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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 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. A correct answer is worth 10 points. For an 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)
 answer, 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 Road                    Correct Responses

 1. Students In one British           What are their eyes?
    school have these scanned
    on the cafeteria line.

 2. Government office that            What is the Department of
    buys surplus food for             Agriculture?
    school lunches.

 3. Why schools sell alternatives     What is to make money?
    to the school-lunch program.

 4. It's the next step, past          What is obese or obesity?
    overweight.

 5. College graduates can             What is $1 million?
    expect to earn this much
    more than high-school
    graduates over the length
    of their careers.

 6. Over the last 20 years, college   What is doubled?
    tuition and fees have risen by
    about this factor.

 7. People who flee war to            What are refugees?
    find safety.

 8. Monster bombs that                What are atomic bombs?
    helped defeat Japan in
    World War II.

 9. U.S. General who governed         Who was Douglas MacArthur?
    Japan after World War II.

10. It's what the "N' in INS          What is Naturalization?
    stands for.
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