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Punctuation Marks
The Numbers Game
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Hodgepodge
100
It is the most used punctuation mark.
What is the period?
100
It's the only number that is not spelled out at the start of a sentence.
What is the year?
100
What does the acronym BAS stand for?
What are Boulevard, Avenue and Street?
100
Leads can be broken down into two broad types. What are they?
What is direct and delayed?
100
He rewrote the final chapter of "Farewell to Arms" a reportedly 44 times. Who was this writer?
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
In Great Britain, they call this mark a "full stop."
What is the period?
200
A five-year-old girl is an example of this.
What is the misuse of numbers in AP style.
200
What is the style of post office box?
What are P, period, O period?
200
Which of these newspapers use the summary lead as its standard form: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or USA TODAY?
What is USA TODAY?
200
What does Rene Cappon say about ending a sentence with a preposition?
What is it's OK to do so?
300
Jokes are often made about this mark of punctuation?
What is the colon?
300
Which two of these words does Rene Cappon say that you shouldn't use in writing: about, approximately, almost, some?
What are approximately and some?
300
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is the address for what?
What is the White House?
300
In a summary lead, where is the best place to put the date: start of sentence, middle of sentence or end of sentence?
What is middle of the sentence?
300
Who is Big Six Henderson?
Who is a Kentucky moonshiner"
400
It's often misused in place of its sturdier big brother?
What the single quotation mark?
400
In the journalistic style, how would you order these items: 97 hamsters, 10 dogs, six cats and 14 catfish. 
The order is six cats, 10 dogs, 14 catfish and 97 hamsters.
400
Under what condition would you not abbreviate an address?
What is when a the number is omitted?
400
Which is not an alternative name for a summary lead: breaking news, hard news or indirect?  
What is indirect?
400
Rene Cappon referred to words like "question," "condition," "situation" and "activities" as what kind of nouns?
What are abstract nouns?
500
It's immensely useful if you want to slam two slightly related clauses together. 
What is the semicolon?
500
According to the stylebook, first, third and 10th are considered this kind of numbers?
What are ordinal numbers?
500
Which of these is NOT correct in the middle of a sentence: Interstate 71, State Route 34 or U.S. Highway 1?
What is State Route 34?
500
In general, a summary lead should have a maximum length of how many words?
What is 30?
500
Who said, "Vigorous writing is concise"?
Who are Will Strunk and E.B. White?