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Use with articles identified.

The statements are answers to questions (modeled after the TV show Jeopardy!). Students must answer in the form of questions.

Divide the class into teams.

Read the statements.

Call on the first team with a hand raised.

Correct answer = 10 points

Wrong answer = -10 points (Another team may respond for the same chance to gain or lose 10 points.)

STATEMENTS TO READ

GOOGLE'S CHINA PROBLEM

1. Google's Web address in China.

2. Rhymes with cogs These are all the Cogs found in Disney's Toontown Online. Names that are moved forward are leaders of the HQ of that specific Cog type. Bossbots
  • Flunky, Level 1-5
  • Pencil Pusher, Level 2-6
  • Yesman, Level 3-7
  • Micromanager, Level 4-8
  • Downsizer, Level 5-9
. China shuts them down.

3. What Tiananmen is.

4. Year Communists seized power in China.

5. Google's motto.

CORRECT RESPONSE

What is www.Google.cn?

What are blogs?

What is a square (or public square)?

What is 1949?

What is "Dont Be Evil"?

1971 : THE PENTAGON PAPERS Pentagon Papers, government study of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in June, 1967, the 47-volume, top secret study covered the period from World War II to May, 1968.  

6. President during Pentagon Papers case.

7. The Pentagon Papers case involved this Amendment to the Constitution.

8. He leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times.

9. Appropriately, the person referred to in number 8, above, once worked here.

10. Scandal that followed Pentagon Papers.

CORRECT RESPONSE

Who was President Richard M. Nixon?

What is the First Amendment?

Who is Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, ?

What is the Pentagon?

What was the Watergate scandal Watergate scandal

(1972–74) Political scandal involving illegal activities by Pres. Richard Nixon's administration. In June 1972 five burglars were arrested after breaking into the Democratic Party's national headquarters at the Watergate Hotel complex in Washington,
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