WorksheetsProf. Sims's Logical Fallacy Quiz Game
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
You can’t believe Jack when he says the proposed policy would help the economy. He doesn’t even have a job.
Ad hominem
Band wagon
False dichotomy
Red herring
Fifty million Elvis fans can’t be wrong.
Begging the question
Slippery slope
Bandwagon
Ad hominem
Technology’s advancing too fast. First iPhones, then brain chips, then it’s the Matrix scenario and we’ll be bowing to robot overlords.
Band wagon
Slippery slope
False analogy
Ad hominem
Same-sex marriage is wrong because marriage is a bond between a man and a woman.
Begging the question
Red herring
Slippery slope
Straw man
Either you let me go to the concert, or I’ll be miserable for the rest of my life.
Straw man
Slippery slope
False analogy
False dichotomy
Opium induces sleep because it has a soporific quality.
Ad hominem
Slippery slope
Bandwagon
Begging the question
Rush Limbaugh is an idiot; you can’t believe a word he says.
Ad hominem
Red herring
False analogy
Badwagon
All jackasses have long ears. My ex is a jackass. Therefore, my ex has long ears.
Equivocation
Slippery slope
Stirring symbols
Hasty generalization
The doctor on TV said that the side effects were negligible.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
False authority
Equivocation
Ad hominem
We shouldn’t change the Red Skins team name. I mean, financially it’s an unsound goal, and we really ought to redesign the uniforms.
Oversimplification
Red herring
False authority
Bandwagon
James is a good person because he’s awesome.
Non sequitur
False dichotomy
Begging the question
Strawman
If you’re not for us, you’re against us.
Begging the question
Slippery slope
False analogy
False dichotomy
The last three dates she had were awful. She’s not dating anymore, because it’s a horrible activity.
Hasty generalization
Stirring symbols
Begging the question
Red herring
I got sick after my flu shot. I’m never getting one again, because they make me sick.
Ad hominem
Bandwagon
Slippery slope
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Ben was part of a convict rehabilitation program while he was in prison, but the day after he got out of jail he robbed a liquor store. Obviously those programs don't work.
Hasty generalization
Slippery slope
False authority
Non sequitur
Don't trust that man. He never does the dishes.
Stirring symbols
Non sequitur
Oversimplification
Equivocation
The student's paper argued that we can: "End starvation by feeding the hungry." What fallacy did the student commit?
Oversimplification
Begging the question
Equivocation
False Dichotomy
You want to raise the minimum wage? I don't agree! You want to give handouts rather than making people work for a living. I bet you think I should give homeless people money out of my own pocket, too!
Ad hominem
Red herring
Bandwagon
Straw-person
When I saw the politician standing in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, I was so moved that I voted for that politician.
Stirring symbols
Non sequitur
Red herring
Bandwagon
Every time to rooster crows, the suns comes up. The rooster must be very powerful and important, since it makes the sun rise.
Equivocation
Hasty generalization
False authority
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
