Jeopardy Buzzwords Brain Matters Poetry Leveled Questions Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Jeopardy
$100 Answer from Buzzwords The lateral half of the cerebrum: “The iron damages the left ___________ more than the right” (Fleischman 70).
$100 Question from Buzzwords What is hemisphere?
$200 Answer from Buzzwords To perceive or show the difference in or between; to discriminate: “As a living organism becomes more complex, it’s cells ____________— that is, they specialize” (Fleischman 32).
$200 Question from Buzzwords What is differentiate?
$300 Answer from Buzzwords To cut apart or separate; to examine, analyze, or criticize in minute detail: “They learn as students of gross (a term used for ‘large scale’) anatomy by _____________ the cadavers of paupers, prisoners, and the unclaimed” (Fleischman 27).
$300 Question from Buzzwords What is dissecting?
$400 Answer from Buzzwords Applying a previous action or commitment to current times: “In 1994, Hanna Damasio has an idea of how to construct one [a scan of Phineas’s brain] ____________.
$400 Question from Buzzwords What is retroactively?
$500 Answer from Buzzwords The bodily structure of an organism: “They learn as students of gross (a term used for ‘large scale’) __________by dissecting the cadavers of paupers, prisoners, and the unclaimed” (Fleischman 27).
$500 Question from Buzzwords What is anatomy?
$100 Answer Brain Matters The type of figurative language featured here: “The brain cortex is like a city; every part has an address” (Fleischman 31).
$100 Answer from Brain Matters What is an analogy? *100 additional points if the team can accurately explain this analogy.
$200 Answer from Brain Matters A city’s east side : the cortex’s right hemisphere :: _________ : the cortex’s left hemisphere.
$200 Question from Brain Matters What is the city’s west side?
$300 Answer from Brain Matters The human brain : committee :: the parts of the brain : _____________.
$300 Question from Brain Matters What are the members of the committee? Just as the parts of the brain perform specific, important functions, so do the members of the committee.
$400 Answer from Brain Matters Analogy: “The tamping iron... Plows on through his [Phineas’s] frontal lobes” : a fact :: “We are ‘hard wired’ to be sociable. When we lose that ability, we end up like Phineas” : ____________ (Fleischman 70).
$400 Question from Brain Matters What is an opinion?
$500 Answer from Brain Matters The occipital lobe : vision :: Broca’s area : __________.
$500 Question from Brain Matters What is speech?
$100 Answer from Poetry A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
$100 Question from Poetry What is a haiku?
$200 Answer from Poetry A form of poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no fixed metrical pattern
$200 Question from Poetry What is free verse?
$300 Answer from Poetry The genre of literature that features composition that is often rhythmical, euphonic, and often meant to be spoken aloud or sung
$300 Question from Poetry What is poetry?
$400 Answer from Poetry A poem with fourteen lines (three quatrains, with an ABAB rhyme scheme, and a rhyming couplet)
$400 Question from Poetry What is a sonnet?
$500 Answer from Poetry A narrative (usually rather long) that features praise for a heroic figure or a group of heroes
$500 Question from Poetry What is an epic?
$100 Answer from Leveled Questions The type of question featured here: What important areas of Phineas’s brain did the tamping iron miss?
$100 Question from Leveled Questions What is a level-one question? *The team can earn an additional $100 by accurately answering the level-one question in the form of a point.
$200 Answer from Leveled Questions How might a typical American kid change his or her life in order to make sleep more of a priority?
$200 Question from Leveled Questions What is a level-three question? *The team can earn an additional $200 by sensibly answering the level-three question in the form of a point.
$300 Answer from Leveled Questions Where do Phineas’s makeshift skull and his tamping iron currently reside?
$300 Answer from Leveled Questions What is a level-one question? *The team can earn an additional $300 by accurately answering the level-one question in the form of a point.
$400 Answer from Leveled Questions Why might some doctors have lost interest in the Phineas phenomenon during the 1860s?
$400 Question from Leveled Questions What is a level-two question? Although Fleischman, makes an inference of his own within his book, it’s still an inference. The team can earn an additional $400 by reasonably answering the level-two question in the form of a point.
$500 Answer from Leveled Questions Why was Phineas very attached to his tamping iron, the very thing that shot through his skull, after the accident?
$500 Question from Leveled Questions What is a level-two question? The team can earn an additional $500 by sensibly answering this level-two question in the form of a point.