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2. Final Jeopardy
Round 1
Round 2

3. Who’s yer fav teacher? 1
Wuzup? 6
You da bomb 2
Pass da APGO 3
Who Loves Ya? 4
Yo Mama 5
Round 2
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Final Jeopardy
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4. $100
What is the name of the powerful House committee that determines how much time for debate and how many amendments will be allowed on the floor of the House?

5. What is the “Rules” Committee?
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What is the “Rules” Committee?
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6. $200 The title given to the assistant to the majority leader
whose job is to keep party members in line
when there is a vote…
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7. What is the “Whip”?
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8. $300 The name of the nonpartisan agency that provides
Congress with cost estimates for every bill and
economic reports related to budget proposals
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9. What is the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO)?
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10. $400 What is the term for representatives trading their
votes to gain support from colleagues for bills
they support?
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11. What is “Logrolling?”
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12. $500 The term for a joint committee of members of the House and
Senate that is formed to reconcile bills
passed by both houses
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13. What is a “Conference Committee?”
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What is a “Conference Committee?”
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14. $100 The name of the committees in the House and
Senate that approve all spending bills
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15. What is Appropriations?
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16. $200 Leader of the House of Representatives who is
second in line to be president if the president dies in office
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17. What is the Speaker of the House
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What is the Speaker of the House
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18. $300 The name of the Senate committee that holds
confirmation hearings for all federal judicial
nominees.
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19. What is the Judiciary Committee?
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21. $400 Identify the house of Congress that permits a
minority of members to block legislation by
Filibuster. :
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22. $400
What is the Senate?
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23. $500 The name for organized groups of congressmen or women such as
the Blue Dogs or Tea Party who share interests based on
common characteristics such as political philosophy, race, or ethnicity
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24. What is a caucus?
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25. $600 The title of the speech the president presents to Congress
each year in accordance with Article II, Section 3 of
the constitution
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26. What is the State of the Union Address
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27. $700 What is the title of the president’s closest
advisor who coordinates the president’s
daily schedule?
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28. What is the Chief of Staff?
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29. $100
Identify three formal or constitutional powers of the president.

30. $100 Commander in Chief (Commit Troops)
Executive Power (i.e. Executive Orders)
Legislative Powers (Chief Legislator)
Appointment Powers (Supreme Court Nominations)
Clemency Powers (Pardon)
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31. $200 Informal power of the president, limited by the Supreme
Court in the case of U.S. v. Nixon
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32. What is Executive Privilege?
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34. Identify one formal constitutional power of the vice-president
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Identify one formal constitutional power of the vice-president

35. Becoming President if Chief is killed?
Tie Breaker in Senate?
Becoming President if Chief is killed?
Becoming acting Pres. If Chief is incapacitated?
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36. $400
What is the title of the White House advisor who is the president’s spokesperson and who meets daily with the media?

37. What is the Press Secretary?
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38. $500 What is the name of the agency in the
Executive Office of the President that
oversees preparation of the president’s
budget?
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39. Management and Budget (OMB)?
What is the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)?
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40. $100
Name of the agency in the Executive Office of the President that advises the president on economic policy

41. What is the Council of Economic Advisors?
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42. What is the name the executive department responsible the
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What is the name the executive
department responsible the
nation’s foreign policy?

43. What is the State Department?
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What is the State Department?
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44. $300 Name the 1883 law that established the merit system
for hiring and promoting federal employees
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45. What is the Pendleton Act?
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46. $400
General name for the part of the federal bureaucracy that includes AMTRAK, the US Postal Service, and FDIC

47. What are Government Corporations?
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49. $500
Identify one way that Congress can limit bureaucratic power

50. They can: 1. Cut an agency’s budget. 2. Hold hearings on an agency’s
conduct.
3. They can change a law that
affects an agency’s authority.
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51. Title of the head of the Department of Justice
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Title of the head of the Department of Justice

52. Who is the Attorney General (AG)?
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53. $200 Name the agency created by the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 to investigate complaints
of job discrimination
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54. What is the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
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56. The 1939 law that placed restrictions
on the political activities of federal
employees
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57. $300
What is the Hatch Act?
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58. Name given to the 94 lowest level courts in the federal court system
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Name given to the 94 lowest level courts in the federal court system

59. What are the District Courts?
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What are the District Courts?
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60. Name of the longest serving Chief Justice whose decisions transformed
the Court into an equal branch
of government
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61. Who is John Marshall?
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62. Number of Supreme Court justices who must
agree to hear a case
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63. The “Rule of 4.”
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64. $200 Term for a “friend of the court” brief filed
by an interest group that provides the
justices with information that may be relevant
to the case
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65. What is Amicus Curiae?
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67. Term for a written appeal for a case
to be heard by the Supreme Court
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68. What is writ of certiorari?
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69. Term for the authority of a court
to hear a case first
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70. What is Original Jurisdiction?
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71. $500 Term for the authority of a court to
review a case heard by a lower court
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72. What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
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73. Approximate number of cases heard by the Supreme Court each year
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74. What is 100?
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75. $200 Term for an opinion written by one or more
justices who are in the majority but
want to express a separate
opinion from the majority opinion
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76. What is a concurring opinion?
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77. Daily
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78. $300 Name of the Chief Justice who presided over
the Court during the 1960s, during which
the Court expanded the rights of persons
accused of crimes
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79. Who is Earl Warren?
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80. Name of the current Chief Justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court
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81. Who is John Roberts?
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82. $500 Term for a judicial philosophy
that interprets the Constitution broadly
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83. What is judicial activism?
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84. Final Jeopardy Question
Becoming a Senator
Final Jeopardy Question
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85. Identify three constitutional qualifications for members of the Senate
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86. Resident of state he/she is
At least 30 years of age
Citizen of US for 9 years
Resident of state he/she is
going to run for
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