THE UNFAIR GAME TEMPLATE

Directions

• Teams take turns answering questions.

• Choose any question.

• If your team answers correctly, you decide if you will keep the points or give the points to another player.

• Your team MUST decide this before seeing the point value.

• Questions have randomly assigned point values. Some may be positive while others are negative.

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Question

Vocabulary word meaning "madman; lunatic"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+50

maniac

Question

What does Jeffrey borrow from Amanda?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-50

a book

Question

Who wrote Maniac Magee?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+100

Jerry Spinelli

Question

What happened to Maniac's parents?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-100

They died in a trolley accident.

Question

Vocab word that is an antonym for "displease"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-90

suffice

Question

Where is Arnold Jones when Jeffrey rescues him?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+20

Finsterwald's yard

Question

Which vocab word is a synonym for "shocked"?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-30

stupefied

Question

Vocab word describing something a baby might do

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+50

smatter

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "wild uproar"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+50

pandemonium

Question

Which vocab word is an adjective that could describe a criminal?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-50

infamous

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "natural impulse"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-30

instincts

Question

Vocab word meaning a "noticeable flaw"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-20

blemish

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "set down suddenly"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-30

plunked

Question

What does Jeffrey do during gym class?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+40

Intercepts a football

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "wide street"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+70

boulevard

Question

Why did Jeffrey leave his aunt and uncle's house?

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+80

They would talk to each other.

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "interrupted its course before arrival"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+10

intercepted

Question

Vocabulary word meaning "staring with an open mouth"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-60

gaping

Question

Vocab word that is a synonym for "guesses"

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

+80

theories

Question

A legacy is something handed down by an ___________.

If answered correctly, player decides whether to keep or give points away BEFORE seeing point value

Point Value

Answer

-60

ancestor