Family Living
Clear And Present Danger
Talking About My Generation
Class of Now
Grab Bag
100
Youth aged 13-24 represent 13% of people diagnosed with this disease.
What is HIV/AIDS?
100
Though they comprise about 10% of the population, youth ages 13-18 account for this percentage of arrests (within 10%).
What is 20%?
100
Gen Z might say, "Why call someone when you can ___them?"
What is text?
100
This class has never feared this large cold war menace.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
This is the percentage of U.S. Children who currently live in poverty. (Answer within 10% is acceptable.)
What is 18%?
200
Generations past may have been warned to not kiss a boy because you may get this.
What is pregnant OR a reputation?
200
Homicides are the leading cause of youth death among African Americans and the second leading cause among which group?
What is Hispanic?
200
This generation was told, "You will be the first generation to be worse off than your parents."
What is Gen X?
200
This place has always been known as an Olympics venue rather than a place of massacre where a student famously faced down a tank.
What is Tiananmen Square?
200
This gender is responsible for more than 50% of cases of child abuse.
What is female?
300
Gen Xers learned to fear this STD in high school health classes because once you got it, you could never get rid of it.
What is herpes?
300
Regulations in which specific behaviors or items are banned from a school, with the intention of ensuring student safety.
What is Zero Tolerance?
300
This generation may want to issue a retraction, for they are famously known for saying, "Never trust anyone under 30."
What is the Baby Boomer generation?
300
When speaking about "the wall," these students may think of the one along the Mexican border rather than this one.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
Behaviors which young people engage in which make them or others vulnerable to physical, social, or psychological harm are called this.
What is high risk behavior?
400
High risk sexual behavior and teen pregnancy have a high correlation with this.
What is poverty?
400
True or False: Juvenile gang activity arose in the United States in about the 1920s.
What is False? It has been documented as far back as the mid 1800's.
400
This generation is unlikely to be familiar with, let alone have ever used, the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.
What is Generation Z (or Y)?
400
Jim Henson, Sammy Davis Junior, Freddie Krueger, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ryan White all have this in common.
What is being dead?
400
True or false? The Asian community has been spared the problems of gang membership among its youth due to the high expectations of the community.
What is false? Asian gangs do exist but tend to be less visible, are still as violent as any, and may be tied to organized crime.
500
True or False: Since 1991, the birthrate for African American teens has been cut in half.
What is true? (Even though the U.S. birthrate for teens has declined 30% in that time, it still is higher than most industrialized nations.)
500
This percentage of youth homicides occurs at or on the way to school (within 10%).
What is 1%?
500
When surveyed as entering college students, two thirds of students of generation Y had scores higher than students entering college in 1982 on what personality trait?
What is narcissism?
500
The cable station known for "punking" you has never shown these during their lifetime.
What are music videos?
500
True or false? Young children such as those under 7 tend to be less biased than adults.
What is false?