How to make this Jeopardy game
work for your topic
 Set up your teams and have them sit together.
 Explain the ground rules
 Assign a score keeper who will watch to see
which team raises their hand first for each
question and they will also keep track of what
team wins what on the board or flip chart.
 When you’re ready to play the game, open that
presentation and then hit F5 to put it into the
“SHOW mode.
JEOPARDY GROUND RULES
 Raise your hand when you want to answer. I
will call upon the first hand I see raised. You
get five seconds to answer.
 You get one answer; you cannot change or
modify it after you have given it.
 If the first team to answer gets it wrong, they
get that score deducted from their total and
then the second team that raised their hand
gets a chance to answer.
JEOPARDY GROUND RULES
 One of the questions will read “DOUBLE JEOPARDY”.
This just means that this question is worth twice
what it is listed for.
 When all questions are complete you are ready to
play “Final jeopardy” . Before you see the question
each team must write down how much you want to
wager.
 After the question is shown, write down your answer.
You cannot change your wager $$ after you see the
question.
 When the music stops each team reveals what their
wager was and their answer.
This JEOPARDY “template” was created by Tim
Reicker, New York State Emergency Management
Office, and made available by the Dutchess County
Community College Fire Science program.
This game prepared by Past Chief Thomas Bartsch,
Valley Stream Fire Department. All material was
taken from the “Firefighter’s Handbook, Essentials of
Firefighting and Emergency Response, New York 2nd
Edition”.
ANY QUESTIONS????
No? Then let’s play
“Firefighter Alphabet”
JEOPARDY
“Firefighter Alphabet”
JEOPARDY
“Firefighter Alphabet” JEOPARDY!!!
Letter "A"
Letter "B"
Letter "C"
$100 $100 $100
$200 $200 $200
$300 $300 $300
$400 $400 $400
Letter "D"
Letter "E"
$100 $100
$200 $200
$300 $300
$400 $400
$500 $500 $500 $500 $500
Final Jeopardy
Letter "A" - $100
A malicious fire set
intentionally.
What is Arson.
Letter "A" - $200
The result of a series of
events and conditions that
lead to an unsafe situation.
What is an Accident.
Letter "A" - $300
Device used to change one
type of hose threads to another,
allowing the connection of two
different lines..
What is an Adapter.
Letter "A" - $400
A condition that causes death
due to lack of oxygen and an
excessive amount of carbon
monoxide.
What is Asphyxiation.
Letter "A" - $500
A load passing through the center
of the mass of the supporting
element, perpendicular to it’s
cross section.
What is Axial Load
Letter "B" - $100
A style of wood frame
construction in which the studs
are continuous for the full
height of a building
What is Balloon Frame.
Letter "B" - $200
A sudden, violent re-ignition
of the contents that has
consumed the oxygen within
the space..
What is a Backdraft.
Letter "B" - $300
Describes the rupture of a
container when a confined
liquid boils and creates vapor
pressure.
What is a BLEVE
DAILY
DOUBLE
Letter "B" - $400
A doubled section of rope
usually made along the
standing part, that forms a Uturn in the rope.
What is a Bight
Letter "B" - $500
Chemicals that affect the body’s
ability to use oxygen.
What are Blood Agents
Letter "C" - $100
A colorless, odorless,
poisonous gas that when
inhaled combines with red
blood cells.
What is Carbon Monoxide
Letter "C" - $200
The top and bottom
components of a truss.
What is a Chord.
Letter "C" - $300
The designation of a term that
is the same throughout an ICS.
What is Common
Terminology
Letter "C" - $400
The use of various dimensions
of lumber arranged in
systematic stacks
What is Cribbing
Letter "C" - $500
A formal gathering of incident
responders to help defuse and
address stress.
What is Critical Incident
Debriefing
Letter "D" - $100
The pumping of water from a
static source by taking
advantage of atmospheric
pressure to force water into the
pump.
What is Drafting
Letter "D" - $200
Command designation
responsible for operations
within a assigned geographic
area.
What is a Division
Letter "D" - $300
A calculated attack on part of a
problem or situation in an
effort to hold ground.
What is a Defensive
Attack
Letter "D" - $400
Designed to protect areas that
may have a fast-spreading fire
engulfing the entire area.
What is a Deluge
Sprinkler System.
Letter "D" - $500
The weight of the building
materials and any of the building
permanently attached or built-in.
What is Dead Load.
Letter "E" - $100
A device that siphons a liquid
from a container into a moving
stream.
What is an Eductor.
Letter "E" - $200
Book provided by the DOT
that assists in transportation
chemical incidents.
What is the Emergency
Response Guide.
Letter "E" - $300
A concentration of a gas or
liquid that is not too rich or too
lean to ignite with force..
What is Explosive Limits
Letter "E" - $400
A chemical reaction that
releases heat.
What is Exothermic
Reaction.
Letter "E" - $500
A form of hazard that includes
biological, viral, and other
disease causing materials.
What is Etiological.
FINAL
JEOPARDY
~ Fire Hose ~
The blunt ending of the threads of
fire hose couplings.
Final Jeopardy Bonus?
What is a Higbee Cut.