1. Rules of Jeopardy
Everyone will work in pairs or groups of 3, with one recording paper for each group.
Your recording paper should have your names at the top and a table that contains , the category of the question, the point value, the answer and the total point for the team. (see example) This table must be turned in at the end of class as your ticket out…
The team with the most points wins…. A fabulous weekend getaway
If anyone should shout out an answer then everyone in the class will not be eligible to receive the points for the question.
How the points add up
Correct answers add the assigned point value to your total score, incorrect answer add nothing to your score but do not subtract either…
Final Jeopardy:
What royal family ruled Prussia? And how did the consolidate and expand their power?
Question Category
Point value
Answer
Total Group score

2. Powerpoint Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Absolute Rulers Conflicts and
Conundrums
Living in
Luxury
Where are we?
Terms 10 20 30 40 50

3. This Ruler had his own son Executed and named a city after himself.
Who is….
Category 1 – 10 points
Category

4. This ruler wanted to defend and Expand the Catholic Reformation
Category 1 – 20 points
Category

5. This ruler hired royal intendants
to work in the government to
check the power of the nobility
Category 1 – 30 points

6. This ruler had 16 children, which
may have been why laws were passed making education mandatory for children from ages
Category 1 – 40 points

7. This ruler attacked his main
Rival soon after she
became queen.
Category 1 – 50 points

8. This country gained it’s
Independence from Spain after
fighting a decades-long war
Category 2 – 10 points

9. What was the name of the war between Russia and Sweden?
Category 2 – 20 points

10. This war resulted in the
a vacuum of power forming in
Central Europe.
Category 2 – 30 points

11. This European Country was the
Only Catholic country to side with
The Protestant German states during
The thirty years’ war.
Category 2 – 40 points

12. As a result of this Treaty
France gained land from
Spain and some of the German
States.
Category 2 – 50 points

13. This palace was built to
demonstrate the wealth and power
of the Sun King.
Category 3 – 10 points

14. This Palace contains a lot of the
Gold from the Americas in its
décor and demonstrates the Hapsburgs
commitment to Catholicism.
Category 3 – 20 points

15. This building project was a
Demonstration of Peter’s
Absolute power over Russia.
Category 3 – 30 points

16. This is the title given to the artistic and
literacy Renaissance in Spain that
flowered under the rule of Phillip II.
Category 3 – 40 points

17. This finance minister helped make
France the wealthiest state in Europe
by imposing mercantilist policies.
Category 3 – 50 points

18. The political and cultural
center of this country was
Versailles.
Category 4 – 10 points

19. This country was attacked
by the Spanish Armada.
Category 4 – 20 points

20. The lands of Spain, Netherlands,
Southern Italy, Austria, and Hungary
were originally ruled by this family.
Category 4 – 30 points

21. This country ended up divided into
more than 300 independent states or
regions following the 30 years war.
Category 4 – 40 points

22. This country lost land during the Great
Northern War to their neighboring
Romanov Absolute Ruler.
Category 4 – 50 points

23. This is another word for
French Protestants
Category 5 – 10 points

24. This theory proposed that
Monarchs were instruments
of God’s justice, power and will.
This theory was also used to justify
Absolutism.
Category 5 – 20 points

25. These soldiers would fight for
Foreign generals and armies.
Category 5 – 30 points

26. Wars were fought in Europe to
maintain this in order to ensure
that no one country would
dominate Europe.
Category 5 – 40 points

27. Russia expanded its territory
under both Catherine the Great and
Peter the Great but they refused to
improve the lives of this social group.
Category 5 – 50 points