The official news agency of the Chinese government.
What is Xinhua News Agency.
Xinhua is acceptable on second reference.
100
The preferred term for "weatherman."
What is "weather forecaster.”
100
This term is acceptable to describe any firearm.
What is a gun.
100
"Western" is not capitalized when referring to the (film/book/music) genre.
What is the music genre.
Western music is more commonly referred to as country music.
100
The age range for youth.
What is 13-18.
200
The main international interdenominational cooperative body of Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and old or national Catholic churches. The Roman Catholic church is not part of it.
What is World Council of Churches.
200
The scale for hurricane categorization.
What is The Saffir-Simpson Scale of Strength.
200
A firearm that fires only once for each pull of the trigger. It reloads after each shot.
What is a semi-automatic weapon.
A fully automatic is a firearm that fires continuously as long as the trigger is depressed.
200
These are the six subdivisions of the Western Hemisphere.
What are the Caribbean, Central America, Latin America, North America, South America and West Indies.
200
Reporters use (yesterday/Monday) in a story.
What is Monday.
Use "yesterday" only in direct quotations and in phrases that do not refer to the specific day.
300
The formal name for President’s Day.
What is "Washington's Birthday."
Capitalize "Birthday" when referring to the holiday.
300
This is the most destructive of all atmospheric phenomena.
What is a tornado.
300
The ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a firearm.
What is a magazine.
300
The number of states in the West.
What are 13.
They are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
300
A veteran of many battles is a (war horse/ warhorse).
What is warhorse.
A war horse is a horse used in battle.
400
This is used to sort, search and format information on the Internet.
What is Extensive Markup Language (XML).
400
This term is often misused to describe seismic sea waves caused by an underwater disturbance.
What is “tidal wave.”
A tidal wave is not a tsunami. "Tidal wave" is the broad term for large waves caused by rising tide.
400
A trademarked type of high power cartridge with a larger case and powder charge than the other cartridges its size.
What is a Magnum.
400
Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington comprise this part of the West.
What are the Pacific Division States.
400
The correct way to explain "megawatts per hour" in measuring electrical energy.
What is megawatt-hours.
This is the same for watts and kilowatts.
500
This measures the changes of the average prices that businesses pay for a selected group of industrial commodities, farm products or processed foods.
What is "wholesale price index."
Don't capitalize it.
500
This is a warm-core tropical cyclone with a minimum sustained surface wind of 74 mph that develops west of the international date line.
What is a typhoon.
They’re called cyclones in the Indian Ocean. Hurricanes are the same, except they develop east of the international date line.
500
A firearm that can be fired in both fully automatic and semi-automatic modes.
What is an assault rifle.
An assault weapon, however, can only be fired in semi-automatic modes, and the two terms are often confused.
500
The eight states that make up the Mountain Division States.
What are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
500
This researcher is credited for the concept of the World Wide Web.