History
AP Style
Fall 2025
Bangin' Stuff
Journalism Junkie
100

The location of our office

Where is Mac103C?
100

Months with more than ____ letters are abbreviated 

What is five? 

100

The room we meet in every Sunday

Higgins 225

100

Website builder we publish on 

What is Wordpress? 

100

The Gavel Groove

What are the themed playlists created by Culture members inspired by fun and unique themes? 


200

The year The Gavel was founded

When is 2009?

200

The numbers that are always spelled out

What are 0-9?

200

The underground publication on campus that started this semester

What is The Linden?


200

The newest section that will launch in the spring

What is Allston-Brighton?

200

Hard news 

What is the timely news coverage that focuses on factual and objective reporting of important events? 

300

"[He] loved politics and government because he saw politics and government could make a difference in people's lives. And he loved people most of all."

Who is former President Bill Clinton?

300

How long an article paragraph should be 

What is between 1-4 sentences? 

300
The themes of the last few socials/formals we've hosted

What are Margaritaville, Frat, and Star Wars?

300

One of the email headers from the weekly reminders (not from the last month)

What is

permission to lib out?

The Scariest Sunday Yet...

the concept of a gavel meeting on sunday

if you a gavel baddie this is for you

Almost Sunday 

wyd sunday nite?

Baby Got Bang.

300

Diatribes

What are shorter, satirical pieces on big or small issues? 

400

The name of the publication that preceded us

What is Naked Singularity?

400

The use of quotations vs italics 

When is italics for all long works, such as books, movies, magazines, albums, pieces of artwork, etc.

and quotation marks around shorter works within a larger work? 

400
The name of our fall 2025 print magazine

What is "Through The Looking Glass"?


400

The number of articles we published this semester

How many is 168 articles?

400

The difference between Features and other sections

What is long-form journalism? 

500

The name of our advisor 

Who is Maura Johnston?

500

Majors are capitalized (two parts) 

When they are referring to a language or any proper other nouns then? 

500

The number of new members that joined us this semester <3 

How many are 74 people? 

500

The current most read article on our website 

What is "The Speech That Split the Boston College Republicans"? 

500

What is the journalistic method of placing the most fundamental information in the lead of the story, and then arranging the remaining details, from most important to least important called? 

What is the inverted pyramid?