Both games can be played with teams or individuals. A facilitator is needed to oversee the game. The facilitator should have the answer key in front of them, and can also be in charge of keeping score.
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Go to http://goo.gl/9nMwGv
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Select the number of teams or individuals you will be playing with.
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Have one team, or individual, start by selecting a category and dollar amount ($100-$500).
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Click the squares to view the answer.
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The first team or individual to “buzz-in” first will have the first chance to respond.
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Once a team, or individual, has given their response, click: “Correct Response” o Using the answer key, the monitor can check if the response is correct. If the first team, or individual, responded incorrectly, allow another team, or individual, to give the correct response before revealing the correct response to the whole group.
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Increase or decrease the responding team’s, or individual’s, score at the bottom of the page. o Decrease the dollar amount of the square for wrong answers; or, increase the dollar amount for correct responses.
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Click “continue” to return to the home screen.
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Once all the squares/categories have been selected, the facilitator will ask the final Prep-Pardy
Question aloud (there is no final answer and question online). o During final Prep-Pardy teams, or individuals, have the option to risk as much as they have at the end of the game. (For example: If a player has $500 at the end of the game, they can risk $ 0 - $500) o The team or individual should write down the dollar amount they want to risk BEFORE the final Prep-Pardy category answer is revealed.
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The winning team, or individual, is the one with the most money at the end of the game.
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Open the program, and type in the team’s, or individual’s, names on slide 2. (You can have more than two teams, or individuals, as the scores will be kept manually by the facilitator)
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Select “save as” and save the game as a new version. o If you do not save the game as new version, the hyperlinks on the original version will only work once.
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Click “Slide Show” then “From Beginning”
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When you get to Slide 3, stop. Do not click through the slides, or all the question and answers will appear.
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Have one team, or individual, start by selecting a category and dollar amount $100-$500.
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Click the squares to view the answer.

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The first team to “buzz-in” will have the chance to respond first.
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Once a team or individual has given their response, click “Answer.” o Using the Excel answer key, the facilitator can check if the answer is correct. If the response is not correct, allow another team, or individual, the option to give the correct response before revealing the answer to the whole group.
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Once the correct response has been revealed, the facilitator should determine the score for each team, or individual. (This will need to be done by hand, as the PowerPoint will not do this automatically.) o Decrease the dollar amount of the square for wrong answers; and, increase the dollar amount for correct answers
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Click the “home” icon at the bottom to return to the home screen.
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There are two “Hazardous Hotspot” squares in each game. If a team, or individual, chooses the
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“Hazardous Hotspot” square, only that team is allowed to respond; that team, or individual, can risk any, or all, of their points.
Once all the squares/categories have been asked, click “next slide” to bring you to the “Final
Prep-Pardy” link. o During final Prep-Pardy teams, or individuals, have the option to risk as much as they have at the end of the game. (For example: If a player has $500 at the end of the game, they can risk $ 0 - $500). o The team or individual should write down the dollar amount they want to risk BEFORE the final Prep-Pardy category answer is revealed.
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The winning team, or individual, is the one with the most money at the end of the game.

This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
What is ready.gov?
What is an Emergency
Preparedness Plan or a Family
Communications Plan?(Both are correct)
These are four examples of FEMA social media that supports mitigation.
If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or a storm shelter.
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
What is a trailer or mobile home? What is a disaster supply kit? What is the FEMA Facebook page, the
FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog? (any of the four are correct answers)
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
This program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
What is the Citizen Emergency
Response Team (CERT) program?
Citizen Corps is also a correct answer
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is a biological threat?
By doing this mitigation action on houses, windows are best protected from hurricanes.
What is installing permanent storm shutters or boarding them with plywood?(Both are correct)
What is a safe room? What is water?
This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.
What is a tornado?
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is an earthquake?
Pet Owners should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.
What is identify pet-friendly hotels or shelters?
Immediately following a disaster, a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help, this is the best way to help.
What is donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area?
(either answer is correct)
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is a landslide?

This scale, named after the wind engineer and meteorologist who created it, classifies hurricanes into five categories based on their sustained wind speed at the indicated time.
To reduce damage during high wind events, this should be installed to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure.
What is the Saffir-Simpson
Hurricane Wind Scale
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity
Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of
Operations Plan (COOP)?
What are straps or additional clips?
This program was created by Congress through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance against losses from flooding from the government.
What is the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP)?
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.
What is 72 hours?
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
What is self-deploy?
This guide enables effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States,
Tribes, Territorial and local jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner.
What is the National Disaster
Recovery Framework?
This is operated by the National
Center for Missing & Exploited
Children and activated during
Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
What is the National Emergency Child
Locator Center (NECLC)?
This natural disaster can be accompanied by other natural hazards, including earthquakes, mudflows and flash floods, rock falls and landslides, acid rain, fire, and (under special conditions) tsunamis.
What is a volcanic eruption?
This natural hazard caused the most fatalities in 2012 with 155 and has the highest 10-Year
Average (2003-2013) with 117 fatalities according to the National Weather Service.
What is a heat wave or extreme heat?
This President centralized federal emergency functions under Executive Order
12127 which merged many of the separate disasterrelated responsibilities into the Federal Emergency
Management Agency
(FEMA).
Who is President Jimmy Carter?