Human Geography GAME RULES FINAL ROUND English IndoEuropean

Human Geography GAME RULES FINAL ROUND English Indo-European Romance Sino-Tibetan 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500 Updated: April 2009 Local Languages

Category A - Jeopardy - Angles’ land 100

Category A - Jeopardy - Where did the name England come from? 100

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

Category A - Jeopardy - What is dialect? 200

Category A - Jeopardy - 300 The standard form of British speech based on the dialect used by upper-class Britons

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

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

Category A - Jeopardy - Who is Noah Webster? 400

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

Category A - Jeopardy - What is a isogloss? 500

Category B - Jeopardy - 100 A collection of languages in a branch

Category B - Jeopardy - What is a language group? 100

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

Category B - Jeopardy - What is Indo-Iranian? 200

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

Category B - Jeopardy - What is Hindi? 300

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

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

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

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

Category B - Jeopardy What is Balto-Slavic? 500

Category C - Jeopardy - 100 Language branch evolved from Latin 2000 years ago

Category C - Jeopardy - What is the Romance language branch? 100

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

Category C - Jeopardy - 200 What are languages evolved from Latin?

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE How much would you like to bet?

Category C - Jeopardy - Latin learned by the masses 300

Category C - Jeopardy What is vulgar Latin? 300

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

Category C - Jeopardy - What is a creolized language? 400

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

Category C - Jeopardy What are Spanish and Portuguese? 500

Category D - Jeopardy Mandarin 100

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

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

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

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

Category D - Jeopardy What are ideograms? 300

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

Category D - Jeopardy What is the United Nations? 400

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

Category D - Jeopardy - Who is Renfrew? 500

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

Category E - Jeopardy - What are Altaic languages? 100

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

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

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

Category E - Jeopardy - What is Africa? 300

- Jeopardy - DAILY DOUBLE Place your bets!

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

Category E - Jeopardy - What Niger-Congo? 400

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

Category E - Jeopardy What are extinct languages? 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: Languages 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

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