AP Style
Oracle-Specific
Grammar
Miscellaneous
100

This organization updates the AP Stylebook every other year.

What is the Associated Press?

100

The font used by The Oracle for story text.

What is Georgia?

100

A person, place or thing.

What is a noun?

100

The previous editor-in-chief of The Oracle.

Who is Kaylee?

200

A comma immediately before a conjunction in a list of >3 items.

What is an oxford comma?

200

The number of writing sections that The Oracle currently has.

What is 6?

200

Which phrase correctly completes the sentence "The uncommon ___ would be frowned upon today."

A: punishments were cruel and

B: punishments, were cruel,

C: punishments, 

A

200

A novel by Progressive journalist Upton Sinclair exposing appalling conditions in the meat industry in the 1900s.

What is "The Jungle?"

300

Periods and commas should be placed here when used with quotation marks.

What is inside the quotation marks?

300

What em-dashes are required to have both before and after. Ex: x—x. What is x?

What is a space?

300

Should you use less or fewer to fill in the blank?

In the future, you should eat ___ chicken.

Less. Fewer is used with countable nouns (ex: I have fewer chickens than you), while less is with uncountable nouns.
300

 False or misleading information that is deliberately meant to mislead an audience.

What is disinformation?

400

How to write numbers 10 and larger.

What is a numeral?

400

Adobe Photoshop process during production that is applied to all graphics and photos.

What is CMYK TIFF'ing?

400

The error in this sentence: "He went to the store, he bought milk."

What is a comma splice?

400

23 awards given annually at Columbia University regarding journalism, arts and letters.

What is the Pulitzer Prize?
500

This is the way to write out this time of day, but these are incorrect: "8 AM, 8:00 AM."

What is 8 a.m.?

500

The only phrase that is italicized when writing for The Oracle.

What is "The Oracle?"

500

Which of the following is grammatically correct?

A: Who killed whom?
B: Who killed who?

A; whom is an object pronoun, so it should be receiving the action. 

500

ESPN stands for this.

What is Entertainment and Sports Programming Network?