virginia (Plan)

Identify respectively each of the following four as either proslavery or antislavery.

1. The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford

2. The Wilmot Proviso

3. William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

proslavery, antislavery, antislavery, antislavery

Identify respectively each of the following four as promoting either isolationism or internationalism.

1. the Monroe Doctrine

2. George Washington's farewell address

3. Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech

4. The United States' membership in the United Nations

1. isolationism

2. isolationism

3. internationalism

4. internationalism

Identify respectively each of the following four as promoting either the power of the central government or states' rights.

1. John Marshall's Supreme Court decisions

2. John C. Calhoun's Exposition and Protest

3. Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution

4. The Federalist Papers

1. central government

2. state's rights

3. state's rights

4. central government

Identify respectively each of the following four Civil War generals as either a Union general or a Confederate general.

1. George Meade

2. Thomas Jackson

3. Ambrose Burnside

4. P.G.T. Beauregard

1. Union

2. Confederate

3. Union

4. Confederate

Identify respectively each of the following four ideas as either Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian.

1. creation of a national bank

2. agrarian economy

3. support of the French Revolution

4. loose constructionism

Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jeffersonian, Hamiltonian

Identify respectively each of the following four laws as either limiting or expanding the power of labor unions in the US.

1. Fair Labor Standards Act

2. Wagner Act

3. Taft-Hartley Act

4. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1. expanding

2. expanding

3. limiting

4. limiting

Identify respectively each of the following four powers as being solely under the jurisdiction of the US House of Representatives or the US Senate.

1. elect the president if there is no majority in the electoral college

2. approve appointments of ambassadors, cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices

3. impeach the president

4. elect the vice-president if there is no majority in the electoral college

1. House

2. Senate

3. House

4. Senate

Identify respectively each of the following four provisions as being an element of the Compromise of 1820 or the Compromise of 1850.

1. Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state.

2. Congress enacted a strict fugitive slave act.

3. Slavery was banned north of the 36-30 parallel line. 4 The slave trade was outlawed in Washington, D.C.

1820, 1850, 1820, 1850

Identify respectively each of the following four psychologists as being associated with classical conditioning or operant conditioning.

1. Edward Thorndike

2. John B. Watson

3. Ivan Pavlov

4. B.F. Skinner

1. operant

2. classical

3. classical

4. 4. operant

Identify respectively the continent on which each of the following four rivers is located.

1. Volga

2. Amazon

3. Yellow

4. Mississippi

1. Europe

2. South America

3. Asia

4. North America

Identify respectively the following four countries as belonging to either the Allied Powers or Central Powers during World War I.

1. Russia

2. Bulgaria

3. Turkey

4. Japan

1. Allied

2. Central

3. Central

4. Allied

Identify respectively the following four countries in the order one would encounter them if one were to drive north beginning in Albania.

1. Slovakia

2. Serbia

3. Poland

4. Hungary

2, 4, 1, 3

Identify respectively the four countries represented by the following individuals known as the Big Four, at the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles.

1. Vittorio Orlando

2. David Lloyd George

3. Woodrow Wilson

4. Georges Clemenceau

1. Italy

2. (Great) Britain (United Kingdom, England)

3. United States

4. France

Identify respectively the heads of state for both the US and France at the time of the Louisiana Purchase.

(Thomas) Jefferson, Napoleon (Bonaparte)

Identify respectively the order in which you would encounter each of the following four cities if you began driving north from Baton Rouge.

1. Des Moines

2. St. Paul

3. Little Rock

4. Jefferson City

3, 4, 1, 2

Identify respectively the rivers on which the following four world capitals are located.

1. Rome

2. Vienna

3. Cairo

4. Washington, DC

1. Tiber, 2. Danube, 3. Nile, 4. Potomac

Identify respectively the rivers on which the following three world capitals are located.

1. London

2. Paris

3. Washington D.C.

1. Thames

2. Seine

3. Potomac

Identify the "fat cat" who is credited with the development of the social networking websiteFacebook.

(Mark Elliot) Zuckerberg

Identify the "Mad" ruler of Bavaria between 1864 and 1886, known alternately as the Swan King or The Fairy Tale King. He is the builder of Neuschwanstein Castle, which inspired Walt Disney's Cinderella Castle.

(Mad) Ludwig (II)

Identify the "Silverite" that lost the 1896 US presidential election to William McKinley.

(William Jennings) Bryan

Identify the 1805 battle which was Napoleon's greatest victory, called the most perfect battle, and is still taught at war colleges today.

(Battle of) Austerlitz (or Battle of the Three Emperors)

Identify the 1813 battle in which Napoleon was forced to surrender to a multinational coalition.

Battle of Leipzig (or Battle of the Nations)

Identify the agreement that settled the controversy over the counting of slaves during the Constitutional Convention.

Three-Fifths Compromise

Identify the American politician who became head of Tammany Hall in 1868.

