Marshall Law Trivia Quiz

Answer: the first African-American justice of the US Supreme Court

William Hubbs Rehnquist was the first Supreme Court justice to die in office. Neil Gorsuch is the first Supreme Court justice to serve at the same time as a justice he once clerked for (from 1993-1994), that elder justice being Anthony Kennedy.
Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights activist and served as a Supreme Court justice from October 1967 until October 1991. President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed him as the first African-American to be an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Answer: I Fought The Law

"I Fought The Law" was written by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets and recorded by them in New York City's Bell Sound Studio on May 18, 1959. Crenshaw would actually portray the Crickets' leader, the legendary Buddy Holly, in the 1987 movie "La Bamba", a biofilm of Ritchie Valens. Crenshaw's version of "I Fought The Law" was recorded in 1992, for his album "Live At the WXRK Studios, NY 22 Nov '92 (Remastered".

Answer: Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan, the media philosopher, intended his "Four Effects" to be a complementary method to Aristotle's "Four Causes": Material, Efficient, Formal, and Final; sister methods by which a viewer/reader/listener absorbs media or technology or science.

It is a description of the ways in which people can explore the relationship between causes and effects. The theory or approach sprang from McLuhan's analyzing the effects of "new media" such as print and electronic technology, and how they influence people's lives.

Answer: "Marshall's Law": Israeli show about a stepfather maintaining discipline in his new family

"Marshall's Law" does not exist.
"Marshall Law" however is indeed about two sisters named Ros and Verity Marshall, working at the Magistrate's Court in Melbourne, Australia. In that 2002 TV series, Ros is a Junior Prosecutor and is the less serious sister, prone to over-partying, while Verity is the overachiever.
In the TV show "Martial Law" lasting two seasons from 1998-2000, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung played Sammo Law. The show also featured Arsenio Hall and Kelly Hu.
As for "Marshal Law" (1996) Jimmy Smits starred in that TV movie as a U.S. Marshal named Jack Coleman who helped build a small housing community outside of Los Angeles and must now defend it against a band of psychopaths just after an earthquake has rocked the area.

Answer: Assembly Court

The Marshall Islands is an island nation located in the central Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and the Philippines. The Traditional Rights Court is a constitutional court consisting of three or more judges representing all classes of land rights. The District Court consists of a Presiding Judge and two Associate Judges with jurisdiction concurrently with the High Court for civil cases where the amount claimed does not exceed $10,000.

There are 24 local government areas, and each has its Community Court with jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount claimed does not exceed $200. Legislative power in the country lies with the Nitijela.

The Upper House of Parliament is called the Council of Iroij, an advisory board made up of 12 paramount chiefs.

Answer: What the Foucault?

The bon mots were collected and published in a book called "What the Foucault?", which has recently come out in an updated fifth edition. Some of those other Laws of Civilization included: "Third law of civilization: snacks sealed in plastic bags cannot be opened, even using your teeth."
"Fourth law of civilization: the human gene whose discovery is announced in the New York Times-there's one every day, a gene du jour-is for some bad trait, like schizophrenia, kleptomania, or pneumonia. We have no good genes." and,
"Fifth law of civilization: failing corporate executives and politicians always resign to spend more time with their families."
Sahlins' Pacific ethnography work focused on the Fiji and Hawaiian islands mostly. He wrote many books but his best known may be "Stone Age Economics"(1972), in which he both analyzed and challenged the current anthropological theories of the hunter-gatherer societies.

Answer: economic recovery to Western Europe

The American initiative proposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. Its intention was to promote world peace through economic support and foreign policy, maintaining conditions abroad that would keep nations free and stable, after suffering the destruction levied by World War II.

The United States bolstered European financial prosperity with the transfer of $15 billion. Modern business methodology was required to be adopted along with an increase in productivity.

The four-year plan focused on rebuilding war-torn areas and their reconstruction.

Answer: Matt Dillon

Those other names are all characters that actor Matt Dillon played in his own films: Tex McCormick in "Tex", Dallas Winston in "The Outsiders", and J.C. Cullen in "The Big Town." But James Arness's character' name in "Gunsmoke" was Matt Dillon...no relation to the actor. "Gunsmoke" remains one of the longest-running television dramas in U.S. history. James Arness was the only actor who appeared in every episode of the show in its 20-year run.

Answer: Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of the famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the most famous trials of the 20th century, but it's the only one of the answers that did not occur during Edward Marshall Hall's lifetime. Having died in 1927, Mr. Hall was not around to handle the "Lindbergh Baby Case" of 1932. In the Camden Town Murder trial Marshall Law saved Robert Wood from the gallows, and in the Green Bicycle Case he successfully defended Ronald Light. Both were murder trials.

Not so lucky however was George Joseph Smith who was found guilty and executed for the murder of his first of three brides, each of whom was drowned in a bath tub.

Answer: John Marshall

John Marshall (September 24, 1755 - July 6, 1835) served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835. It was in Chief Justice John Marshall's landmark 1803 Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison, that for the first time, the doctrine of separation of powers was interpreted by the American jurisprudence system. That term, "separation of powers" has become a staple of high school civics courses ever since.