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The statements are answers to questions (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 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

(And another team may respond for the same chance to gain or Lose 10 points.)
STATEMENTS TO READ                             CORRECT RESPONSE
FYODOR'S RUSSIA

1. Fyodor Sozontov's hometown.                 What is St Petersburg?

2. Russia's capital                            What is Moscow?

3. Country that collapsed in 1991              What was the Soviet
                                                 Union?

4.90 percent of young Russian men avoid this   What is the military
                                                 draft?

5. Sozontov's field of college study           What is forestry?

THE END OF APARTHEID

6. An anti-apartheid uprising happened here    What is Soweto?

7. Language of South Africa's former white     What is Afrikaans?
   rulers

8. Dutch and--settlers came to                 What are British?
South Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries.

9. Blacks had to carry these documents.        What are passbooks?

10. South Africa's first black President.      Who is Nelson Mandela?
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Publication:New York Times Upfront
Date:Jan 9, 2006
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