Usage Guidelines for Jeopardy PowerPoint Game

Game Setup

Right now, Click File > Save As, and save this template with a different file name. This
will keep the template untouched, so you can use it next time!

Scroll through the presentation and enter the answers (which are really the questions)
and the questions (which are really the answers).

Enter in the five category names on the main game board (Slide 4).

Game Play

Open 2nd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 3rd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 4th Slide
and show students the Game Board

As you play the game, click on the YELLOW DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant
calls, not the surrounding box.

When the student answers, click anywhere on the screen to see the correct answer.
Keep track of which questions have already been picked by printing out the game board
screen (Slide 4) and checking off as you go.

Click on the House / Home Icon box to return to the main scoreboard.

Final Jeopardy Go to Slide 3 and click Final Jeopardy button in the bottom right
corner, click again for the Question, click again for final jeopardy sound, When that is
finished playing click again for the answer slide.

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The coastal town of New Bern

was North Carolinas first.

What was the capital?

A part of a state, usually larger

than a city, that has its own
government.

What is a county?

In 1831, this meeting place for

lawmakers burned down.

What is the capitol building?

4,000 Cherokee died along this

1,000 mile walk when they were
forced to leave their homes.

What is the Trail of Tears?

People who fought to end

slavery.

Who are abolitionists?

North Carolinas largest Civil

War battle occurred here.

What is Bentonville?

This change to the Constitution

ended slavery in the United
States.

What was the Thirteenth

Amendment?

DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE

Number of states to secede from

the Union and joined the
Confederacy.

What is 11?

The Confederacy fought against

the blockade with this new kind
of ship.

What is an ironclad?

These people rented farmland

and paid the landowners with a
portion of their crops.

Who are sharecroppers?

This automobile maker began to

use an assembly line in 1913.

Who is Henry Ford?

These brothers made the first

motor-powered airplane flight
over Kitty Hawk, NC.

Who are Orville & Wilbur

Wright?

This inventor developed the

telegraph.

Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?

Built an automobile in New Bern

called the Buggymobile.

Who is Gilbert Waters?

In this decade, airplanes began to

carry North Carolina passengers.

What is the 1920s?

The name of President Franklin

D. Roosevelts plan to help
provide jobs.

What is the New Deal?

To allow the purchase of only a

certain amount of some goods.

What is rationed?

A share of ownership in a
company.

What is stock?

Women began to fill the jobs of

men who had gone to fight in this
war.

What is World War I?

This period following WWI,

where there were few jobs and
little money is now called.

What is The Great Depression?

This amendment to the

Constitution gave women the
right to vote.

What is the Nineteenth

Amendment?

This civil rights leader led a

protest to end segregation.

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?

A group of workers united for a

common purpose or goal.

What is a labor union?

This word means the right to

vote.

What is suffrage?

A protest in Greensboro, NC
where 4 African American men
sat at a lunch counter reserved for
white customers.

What is the Greensboro Sit-In?

This amendment to the

Constitution gave African
American men the right to vote.

What is the Fifteenth

Amendment?