GAME RULES
JEOPARDY
FINAL ROUND
Changing
Borders
100
Foreign
Policy
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
WWII
People
100
Updated: April 2009
Day Five Review
Category A
- Jeopardy -
100
This act of Congress allowed the U.S.
to provide aid to the Allies prior to
entering WWII.
Category A
- Jeopardy -
100
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Category A
- Jeopardy -
200
This system mandated that
Americans conserve food and
fuel for the war effort.
Category A
- Jeopardy -
What the ration system or
rationing?
200
Category A
- Jeopardy -
300
Many members of this group of
Americans were sent to rural prison
camps during WWII.
Category A
- Jeopardy -
300
Who are Japanese Americans?
Category A
- Jeopardy -
400
This is the name for the Allied
invasion of France during WWII.
Category A
- Jeopardy What is D-Day?
400
Category A
- Jeopardy -
500
This is the location of the secret
laboratory devoted to the development of
the atomic bomb during WWII.
Category A
- Jeopardy -
What is Los Alamos?
500
Category B
- Jeopardy -
100
This American is known for his
willingness to violate individual civil
rights to expose communists within
the U.S. government and military.
Category B
- Jeopardy -
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
Category B
- Jeopardy -
200
This U.S. President determined that
the U.S. would assist countries
under threat from internal or
external communist forces.
Category B
- Jeopardy -
Who Harry Truman?
200
Category B
- Jeopardy -
300
This leader worked for Indian
Independence through non-violent
tactics.
Category B
- Jeopardy Who is Gandhi?
300
Category B
- Jeopardy -
400
This was the British Prime Minister
involved in Post-WWII meetings at
Yalta and Tehran.
Category B
- Jeopardy -
400
Who is Winston Churchill?
DAILY DOUBLE
- Jeopardy
-
How much would you
like to bet?
Category B
- Jeopardy -
500
This general oversaw the rebuilding of
Japan after WWII.
Category B
- Jeopardy -
Who is General Douglass
MacArthur?
500
Category C
- Jeopardy -
100
This term describes the main U.S.
Foreign policy focus from WWII until
the late 1980s.
Category C
- Jeopardy -
What is containment?
100
Category C
- Jeopardy -
200
The program developed to rebuild
Europe following WWII.
Category C
- Jeopardy -
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
- Jeopardy
-
How much would you
like to bet?
Category C
- Jeopardy -
300
This organization was founded to
halt the spread of communism
from eastern to western Europe.
Category C
- Jeopardy -
What is the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization?
300
Category C
- Jeopardy -
400
This term describes the 20th
Century conflict between the
U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Category C
- Jeopardy -
What is the Cold War?
400
Category C
- Jeopardy -
500
The development of this weapon by the
U.S. and the Soviet Union made
“mutually assured destruction”
a possibility for the first time.
Category C
- Jeopardy -
500
What is the Hydrogen Bomb?
Category D
- Jeopardy -
100
This leader moved his seat of
government to Taiwan during the
Chinese Revolution.
Category D
- Jeopardy -
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
100
Category D
- Jeopardy -
200
This country was established in a
former British mandate in the Middle
East following WWII.
Category D
- Jeopardy What is Israel?
200
Category D
- Jeopardy -
300
The British partitioned India into these two
countries when they agreed to Indian
Independence.
Category D
- Jeopardy -
What are India and Pakistan?
300
Category D
- Jeopardy -
400
China aided this country’s efforts to take
control its southern neighbor, drawing the
U.S. into its first major military conflict
against the spread of communism.
Category D
- Jeopardy What is North Korea?
400
Category D
- Jeopardy -
500
After WWII, the Soviet Union was
successful in establishing control
over many countries in this region.
Category D
- Jeopardy -
What is Eastern Europe?
500
Category E
- Jeopardy -
100
This constitutional right to have a
judge determine whether a prisoner is
being held legally was suspended by
Lincoln during the Civil War.
Category E
- Jeopardy -
What is Habeas Corpus?
100
Category E
- Jeopardy -
200
This abolitionist was convicted of
treason and hanged for his violent
acts to end slavery.
Category E
- Jeopardy Who is John Brown?
200
Category E
- Jeopardy -
300
This Supreme Court decision
during the time of slavery
determined that free African
Americans were not protected by
the U.S. Constitution.
Category E
- Jeopardy -
300
What is the Dred Scott decision?
DAILY DOUBLE
- Jeopardy
-
Place your bets!
DAILY DOUBLE
- Jeopardy
-
This Congressional act allowed new U.S.
territories to determine for themselves whether
to allow slavery.
Category E
- Jeopardy -
What is the
Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Category E
- Jeopardy -
500
This failed legislation tried to keep New
Mexico and California from becoming
states that allowed slavery.
Category E
- Jeopardy -
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
- Jeopardy Welcome to
Jeopardy!
The fun and sneaky way to review
material for the upcoming test!
- Jeopardy And now…
a brief introduction to the
RULES of the GAME…
- Jeopardy Each group must:
a) SIT TOGETHER, and
b) Designate a SPEAKER who
will respond to the prompts (You
may NOT change speakers).
- Jeopardy The game consists of
FIVE categories,
each containing
FIVE questions
- Jeopardy Questions are randomly
arranged, NOT by degree of
difficulty
- Jeopardy Each speaker may select only
ONE question per round
- Jeopardy Once the selected question is
posted on the screen,
the SPEAKER of the team has
10 seconds to respond.
- Jeopardy The speaker may consult with
teammates before responding
- Jeopardy During the game, whispering is
OK, but LOUD talking and/or
disruptions DURING THE
GAME may result in point loss
for the entire team.
- Jeopardy The response should be phrased in
the FORM OF A QUESTION.
(Words, phrases, and statements –
even if correct – may be
disqualified)
- Jeopardy A CORRECT ANSWER earns the
team the amount of points
indicated on the jeopardy board.
- Jeopardy 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.
- Jeopardy The number of points for the
correct answer at this stage are
the same as for
the previous team.
- Jeopardy 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.
- Jeopardy 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.
- Jeopardy Again, whispering is OK, but
remember, LOUD TALKING and/or
DISRUPTIONS DURING THE
GAME may result in point loss for
the entire team.
- Jeopardy The judge’s decisions are FINAL
and whining, pouting, and/or
complaints will NOT BE
ENTERTAINED…
- Jeopardy -
Ready to play?
- Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Topic:
The Cold War
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
This was the first artificial satellite
successfully launched into Earth’s orbit.
Updated: April 2009
The Cold War
What is Sputnik?
Updated: April 2009