ASL Linguistics
Deaf & Famous
Holiday Signs
Deaf Rights
Deaf Culture
100
CUP-DRINK is an example of what in ASL?
What is a noun-verb?
100
Name this Deaf actress who received her first big break in a Quiet Place?
Who is Millicent Simmonds?
100
This type of meat is eaten during the Thanksgiving holiday.
What is TURKEY?
100
A basic human right that is often denied to deaf children in the hopes that they will integrate better into hearing culture.
What is signed languages?
100
This university is the only university in the world that offers an education taught entirely in ASL.
What is Gallaudet University?
200
Name one NMM when utilizing the YES/NO question format?
What is a) raised eyebrows, b) head tilt, or c) hold the last sign?
200
Name this new breakout Deaf actress who is in the new movie Eternals?
Who is Lauren Ridloff?
200
What is the sign for HOLIDAY?
or What is handshape "H" with thumbs extended in a double tap motion on the chest?
200
Name this accommodation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing that is required by the ADA that people tend to overlook when providing access.
What is closed captions?
200
What are examples of appropriate deaf attention-getting strategies?
Slight wave, lights, gentle tap on the shoulder.
300
Furrowing or bringing your eyebrows together is called what?
What is asking a question with a WH-Question maker face?
300
The first of it's kind, this story involves multiple actors and actresses who are deaf and hard of hearing about two teenagers from different backgrounds thrown together when they learn that things are not as they grew up knowing.
What is Switched at Birth?
300
This sign features a C handshape on the dominant hand that rises up in a slight twist movement.
What is CHRISTMAS?
300
This service is a key factor in public health services, employment, social welfare, or any other government services to provide access for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
What is a sign language interpreter?
300
Name this rule of etiquette in Deaf Culture that may seem odd to those in the hearing community because it involves sharing maybe a little too much information.
What is "going to the bathroom" or generally letting others know when you leave the room?
400
SEE (Girl/Boy/Man/Woman/Person), glasses, brown hair with freckles in a yellow shirt?
Is used to do what in ASL?
What is identify a person in the room?
400
This actor, comedian, writer, and director is featured in the film "Baby Driver" but has a long history in Deaf arts. You saw him in "Through Deaf Eyes" where he performs a skit about racing away in his BMW signing "What are you hearing?!!! "
Who is CJ Jones?
400
This sign is used to sign two different things although similar and both nouns. It is a both a popular side dish and a country whose history involves a long famine.
What is potato and Ireland?
400
What is the law that helps to ensure those with disabilities, including Deaf individuals have access to effective communication?
What is the American Disabilities Act?
400
If while conversing with those using ASL and someone is distracting you and you need to look away, what should you do first?
What is the sign "HOLD" by holding one finger up or the S shape in a slight palm up small rotation to ask them to wait a moment.
500
Adding this sign onto the end of another sign changes the meaning into a job that someone does.
What is the agent marker or "Er" sign?
500
This ASL performer utilizes a "Jim Carrey" like rubber-face, is known for his permanent long ponytail, and is a well-respected ASL professor at Columbia University.
Who is Peter Cook?
500
What are the two variations of THANKSGIVING?
500
Sign language and Deaf Culture promoted through education is a basic human right of Deaf children and people. It is often denied or cut under the assumption of providing what is thought to be inclusive by integrating deaf children with hearing children.
What is a Bilingual Education?
500
In this international conference, hearing educators met and decided to globally ban the use of signed languages among Deaf children and adults. It also resulted in firing and segregating Deaf adults and teachers from Deaf children.
What is the Milan Conference of 1880?
600
When asking this type of question, it is customary to add the NMM of furrowed brows at the end and repeat the beginning sign?
What is the WH-question?
600
Name this actress who is a producer, director, and was featured on the show Dancing with Stars who is the only Deaf actor to receive an Academy award?
Who is Marlee Matlin?
600
In the Frozen musical, Olaf sings about Hygge, a Scandinavian concept about well-being and contentment? What is the advice that is important to consider when signing a word that may not exist in ASL?
What is the sign for comfortable followed by several signs that help create the concept and/or of being comfortable and/or happy?
600
This education theory banned the use of sign languages for Deaf children based on the idea that forcing deaf children to listen, read lips, and speak would be better for their future well-being and integration into the hearing world.
What is oralism?
600
An vital component of any culture is the act(s) of storytelling. Deaf culture currently preserves the beauty and creativity of ASL and notable performers using video recordings. Name at least 2 types of ASL literature that you have learned so far. There are 6.
What is ABC stories, Number stories, Classifier stories, ASL narrative stories, ASL poetry, and Handshape stories?