Library terms for eighth grade students reviewed in Jeopardy game.

1. Choose a category.
You will be given the answer.
You must give the correct
question. Click to begin.

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Language
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Sports

4. When walking to
the principal’s
office my feet were
lead.

5. What is a
metaphor?

6. My love is like a
red, red rose.

7. What is a simile?

8. I’ve told you a
million times not
to exaggerate!

9. What is
hyperbole?

10. We heard
clattering and
clanging as he
washed the dishes.

11. What is
onomatopoeia?

12. They gazed at the
smiling moon and
the next day the
jovial sun shone on
them.

13. What is
personification?

14. Don’t tell them gas
prices will rise, let
sleeping dogs lie.

15. What is an idiom?

16. A longer, more
detailed comparison
of two ideas or
situations.

17. What is analogy?

18. A terrorist didn’t pay enough
postage on a letter bomb. It
was returned, marked
“return to sender”.
Forgetting it was the bomb,
he opened it and was blown
to bits.

19. What is irony?

20. The hot July sun beat relentlessly
down, casting an orange glare over
the farmhouse, fields and pond. Our
sun-baked backs ached for relief.
We quickly pulled off our sweaty
clothes and plunged into the pond,
but the tepid water only stifled us
and we soon crawled onto the brown,
dusty bank. Our parched throats
longed for something cool to drink.

21. What is imagery?

22. In the story of
Adam and Eve, its
when Eve ate the
apple - the apple
stood for sin.

23. What is symbolism?

24. By NFL rules these
players must wear
numbers 20 - 49

25. What are running
backs?

26. He holds the record
for pitching the
fastest fastball and
was nicknamed the
“Strikout King”

27. Who is Nolan
Ryan?

28. An “old school”
term for a football
field?

29. What is grid iron?

30. After a crowd booed
him, this pitcher sent all
the players on the field
to the dugout and
struck out 9 consecutive
batters in 1935

31. Who was
Satchel Paige?

32. In 1910 football lost
emphasis and was
almost replaced by
this sport at KU

33. What is Rugby

34. The leader of the
Confederate Army
during the Civil
War

35. Who was
Robert E. Lee?

36. December 7, 1941

37. When was the
attack on Pearl
Harbor?

38. In the 1920s this
made making,
buying and selling
of alcoholic
beverages illegal

39. What was
Prohibition?

40. The name for the
reform movements
to abolish acts of
discrimination from
1955 - 1968

41. What was the Civil
Rights Movement?

42. He was the
president before
JFK that was from
Abilene, Kansas.

43. Who was President
Dwight D. “Ike”
Eisenhower?

44. A written account
of a person’s life

45. What is a
biography?

46. A list of resources
arranged
alphabetically by
author and title.

47. What is a
bibliography?

48. A reference book
that contains over
a million facts and
is NOT arranged
alphabetically.

49. Almanac

50. Resources that
provide original
research or
documentation?
(such as the Declaration of Independence)

51. What is a primary
source?

52. A database free to
Kansas kids with
access to magazine
articles, and online
encyclopedia,
almanac, etc.

53. What is SIRS?

54. The last name of the
librarian that
devised the
classification system
for library materials

55. Who is Dewey?

56. Area of the library
with aids for
finding
information
(such as enclyclopedias, atlases and almanacs)

57. What is reference?

58. A law that protects a
published work from
unauthorized use

59. What is
copyright?

60. An acronym for
interlibrary loan

61. What is ILL?

62. Restricting access
to materials deemed
objectionable
Morally, politically or religiously

63. What is censorship,
censoring or
banning

64. Make your wager

65. Final Answer: The
3 boolean
operators

66. Final Question:
What are -
and or not?