English
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GAME RULES
Human Geography
FINAL ROUND
Indo-
European
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500
Romance
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200
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Updated: April 2009
500
Sino-Tibetan Local Languages
100
100
200
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500

Category A
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100
Angles’ land

Category A
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100
Where did the name England come from?

Category A
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
200

Category A
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200
What is dialect?

Category A
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300
The standard form of British speech based on the dialect used by upperclass Britons

Category A
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300
What is the British Received
Pronunciation (BRP)?

Category A
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400
The creator of the first American dictionary designed to develop a unique American dialect

Category A
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400
Who is Noah Webster?

Category A
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500
Words not used nationally that have geographic boundaries.

Category A
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500
What is a isogloss?

Category B
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100
A collection of languages in a branch

Category B
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100
What is a language group?

Category B
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200
The Indo-European branch with the most speakers

Category B
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200
What is Indo-Iranian?

Category B
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300
1/3 rd of the Indians of India speak this language

Category B
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300
What is Hindi?

Category B
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400
Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic

Category B
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400
What are four of the branches of the Indo-European language?

Category B
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500
The most widely used language of this branch is Russian

Category B
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What is Balto-Slavic?
500

Category C
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100
Language branch evolved from Latin
2000 years ago

Category C
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100
What is the Romance language branch?

Category C
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200
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian languages

Category C
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200
What are languages evolved from Latin?

Category C
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300
Latin learned by the masses

Category C
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300
What is vulgar Latin?

Category C
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400
Language that results from the mixing of colonizer and indigenous languages

Category C
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400
What is a creolized language?

Category C
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500
Romance languages diffused to the
Americas by Spanish and Portuguese explorers

Category C
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500
What are Spanish and
Portuguese?

Category D
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100
Mandarin

Category D
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100
What is the most widely used language in China?

Category D
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200
Wu, Cantonese, Min, Xiang, Hakka,
Jinyu, and Gan.

Category D
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200
What are the Semitic branch languages other than Mandarin?

Category D
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300
Written characters that represent ideas or concepts instead of pronunciations

Category D
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300
What are ideograms?

Category D
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400
Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan and one of six official languages of this.

Category D
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400
What is the United Nations?

Category D
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500
This geographer argues that Indo-
European diffused into Europe and
South Asia at the same time as agricultural practices

Category D
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500
Who is Renfrew?

Category E
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100
Languages spoken between Turkey
Mongolia, and China, with Turkish by far the most used.

Category E
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100
What are Altaic languages?

Category E
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200
Once referred to as Semito-Hamitic this group includes Arabic and
Hebrew

Category E
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200
What is the Afro-Asiatic language family?

Category E
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300
Nearly 1,000 distinct languages and several thousand dialects have been documented in this area

Category E
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300
What is Africa?

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95% of the people of sub-Saharan Africa speak languages from this family

Category E
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400
What Niger-Congo?

Category E
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500
Thousands of languages that are no longer spoken or read in every day life

Category E
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500
What are extinct languages?

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Welcome to
The fun and sneaky way to review material for the upcoming test!

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And now… a brief introduction to the
RULES of the GAME…

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Each group must: a) SIT TOGETHER, and b) Designate a SPEAKER who will respond to the prompts (You may NOT change speakers).

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The game consists of
FIVE categories, each containing
FIVE questions

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Questions are randomly arranged, NOT by degree of difficulty

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Each speaker may select only
ONE question per round

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Once the selected question is posted on the screen, the SPEAKER of the team has
10 seconds to respond.

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The speaker may consult with teammates before responding

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During the game, whispering is
OK, but LOUD talking and/or disruptions DURING THE
GAME may result in point loss for the entire team.

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The response should be phrased in the FORM OF A QUESTION.
(Words, phrases, and statements – even if correct – may be disqualified)

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A CORRECT ANSWER earns the team the amount of points indicated on the jeopardy board.

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If the speaker does not respond correctly within 10 seconds, the question passes on to the next team speaker, who has 5 seconds to respond.

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The number of points for the correct answer at this stage are the same as for the previous team.

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Questions that are not answered correctly by the selecting team are offered to the other teams in turn until a correct answer is given or all teams have guessed incorrectly.

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For the Daily Double, the speaker designates the number of points – up to the max. points earned by the team. If correct, the team earns the designated points; if incorrect, they lose the designated points.

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Again, whispering is OK, but remember, LOUD TALKING and/or
DISRUPTIONS DURING THE
GAME may result in point loss for the entire team.

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The judge’s decisions are FINAL and whining, pouting, and/or complaints will NOT BE
ENTERTAINED…

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Final Jeopardy Topic:
You may wager up to the amount of points your team has earned.
Write your wager on a piece of paper and submit it.

Final Jeopardy Question
There has been a revival of Welsh, Irish
Gaelic, and Cornish as many want to keep this language family alive
Updated: April 2009

Languages
What are the Celtic languages?
Updated: April 2009