1. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
50: POLL PHONE-A-FRIEND
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Lifeline icons on the question slides are hyperlinks which will take you to the lifeline screen. To return to the game, you may right click on the screen, choose Go, Previously Viewed. This should return you to the question slide. Alternatively, left click as usual to return to the game board, then click on the highest number that has been previously selected (in gold to indicate a followed hyperlink).
To utilize the 50:50 option, the moderator may tell the contestant which two options to disregard or, use Control-P to change the mouse arrow to a pen. Draw a line through two incorrect responses, then use Control-A to change the pen back into an arrow and continue with the game.
Clicking on the action button on the phone handset image of the Phone a Friend lifeline slide will hyperlink to the Ask Jeeves web site where the participant may ask for help.
English Prep. I Edition
Created by Mr. Somerfleck
Copyright, & forever

2. 1,000,000
500,000
250,000
125,000
64,000
32,000
16,000
8,000
4,000
2,000
1,000
500
300
200
100

3. Click to return to question, Cont-P to switch to the pen, cross out two incorrect answers, then Cont-A to switch back to pointer.

4. Click to return to the question and poll the class

5. Click on link to Ask Jeeves, or click on this oval to return to question and ask a friend

6. D. This sentence is missing a
Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist; he was not necessarily a very nice man.
B. What are we doing again?
A. The sentence is correct
C. The semicolon should be
replaced with a comma.
D. This sentence is missing a
semicolon.

7. A. This sentence is correct.
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8. I read Of Mice and Men, and liked it very much.
A. I’m just happy to be
here.
B. I didn’t like it at all.
C. The title of the book should be
underlined or in quotation marks.
D. There is nothing
incorrect here.

9. C. The title of the book should be underlined or
in quotation marks.
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10. The english teacher gave us homework, but I does not have it; and neither does my friend.
I h
A. don’t
B. English/do not
D. English/does not
C. English

11. D. English/do not
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12. “Tom drives slowly.” Which word in that sentence is an adverb?
A. slowly
B. Tom
C. drives
D. Where am I?

13. A. slowly
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14. “The party is going to take place here.” Pick the adverb.
A. The party
B. going
C. is
D. here

15. D. here
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16. “I called him yesterday.” Again, pick the adverb.
A. called
B. him
C. yesterday
D. I

17. C. Yesterday
Most adverbs tell you how, where, or when something is done. In other words, they describe the manner, place, or time of an action.
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18. Compound sentences have how many independent clauses?
A. one
B. two
C. none
D. three

19. B. Compound sentences contain at least two independent clauses.
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20. Conjunctions are what types of words?
A. descriptive words
B. doing words
D. two words joined
together to form one
C. this, but, or, yet,
for, nor, so

21. C. this, but, or,
yet, for, nor, so
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22. A topic sentence is what?
A. the end of a
paragraph
B. asking a boy or
girl out on a date
D. a statement in a paragraph
that explains its focus and
what it will be about
C. a doctor’s
diagnosis

23. D. a statement in a paragraph that explains its focus and what it will be about
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24. A paragraph contains which three main parts?
A. body, mind, spirit
B. introduction, body
and conclusion
C. body, engine,
and doors
D. nervous, endocrine,
and skeletal systems

25. B. introduction, body, and
conclusion
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26. A. one starts; one B. he starts; he C. you start; you D. she wanted;
When one has been going to college for as long as he has, ____________ to think the college owes _______ a degree.
A. one starts; one
B. he starts; he
C. you start; you
D. she wanted;
itself

27. A. one starts; one
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28. When “NYPD Blue” went off the air in May, many viewers felt they had lost a friend in ________ own family.
A. his
B. their
C. its
D. our

29. B. their
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30. Spring begins early in Tennessee
Spring begins early in Tennessee. First, the forsythia bursts into blossom; then the dogwood trees _______ to bloom, and the redbud is soon in its glory.
A. began
B. is
C. begin
D. was

31. C. begin
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32. Run-on: put a semicolon after World War II. There is nothing
Although he had been an often decorated soldier during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism
in Congress.
Run-on: put a semicolon
after World War II.
There is nothing
wrong with this sentence.
Run-on: put a comma
after World War II.
D. Fragment: put a comma
after Congress
and finish the sentence.

33. D. Fragment: put a comma after Congress and finish the sentence.
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34. wrong here. Show me the money. C. This is one giant sentence
Knowing better than anyone else how the state legislature had ignored the needs of the community college system and created a crisis characterized by an uneducated workforce that had no place to go for proper training and realizing that someone had to do something about the situation or the state would begin to lose jobs to states in the American south that were more aggressive in providing and publicizing excellence in education, Representative Fuentes began to lay plans for an education bill that took into consideration the needs of the state's community colleges and the students who attended them.
A. There is nothing
wrong here. Show me the money.
B. This is one giant
run-on sentence.
D. There are two
semicolons missing.
C. This is one giant sentence
fragment.

35. A. Despite the length of the sentence, it is grammatically correct.

36. Sorry, try again!

37. Thanks for playing!

38. YOU WIN
ONE
MILLION
DOLLARS!