Deck 4: Security Surveillance

Question 1

Who or what killed TIPS?

A) Congress
B) Homeland Security
C) The Patriot Act
D) Media outrage

Answer 1

A
The TIPS program was killed by Congress.

Question 2

What is a bull market followed by?

A) A bear market
B) A stork market
C) A boom
D) A recession

Answer 2

A
A bull market is followed by a bear market.

Question 3

What French town was virtually destroyed during the Allied advance from Normandy despite its population's sympathy for the Allied Powers and serves as an example of military necessity?

A) St. Lô
B) St. Louis
C) Calais
D) Paris

Answer 3

B
St.Lô was attacked by the Allies because of a German Panzer division's strategic use of the town to block the Allied advance.

Question 4

Which government agency has the Carnivore program?

A) The FBI
B) The CIA
C) The USDA
D) HUD

Question 5

How much of the U.S.defense budget is spent on bureaucracy?

A) 25 percent
B) 45 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 70 percent

Question 6

How many nuclear-powered attack submarines does the United States have?

A) 12
B) 24
C) 54
D) 62

Question 7

What does Max Boot refer to as the "American Hiroshima"?

A) Attack on Pearl Harbor
B) 9/11 attacks
C) 1982 Beirut Marine barracks bombing
D) Attack on the USS Cole

Question 8

How many aircraft carriers does the United States have?

A) 12
B) 13
C) 24
D) 9

Question 9

Who refers to the increasing prevalence of spy satellites,wiretapping and tracking technology as a "revolution in surveillance technology"?

A) James Stacey Taylor
B) Noel Sharkey
C) Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt
D) Thomas M. Powers

Question 10

Who argues in favor of universal government surveillance?

A) James Stacey Taylor
B) Joel Feinberg
C) James Rachels
D) John Stuart Mill

Question 11

How much does the Teal Group estimate the aerial drone industry will be worth per year over the next decade?

A) $100 billion
B) $11.3 billion
C) $111.3 billion
D) $100 million

Question 12

To which industrial age does Max Boot date the basic structures of the American Navy and Air Force?

A) First Industrial Age
B) Second Industrial Age
C) Third Industrial Age
D) Fourth Industrial Age

Question 13

What is the name of the GPS constellation China is planning to launch that would be independent of U.S.control?

A) Copernicus
B) Confucius
C) Galileo
D) Mao-1

Question 14

Stanley and Steinhardt accuse the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of hindering what type of privacy for Americans?

A) At home
B) Workplace
C) Genetic
D) Financial

Question 15

Who wrote 1984?

A) George Orwell
B) George Formby
C) Michael Crichton
D) John le Carré

Question 16

After how many minutes of watching video monitors does the attention of most people fall below acceptable levels?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40

Question 17

What is the good to be maximized,according to Taylor,under a plausible version of consequentialism?

A) Human autonomy
B) Human well-being
C) The well-being of all
D) Privacy

Question 18

Who increased the freedom of federal agents to conduct surveillance on American individuals and organizations in May 2002?

A) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
B) Attorney General John Ashcroft
C) Secretary of State Colin Powell
D) Vice President Dick Cheney

Question 19

What is a major factor in driving data surveillance forward?

A) The need for security
B) The need for control
C) The commodification of the military
D) The commodification of personal information

Question 20

The War Powers Resolution that limits the U.S.president's ability to wage war without approval from Congress was passed in what year?

A) 1969
B) 1941
C) 1973
D) 1945