Propaganda Quiz – January 2019

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
I envy Julia. Her parents are rich so she must get anything she wants.

Section C
  1. Appearance
  2. Manner
  3. Degrees and Titles
  4. Numbers
  5. Status
  6. Repetition
  7. Slogans
  8. Technical Jargon
  9. Sophistical Formula
Student to his mother: "I’m frustrated because I just can’t seem to pass a math test."
Mother: "Study hard and you’ll pass the next test. Then, you’ll be on your way to an A because ‘nothing succeeds like success.’"

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
Magazine ad: "The right technology can increase employee productivity and also become an unexpected business advantage. Your average employee wastes four hours per week searching for or recreating files. Dell Cloud Client Solutions allow employees to access their files and applications from wherever they are."

Section E – All
  1. Concurrency
  2. Post Hoc
  3. Selected Instances
  4. Hasty Generalization
  5. Faulty Analogy
  6. Composition
  7. Division
  8. Non Sequitur
Smith complained all season about his favorite basketball team’s poor free throw shooting. At the first game of the new season, one player on the team was fouled in the act of shooting in the first minute of play. When he missed both free throws, Smith complained: "Here we go again! Another year of lousy free throwing shooting!"

Section E – Jr/Sr Divisions
  1. Concurrency
  2. Post Hoc
  3. Selected Instances
  4. Hasty Generalization
  5. Faulty Analogy
  6. Composition
  7. Division
  8. Non Sequitur
Snerd: "Johnson can’t possibly be a Republican."
Ferd: "Why do you say that?"
Snerd: "Because Republicans don’t believe in gun control and Johnson just came out in favor of a ban on assault weapons."

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