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 Road             Correct Responses

1. There is a new push         What is Arabic?
   to get college students
   to study this language.

2. In the years before the     Who are staves (or fugitive slaves)?
   U.S. Civil War,
   thousands of these
   people fled to Canada.

3. This province twice held    What is Quebec?
   referendums on seceding
   from Canada.

4. It's the language spoken    What is French?
   by most people in the
   province mentioned in
   the last clue.

5. It's the U.S. government    What is the Census Bureau?
   agency that collects
   demographic information
   about the American
   people.

6. The number of years         What is 10 years?
   between counts of the
   American population by
   the government agency in
   the last clue.

7. Some Hispanics identify     What are Mexico and Central America?
   themselves as Mayan,
   descendants of Indians
   from this country and
   region.

8. Swine-sounding name of      What is the Bay of Pigs?
   the Caribbean inlet
   where U.S.-backed rebels
   invaded Cuba in 1961.

9. Fidel Castro's profession   What is a lawyer?
   before he became a rebel
   leader.

10. Focus of the debate        What are assault weapons
    between Senators Dianne    [or a ban on assault weapons]?
    Feinstein (D-Calif.]
    and Larry Craig
    [R-Ida.].