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The formula used to determine the
number of senators in the US Senate
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What is 2 per state?
see Article I, Section 3, Clause 1
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The number of representatives in the
House of Representatives
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What is 435?
Click here for map showing apportionment by
state
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The number of votes needed to win
the presidency
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What is 270?
See Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 and
Amendment XII; click here for electoral college
map
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Originally set at $6 per day, it
increased to $157,000 per year in
2004
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What are congressional salaries?
Click here for a timeline of congressional pay from
the founding to the near future
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In the original Constitution, the
census counts all free persons,
excluding Indians not taxed, and adds
this fraction “of all other Persons”
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What is 3/5ths?
See Article I, Section 2, Clause 3
The Powers that Be
According to the Constitution, it
alone has the power to declare war
The Powers that Be
What is Congress?
See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
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”
The Powers that Be
What is Congress?
See Article I, Section 8, Clause 14
The Powers that Be
According to the Constitution it alone
has the power to constitute tribunals
inferior to the Supreme Court
The Powers that Be
What is Congress?
See Article I, Section 8, Clause 9
The Powers that Be
According to the Constitution it alone
has the power to “make Rules
concerning Captures on land and
water”
The Powers that Be
What is Congress?
See Article I, Section 8, Clause 11
The Powers that Be
According to the Constitution it alone
has the power “to provide for
organizing, arming, and disciplining
the Militia...”
The Powers that Be
What is Congress?
See Article I, Section 8, Clause 16
House
They elect members of the House of
Representatives
House
Who are the people?
See Article I, Section 2, Clause 1
House
25 years old, 7 years a citizen of the
United States, and resident of the
state
House
What are the qualifications for
members of the House?
See Article I, Section 2, Clause 2
House
The presiding officer of the House of
Representatives
House
Who is the Speaker of the House?
See Article I, Section 2, Clause 5
House
According to the Constitution, all
bills of this type must originate in the
House of Representatives
House
What are revenue (i.e, tax) bills?
See Article I, Section 7, clause 1
House
The size of the New Jersey delegation
in the House of Representatives
House
What is 13?
Click here for printable maps of the districts
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
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What are the qualifications to be a
senator?
See Article I, Section 3, clause 3
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The term used to describe the
Senate’s role in approving
presidential nominations to the
cabinet and the courts
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What is “advise and consent”?
See Article II, Section 2, clause 2
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Until the adoption of the 17th
Amendment in 1913, they elected
senators
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What are state legislatures?
See Article I, Section 3, clause 1
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The President of the Senate
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Who is the Vice President?
See Article I, Section 3, clause 4
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The Senate is responsible for this step
in the impeachment process
Century Club
What is conducting the trial of
impeachment?
See Article I, Section 3, clause 6
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35 years old, a natural born citizen,
and 14 year resident within the U.S.
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What are the qualification to be
elected president?
See Article II, Section 1, clause 5
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Originally set at $25,000, it is now
$400,000 plus a $50,000 tax free
expense account, all paid from the
national treasury.
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What is the salary of the president?
Click here for a timeline of presidential salary
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They elect the president and the vice
president
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Who are the electors in the Electoral
College?
See Article II, Section I, clause 2
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Treason, bribery, or “other high
Crimes and Misdemeanors”
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What are the offenses warranting
impeachment?
See Article II, Section 4
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The State Department, the Treasury
Department, the War Department, and
the Department of Justice
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What were the four original cabinet
departments?
click here for an artist’s rendering of the
Washington’s cabinet.
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Garden State
Who is governor Jon Corzine?
Garden State
New Jersey is subdivided into this
number of counties
Garden State
What is 21?
Garden State
In December 2007, New Jersey
became the first state since 1976 to
ban this practice.
Garden State
What is the death penalty?
Garden State
The names of the two chambers in the
New Jersey legislature
Garden State
What is the General Assembly and
the Senate?
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At $11 billion, New Jersey began
2009 with the fourth largest of these
in the nation, ranking just behind
California, New York, and Illinois
Garden State
What is a budget deficit?
World Leaders
World Leaders
Who is British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown?
World Leaders
World Leaders
Who is North Korean dictator Kim
Jong-Il?
World Leaders
World Leaders
Who is French Prime Minister
Nicolas Sarkozy?
World Leaders
World Leaders
Who is Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad?
World Leaders
World Leaders
Who is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki?
News
Recent presidential elections in this
country triggered massive protests
and street demonstrations
News
What is Iran?
News
On 28 June, the military in this Latin
American nation seized and exiled
their president
News
What is Honduras?
News
According to an agreement signed by
President Bush, this is scheduled to
occur on 30 June 2009
News
What is the withdrawal of American
troops from Iraqi cities and the
transfer of security to Iraqi forces
News
On 26 June 2009, the House, by a vote of 219212, passed the American Clean Energy and
Security Act, a piece of legislation meant to
address this security problem.
News
What is global warming?
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What is the total number of American
military fatalities in Iraq as of 30 June
2009?
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North America Quiz
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South America Quiz
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Europe Quiz
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Africa Quiz
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Asia Quiz
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This amendment guarantees freedom
of speech, of the press, of religion,
and of the people to peaceably
assemble
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What is the First Amendment?
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This amendment ended slavery
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
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This amendment prohibits cruel and
unusual punishment
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What is the Eighth?
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This amendment guarantees that “no
state shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities” of US citizens
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What is the Fourteenth?
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This amendment allows states to
decide whether the distribution, sale,
and possession of alcoholic beverages
is legal
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What is the Twenty-First?
Final Jeopardy
Dates to Remember
September 17, 1787
Final Jeopardy
What is the date the Constitutional
Convention adopted the Constitution?