Upfront quiz show.

Use with articles throughout the issue. 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!, students must give their answers in the form of questions. After reading each statement, the teacher recognizes the first team to raise a hand. A correct answer is worth 10 points. For an Incorrect answer, deduct 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

1.  The House of Representatives          What are freedom fries?
    cafeteria raised a culinary battle
    flag when it changed the name
    of french fries to this.

2.  American women are closing this       What is the pay gap?
    gap with men.

3.  This British Prime Minister Is        Who is Blair, or Tony Blair?
    President Bush's chief foreign
    ally in the war against Iraq.

4.  The capital of Iraq.                  What is Baghdad?

5.  Iraq's principal resource, the        What is oil?
    engine that drives that country's
    economy.

6.  A majority of the Security Council,   What is the United Nations?
    a powerful committee of this body,
    refused to support U.S. war plans.

7.  U.S. President who ordered the        Who was Thomas Jefferson?
    Navy into action against the
    Barbary Pirates in the early 19th
    century.

8.  In 1948, President Harry S. Truman    What is Israel?
    Ignored State Department warnings
    and supported the creation of this
    Middle Eastern country.

9.  This U.S. Navy Commodore sailed       Who is Matthew Perry?
    into Tokyo Bay to deliver a letter
    from President Millard Fillmore.

10. Name of the law that bars sex         What is Title IX?
    discrimination in sports programs
    of schools that receive federal
    money.