Propaganda Quiz – December 2018

  • 17 March, 2019
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The Propaganda sections played in the 2018-2019 tournament year are A, C, D, and E.

Section A
  1. Prejudice
  2. Academic Detachment
  3. Drawing the Line
  4. Not Drawing the Line
  5. Conservatism, Radicalism, Moderatism
  6. Rationalization
  7. Wishful Thinking
  8. Tabloid Thinking
  9. Causal Oversimplification
  10. Inconceivability
 Magazine ad: "Hillshire Farm Turkey is slow roasted for hours and devoured in seconds."

Section C
  1. Appearance
  2. Manner
  3. Degrees and Titles
  4. Numbers
  5. Status
  6. Repetition
  7. Slogans
  8. Technical Jargon
  9. Sophistical Formula
 Ad in the Wall Street Journal: "We deal in Blue Chip Stocks with Bet above 1.5 and an Index above 15 percent."

Section D
  1. Appeal to Pity
  2. Appeal to Flattery
  3. Appeal to Ridicule
  4. Appeal to Prestige
  5. Appeal to Prejudice
  6. Bargain Appeal
  7. Folksy Appeal
  8. Join the Bandwagon Appeal
  9. Appeal to Practical Consequences
  10. Passing from the Acceptable to the Dubious
 The head of the Academic Games league wrote a letter to each of the principals in the district inviting their schools to participate in the next tournament. On the bottom of one letter, the league head wrote: "It was nice meeting you at Riverside Restaurant last weekend."

Section E
  1. Concurrency
  2. Post Hoc
  3. Selected Instances
  4. Hasty Generalization
  5. Faulty Analogy
  6. Composition
  7. Division
  8. Non Sequitur
 Our soccer team was losing until I bought new shoes. We have not lost a game since I got my lucky shoes!

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