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Divide the class into 2-4 teams.

Read the statements below, which are answers to questions. In this game, modeled after the TV show Jeopardy jeopardy, in law, condition of a person charged with a crime and thus in danger of punishment. At common law a defendant could be exposed to jeopardy for the same offense only once; exposing a person twice is known as

double jeopardy.
!, students must give their answers in the form of questions. After reading each statement, the teacher recognizes the first team to raise a hand.

Correct answers are worth 10 points each.

For incorrect Incorrect means to not be correct and may also refer to:
  • Politically incorrect
  • Incorrectly formatted data, a computer error
See also
  • Correctness
  • Anomalously numbered roads in Great Britain
  • Disputes in English grammar (Incorrect English)
 answers, deduct de·duct  
v. de·duct·ed, de·duct·ing, de·ducts

v.tr.
1. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract.

2. To derive by deduction; deduce.

v.intr.
 10 points and allow the other team (or if there are several teams, the team with the first hand raised) to respond. That team will then get 10 points for a correct answer or suffer a 10-point penalty for an incorrect one.
Statements to Read                    Correct Responses

RUSSIA: THE NEW CZAR?

1. Russia's President.              Who is Vladimir Putin?

2. Terrorist target where 331       What was a school?
died in Russia in September.

3. This giant Communist             What was the Soviet Union?
country collapsed in 1991.

4. Members of this religion in      What are Muslims?
southern Russia are restive.

5. Militant Chechens' goal.         What is independence?

1989: BERLIN WALL FALLS

6. Year the Berlin Wall went up.    What was 1961?

7. World War II German rulers.      Who were the Nazis?

8. Said, "Ich bin ein Berliner."    Who was President Kennedy?

9. Said, "Tear down this wall."     Who was President Reagan?

10. Gorbachev's job in 1990.        What was head of the
                                    Soviet Union?
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