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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

LOST BOY FOUND

1. Sudan region where Muslims dominate.      What is the north?

2. Type of war that forced the "Lost         What is a civil war?
Boys" to flee.

3. Country where Joseph spent nine years     What is Kenya?
before coming to U.S.

4. City where Joseph attended high school.   What is Philadelphia?

5. Joseph's academic interest in college.    What is international
                                             affairs?

AFGHANISTAN

6. Brutally oppressive Islamic regime.       What is the Taliban?

7. Hamid Karzai's job.                       What is Afghanistan's
                                             President?

8. Afghanistan provides more than 90         What is opium?
percent of the world supply of this
illegal drug.

9. Country that invaded Afghanistan in       What was the Soviet Union?
1979.

10. Terrorist reader believed hiding along   Who is Osama Bin Laden?
the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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Publication:New York Times Upfront
Date:Oct 23, 2006
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