Answer the five questions in the text about each of the following appeals to authority, and then decide whether each appeal to authority is legitimate or fallacious.
1. The surgeon general says that smoking is hazardous to your health, so it is.
2. The surgeon general says that abortion is immoral, so it is.
3. Michael Jordan says that Air Jordan sneakers are springier, so they must be springier.
4. This must be a great movie, because the billboard says that Time magazine called it "terrific."
5. My friend Joe says that this new movie is hilarious, so it must be worth watching.
6. Ben and Jerry's ice cream must be the best, because Fat Fred eats more ice cream than anyone else I know, and he says that Ben and Jerry's is the best.
7. There must be life on other planets, because many great scientists are looking for it, so they must think it is there.
8. Lefty Lopez must be the best pitcher of the year, because he won the Cy Young Award (awarded by the Baseball Writers Association to the best pitcher of the year).
9. Vanna must be the most beautiful woman in America, because she won the Miss America contest.
10. There were 250,000 protesters at the rally, because its organizers gave that figure.
11. There were 25,000 protesters at the rally, because its opponents said so.
12. True Christians ought to give away all their money, because the Bible says, "Blessed are the poor."