House
Senate Basics 1 Basics 2 Grab Bag
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This is the length of a
House term
What is 2 years?
This is the number of
members in the House of
Representatives
What is 435?
In terms of residency,
the Constitution
requires this of House
members
What is living in the
state represented?
This is the term for when
distribution of House seats
occurs after each census
What is
reapportionment?
This city currently
has no representation
in the House
What is Washington
D.C.?
This is the length of a
Senate term
What is 6 years?
This is the number of
years you must be a
citizen in order to run
for Senate
What is 9 years?
The Senate is called this
because all of its seats are
never up for reelection at
the same time
What is a continuous
body?
This is how Senators
were chosen before
th
the 17 Amendment
What are state
legislatures?
The Senate is the
equivalent of this in
the British parliament
What is the House of
Lords?
This is what we call
each 2 year period of
Congress
What is a term?
This is another word
for a 2 house
legislature, such as
the U.S. Congress
What is bicameral?
An emergency can
prompt the president to
call one of these
What is a special
session?
This is what
typically happens in
off-year elections
What is the
president’s party
loses seats?
Congress keeps its
pay high while
preventing public
outcry over its pay by
using these
What are allowances
or fringe benefits?
This is what we call
the time it takes to
finish the year’s
business
What is a session?
This is changing
district lines to
benefit one party or
group over another
What is
gerrymandering?
When one person is
allowed to represent a
geographic region,
this is the name of the
system
What is single
member district?
This is the act that
permanently set the
number of seats in the
House of
Representatives
What is the
Reapportionment Act
of 1929?
This is the number of
the current term of
Congress
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What is the
Congress?
This is the number
state representing
Arizona’s statehood
What is 48?
This Middle Eastern
country is the world’s
only theocracy
What is Iran?
This actress received an
Academy Award for
best actress in 2010 for
“The Blindside”
Who is Sandra
Bullock?
Term used to describe
the annual NCAA
Division I basketball
tournament ?
What is “March Madness”
This is the current U.S.
Speaker of the House
Who is John Boehner
(R-Ohio)?