JEOPARDY ! Campaigns & Elections Significant Legislators Will of the People The PresidencyLandmark Bills $200 $400 $600 $800 $1000 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1000 F INAL J EOPARDY
Who were Bush & Dukakis?
Before Tom Daschle’s loss in 2004, he was the last Senate party leader to have been defeated in his re-election bid.
Who was Ernest McFarland?
Who were Clinton, Bush, and Perot?
In this year, the National Conservative Political Action Committee first had a significant impact in congressional campaigns.
What was 1978?
From 1982 through 2008, these were the two elections in which the Democrats gained the most Senate seats (8).
What were 1986 and 2008?
He was Senate majority leader when Congress passed the first civil rights bill of the 20 th century.
Who was LBJ?
He was the senator best known for the “hands ad.”
Who was Jesse Helms?
DAILY DOUBLE
Her assignment to the Armed Services Committee enraged then-chairman Eddie Hebert.
Who was Pat Schroeder?
His defection from the GOP gave Democrats a Senate majority in 2001.
Who was Jim Jeffords?
His upset victory in a traditionally Republican Long Island district symbolized the emergence of a new generation of “Watergate Democrats.”
Who was Tom Downey?
This California amendment banned same-sex marriage.
What was Proposition 8?
This California amendment prohibited the use of racial preferences in education or public employment.
What was Proposition 209?
This California amendment sought to overturn the Rumford Act.
What was Proposition 14?
This California initiative sought to eliminate any public assistance for illegal immigrants & their families.
What was Proposition 187?
This Massachusetts referendum limited the rate of property tax increases.
What was Proposition 2 1/2?
His administration produced a catchy acronym—”WIN”—in the struggle against inflation.
Who was Gerald Ford?
The “Checkers speech” was associated with which year’s presidential campaign?
What was 1952?
He was the first President to extensively tape in the Oval Office.
Who was JFK?
Of Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, Medicaid, and the Voting Rights Act, the measure passed first during the Johnson presidency.
What was the Civil Rights Act?
They’re best-known as Bill & Hillary Clinton’s partners in the Whitewater investment.
Who were the McDougals?
The Interstate Highway Act was a product of this administration.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
The budget summit between Bush and the Democrats, and the resulting budget-reduction legislation, occurred in this year.
What was 1990?
DAILY DOUBLE
Lyndon Johnson struggled to get his education bills passed the committee chaired by this oft-absent congressman.
Who was Adam Clayton Powell?
The Environmental Protection Agency was created during his administration.
Who was Richard Nixon?
Harry Truman’s health care proposal aroused the ire of this interest group.
What was the American Medical Association?
FINAL JEOPARDY Third Parties
The third party presidential candidates between 1950 and today who received more than 4.1 percent of the popular vote.
FINAL JEOPARDY Who were George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot?