Dates
States
Time
Punctuation
Miscellaneous
100

How first day of the school week should be written in AP Style. 

What is Monday?

100

The correct AP Abbreviation for Oregon. 

What is Ore.?

100

10:00 a.m. (correct or incorrect)

What is incorrect? (10 a.m.)

100

The correct way to close a quote in AP Style (at the end of a sentence). 

What is "quote."? (period goes INSIDE quotations)

100

The correct way to write "Janice Evans is [age 14]."

What is "Janice Evans is 14 years old."?

200

The correct AP formatting of "the eighteenth of March."

What is March 18?

200

The correct dateline for Anaheim, California. 

What is ANAHEIM, Calif.?

200

The AP formatting of fifteen minutes past two in the afternoon. 

What is 2:15 p.m.?

200

The correct way to write this newspaper in AP style.

What is The New York Times? (no italics or quotations)

200
Correct way to write "___ people arrived at the scene" in AP Style. (Quantity = 9)

What is Nine? (Less than 10, beginning of a sentence). 

300

The months that are never abbreviated in AP Style. 

What are March, April, May, June and July?

300

The number of states that are never abbreviated. 

What is eight (Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah)?

300
This is how you write 12:00pm in AP Style

What is noon?

300

The correct way to write this movie title in AP style. 

What is "The Hunger Games"?

300

Correct AP style for the dollar amount 4,000,000. 

What is $4 million?

400

The correct writing of 9/21/23 in AP Style. 

What is Sept. 21, 2023?

400

In the sentence, "The train is schedule to arrive in ________ at noon," this is the correct AP formatting of the city and state Tempe, Arizona. 

What is Tempe, Ariz.? 

400

AP Style for "9 o'clock in the morning."

What is 9 a.m.?

400

The correct placement of punctuation (commas, periods, apostrophes) in this sentence: 

The dogs owner liked to explore different streets parks and trails

What is 

The dog's owner liked to explore different streets, parks and trails. 

400

Find the errors in:

"William Parker won 2nd place on Thursday, April 22. Will decided to give ten percent of his winnings to charity."

What is 

Should use last name on second mention, and should say 10%. 

500

The AP style of the decade in the sentence "The nineteen-thirties were difficult years economically for many families."

What are the 1930s?

500

This is the correct dateline for Kansas City, Missouri. 

What is KANSAS CITY, Mo.?


500

The time(s) when courtesy titles should be used in AP Style. 

What is to distinguish between two people with the same last name?