Illinois Handbook of Government: Scavenger Hunt
Find the following items in the book. First to finish gets a prize!
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1. In Illinois, how many elected officials make up the executive branch? ______________
Name the offices and the current people in those offices:
2. How many officials make up the General Assembly? TOTAL: __________________
How many senators ________________
and how many in the House of Representatives _____________________
3. How many Democrats and Republicans are in the Senate and House of the 97th Illinois
General Assembly?
4. Who is the current Senate President? ______________________________________
and the current Speaker of the House? _________________________________________
5. How many State Supreme Court Justices are there? ________________________
How long are their terms? __________________
6. How many state capitols (not state capitol buildings) have there been? ___________________
7. What is the state slogan?
8. What is the “All Funds Total” in dollars for the 2011 Fiscal Year? ____________________
9. What percentage of the “All Funds Total” goes to education? __________________
10. What’s the total population (2010) of the state? ___________________________
11. Approximately how many more births occur than deaths each year? _______________________
12. What is the per capita income (2009)? ___________________________
13. How many public high schools ____________________
and junior high schools ______________________
14. How many highway miles (2009) are there in Illinois? ____________________________
15. What is the state dance? ___________________________
16. What state officer controls driving licenses, administers the organ donor program, and
maintains state archives and records?
17. Who is the Chief Justice for the State of Illinois? How long is his term?
18. What year was the most recent Illinois Constitution ratified by the people?________________
19. In what part (or article) of the Illinois Constitution is the Bill of Rights?
20. How many amendments have been approved and adopted since it’s adoption? __________
21. How many articles are in the Illinois Constitution? ___________________
Name each article: