Narratively Speaking
Me & Donna Bissey
Red Knots & Horseshoe Crabs
Potpourri
Bad Cops
100

When analogizing cases, one should provide ___ facts to fairly represent the case and avoid criticism of ___.

What are "sufficient" facts and "cherry-picking"?

100

Derek Jancart served this long in the National Guard.

What is 6 years?

100

SC DNR’s Crustacean Manager's first name was:

A. Steve
B. Don
C. Jeff
D. Kevin

What is "Jeff"?

100

Hannah Jacobson gave these sneakers to Toby Stevens.

What are (vintage) Air Jordans?
100

Officer Kerl’s first name (correctly spelled).

What is Wende?

200

We should take this approach to "story" and "data" in our legal writing.

What is "lead with the story, not the data."

200

Morgan Lloyd-Morgan read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and this third book.

What is Schindler's List?

200

Red knots prey on this clam in the Kiawah and Seabrook Islands.

What is the Coquina clam?

200

The number of views that Professor Kim's pepperoni pizza got on Google Reviews. 

What is 180,000.

200

Deputies in this case never gave commands before firing on a father holding a shotgun.

What is Hensley v. Price?

300

This is an example of what technique:

Professor Kim returned the shirt she'd bought from Zara at FedEx. Nationally, the number of retail returns has skyrocketed from an average of 30% of purchases in 2021 to 57% of purchases in 2024. The reasons for returns range from impulse buys to poor consumer understanding. Kim said, "I accidentally bought two identical shirts because I wasn't paying enough attention."

What is a "narrative sandwich"?

300

Jancart left the Capitol through this exit: A. Northeast exit; B. Northwest exit; C. Southeast exit; D. Southwest exit.

What is the Southeast exit?

300
"LAL" stands for this.

What is Limulus amebocyte lysate?

Also acceptable: Amebocyte lysate.

300

The kind of berries that Shane in Held v. Montana picked with his children. 

What are chokecherries?

300

Officer Deal parked his car behind Grier’s Honda at this angle.

What is 45 degrees?

400

One reason why the Intro to Journalism folks recommend using a direct quote rather than a paraphrase. 

What is to convey emotions?
What is to convey opinions?
What is to convey personal experiences?
What is to exemplify or elaborate on a fact?

400

Matthew Buckler was the captain of this athletic team in high school.

What is the soccer team?

400

Approximately ___ to ___ percent of all red knots stop over in Delaware Bay.

What is 50-80%?

400

Details in narrative legal writing should be, per Professor Kim, concrete, relevant, and ____. 

What is "significant"?

400

The deputy in Howard v. Harris used this technique to cuff the plaintiff.

What is double cuffing?

500

This paragraph from the Franklin complaint demonstrates which narrative speed: "Kerl now yelled "gun" as Franklin moved the gun away from him and from Kerl toward his right knee and then towards the ground, trying to put the gun down as ordered."

A. Gap
B. Summary
C. Scene
D. Dilation
E. Pause

What is "D - Dilation"?

500

At what time did Jancart post to Facebook this comment: “Just so all of you know, the people who stormed the capitol were NORMAL everyday people. There were old ladies and people in business suits. Don’t believe the LYING media"?

A. January 6, 2021 at 4:54 pm
B. January 6, 2021 at 5:24 pm
C. January 6, 2021 at 5:44 pm
D. January 6, 2021 at 6:14 pm

What is B - 5:24 pm?

500

Per 2023 DNR permits, horseshoe crabs must be returned to the water no more than this many hours after being harvested. 

What is 36 hours?

500

One way in which you can argue Trouble as a defendant.

Is the trouble as bad as plaintiff says?

Who really caused the trouble?

Did someone or something else play an equally culpable or bigger role in the trouble?

Would the trouble have happened even without the defendant’s actions?

500

The Shooting Review Board cited this as Officer Kerl’s sole violation.

What is improper use of her bulletproof vest?

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