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2. YOU MUST CLICK ON THE ACTUAL POINT VALUES, NOT JUST THE SQUARES
YOU MUST CLICK ON THE ACTUAL POINT VALUES, NOT JUST THE SQUARES. PLEASE TRY AGAIN …

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4. This river has its headwaters in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

5. What is the Mississippi?

6. This River was followed by Louis and Clark during their exploration of the west.

7. What is the Missouri?

8. This river provides electrical power for much of the Southwest.

9. What is the Colorado?

10. This river drains the Great Lakes into the Atlantic.

11. What is the St. Lawrence?

12. This is the largest US river that empties into the Pacific Ocean.

13. What is the Columbia?

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15. This lake in Utah has a very high sodium chloride content.

16. What is the Great Salt Lake?

17. This is the largest of the Great Lakes.

18. What is Lake Superior?

19. This man-made lake feeds the Colorado River.

20. What is Lake Powell?

21. This is the final downstream lake in the Great Lakes series.

22. What is Lake Ontario?

23. This is the highest elevation lake in the continental US.

24. What is Crater Lake?

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26. This is the highest mountain in the fifty US states.

27. What is Mt. Denali?

28. This is the lowest elevation feature in the continental US.

29. What is Death Valley?

30. This is the largest range of mountains in North America.

31. What are the Rockies?

32. This US state is the farthest west of all fifty states.

33. What is Alaska?

34. This state is the second smallest in area.

35. What is Delaware?

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37. These four states form the US border with Mexico.

38. What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

39. These four states all meet at a single common point.

40. What are Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico?

41. This state has the greatest length of coastline.

42. What is Alaska?

43. This state shares borders with Indiana and Pennsylvania.

44. What is Ohio?

45. Besides Alaska and Hawaii, this state has borders with the fewest other states.

46. What is Maine?

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48. It is officially known as “The Sunshine State.”

49. What is California?

50. This state is completely surrounded by water.

51. What is Hawaii?

52. After Alaska and Texas, this is the 3rd largest state.

53. What is California?

54. The capital of this state is named after our 16th president.

55. What is Nebraska?

56. This state was the first to be admitted after the original thirteen states.

57. What is Vermont?

58. Copy and paste the object below at the top of whatever question slide you want as the Daily Double. Applause will sound when that question is selected. Don’t forget to remove the previous Daily Double.
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59. HOW TO USE THIS GAME:
1. To alter the question & answer content, start by writing them into an MS Word or text file for easy copying and pasting. Don’t forget to come up with a Bonus Question also (slide 58). It’s hard to come up with a set of five increasingly difficult questions for many categories. So what I try to do is make the 10 really easy, the 40 and 50 considerably harder, and the 20 and 30 somewhere in the middle. Deciding which question categories to use is probably an easier task.
2. Then edit each of the slides as needed to create your own game. It is recommended you save a copy of this original file (US-geography.ppt) in case you mess up the formatting during your edit. Of course, feel free to use my geography version as is.
3. You’ll also need to position the Daily Double slide differently for each game you play. To do that, simply copy the banner from slide 58 and paste it at the top of whatever question slide you want for the new Daily Double. When that question is selected, you’ll hear “applause” if audio is available. Otherwise the game runs silently. Sorry, no Jeopardy theme song included. We’re already pushing the Fair Use doctrine by using the term “daily double.”
4. One final aesthetic tweak is to change the “visited hyperlink” default color from gray to the dark blue used for the background on slide 1 (and others). To set that, go to the Design tab, click on the Colors drop-down menu, and select Create New Theme Colors. The dark blue background is a custom color that provides nice contrast with the yellow text. Its RGB values are (51,51,153). If you make that the “visited hyperlink” color, then any questions selected will disappear when you return to the main board.
5. That’s it. Including the time coming up with questions, you should be able to crank out a new game in about an hour – faster if you’re a PowerPoint expert. Be cautious about using questions from the ends of chapters in your textbook … students pick up on that quickly and will only study for that content. But that can be of value if you’re running a pre-test review.
6. To play the game, simply open the file on your system and hit F5. The font sizes and colors used are easily visible to a whole classroom if displayed on at least a 40 inch screen. Of course, larger is better. Have fun!