AP Style
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100

In quote tags, we refer to freshman students as

First-years

100

Two ex-employees met at The USD Vista and got married: both work as journalists in Washington, D.C.. Anjali and Emma wrote a profile on them for Valentines day. 

Who are Kaia Hubbard and Luke Garrett?

100

What was the "word of the week" that caused The USD Vista team to leave production 6 hours earlier than normal?

Efficiency 

100

Name one article in the 22nd edition other than "Letter from Editor" and "Little did Lew know."

Any

100

HFR stands for 

What is "Hold for Release?"

200

The tense that The USD Vista writes in 

What is past tense?
200

This USD Operations alumni has the same headphones as Riley Rains who is also an influencer

Satvika Nitya

200

The USD Vista team makes a "send to print" folder every week. Many of these folder's include the week's joke. Name three. 

"SIT CODY SIT," "Send to mathmagician," "Send to the Lorax," "Send to sad Lauren," etc. 

200

What article did David Cook famously write "This isn't a partisan issue, it's an American issue."

Pentagon Press Pass

200

What did "while people..." get misconstrued as in reference to Alex's fear opinion?

What are "white people?"

300

These numbers are spelled out

One through nine. Key exceptions include: always spell out numbers at the start of a sentence (except years), use figures for ages, dimensions, percentages, and money, and use figures for 10 and above for ordinal numbers (10th, 11th).


300

Colin Mullaney's phone mistook the newsroom for...

Where is "home?"

300

Which opinion writer pitched the article that would lead to the swastika scandal?

Zoe Rogers

300

There were ____ articles written about the Pope

What is four?

300

Finish the quote "Im going to say a word I just want to see your reaction..."

Boba

400

What five months are never abbreviated in AP Style?

March, April, May, June and July.

400

What former contributor had a psychotic break and commented something obscene on Emma's "Is Gen Z Screwed" recently?

Joshua Feingold

400

The podcast that Collin Mullaney and Abby Caviso run is called

What is "Washed Up Weekly?"

400

This semester, we hired a new Art Director: Kyra Lefebvre. What article did her first graphic go into?

David Cook's "The cost of constant connection."

400
Gina's favorite word to describe Kyra's art

What is "lousy?"

500

What are the eight states that are never abbreviated in datelines or text?

Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah.

500

These staff members wrote "two men, one slice" in 2019

Who are Loukas Diafos and Wyatt Warren
500

During the famous New Orleans conference, Clay, the USDTV sports reporter, brought a Mario costume for Halloween. However, he forgot part of his outfit making him look like Steve Urkel. What did he forget?

The hat.

500

News wrote three articles on weather events this academic year. They were

What is "Currents 'rip' through San Diego," "Storms shower over Alcala Park" and "Winter Storm ravages the east coast."

500

What is the exact code for The USD Vista server

What is smb://palomar/Dept1/Vista ?

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