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DAVE  GARLOCK  [email protected]    

[email protected]  

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What  you  need  to    know  about  me  

If  you  are  already  bored  

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What  is  France’s  nuclear  deterrent  called?  

The  quesEon!    

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ZEE  BIG  BOOM!  

The  answer    

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uiltexas.org/academics/current-­‐issues-­‐and-­‐events    

It’s  all  found  here!  

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What  you  need  to    know  about  the  test    

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40  quesIons  &  essay  60  minutes    

1  point  for  each  answer  No  penalty  for  guessing  Essay  counts  10  points    

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QUESTIONS  DRAWN  FROM  FOLLOWING  DATE  RANGES  

•  INVITATIONAL:    Sept.  1,  2013  –  Jan.  1,  2014  •  Test  1  given  January;  Test  2  given  February  

•  DISTRICT:    Sept.  1,  2013    –  Feb.  1,  2014  •  District  1  test  March  17-­‐22;  District  2  given  March  24  -­‐  29  

•  REGION:    Nov.  1,  2013    –  April  1,  2014  •  Test  given  May  1  -­‐2      

•  STATE:    Dec.  1,  2013    –  May  1,  2014      •  State  test  given  May  20-­‐21  

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WHAT  IS  NEWS?  

Anything  that  is  covered  in  the  world’s  media      

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InternaIonal  news  and    DomesIc  news    Conflict/War/Terror    Economy  Science/Technology  Health  /  Environment  PoliIcs/Security  /Defense    Disasters/Business    Scandal    The  courts          

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THE  MAIN  MEDIA  LIST  nyImes.com  theweek.com    Ime.com    ap.org    reuters.com    bbc.co.uk  pbs.org/newshour/  npr.com  

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THE  NEXT  LIST    •  CNN,  CBS,  NBC,  ABC  •  New  York  Times  Science  secIon  (Tuesdays)  •  Wall  Street  Journal  •  Dallas  Morning  News  •  Houston  Chronicle  •  Huffington  Post    •  Texas  Monthly  •  AtlanIc      •  Texas  Monthly    

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NEWS  IS  ALSO  

•  PoliIcs,  music,  art,  science,  media,  movies,  history,  astronomy,  health.  

•  Anyone  famous  who  dies  (2012  –  2013:  Ray  Bradbury,  Ravi  Shankar,  Dave  Brubeck)      

•  If  it  is  on  the  front  page  of  the  New  York  Times  the  world  considers  it  big  news.  

•   Facebook  buys  Instagram  for  $1  billion!    

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Joe  Lieberman    

•  Which  U.S.  Senator,  once  a  vice  presidenIal  candidate  and  olen  considered  estranged  from  their  party,  stepped  down  from  the  Senate  aler  four  terms,  poinIng  out  a  lot  had  changed  in    early  25  years?      (NOTE:    The  candidate’s  farewell  address  included  the  following  memorable  phrase:    “When  I  started  in  the  Senate,  a  blackberry  was  a  fruit  and  tweeIng  was  something  only  birds  do.”)    

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THIS  WAS  NOT  TRUE:  Carbon  Dioxide  does  not  appear  to  have  played  as  crucial  a  role    in  temperature  change  or  the  rise  of  sea  levels  as  earlier  thought.    

•  With  a  grant  from  the  NaIonal  Science  FoundaIon,  scienIsts  have  been  studying  ancient  coastlines  around  the  world  in  the  Pliocene  epoch.  Based  on  their  findings,  and  previous  research  on  the  subject,  which  statement    IS  NOT  TRUE?  

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MORE  QUESTIONS    FROM  LAST  YEAR      

The  quesEons  get  harder  as  the  tests  go  by  …  The  invitaEonal  ones  are  the  easiest    

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INVITATIONAL  OR  DISTRICT  

•  Which  of  the  following  statements  about  Austrian  daredevil  Felix    Baumgartner,  who  set  several  world  records  when  he  jumped  out  of  a  capsule  from  space  on  Oct.  14,  2012,  IS  NOT  TRUE?          

•    A.  He  fell  more  than  30  miles.    •    B.  He  reached  a  maximum  speed  of  over  

   800  mph.  •    C.  The  jump  lasted  less  than  5  minutes.        •    D.  He  broke  the  sound  barrier.    

