How to make this Jeopardy game work for your topic

• Set up your teams and have them sit together.

• Explain the ground rules• Assign a score keeper who will watch to see

which team raises their hand first for each question and they will also keep track of what team wins what on the board or flip chart.

• When you’re ready to have your class play the game, open that presentation and then hit F5 to put it into the “SHOW mode.

JEOPARDY GROUND RULES• Raise your hand when you want to

answer. I will call upon the first hand I see raised. You get five seconds to answer.

• You get one answer; you cannot change or modify it after you have given it.

• If the first team to answer gets it wrong, they get that score deducted from their total and then the second team that raised their hand gets a chance to answer.

JEOPARDY GROUND RULES• One of the questions will read “DOUBLE

JEOPARDY”. This just means that this question is worth twice what it is listed for.

• When all questions are complete you are ready to play “Final jeopardy” . Before you see the question each team must write down how much you want to wager.

• After the question is shown, write down your answer. You cannot change your wager $$ after you see the question.

• When the music stops each team reveals what their wager was and their answer.

This JEOPARDY “template” was created by Tim Reicker, New York State Emergency Management Office, and Made available by the Dutchess County Community College Fire Science program.

This game prepared by Past Chief Thomas Bartsch, Valley Stream Fire Department. All material was taken from the “Firefighter’s Handbook, Essentials of Firefighting and Emergency Response, New York 2nd Edition”.

ANY QUESTIONS????

No? Then let’s play

“Firefighter Alphabet # 4”

JEOPARDY

“Firefighter Alphabet # 4” JEOPARDY

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“FF Alphabet # 4” JEOPARDY!!!

A wood joist that is attached to a ridge board to help form a

peak.

What is a Rafter

Letter "R" - $100

Company assigned to search for & rescue firefighters.

What is Rapid Intervention Team/Crew

Letter "R" - $200

A phenomenon where the superheated gases extends

into the upper thermal layer.

What is a Rollover

Letter "R" - $300

A device designed to vent pressure in a tank.

What is a Relief Valve

Letter "R" - $400

What is a Retard Chamber

Acts to prevent false alarms from a sudden pressure surge in

the water supply.

Letter "R" - $500

The use of timbers to support and/or strengthen

weakened structural members.

What is Shoring

Letter "S" - $100

The ability of one individual to supervise a number of

people or units.

What is Span of Control

Letter "S" - $200

Specific information and instructions on how a task is to

be accomplished.

What is a Standard Operating Procedure

Letter "S" - $300

A load or impact being transferred to a rope suddenly

and all at one time.

What is Shock Load

Letter "S" - $400

Deterioration of concrete by the loss of surface material due to expansion of moisture when

exposed to heat.

What is Spalling

Letter "S" - $500

The specific operations performed to satisfy the

strategic goals of a incident.

What is Tactics

Letter "T" - $100

Plate glass that has been heat treated to increase its strength.

What is Tempered Glass

Letter "T" - $200

A rigid framework using the triangle as its basic shape.

What is a Truss

Letter "T" - $300

Breaking strength of a rope.

What is Tensile Strength

Letter "T" - $400

DAILY DAILY DOUBLEDOUBLE

A method of forcible entry removing the lock cylinder, etc.

What is Through-the Lock Method

Letter "T" - $500

A rope used for general purposes.

What is a Utility Rope

Letters "U/V" - $100

The structure used to manage an incident involving multiple

agencies.

What is Unified Command

Letters "U/V" - $200

Weight of gas in relation to air.

What is Vapor Density

Letters "U/V" - $300

Spaces within collapse areas where someone could survive.

What are Voids

Letters "U/V" - $400

A covering or facing, not a load-bearing wall.

What is Veneer

Letters "U/V" - $500

Term used to describe explosive, chemical, biological

and radiological weapons.

What is Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Letter "W" - $100

A control valve mounted on a wall.

What is Wall Indicator Valve

Letter "W" - $200

A description of what is on a specific railcar.

What is a Waybill

Letter "W" - $300

Letter "W" - $400

The vertical portion of a truss or I-beam that connects the top

and bottom chords.

What is a Web

A sudden surge of pressure created by quick or closing

valve in a water system.

What is a Water Hammer

Letter "W" - $500

FINAL JEOPARDY

A biological toxin that is easy to produce and is most common

~ Biological ~

Final Jeopardy

What is Ricin