While preparing for and playing Current Events, players learn about the major political and cultural events of the most recent calendar year. They learn to be aware of what is happening to them, their country, and their world. The knowledge gained from playing Current Events leads to more informed and responsible future citizens.
LINKS
- Time’s Year-in-Review – CLICK HERE
- Infoplease – CLICK HERE
- Britannica – CLICK HERE
- Fact Site – CLICK HERE
Visualized infographics – CLICK HERE - Environmental timeline – CLICK HERE ***Scroll down to 2023
- AGLOA official info – CLICK HERE – Look at the answer sheet.
Current Events Categories
| Business / Technological Advances | Questions will ask about significant worldwide activities of Fortune 500 or other famous companies, including mergers, acquisitions, and dissolutions of major companies, or about new technological inventions; new computer software or programs; and new devices |
| Disasters | Questions will give clues to identify what natural or man-made disaster occurred or where it occurred. This category should be concerned with events that cause significant damage, whether to lives or property. Details in the questions should help players differentiate between similar disasters. |
| Entertainment | Questions will ask about movies, Broadway plays and tv shows; actors /actresses; video games / digital games; and music / musicians / music services that won awards or broke records or were in the popular culture for additional reasons. Includes e-sports. Questions about social media will only be in Jr/Sr |
| Worldwide Government | Questions will ask about significant events involving politicians, political parties, military leaders, terrorists, government officials and judges from outside the United States; includes significant court decisions. |
| American Government | Questions will ask about significant events involving American politicians, political parties, military leaders, government officials and judges; includes significant decisions of American courts |
| Obituaries | El/Mid questions will ask the names of national and world leaders or prominent individuals who died by describing important events from their lives or the manner of their deaths. Jr/Sr questions may also ask which events or facts concern a specific prominent individual who died. |
| Mystery | Questions will ask about other miscellaneous newsworthy topics. Questions in this category will only appear in the Lightning Round, not the Wager Round. |
| Science, Space & Medicine | Questions will ask about worldwide scientific discoveries; important events in astronomy/space exploration; important medical breakthroughs; outbreaks of major diseases; and discovery of cures to major diseases. |
| Sports | Questions will ask about significant events involving teams or athletes who play major college and professional American men’s / women’s sports of football, baseball / softball, hockey, and basketball; Grand Slam tournaments in golf and tennis; American auto racing (NASCAR or Indy); Triple Crown events in American horse racing; World Cup Soccer; and Olympics (during Olympic years). |