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•  One  of    the  most  important  sites  in  TenochEtlan,  the  capital  of  the  ancient  Aztec  empire,  was  called  the  Templo  Mayor  (main  temple).  This  vast  underground  ruin,  where  a  90-­‐foot  tall  ceremonial  structure  stood,  is  currently  being  excavated.  What  modern  day  city  sits  over  the  Temple  Mayor?  

•    A.  Puebla    •    B.      Guadalajara    •    C.  Mexico  City        •    D.  Oaxaca      

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•  On  which  blistering-­‐hot  planet  have  NASA  scienEsts  surprisingly  found  ice    and  frozen  organic  materials,  similar  to  tar  or  coal,  inside  permanently  shadowed  craters  on  its  poles?    (NOTE:    ScienEsts  speculate  icy  comets  and  asteroids  may  have  collided  with  the  planet  millions  of  years  ago,  seeding  it  with  the  materials.)              

•    A.  Jupiter        •    B.  Mars    •    C.  Mercury    •    D.    Venus    

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•  Which  controversial  1987  Supreme  Court  nominee  by  President  Reagan  died  in  December  at  the  age  of  85?      This  candidate,  who    advocated  a  form  of  judging  known  as  strict  “construcEonism,”  or  originalism,”  was  later  rejected  by  the  Senate.        

•    A.  Robert  Bork    •    B.  G.  Harrold  Carswell    •    C.  Abe  Fortas        •    D.  Harriet  Miers    

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•  Divers  have  found  the  wreckage  of  one  the  U.S.  military’s  worst  fighter  planes  ever,  the  chubby,  snub-­‐nosed  Brewster  Buffalo,  dubbed  the  “flying  coffin”  by  pilots  who  dreaded  flying  it  during  WW  II.  It  was  found  in  10  feet  of  water  some  1,300  miles  Northwest  of  Honolulu  near  which  small  atoll  where  a  legendary  1942  bamle  was  fought?    

•    A.      Bikini  •    B.  Kamajalein    •    C.  Midway    •    D.    Tarawa    

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•  Which  legendary  American  pianist  (who  died  in  February)  gained  worldwide  fame  in  1958  by  winning  the  inaugural  Tchaikovsky  InternaEonal  CompeEEon  in  Moscow?    He  later  became  the  first  musician  to  receive  a  Ecker-­‐tape  parade  in  lower  Manhaman  on  Broadway.      He  once  said  the  piano-­‐loving  Russians,  “reminded  me  of  Texans.”          

•    A.  Van  Cliburn    •    B.  Leon  Fleisher  •    C.  Vladimir  Horowitz    •    D.  Byron  Janis    

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•  Which  nuclear  reactor  announced  in  March  that  six  tanks  of  radioacEve  waste  (out  of  177)  were  confirmed  to  be  leaking  as  much  as  1,000  gallons  a  year?            

•    A.  Fukushima      Daiichi        •    B.  Chooz-­‐B-­‐1        •    C.  Hanover  Nuclear  ReservaEon        •    D.    Philippsburg-­‐2              •     

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•  When  Andre  Cassagnes  died  in  January  at  the  age  of  86,  few  noEced  …  but  the  Toy  Hall  of  Fame  surely  did,  having  voted  the  Frenchman  into  their  midst  for  invenEng  what  some  have  called  one  of  the  100  best  toys  of  the  20th  Century.  What  did  he  invent?  

•    A.  Hula  Hoop  •    B.  Etch  A  Sketch    •    C.  Mr.  Potato  Head    •    D.  Slinky    

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REGION  OR  STATE    •  Which  German  officer,  born  to  an  aristocraEc  Prussian  family  and  was  the  last  known  surviving  conspirator  to  the  1944  assassinaEon  plot  that  failed  to    kill  Adolf  Hitler,  died  in  March  at  the  age  of  90?    (NOTE:    OperaEon    Valkyrie  was  made  into  a  2008  movie  starring  Tom  Cruise.)      

