HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS (DOMESTIC AFFAIRS)
For $200: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. warned of making common cause with the “doughfaces” of the far left in this 1949 classic.
What is The Vital Center?
For $400: Whenever Franklin Roosevelt barked to his aides, “Clear it with Sidney,” he meant that they should run the idea by this famous labor leader.
Who is Sidney Hillman? (founder of the clothing and textile workers' union)
For $600: Two organizations were at the center of the civil rights movement of the 1960s—the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and this one, known by the shorthand name “Snick.”
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
For $800: The Declaration of Sentiments, which begins “when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man…,” was agreed to and signed at this famous 1848 conference.
What is the Seneca Falls conference?
For $1,000: This Pennsylvania founding father was never a “governor,” but he is widely credited with writing the “We the People” preamble to the Constitution.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
INNOCENTS ABROAD (FOREIGN AFFAIRS)
For $200: This man called his memoirs Present at the Creation; and, with regard to the dawn of the age of American global power, he certainly was.
Who is Dean Acheson?
For $400: The “Pentagon Papers” were prepared for the Nixon administration by this Santa Monica-based research and public policy firm.
What is the Rand Corporation?
For $600: These brothers at different times served Kennedy and Johnson on national-security matters -- and from the point of view of the Vietnamese, not very well, either.
Who are Walt and Eugene Rostow?
For $800: This world leader, overthrown by the CIA in 1953, supported agrarian reform to “put an end to the latifundios and the semi-feudal practices” of his nation.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
For $1,000: Don't take it from Kissinger—it was actually this man, an earlier German émigré, who founded the school of realism.
Who is Hans Morgenthau?
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT… (GENERAL POLITICAL HISTORY)
For $200: The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed this man's conviction, but only on a technicality.
Who is John Scopes?
For $400: These two early presidents died on the same day in 1826; fittingly, the day happened to be July 4.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
For $600: Benjamin Harrison approved the annexation in the 1890's of this island kingdom; his successor, Grover Cleveland, opposed it.
What is Hawaii?
For $800: DAILY DOUBLE!!!!: Meade and Longstreet, among others, have gone down in history because of their exploits here.
What is Gettysburg?
For $1,000: The Immigrants' Protective League was one of the many projects launched by this woman.
Who is Jane Addams?
EGGHEADS OVER EASY (GENERAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY)
For $200: This historian saw Ann Coulter coming a mile away—he wrote Anti-Intellectualism in American Life back in 1962.
Who is Richard Hofstadter?
For $400: This conservative writer helped bring his movement to life, perhaps by knowing its “mind” so well.
Who is Russell Kirk? (author, The Conservative Mind)
For $600: This author of The Liberal Tradition in America argued that our political conflicts, while real, take place within a broad Lockean consensus (would that it were so now).
Who is Louis Hartz?
For $800: The “frontier thesis” of the history of the American West was laid out by this historian—who eventually headed East, to Harvard.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
For $1,000: The New York Intellectuals of the 1930s held many of their early debates in the cafeteria of this institution of higher learning, which they attended.
What is the City College of New York?
BEYOND THE BELTWAY (GENERAL KNOWLEDGE/WELL-ROUNDEDNESS)
For $200: 1947 was a good year for Oscar: In addition to the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, best picture nominees included this poignant William Wyler tale of veterans returning home, which won the statuette.
What is The Best Years of Our Lives?
For $400: John Lennon sang of this character that he would “challenge the world” by jumping “over men and horses, hoops and garters; lastly, through a hogshead of real fire.”
Who is Mr. Kite? (“Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”)
For $600: Her Dorothea Brooke, later Mrs. Casaubon, was a character in whom she sought to convey a woman's “awakening consciousness” about the world.
Who is George Eliot? (George Eliot was a woman, born Mary Ann Evans, and I sure hope you didn't need that help!)
For $800: DAILY DOUBLE!!!!: Thomas Edison is more famous, but this man's alternating-current system actually won out over Edison's direct-current variation.
Who is Nicola Tesla?
For $1,000: This important art movement got its name in 1905 when a Parisian critic, upon surveying a newly hung exhibition, exclaimed, “Matisse among the wild beasts!”
What is Fauvism?
