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AICE Exam
Fallacies/ Appeals
More Fallacies/Appeals
100
If you have a bottle of wine which has its cork secured in the usual way. Without having a corkscrew available to open the bottle, how would you be able to drink the wine? You can't break the bottle.
What is to push the cork into the bottle?
100
A pair of twins is how many people?
What is 2?
100

April 27th

When do we take the Paper 1 part of the Thinking Skills AICE Exam?

100
two possible answers or solutions are held as the only possible choices or answers given the situation or question
What is a false dichotomy or a black and white fallacy?
100

If we legalize marijuana, the next thing you know, heroin and fentanyl will be legal, too.

What is slippery slope fallacy?

200
Justin owns a vacation house in northern Ontario, Canada. It has an A-shaped roof. One side of the roof faces south. The prevailing winds from the north are usually quite strong. The strange thing is that the stronger the north wind blows, the stronger the resulting updraft on the south side of the roof. Therefore, if a rooster was to lay an egg on the peak of the roof during a strong northerly wind, on which side should the egg fall most of the time - north or south?
What is "neither"? Roosters don't lay eggs.
200
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
What is an ear of corn?
200

Date of the Paper 2 part of the AICE Thinking Skills exam.

What is May 1st?

200

All politicians are corrupt. Therefore, my mayor is corrupt.

What is a sweeping generalization?

200
Argument based on manipulating emotions, rather than on evidence or sound reasoning.
What is an appeal to emotion?
300
If you were to step into a sealed room filled with 100% methane gas and strike a match, what would happen?
What is "nothing"? The match cannot spark without oxygen.
300
An old man who is getting on in years is very absent minded. On the way to the store one day, he went through a red light and turned down a one-way street in the wrong direction. A policeman observed the entire scene but did nothing about it. How could the old man get away with such behavior?
What is he was on foot or walking?
300

Number of sections on Paper 2

What is 3? (Questions 1 and 2 are considered one part, Questions 3 and 4 are considered a second part, and Question 5 is considered a third part)

300

If X happened and then Y happened; X must have caused Y

What is causal flaw? 

300

Person A: I believe we should raise the minimum wage to help low-income workers.

Person B: So you think everyone should make the same amount of money, regardless of their job or experience?

What is strawman fallacy? 

400
When can you add two to eleven and get 1 as the correct answer?
What is... when you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock?
400
There is a cage at the zoo that contains both peacocks and wild pigs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of each are in the cage?
What are 7 pigs and 8 peacocks?
400
AICE stands for....
What is Advanced International Certificate of Education?
400
Can't be proven false necessarily, so it must be true
What is an appeal to ignorance?
400
A person must be off base because he or she does not act in a way that fits that argument.
What is Tu Quoque?
500
A mother and father have five children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?
What is... the other half are boys too?
500
Five letter word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it
What is the word "short.."
500
There are three levels of passing for an AICE exam. The lowest is called the "pass level." The highest is called "passing with distinction." The one in the middle is called "passing with __________"
What is "merit"?
500
When the arguer ends with the exact thing he or she began with.
What is a circular reasoning fallacy?
500

A personal attack

What is an ad hominem attack?