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. Where Moscow teens with time and       What are malls?
    money on their hands hang out.

 2. Continent where people are beginning   What is Africa?
    to get the message that smoking
    is bad for health.

 3. Inflation is marked by a rise in       What is deflation?
    prices. In Japan, the current
    economic problem is not inflation
    but this.

 4. This important measure of economic     What is unemployment?
    health stands at 5.5 percent in
    Japan, the highest since the end of
    World War II in 1945.

 5. The country where U.S. ally Tony       What is Britain?
    Blair presides over the government.

 6. During the economic boom of this       What is the 1990s?
    recent decade, the poverty rate fell
    slowly over eight consecutive years.

 7. The number of Americans who are        What is 33 million?
    officially listed as poor is
    nearly ...

 8. It's the U.S. government agency        What is the Census Bureau?
    that provides reports on income,
    including poverty.

 9. Today he is the U.S. Secretary of      Who is Colin Powell?
    State; during the 1991 Persian Gulf
    War, he was Chairman of the Joint
    Chiefs of Staff.

10. He was President of the U.S. during    Who is George H.W. Bush?
    the 1991 Persian Gulf war.