1. Usage Guidelines for Jeopardy PowerPoint Game
Game Setup
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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!
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Scroll through the presentation and enter the answers (which are really the questions)
and the questions (which are really the answers).
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Enter in the five category names on the main game board (Slide 4).
Game Play
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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
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As you play the game, click on the YELLOW DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant
calls, not the surrounding box.
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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.
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Click on the “House / Home Icon” box to return to the main scoreboard.
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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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4. Parts of
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the Neuron
Method
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5. A kick to the head in this area
can leave someone with visual
impairments

6. What is the occipital lobe?

7. Associated with planning,
reasoning, parts of speech,
problem solving, and executive
functions

8. What is the frontal lobe?
Stanford marshmallow
experiment
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=QX_oy9614HQ

9. Associated with the movement,
orientation, hosts the
somatosensory cortex

10. What is the parietal lobe?

11. This lobe contains the Wernicke’s
area, and is also known for
auditory processing

12. What is the temporal lobe?

13. Phineas Gage, a railroad
construction worker, experienced
a change of personality when he
underwent an accident affecting
this lobe

14. What is the frontal lobe?

15. A neurodegenerative disease
characterized by tremors
Celebrities afflicted: Michael J.
Fox, Muhammad Ali, and Adolf
Hitler

16. What is Parkinson’s Disease?

17. A slow, gradual disease,
characterized by memory loss
and dementia
Effects over 1 million Americans

18. What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
Hippocampal shrinkage, ventricular
enlargement, cortical shrinkage
Lewy bodies, tangles

19. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE

20. The most widespread mental
health disorder, affecting 17.6
million people, about 1/15
individuals
Can be genetic, or from the
“environment”

21. What is Depression?
• Most common version is Unipolar (major),
as opposed to Bipolar (manic)
• Loss of interest, loss of energy, poor
concentration, numbness, general “loss”
• Genetic predisposing factors /
environmental triggers
• Treated by SSRIs

22. Early developmental
“syndrome”, leads to
physical/mental defects
Result of mother’s consumption
of ______ during pregnancy

23. What is Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome?
• Harmful
substances than
can be ingested
by the mother
and felt by the
child are called:
“teratogens”
• Certain pharma
drugs, illicit
drugs, cigarettes

24. Extreme fear of strangers,
foreigners

25. What is Xenophobia?
• Most common is Social phobia (fear of
humiliation in social situations)
• May be related to activation of the
Amygdala

26. Long, slender projection from
neuron, transmits electrical
signals away from the neuron’s
cell body

27. What is an axon?

28. Branch-like projections from the
neuron’s cell body, usually
receive signals transmitted by
other cells

29. What are dendrites?

30. Another name for the neuron cell
body
Contains the nucleus,
microtubules, and a variety of
organelles

31. What is soma?

32. Material that forms a layer
around the axon, electrically
insulating

33. What is the Myelin Sheath?

34. Gaps between fatty cells on axon
Allow for salutatory conduction
across axon

35. What are the nodes of Ranvier?

37. What is MRI?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

39. What is EEG?
Electroencephalography

41. What is fMRI?
Functional Magnetic Resonance

43. What is a CT/CAT scan?
Computed Tomography /
Computed axial Tomography

45. What is a PET scan?
Positron Emission Tomography

46. This type of brain injury is all too
common in contact sports,
especially those in which contact
is made with the head

47. What are concussions?

48. This product is an acetylcholine
antagonist some people use in
order to make their face look
years younger

49. What is botox?
Botulinum toxin A

50. The opposite of caudal (tail end),
towards the head end of the
nervous system

51. What is rostral?

52. The valleys between the folds or
gyri (sing. gyrus) of the brain

53. What are sulci? (sing. sulcus)

55. Who are Dr. V.S.
Ramachandran / Dr. Robert M.
Sapolsky
Search both of these professors!
They are both incredible
lecturers.
Points awarded for either answer

57. This region of the cerebral cortex
is not fully developed in
teenagers, leading a higher
population of them to make poor
decisions, fail to plan ahead of
time, and act according to
#YOLO.

59. What is the Prefrontal Cortex?