MLA Format Jeopardy Game

Paper Formatting Basics

100

This is the size of the font used in MLA

What is 12-point?

200

This spacing is used in MLA format

What is double spacing?

300

The margins are set at this size in MLA format

What is one inch margins?

400

This is the mandatory distance for an indent in a paragraph in MLA

What is 1/2 an inch, or 5 spaces (one tab)? 

500

This information goes at the top left of the first page of your paper

What is name, teacher's name, course name, and date?

Paper Formatting Basics (2)

100

This information is needed in the running header of your paper

What is your last name and page number? 

200

A verbatim use of someone else's words is called this

What is a quotation?

300

Yes or no: a title page is required in MLA

What is no? 

400

This punctuation is used to identify names of articles in parenthetical citations

What are quotation marks?

500

______ is used to indicate the title of a book, journal, or other longer work

What is italics? 

Works Cited

100

MLA Works Cited entries should be arranged in this order

What is alphabetical?

200

This spacing is used for the Works Cited page

What is double spacing?

300

A Works Cited entry will begin with this if there is no author

What is the title of the work? 

400

This formatting sets off the first line of a Works Cited entry so that it's easy to find and read

What is a hanging indent?

500

Yes or no: the Works Cited page always begins on a new page in the essay

What is yes

In-Text Quote Citations

100

This is the way to parenthetically cite a web source when the author is listed

What is:

 (Author Last Name).

200

You do not have to cite this type of information in an essay

Common knowledge

300

This is how to parenthetically cite information from a printed book with an author

What is:

 (Author Last Name Page #).

400

This is how to correctly cite this direct quote in MLA: 

She dove into a vat of chocolate. 

Located on page 64         Author: Lemony Snicket

What is: "She dove into a vat of chocolate" (Snicket 64).

500

This is the parenthetical citation for this article title with no author listed: Ban Cigarettes

What is: ("Ban Cigarettes").

Miscellaneous

100

This is what MLA stands for

What is Modern Language Association?

200

The title of the essay is located here

What is the center of the paper below the date?

300

This is how today's date would be formatted in MLA

What is 20 March 2025?

or 20 Mar. 2025?

400

This is the definition and length of a paraphrase

What is putting the author's ideas into your own words, and roughly the same length as the original?

500

This is how I list the authors in a Works Cited entry for a journal article with these three authors:

Laura Cohen, Santiago Lopez, Quinn Ziegler 

What is:

Cohen, Laura, et al.