2. Porter’s Jeopardy Grammar Current Events Literary Terms QuotationsCharacters Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

3. $100 Question from H1 What grammatical error is in this sentence? Seven boys and seven girls played touch football but only three of the boys scored touchdowns.

4. $100 Answer from H1 There should be a comma after football.

5. $200 Question from H1 This definition is for what punctuation mark? Use a _________ in place of a period to separate two sentences where the conjunction has been left out.

6. $200 Answer from H1 Semicolon

7. $300 Question from H1 How many errors are in this sentence? in the morning I milk the cows before heading too the house for breakfast

8. $300 Answer from H1 4 In the morning, I milk the cows before heading to the house for breakfast.

9. $400 Question from H1 What point-of-view should a research paper be written in?

10. $400 Answer from H1 3 rd Person - Objective

11. $500 Question from H1 Which sentence(s) is/are correct? 1.Illiteracy is a huge problem it affects millions of people worldwide, and it is an impediment to social progress. 2.Illiteracy is a huge problem; it affects millions of people worldwide, and it is an impediment to social progress. 3.Illiteracy is a huge problem. It effects millions of people worldwide, and it is an impediment to social progress. 4.Illiteracy is a huge problem it effects millions of people worldwide and it is an impediment to social progress.

12. $500 Answer from H1 2. Illiteracy is a huge problem; it affects millions of people worldwide, and it is an impediment to social progress.

13. $100 Question from H2 The name of the hurricane that barreled into the coastal waters over the weekend.

14. $100 Answer from H2 Tropical Storm Beryl

15. $200 Question from H2 This man’s butler allegedly leaked important information that shows corruption in the Catholic church.

16. $200 Answer from H2 Pope Benedict XVI

17. $300 Question from H2 This recent American celebrity golden calf will go under the knife for kidney surgery on Tuesday (May 29 th ).

18. $300 Answer from H2 Phillip Phillips

19. $400 Question from H2 Mark Zuckerberg has been criticized recently for this less than proportionate wedding gift.

20. $400 Answer from H2 Small Ruby Wedding Ring

21. $500 Question from H2 For the second time this month, Lil Wayne and his entourage are being investigated for this crime.

22. $500 Answer from H2 Assault

23. $100 Question from H3 The sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work

24. $100 Answer from H3 Imagery

25. $200 Question from H3 The struggle between opposing forces

26. $200 Answer from H3 Conflict

27. $300 Question from H3 The method an author uses to acquaint a reader with his or her character

28. $300 Answer from H3 Characterization

29. $400 Question from H3 A narrative, in which characters, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of the story

30. $400 Answer from H3 Allegory

31. $500 Question from H3 A brief reference to a famous person, event, or place, real or fictitious, in a piece of art or literature.

32. $500 Answer from H3 Allusion

33. $100 Question from H4 What literary era is this quote from? “This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.” ― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

34. $100 Answer from H4 Modern Era

35. $200 Question from H4 What book is this quote from? "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

36. $200 Answer from H4 The Great Gatsby

37. $300 Question from H4 What book is this quote from? Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

38. $300 Answer from H4 The Crucible

39. $400 Question from H4 What story does this quote come from? “You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.”

40. $400 Answer from H4 Stargirl

41. $500 Question from H4 What book is this quote from? "Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart."

42. $500 Answer from H4 The Scarlet Letter

43. $100 Question from H5 This character was a symbol of sin, able, and help.

44. $100 Answer from H5 Hester Prynne

45. $200 Question from H5 This man defended Red Coat soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre. He cared more about liberty and justice than he did about the emotions of the trial.

46. $200 Answer from H5 John Adams

47. $300 Question from H5 The literary term for listing in a story like Tim O’brian did in The Things They Carried or Ben Franklin did in Poor Richard’s Almanack.

48. $300 Answer from H5 Catalog

49. $400 Question from H5 The name for the person who is telling the story in a poem or short story when they are not the author.

50. $400 Answer from H5 Narrator

51. $500 Question from H5 Name three women by name from The Great Gatsby.

52. $500 Answer from H5 Daisy Jordan Myrtle

53. Final Jeopardy This author wrote, “I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ”

54. Final Jeopardy Answer “Mark Twain” Samuel Longhorne Clemens