(William "Boss") Tweed

Identify the author of the following: "While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities, "unwise and untimely."

(Martin Luther) King

Identify the author of The Institutes of the Christian Religion who was the pastor of a church in Geneva, Switzerland, and was known for his theories of predestination.

(John) Calvin

Identify the author of The Spiritual Exercises who was also the founder of the Society of Jesus.

Loyola (or St. Ignatius)

Identify the Cold-War era US foreign policy that promised military and economic aid to any Middle-Eastern country trying to resist Communism.

Eisenhower Doctrine

Identify the controversial law passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that granted the Federal Government enhanced powers for collecting data deemed necessary for national security.

(The) Patriot Act

Identify the diplomatic correspondence that President Woodrow Wilson's administration used as justification for US military involvement in World War 1.

The Zimmermann Telegram

Identify the Dominican monk and former inquisitor of Poland, whose attempts to sell indulgences to finance the building of St. Peter's, led Martin Luther to post his "95 Theses".

(Johann) Tetzel

Identify the early Bohemian Church reformer and follower of John Wycliffe who was burned at the stake for heresy and whose followers were the target of the Hussite Wars.

(Jan) Hus (or John Hus)

Identify the economic curve used to illustrate the inverse relationship between the level of unemployment and the rate of inflation.

Phillips (Curve)

Identify the Egyptian New Kingdom pharaoh known as the Great Builder pharaoh.

Ramses II (or Ramesses II or Ramesses the Great)

Identify the Egyptian Old Kingdom pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid.

Khufu (or Cheops)

Identify the Egyptian valley where King Tutankhamen was found.

(Valley of the) Kings

Identify the empress whose courage in the face of the Nika Revolt may well have saved her husband, the Byzantine Emperor.

(Empress) Theodora

Identify the event after which the British government closed the port of Boston as part of the Coercive Acts.

Boston Tea Party

Identify the event that President Lyndon Johnson's administration used as justification for escalating US military operations in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin (Incident) (or Tonkin Gulf Incident)

Identify the first two US presidents to lose their re-election bids.

John Adams, John Quincy Adams

Identify the five US presidents represented by a combination of seven coins and bills totaling $26.57.

Jackson, Lincoln, Washington (or Eisenhower), Kennedy, Jefferson

(Note: Lincoln is on both the $5 bill and the 1 cent coin.

Possible objection that Washington could be replaced by any president until HW Bush due to the Mint's presidential dollar coin program.)

Identify the four US presidents assassinated while in office.

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy

Identify the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella who became Holy Roman Emperor and who consented to the Peace of Augsburg.

Charles V

Identify the Greco-Roman astronomer who, in his book the Almagest, promoted the Geocentric Theory.

(Claudius) Ptolemy

Identify the individual responsible for the "Reign of Terror."

(Maximillian) Robespierre

Identify the individual serving as president of the United States when the XYZ Affair occurred and when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress.

John Adams

Identify the individual who forced the resignation of 75 year old Otto von Bismarck in 1890.

(Kaiser) Wilhelm II (or William II)

Identify the individual who led the Committee of Public Safety in France between July, 1793 and August, 1794.

(Maximillian) Robespierre

Identify the industrial process used by Andrew Carnegie to mass produce steel in the late 19th century.

Bessemer (process)

Identify the island in the northeast Caribbean that is divided between France and the Netherlands.

Saint-Martin

Identify the judicial doctrine whereby most but not all protections found in the Bill of Rights are made applicable to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.

selective incorporation (or due process)

Identify the king associated with the construction of the Palace of Versailles.

Louis XIV

Identify the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt.

Cleopatra (VII)

Identify the leader of the Soviet Union who helped begin the move away from communism when he introduced the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost as a way of liberating Soviet society.

(Mikhail) Gorbachev

Identify the name for Napoleon's plan for the economic conquest of Britain.

Continental System

Identify the name given to Mao Zedong's 1958-1961 failed campaign to rapidly transform China from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization.

Great Leap Forward

Identify the one individual who was not a contemporary of the other three.

1. Benito Mussolini

2. Duke Ellington

3. Albert Einstein

4. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

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Identify the one individual who was not a contemporary of the other three.

1. George III

2. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. Alexander I

4. Victor Emmanuel II

4

(Note: 1738-1820, 1769-1821, 1777-1825, 1820-1878)

Identify the one individual who was not a contemporary of the other three.

1. Nicolaus Copernicus

2. Christopher Columbus

3. Ivan III, The Great

4. Louis IX, Saint Louis

4

Identify the one individual who was not a contemporary of the other three.

1. Otto von Bismarck

2. Giuseppe Garibaldi

3. Queen Victoria

4. Oliver Cromwell

4

Identify the one river upon which the following three cities are located: Prague, Budapest, and Belgrade.

Danube (River)