•    A.  Ludwig  Beck  •    B.  Ewald-­‐Heinrich  von  Kleist  •    C.  Claus  von  Stauffenberg    •    D.  Friedrich  Fromm    

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•  Which  moon  to  a  major  planet  in  our  galaxy    has    a  vast,  globe-­‐girdling  ocean  up  to  100  miles  deep,  beneath  a  rind  of  fractured  ice  as  limle  as  10  miles  thick?    New  surveys  indicate  the  ocean  is  like  Earth's,  with  salt  and  organic  compounds.  (NOTE:  One  Caltech  planetary  scienEst  said:  “I'm  not  an  expert  on  life,  but  I  do  know  that  if  you  dip  a  net  in  (this)  ocean,    you're  bound  to  pick  up  something.")  

•    A.  Ganymede  •    B.  Triton    •    C.  Europa    •    D.  Enceladus  

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•  According  to  the  Associated  Press,  Researchers  from  Aberystwyth  University  in  Wales  have  discovered  which  famous  writer  from  ‘back  in  the  day’  now  seem  to  have  been  a  food  hoarder,  tax  dodger,  grain  dealer  and  ruthless  businessman?    (NOTE:  On  later  examinaEon,  some  of    his  business  savvy  seems  to  have  worked  its  way  into  his  work.)    

•    A.  Ben  Jonson  •    B.  Christopher  Marlow  •    C.  William  Shakespeare  •    D.  Sir  Walter  Raleigh      

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•  What  magazine  created  a  furor  when  it  published  a  secretly-­‐  taped      conversaEon  involving  Sen.  Mitch  McConnell  and  some  of  his  senior  staff  regarding  the  weaknesses  (including  her  mental  state)  of  actress  Ashley  Judd?    (NOTE:  The  same  magazine  created  a  sEr  last  year  when  it  published  a  damaging,  secretly-­‐taped  video  of  Mim  Romney.)  

•    A.  Vanity  Fair    •    B.  The  New  Republic  •    C.  Rolling  Stone    •    D.  Mother  Jones    

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STATE      •  When  a  meteorite  dubbed  the  Tissint  arrived  from  Mars  and  slammed  into  Tata,  Morocco  in  July  2011,  scienEsts  had  ample  reasons  to  quickly  examine  the  chemistry  and  mineralogy  ler  behind  to  search  for  possible  signs  of  life.  Which  parts  of  the  organic-­‐chemistry  set  had  scienEsts  already  found  in  space,  or  on  arriving  rocks?  

•    A.  Amino  acids,  carbon    •    B.  Glycine,  hydrogen  •    C.  Sugars    •    D.  All  of  the  above        

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WHAT  IS  NOT  NEWS!!!  

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Kim  Kardashian  denied  a  star  on    Hollywood  Boulevard    

(told  her  to  get  a  job)    

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 Russell  Crowe  rescued  by  the  Coast  Guard  in  his  Kayak!  

(So  much  for  Master  &  Commander)    

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Man’s  gym  membership  revoked  because  he  smelled  

terrible    (all  the  Eme)  

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“Honey  Boo  Boo”  might  be  bad  for  the  U.S.  image  overseas  

(not  to  menEon  in  the  U.S)  

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Snooki  gives  birth!      

(hope  the  baby  likes  to  drink  and  smoke)  

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LINDSAY  LOHAN  NOW  SOBER!    

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THESE  TESTS  ARE  HARDER  THAN  CURRENT  EVENTS  GIVEN  AT  UT!  

Any  quesEons?    

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Useless  words  to  put  in  an  essay    

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•  amongst  •  amidst  •  heretofore  •  nay  •  unbeknownst  •  alas  •  whilst          

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How  to  write  a  news  story      

How  reporters  do  it      

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S-­‐V-­‐O  

Subject-­‐Verb-­‐Object    

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WHO/WHAT/WHEN  WHERE/WHY/HOW    

(Inverted  Pyramid)  

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The  nut  graf:    How  does  this  news  affect  anything?    

 Why  should  anyone  care?  Does  it  have  any  meaning?    

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AmribuEon    

•  Tells  you  who  or  what  is  the  source  for  the  story  

•  And  where  to  go  to  find  the  documents  or  research  

•  (Not  free)  but  maybe  use  a  local  library  or  school  to  run  a  LexisNexis  search  to  see  what  has  been  wrimen  about  the  subject  in  other  newspapers  or  magazines