Questions for October 2007 from the Six Games Played at the AGLOA National Tournament

  1. Propaganda: Click here for this month's examples.
  2. On-Sets (All Divisions): Which of the following cards are in this set? G – (B U R)'
    (A) GB (B) GBR (C) G (D) GY
  3. World Events - The Year 2007:

    4. A controversial article by Italian medical professor Dr. Lina Pavanelli published in September 2007 argues that a famous person's death was caused by euthanasia. Who is the famous person she claims was not given all possible medical help to sustain life?

  4. LinguiSHTIK (All Divisions): Is brother in both an independent and dependent clause in the following sentence?

    John said, "My brother can buy that bike because I lent him thirty dollars."

  5. Equations (All Divisions): O wild along with upside-down cube are in effect. In an Equation, a player uses one 0 as a 3 and another 0 as an upside-down 3. Is this acceptable?
  6. Presidents
  • 1-12: My second inaugural address is the shortest in history – only 133 words. I appointed the most Supreme Court judges of any president – 11.
  • 13-24: My State Department addressed its correspondence to former president John Tyler as "ex-vice-president." I supported the Fugitive Slave Act and favored adding Kansas to the Union as a slave state. I also wanted to add Cuba as a slave state and warmly endorsed the Dred Scott decision, which stated that blacks were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories.
  • 25-33: I was the only child of a dominant mother. (See picture.) She controlled the family money, which was never as large a sum as the public assumed. While a student at Harvard, I constructed my own secret code for recording events in my diary. Both my wife and I were related to a previous president.
  • 34-43: I was elected to the White House with only 43.5% of the popular vote. Midway through my first term, the Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. New Speaker Newt Gingrich pushed his "Contract with America."

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