Questions for July 2009 from the Six Games Played at the AGLOA National
Tournament
Propaganda Categories and Current Events Are for the 2009-10 School Year
World Events - The Year 2009
Which one of these celebrities did not die in 2009?
(A) Farrah Fawcett, actress (B) Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of President Obama (C) Ricardo Montalban, actor (D) Andrew Wyeth, painter
LinguiSHTIK (All Divisions)
Is manuscript to be published an infinitive clause in the following sentence?
While proofreading the manuscript to be published, the editor fell asleep.
Presidents (Click the numbers to obtain a list of the presidents in that range.)
1-12: A visitors' brochure for my home, Montpelier, says I "imagined the Constitution here."
Montpelier13-24: My wife saw something in me that others did not. "Mary insists that I am going to be senator and president of the United States, too," I once told a reporter, laughing. My male advisors called her "ambitious, the insulting antithesis, when applied to females, of the modest deference sought in wives."
25-33: I violated the Volstead Act every time I entertained friends at the White House. I was the first president to visit Canada while in office when I stopped in Vancouver on my way to Alaska.
34-44: When asked in my last year in office what was my biggest regret as president, I replied: "I think I was unprepared for war." At the start of my second term in the White House, I replaced my controversial Secretary of Defense with a man who was later kept in office by my successor.
Propaganda
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Equations and On-Sets (All Divisions)
True or false? A Solution that is not circled by the writer is automatically incorrect.
