Updated: April 2009

Human Geography

English Local Languages

Romance Sino-Tibetan

Indo-European

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GAME RULES FINAL ROUND

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Angles’ land

Category A

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Where did the name England come from?

Category A

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A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling,

and pronunciation.

Category A

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What is dialect?

Category A

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The standard form of British speech based on the dialect used by upper-class

Britons

Category A

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What is the British Received Pronunciation

(BRP)?

Category A

300

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The creator of the first American dictionary

designed to develop a unique American dialect

Category A

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Who is Noah Webster?

Category A

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Words not used nationally that have geographic

boundaries.

Category A

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What is a isogloss?

Category A

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A collection of languages in a branch

Category B

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What is a language group?

Category B

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The Indo-European branch with the most speakers

Category B

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What is Indo-Iranian?

Category B

200

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1/3rd of the Indians of India speak this language

Category B

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What is Hindi?

Category B

300

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Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic

Category B

400

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What are four of the branches of the Indo-European language?

Category B

400

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How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

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The most widely used language of this branch is

Russian

Category B

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What is Balto-Slavic?

Category B

500

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Language branch evolved from Latin 2000 years ago

Category C

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What is the Romance language branch?

Category C

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Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and

Romanian languages

Category C

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What are languages evolved from Latin?

Category C

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How much would you like to bet?

DAILY DOUBLE

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Latin learned by the masses

Category C

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Category C

300

What is vulgar Latin?

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Language that results from the mixing of

colonizer and indigenous languages

Category C

400

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What is a creolized language?

Category C

400

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Romance languages diffused to the Americas by

Spanish and Portuguese explorers

Category C

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What are Spanish and Portuguese?

Category C

500

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Mandarin

Category D

100

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What is the most widely used language in China?

Category D

100

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Wu, Cantonese, Min, Xiang, Hakka, Jinyu, and Gan.

Category D

200

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What are the Semitic branch languages other than

Mandarin?

Category D

200

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Written characters that represent ideas or concepts instead of

pronunciations

Category D

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What are ideograms?

Category D

300

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Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan

and one of six official languages of this.

Category D

400

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What is the United Nations?

Category D

400

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This geographer argues that Indo-European diffused into

Europe and South Asia at the same time as agricultural

practices

Category D

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Who is Renfrew?

Category D

500

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Languages spoken between Turkey Mongolia, and China, with Turkish by far the most

used.

Category E

100

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What are Altaic languages?

Category E

100

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Once referred to as Semito-Hamitic this group includes

Arabic and Hebrew

Category E

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What is the Afro-Asiatic language family?

Category E

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Nearly 1,000 distinct languages and several thousand dialects have

been documented in this area

Category E

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What is Africa?

Category E

300

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Place your bets!

DAILY DOUBLE

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95% of the people of sub-Saharan Africa speak languages from this

family

DAILY DOUBLE

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What Niger-Congo?

Category E

400

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Thousands of languages that are no longer spoken or read

in every day life

Category E

500

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What are extinct languages?

Category E

500

- Jeopardy -Welcome to

Jeopardy!The fun and sneaky way to

review material for the upcoming test!

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And now…a brief introduction to the RULES of the GAME…

- Jeopardy -Each group must:

a) SIT TOGETHER, and b) Designate a SPEAKER who will respond to the prompts (You may NOT

change speakers).

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The game consists of FIVE categories,

each containingFIVE questions

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Questions are randomly arranged, NOT by degree

of difficulty

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Each speaker may select only ONE question per

round

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Once the selected question is posted on the

screen, the SPEAKER of the team

has 10 seconds to respond.

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The speaker may consult with teammates before

responding

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During the game, whispering is OK, but LOUD talking and/or disruptions DURING

THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire

team.

- Jeopardy -The response should be

phrased in the FORM OF A QUESTION.

(Words, phrases, and statements – even if correct –

may be disqualified)

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A CORRECT ANSWER earns the team the amount of points indicated on the

jeopardy board.

- Jeopardy -If the speaker does not

respond correctly within 10 seconds, the question passes on to the next

team speaker, who has 5 seconds to respond.

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The number of points for the correct answer at this stage are the same as for

the previous team.

- Jeopardy -Questions that are not

answered correctly by the selecting team are offered to the other teams in turn until a correct answer is given or

all teams have guessed incorrectly.

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For the Daily Double, the speaker designates the

number of points – up to the max. points earned by the team. If correct, the

team earns the designated points; if

incorrect, they lose the designated points.

- Jeopardy -Again, whispering is OK,

but remember, LOUD TALKING and/or

DISRUPTIONS DURING THE GAME may result in point loss for the entire

team.

- Jeopardy -The judge’s decisions

are FINAL and whining, pouting, and/or

complaints will NOT BE ENTERTAINED…

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Ready to play?

- Jeopardy -Final Jeopardy Topic:

Languages You may wager up to the amount of points

your team has earned. Write your wager on a piece of paper

and submit it.

Updated: April 2009

Final Jeopardy QuestionFinal Jeopardy Question

There has been a revival of Welsh, Irish Gaelic, and Cornish as many want to keep

this language family alive

Updated: April 2009

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What are the Celtic languages?