DEAF CULTURE QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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May
14 - May 18, 2012
Which communication facilitation technique listed below relies on an interface between a human being and technology?
a. Text Interpreting
b. ASL Interpreting
c. Cued Speech Interpreting
d. Oral Interpreting
May
07 - May 11, 2012
Which of the women below attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) and is a two time Women’s Motocross Association Champion?
a. Kitty O’Neil
b. Tamika Catchings
c. Jamie-Lee Lewis
d. Ashley Fiolek
April
30 - May 04, 2012
Which organization below has shown that oral deaf people and deaf people who use ASL can work cooperatively to accomplish very positive outcomes for all Deaf and hard-of-hearing people?
a. Oral Deaf Adults Section of the Alexander Graham Bell Association (ODAS)
b. Association for the Advancement of All Deaf (AAAD)
c. Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly Self Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH)
d. Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc (TDI) (formerly Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc.)
April
23 - April 27, 2012
What is the name of the traditional “rite of passage” ceremony conducted by the Freshman class of Gallaudet University annually in the Spring?
a. Buff and Blue Day
b. Freshman Projects Demonstration Day
c. The Rat Funeral
d. The Freshman Carnival
April
16 - April 20, 2012
What is the new name linguists give to ASL classifier predicates?
a. Indicating Verbs
b. Plain Verbs
c. Locative Verbs
d. Depicting Verbs
April
09 - April 13, 2012
The name of the law that initially led to mainstreaming as a predominant educational option for the majority of deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
a. Education of All Handicapped Children Act
b. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
c. Americans with Disabilities Act
d. Vocational Rehabilitation Act
March
26 - March 30, 2012
DCQW readers may recall that Lance Allred was the first deaf basketball player to play in the NBA but he was not the first deaf basketball player to be drafted to an NBA professional team. Who was the first one?
a. Leon Grant
b. Bill Schyman
c. Don Lyons
d. Mike Ashford
March
19 - March 23, 2012
Who is considered to be the Father of Deaf Education?
Answer: “hearies and deafies” – These terms “hearies” and “deafies” are used within the Deaf community and primarily by Deaf people themselves. They don’t carry a negative or insulting connotation but are more like “short cuts” to designate hearing people and deaf people. They are considered “in group” slang terms meaning that in most cases only Deaf people use these terms. It is considered inappropriate for individuals who are not members of the Culture to use these terms.
March
12 - March 16, 2012
What are terms used within Deaf culture to refer hearing people and Deaf people?
a. Charles-Michel de l'Épée
b. Samuel Heinicke
c. Roy Holcomb
d. Laurent Clerc
March
5 - March 9, 2012
By most people, considered “The Father of the AAAD.”
a. Frederick Schreiber
b. Art Kruger
c. Roy Holcomb
d. Robert Weibrecht
February
27 - March 2, 2012
When referring to people who have a hearing loss which term below is preferred by Deaf people?
a. Hearing Impaired person
b. Person who is deaf or hard of hearing
c. Person with a hearing loss
d. Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people
February
20 - February 24, 2012
Who is the first Black Deaf American woman to earn a Ph.D.
a. Shirley Allen
b. Nathie Marbury
c. Ann Wilson
d. Dr. Angela McCaskill
February
13 - February 17, 2012
Being sick in real life can take many different forms. The same is true in ASL. You can simply be sick at a particular point in time and expect to recover. You can have some kind of recurring illness that strikes you repeatedly but not constantly and you can be chronically ill for an extended period of time.
In ASL these states of illness are expressed how?
a. ASL has separate verb signs that mean be sick at a particular point in time, to have a recurring illness, and to be sick over an extended period of time
b. There isn't really a good way of making these distinctions in ASL
c. The movement of the verb sign sick is modified to express these meaning
d. ASL uses separate adverb signs that mean to be sick at one time, to be frequently sick, and being sick over a long period of time.
February
6 - February 10, 2012
What was the first television program to broadcast captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers?
a. ABC Evening News
b. Masterpiece Theatre
c. The French Chef with Julia Childs
d. The Mod Squad
January
30 - February 3, 2012
CODA who went on to win an Oscar for Best Actress in 1975 for her role as Nurse Ratched in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
a. Glenda Jackson
b. Louise Fletcher
c. Carole Kane
d. Ann-Margret
January
23 - January 27, 2012
Which ASL verbs below are “Subject/Object Incorporating Verbs”?
a. To-think
b. To-meet
c. To-give
d. To-live
January
16 - January 20, 2012
TWhat is the term coined by Dr. Dirksen Bauman and colleagues at Gallaudet University to describe the benefits Deaf people provide to human culture?
