What is the correct way to abbreviate Wyoming in AP Style?
What is Wyo.
100
The AP Stylebook recommends staying away from spelling simplifications such as "lite." Name an exception.
What is thru. Thru allowed in some compounds: drive-thru, write thru.
100
True or false:
Always use figures for an address number.
What is true
100
True or false:
Precede a name with a courtesy title for an academic degree and follow it with the abbreviation for the degree in the same reference.
What is false. Do not precede a name with a courtesy title...
100
Name 5 cities that don't need to be accompanied by a state.
Answers will vary.
200
What is wrong with this sentence?
In the York News-Times (Neb), I read a very interesting article about a community project.
What is
York (Neb) News-Times
200
The basic rule when in doubt (of a spelling) is to consult what first?
What is the AP Stylebook followed by, if necessary, a dictionary under conditions described in the "dictionaries" entry.
200
When should you abbreviate ABS?
What is when you use a numbered address
200
When writing about academic departments, you should use lowercase except when what kind of words are used?
What is proper nouns or adjectives
200
What is the purpose of a dateline?
What is a dateline should tell the reader that the paper obtained the basic information for the story in the datelined city.
300
Which 8 states should never be abbreviated?
What is
Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas, and Utah
300
If you consult Webster's New World College Dictionary and it provides different entries, such as tee shirt and T-Shirt, how would you determine which one to use?
What is use the spelling that is followed by a full definition.
300
What does ABS stand for?
What is avenue, boulevard, and street.
300
When mentioning academic degrees, when would you use possessives?
What is use an apostrophe in bachelor's degree, a master's etc., but there is no possessive in Bachelor of Arts or Master of Science.
300
True or false: When reporting from nations and territories that are made up primarily of islands but commonly are linked under one name, use the city name and the general name in the dateline.
What is true
400
If the name of one of the 50 states is standing alone in a text how should it appear?
What is they should be spelled out
400
What are the different tenses of incur?
What is incur, incurred, incurring
400
When describing or naming addresses, which words should never be abbreviated? (Hint there are 4)
What is terrace, road, drive, and circle.
400
When should you capitalize and spell out formal titles such as chancellor, chairman, etc.?
What is when they precede a name.
400
Datelines on stories should contain what two things?
What is
a city name (in all caps)
followed by (in most cases) by the name of the state, county or territory where the city is located.
500
When mentioning two-word states in headlines how should you abbreviate them?
What is
leave out the periods between the two letters.
For example NY and NJ, instead of N.Y or N.J
500
British spellings, when they differ from American, are acceptable only in particular cases such as...
What is formal or composition titles
500
When can you abbreviate compass points in addresses, and when shouldn't you?
What is abbreviate when it's a numbered address.
Ex. 222 E. 42nd St.
Don't abbreviate if the number is omitted.
Ex. East 42nd Street.
500
When should you use abbreviations such as B.A., M.A., LL.D. and Ph.D?
What is only when the need to identify many individuals by degree on first reference would make the preferred form cumbersome.
Also, only use after a full name.
500
Canadian datelines:
True or false you should always abbreviate a province or territory name.
What is false. You should never abbreviate a province or territory name.