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

1. On-Sets (All Divisions): Which of the following cards are in this set? (R Ω G') – B
   (A) G (B) BR (C) R (D) GR
2. World Events - The Year 2007: In April, his career in broadcasting seemed doomed when he was fired from CBS Radio for remarks he made on the air about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Yet WABC in New York announced at the end of October that he would return to the airways on their station in December. Who is he?
3. LinguiSHTIK (All Divisions): Is this an S-LV-PN sentence?

   One way to raise money is to have a bake sale.

4. Equations (All Divisions): True or False: If the Goal has only one interpretation, the Solution-writer does not have to write the Goal with the Solution.
5. Presidents

   1-12: When I married my wife Sarah, one of my wedding presents was a slave boy named Elias who would remain with us for the rest of my life. While I was president, Brigham Young (pictured) wrote me a letter asking the government's protection against persecution the Mormons had suffered in Missouri and Illinois. 13-24: I defeated the Whig candidate, General Winfield Scott, for the presidency. We both accepted the compromise legislation that Congress passed to satisfy both the free and slave states. Among the provisions were these: California was accepted into the Union as a free state and the slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.

    

   25-33: My mother Martha had two brothers who were heroes in the Confederate navy. The first book I wrote was Naval History of the War of 1812. 34-43: I played guard on my college football team. The desire not to have another Henry Kissinger led to a succession of weak national security advisers when I was president. Only toward the end of my administration, after the Iran-Contra scandal broke, did I get above-average talent in my national security adviser in Colin Powell.

6. Propaganda: Click here for this month's examples.