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1 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 By the Numbers The Powers That Be House Century Club Meet the Pres

2 By The Numbers The formula used to determine the number of senators in the US Senate

3 By The Numbers What is 2 per state? see Article I, Section 3, Clause 1

4 By The Numbers The number of representatives in the House of Representatives

5 By The Numbers What is 435? Click here for map showing apportionment by statehere

6 By The Numbers The number of votes needed to win the presidency Daily Double

7 By The Numbers What is 270? See Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 and Amendment XII; click here for electoral college maphere

8 By The Numbers Originally set at $6 per day, it increased to $157,000 per year in 2004

9 By The Numbers What are congressional salaries? Click here for a timeline of congressional pay from the founding to the near futurehere

10 By The Numbers In the original Constitution, the census counts all free persons, excluding Indians not taxed, and adds this fraction “of all other Persons”

11 By The Numbers What is 3/5ths? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 3

12 The Powers that Be According to the Constitution, it alone has the power to declare war

13 The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11

14 The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to “make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces”

15 The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 14

16 The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court

17 The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 9

18 The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power to “make Rules concerning Captures on land and water”

19 The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11

20 The Powers that Be According to the Constitution it alone has the power “to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia...”

21 The Powers that Be What is Congress? See Article I, Section 8, Clause 16

22 House They elect members of the House of Representatives

23 House Who are the people? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 1

24 House 25 years old, 7 years a citizen of the United States, and resident of the state

25 House What are the qualifications for members of the House? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 2

26 House The presiding officer of the House of Representatives

27 House Who is the Speaker of the House? See Article I, Section 2, Clause 5

28 House According to the Constitution, all bills of this type must originate in the House of Representatives

29 House What are revenue (i.e, tax) bills? See Article I, Section 7, clause 1

30 House The size of the New Jersey delegation in the House of Representatives

31 House What is 13? Click here for printable maps of the districtshere

32 Century Club 30 years old, 9 Years a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant of the state for which he/she has been chosen

33 Century Club What are the qualifications to be a senator? See Article I, Section 3, clause 3

34 Century Club The term used to describe the Senate’s role in approving presidential nominations to the cabinet and the courts

35 Century Club What is “advice and consent”? See Article II, Section 2, clause 2

36 Century Club Until the adoption of the 17th Amendment in 1913, they elected senators

37 Century Club What are state legislatures? See Article I, Section 3, clause 1

38 Century Club The President of the Senate

39 Century Club Who is the Vice President? See Article I, Section 3, clause 4

40 Century Club The Senate is responsible for this step in the impeachment process

41 Century Club What is conducting the trial of impeachment? See Article I, Section 3, clause 6

42 Meet the Pres 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and 14 year resident within the U.S.

43 Meet the Pres What are the qualification to be elected president? See Article II, Section 1, clause 5

44 Meet the Pres Originally set at $25,000, it is now $400,000 plus a $50,000 tax free expense account, all paid from the national treasury.

45 Meet the Pres What is the salary of the president? Click here for a timeline of presidential salaryhere

46 Meet the Pres They elect the president and the vice president

47 Meet the Pres Who are the electors in the Electoral College? See Article II, Section I, clause 2

48 Meet the Pres Treason, bribery, or “other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”

49 Meet the Pres What are the offenses warranting impeachment? See Article II, Section 4

50 Meet the Pres The State Department, the Treasury Department, the War Department, and the Department of Justice

51 Meet the Pres What were the four original cabinet departments? click here for an artist’s rendering of the Washington’s cabinet.here

52 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 Garden State DonkeysNewsElephants Spare Change

53 Garden State

54 Who is governor Jon Corzine?

55 Garden State New Jersey is subdivided into this number of counties

56 Garden State What is 21?

57 Garden State In December 2007, New Jersey became the first state since 1976 to ban this practice.

58 Garden State What is the death penalty?

59 Garden State The names of the two chambers in the New Jersey legislature Daily Double

60 Garden State What is the General Assembly and the Senate?

61 Garden State At $3 billion, New Jersey began 2008 with the third largest of these in the nation, ranking just behind California and New York

62 Garden State What is a budget deficit?

63 Donkeys

64 Who is Hillary Clinton?

65 Donkeys

66 Who is Barack Obama?

67 Donkeys

68 Who is John Edwards?

69 Donkeys

70 Who is Dennis Kucinich?

71 Donkeys

72 Who is Bill Richardson?

73 News President Bush just returned from visiting this part of the world, only the second time he has been there since taking office

74 News What is Israel and the Middle East?

75 News New Jersey and 19 other states held their presidential primaries on this date

76 News What is February 5th?

77 News According to the Department of Homeland Security, construction for this project is set to begin by the end of this year Daily Double

78 News What is the Proposed Tactical Infrastructure (or wall) separating the United States and Mexico?

79 News These two countries recently suffered catastrophic natural disasters, with death tolls in the tens of thousands

80 News What are China and Myanmar

81 News 4,079

82 News What is the total number of American fatalities in the war in Iraq as of 17 May 2008?

83 Elephants

84 Who is Rudy Guliani?

85 Elephants

86 Who is Fred Thompson?

87 Elephants

88 Who is John McCain?

89 Elephants

90 Who is Mitt Romney?

91 Elephants

92 Who is Mike Huckabee?

93 Spare Change This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, and of the people to peaceably assemble

94 Spare Change What is the First Amendment?

95 Spare Change This amendment ended slavery

96 Spare Change What is the Thirteenth Amendment?

97 Spare Change This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment

98 Spare Change What is the Eighth?

99 Spare Change This amendment guarantees that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities” of US citizens

100 Spare Change What is the Fourteenth?

101 Spare Change This amendment allows states to decide whether the distribution, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages is legal

102 Spare Change What is the Twenty-First?

103 Dates to Remember September 17, 1787 Final Jeopardy

104 What is the date the Constitutional Convention adopted the Constitution? Final Jeopardy


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