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Updated: April 2009
Human Geography
English Local Languages
Romance Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
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GAME RULES FINAL ROUND
- Jeopardy -
Angles’ land
Category A
100
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Where did the name England come from?
Category A
100
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling,
and pronunciation.
Category A
200
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What is dialect?
Category A
200
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The standard form of British speech based on the dialect used by upper-class
Britons
Category A
300
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What is the British Received Pronunciation
(BRP)?
Category A
300
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The creator of the first American dictionary
designed to develop a unique American dialect
Category A
400
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Who is Noah Webster?
Category A
400
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Words not used nationally that have geographic
boundaries.
Category A
500
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What is a isogloss?
Category A
500
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A collection of languages in a branch
Category B
100
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What is a language group?
Category B
100
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The Indo-European branch with the most speakers
Category B
200
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What is Indo-Iranian?
Category B
200
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1/3rd of the Indians of India speak this language
Category B
300
- Jeopardy -
What is Hindi?
Category B
300
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Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic
Category B
400
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What are four of the branches of the Indo-European language?
Category B
400
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How much would you like to bet?
DAILY DOUBLE
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The most widely used language of this branch is
Russian
Category B
500
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What is Balto-Slavic?
Category B
500
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Language branch evolved from Latin 2000 years ago
Category C
100
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What is the Romance language branch?
Category C
100
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Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and
Romanian languages
Category C
200
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What are languages evolved from Latin?
Category C
200
- Jeopardy -
How much would you like to bet?
DAILY DOUBLE
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Latin learned by the masses
Category C
300
- Jeopardy -
Category C
300
What is vulgar Latin?
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Language that results from the mixing of
colonizer and indigenous languages
Category C
400
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What is a creolized language?
Category C
400
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Romance languages diffused to the Americas by
Spanish and Portuguese explorers
Category C
500
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What are Spanish and Portuguese?
Category C
500
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Mandarin
Category D
100
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What is the most widely used language in China?
Category D
100
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Wu, Cantonese, Min, Xiang, Hakka, Jinyu, and Gan.
Category D
200
- Jeopardy -
What are the Semitic branch languages other than
Mandarin?
Category D
200
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Written characters that represent ideas or concepts instead of
pronunciations
Category D
300
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What are ideograms?
Category D
300
- Jeopardy -
Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan
and one of six official languages of this.
Category D
400
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What is the United Nations?
Category D
400
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This geographer argues that Indo-European diffused into
Europe and South Asia at the same time as agricultural
practices
Category D
500
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Who is Renfrew?
Category D
500
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Languages spoken between Turkey Mongolia, and China, with Turkish by far the most
used.
Category E
100
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What are Altaic languages?
Category E
100
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Once referred to as Semito-Hamitic this group includes
Arabic and Hebrew
Category E
200
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What is the Afro-Asiatic language family?
Category E
200
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Nearly 1,000 distinct languages and several thousand dialects have
been documented in this area
Category E
300
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What is Africa?
Category E
300
- Jeopardy -
Place your bets!
DAILY DOUBLE
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95% of the people of sub-Saharan Africa speak languages from this
family
DAILY DOUBLE
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What Niger-Congo?
Category E
400
- Jeopardy -
Thousands of languages that are no longer spoken or read
in every day life
Category E
500
- Jeopardy -
What are extinct languages?
Category E
500
- Jeopardy -Welcome to
Jeopardy!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…
- Jeopardy -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 containingFIVE 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
- 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
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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.
- Jeopardy -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.
- 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.
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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.
Updated: April 2009
Final Jeopardy QuestionFinal 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
LanguagesLanguages
What are the Celtic languages?