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1. RATCHET This is… Journalism Spring Review

2. Rules • The class will be split into 3 teams. Each team will get a chance to pick the categories and point values. • You will have 30 seconds to consult with your team and to think up correct responses. • To answer a question, pick a person from your team to sit in the hot seat. (The person must already have an answer.) • Failure to follow the rules can result in a deduction of points at THE TEACHER’S discretion. • Take notes! You will see these things again! (Wink, wink…)

3. Journalism Spring Review

4. Ques’ions: 200 • Answer: • “Did you enjoy the school play?” • Question: • What is a yes/no question? Back

5. Ques’ions: 400 • Answer: • “Who is the smartest student on the debate team?” • Question: • What is an –est question? Back

6. Ques’ions: 600 • Answer: • “As the principal, don’t you think you should take personal responsibility for each failing student in the building?” • Question: • What is a loaded question? Back

7. Ques’ions : 800 • Answer: • “What are some of your goals for this year?” • Question: • What is a stock question? Back

8. Ques’ions: 1000 • Answer: • “Since you said that you will not be teaching here next year, where will you be teaching?” • Question: • What is a follow-up question? Back

9. Autopsy: 200 • Answer: • This gives you information about the image you are seeing. • Question: • What a caption? Back

10. Autopsy: 400 • Answer: • Just as your head tops your body, this is the first part of the article that the reader will see. • Question: • What the headline? Back

11. Autopsy: 600 • Answer: • These two article parts are so simple that their names are almost self-explanatory. • Question: • What are the dateline and the byline? Back

12. Autopsy: 800 • Answer: • This tells the reader what your article will be about, but its spelling can be misleading. • Question: • What is the lede? Back

13. Autopsy: 1000 • Answer: • This could also be called a skip because it describes what readers do when the article they were reading continues on another page. • Question: • What is a jump? Back

14. Classy: 200 • Answer: • This is could be Ron Burgundy's job title. • Question: • What is announcer? Back

15. Classy: 400 • Answer: • Ron Burgundy might have majored in this type of journalism, that is, if he went to college. • Question: • What is broadcast journalism? Back

16. Classy: 600 • Answer: • When Ron Burgundy reports live from a scene, he tapes one of these. • Question: • What is a stand up? Back

17. Classy: 800 • Answer: • The Channel 4 News Team slips these into the script so their anchors won’t mispronounce words. • Question: • What are pronouncers? Back

18. Classy: 1000 • Answer: • If the Channel 4 News Team had more of these, Burgundy might not have to depend on the teleprompter. • Question: • What are script rundowns? Back

19. Hodge Podge: 200 • Answer: • We learned two triangles this year; one was upside down, representing the hierarchy of information in an article. • Question: • What is the inverted pyramid? Back

20. Hodge Podge: 400 • Answer: • Journalists should always take notes during interviews, even if they plan to use one of these. • Question: • What is a recorder? Back

21. Hodge Podge: 600 • Answer: • Of all the different kinds of questions you can ask, these questions are most likely to result in information you can use in your story. • Question: • What are follow-up questions or open-ended questions? Back

22. Hodge Podge: 800 • Answer: • These should be double spaced so that the announcer can easily read it. • Question: • What are scripts? Back

23. Hodge Podge: 1000 • Answer: • Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and Wendy Williams are examples of this, not because of what they can do, but because of how they interact with their audience. • Question: • What is talent? Back

24. Breaking News: 200 • Answer: • Jodi Arias’ murder trial garnered a lot of media attention. Now she may be sentenced to this in Arizona for killing her boyfriend. • Question: • What is the death penalty? Back

25. Breaking News: 400 • Answer: • Someone got almost $600 million dollars richer over the weekend because they bought a PowerBall ticket in this state. • Question: • What is Florida? Back

26. Breaking News: 600 • Answer: • A lot of people are going to get fired from this government agency after participating in discrimination against conservative Republican groups, like the Tea Party. • Question: • What is the IRS? Back

27. Breaking News: 800 • Answer: • According to the AJC, at least 16 police officers have been arrested in the past year and a half. They work for this county. • Question: • What is DeKalb County? Back

28. Breaking News: 1000 • Answer: • Even after being acquitted for murdering two people in the 90’s, O.J. Simpson may still go to jail for this crime. • Question: • What is robbery? Back

29. Risk an amount of your money. If you get the Question right, you win that money. If you get it wrong you, lose the money!

30. Risk an amount of your money. If you get the Question right, you win that money. If you get it wrong you, lose the money!

31. FINAL JEOPARDY Risk an amount of your money, then write down your response to the given answer. If you get it right, you win that money. If you get it wrong you, lose the money! The team with the most money wins the game!

32. Topic: Broadcast Journalism • Answer • Broadcast news stories often come in 3 main organization patterns. This is one of them. • … • Question: • What is comparison, cause and effect, or problem-solution-results? Back