a. Audism
b. Deaf Pah!
c. Deaf Gain
d. Deafness No Limits
January
9 - January 13, 2012
The author of the play Sign Me Alice, a play with all deaf actors, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner’s My Fair Lady.
a. Eric “Malz” Malzkuhn
b. T. J. O’Rourke
c. Gilbert Eastman
d. Bernard Bragg
January
2 - January 6, 2012
Who was the first deaf chairman of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees?
a. Dr. Glenn Anderson
b. Dr. Harvey Corson
c. Dr. Elizabeth Zinser
d. Dr. Phil Bravin
December
5 - December 9, 2011
When fingerspelling the letter “e” is formed with the thumb tucked into the palm and four fingers resting neatly on the thumb.
True or False
December
5 - December 9, 2011
The legendary team that brought home the championship title from the Mason-Dixon Basketball Tournament in 1943 was called:
a. The Five Iron Men
b. The Five Horse Men
c. The Fabulous Five
d. The Fantastic Bisons
November
28 - December 2, 2011
Which of the following ancient writings did not allow deaf persons the right to own property?
a. The Old Testament
b. The Talmud
c. Ayurvedic Writings
d. Plato’s Dialogues
November
22 - November 26, 2011
Which of these famous actors from Silent Films era are connected to Deaf culture and how?
a. Buster Keaton
b. Lon Chaney
c. Charlie Chaplin
d. Boris Karloff
November
15 - November 19, 2011
Which college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students opened its doors in 1968?
a. Gallaudet changed from a college to a university
b. California State University at Northridge(CSUN)
c. Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf (SWCID)
d. National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
November 07 - November 11, 2011
But "future" and "will" are signed the same, aren't they?
____ True or ___ False
October 31 - November 04, 2011
What was the name of the first newspaper published at the Washington School for the Deaf?
a. Vis-a-vis
b. The Deaf Mute Companion
c. The Terrier Times
d. The Washingtonian
October 24 - October 28, 2011
This week WSD celebrates spirit week and homecoming. The week is filled with many fun events and pep rallies. A prominent figure at these spirit and sporting events is our Terrier mascot. But the Terrier has not always been the school's mascot. What was the original WSD mascot?
a. The Bears
b. The Cowlitz
c. The Wildcats
d. TheBulldogs
October 17 - October 21, 2011
What organized recreational activity did young deaf men working for Goodyear Tire and Rubber company during World War I engage in during non-work hours.
a. They formed bowling leagues that were the beginning of organized sports competition between clubs for the deaf.
b. They formed basketball teams and played against other deaf clubs. This was actually the beginning of what eventually became the World Games for the Deaf and now is referred to as Deaflympics.
c. They formed a semi-pro football team and played against hearing teams in a semi-pro league.
d. They met each week at a different persons house or apartment to play poker. This actually was the beginning of the National Deaf Poker Tour and Championship competition.
October 10 - October 14, 2011
World War II brought a lot of opportunity for deaf people to work at home in support of the war effort. Two major employers of deaf workers during World War II were headquartered Ohio. Which were these companies?
a. Firestone & Goodyear Tire companies
b. General Motors & Ford car companies
c. The US Post Office & Department of Veteran Affairs
d. Proctor & Gamble and Sears & Roebuck
October 03 - October 07, 2011
Gallaudet was involved in the American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) True or False
September 26 - September 30, 2011
SIT –
CHAIR SELL – STORE FLY-AIRPLANE
These sign pairings are an example of what linguistic principle occurring in ASL?
a. Iconicity – Use picture-like gestures
b. Word order – Verbs always come before nouns
c. Morphology – Deriving nouns from verbs
d. Use of Space – The first sign of each pair signed on the left side and the second sign in each pair signed on the right side
September 19 - September 23, 2011
Which organization is primarily responsible for establishing the last full week of September as International Deaf Awareness Week?
a. The International Association for Better Hearing and Speech
b. The International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED)
c. The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)
d. The Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
September 12 - September 16, 2011
Who is the author of “Memoir Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race?”
a. Edwin Miner Gallaudet
b. Alexander Graham Bell
c. George W. Veditz
d. Robert P. McGregor
September 05 - September 09, 2011
Who was Laurent Clerc’s deaf teacher?
a. Thomas H. Gallaudet
b. George W. Veditz
c. Jean Massieu
d. Abbe de l’Epee
August 29 - September 02 2011
Who is credited with introducing American Deaf culture to the practice of “hand waving” for applause?
a. Laurent Clerc
b. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
c. Gerald “Bummy” Burstein
d. Frederick Schreiber
