National History Day Rulebook Quiz

If you are doing an exhibit, when should you buy your trifold board(s)?

• 9pm the night before History Day

• 2 days before the contest

• Now, so you have time to plan out all the elements of your exhibit and make sure everything will fit

• What's a tri-fold board?

Biographies

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Eyewitness accounts

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Written materials, such as letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles, and other documents from the time

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

The overall size of your exhibit when displayed for judging must be no larger than 40 inches wide, 30 inches deep, and 72 inches high.

• True

• False

• 

Are you allowed to have items to give away at your exhibit?

• No

• Yes

• Only if it is rubber duckies.

The purpose of annotating the bibliography is to...

• connect the source to your interest in rubber duckies.

• write a 250-500 word essay about each source.

• explain how you used the source and how the source helped you to understand the topic

• torture you the night before the contest

What is the maximum word count for your process paper?

• 500

• 25

• 1,000

• 10,000

Your project must include:

• A title page

• A process paper

• An annotated bibliography

• All of these

Which of the following are not allowed to be part of your exhibit?

• Weapons of any kind, including real, toys, or replicas in any form

• Live animals with the exception of service animals

• Live cultures or organisms

• None of these are permitted