North Carolina Civic Education Consortium
Directions
Divide the class into three to six groups of equal size.
The team with the youngest person selects the first question.
After the first question is selected, teams will have one minute to
attempt to answer the question. When a team knows the answer to
the question, a representative from the team raises his/her hand.
The team will then have 15 seconds to attempt to answer the
question.
All questions will be answered in the form of a question.
If the team answers correctly, it earns the points indicated by the
question and gains control of the board, allowing its members to
select the next question. If the team answers incorrectly or if time
runs out, the question goes back to the other teams to answer, who
have thirty seconds to answer the question. If no team answers the
question correctly, no points are awarded, and the team in control of
the board retains control.
Directions Continued
First round play continues in this manner until all
questions are exhausted or until time runs out. If time
runs out during a question, the team can finish
answering the question before second round play
begins.
Play in the second round is the same as the first. The
team with the lowest point total at the end of round one
starts with control of the board. Point values are doubled
in the second round. Play continues in the second round
until all questions are exhausted or until time runs out. If
time runs out during a question, the team can finish
answering the question before second round play
begins.
ROUND 1
Local
Government
and You
North Carolina
Municipalities
North Carolina
Counties
Public Services
20
20
20
20
40
40
40
40
60
60
60
60
80
80
80
80
100
100
100
100
ROUND 2
Improving the
Community
Popular
Government
Paying for
Local
Government
Making
Government
Work
40
40
40
40
80
80
80
80
120
120
120
120
160
160
160
160
200
200
200
200
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Local Government and You
For 20:
Name the three levels of government.
What are National, State and Local?
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Local Government and You
For 40:
People who live within a city or within
the limits of a town are citizens of the
_______________.
What are Municipalities?
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Local Government and You
For 60:
State and local governments cannot
pass laws that contradict the
____________.
What is the United States Constitution?
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Local Government and You
For 80:
Name the clause in the U.S.
Constitution that spells out that state
and local governments cannot pass
laws that contradict the national
constitution.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
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Local Government and You
For 100:
Name three cities in North Carolina that
have partisan municipal elections.
What are Winston Salem, Kinston
Lincolnton, Charlotte, Albemarle, or
Murphy?
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North Carolina Municipalities
For 20:
These codes regulate construction and
reduce hazards to health and safety
to workers and occupants.
What are building codes?
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North Carolina Municipalities
For 40:
Name the act that creates a new city or
town.
What is incorporation?
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North Carolina Municipalities
For 60:
Identify the official who is the administrative
leader of city employees.
What is the city manager?
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North Carolina Municipalities
For 80:
Identify the official who presides over
the governing board and is the
spokesperson for a town.
What is the mayor?
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North Carolina Municipalities
For 100:
Name the act of local government that
extends the boundaries of a municipality.
What is annexation?
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North Carolina Counties
For 20:
Name a service North Carolina requires its
counties to provide.
What are alcoholic beverage control,
education, elections, mental health, public
health, or social services?
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North Carolina Counties
For 40:
Name the areas in a county that are
outside the limits of any town.
What are unincorporated areas?
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North Carolina Counties
For 60:
Identify the location where official
records of births, deaths and property
are kept.
What is the county courthouse?
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North Carolina Counties
For 80:
This board oversees the county budget
and allocates county funds.
What is the Board of County
Commissioners?
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North Carolina Counties
For 100:
This program pays for the medical
expenses of citizens whose incomes
are below the poverty line.
What is Medicaid?
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Public Services
For 20:
This is the place where most solid
waste is taken.
What is a landfill?
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Public Services
For 40:
This is a charge levied by local governments
to provide a specific service.
What is a user fee?
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Public Services
For 60:
Identify the two names for water collection
underground and in rivers and lakes.
What are ground water and surface water?
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Public Services
For 80:
Name the public body that investigates
traffic accidents on rural roads and
highways.
What is the State Highway Patrol?
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Public Services
For 100:
This is the process by which a government
transfers ownership of a public service to a
private sector entity.
What is privatization?
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Improving the Community
For 40:
These programs identify and protect
buildings and areas that have special
significance to the community.
What are historic preservation
programs?
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Improving the Community
For 80:
This encompasses basic services like
roads & bridges, water & sewer lines.
What is infrastructure?
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Improving the Community
For 120:
The function of local chambers of
commerce.
What is to promote local business?
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Improving the Community
For 160:
These laws require owners of pets to
control said pets?
What are leash laws?
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Improving the Community
For 200:
This is a prominent club that is active in
preserving wildlife and clean water.
What is the Sierra Club?
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Popular Government
For 40:
This act allows citizens control over the
government.
What is voting?
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Popular Government
For 80:
The process by which the state
legislature modifies electoral
constituencies.
What is redistricting?
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Popular Government
For 120:
Voters may submit a petition to
propose an ordinance in a procedure
called _________?
What is initiative?
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Popular Government
For 160:
When voters are allowed to approve or
reject an ordinance, it is known as a
__________?
What is a referendum?
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Popular Government
For 200:
An individual or organization whose
profession it is to influence a
governing body into endorsing a
particular point of view.
What is a lobbyist?
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Paying for Local Government
For 40:
The primary revenue source for a city
or a county.
What are property taxes?
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Paying for Local Government
For 80:
Typically, the largest expenditure
category in the county budget.
What is education?
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Paying for Local Government
For 120:
The primary financial instrument by
which state and local governments
borrow money.
What are bonds?
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Paying for Local Government
For 160:
The two bodies that determine the
property tax rates.
What are the Board of County
Commissioners and the Town
Council?
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Paying for Local Government
For 200:
A charge assessed against newly
constructed property to pay for the
expansion of local services.
What are impact fees?
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Making Government Work
For 40:
Hiring on the basis of family
connections.
What is nepotism?
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Making Government Work
For 80:
Hiring on the basis of qualifications.
What is merit?
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Making Government Work
For 120:
A type of meeting that allows the public
to comment on government activities.
What are public hearings?
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Making Government Work
For 160:
The years that elections for members
of the city council and mayor are held.
What are odd-numbered years?
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Making Government Work
For 200:
The amendments to the U.S.
Constitution that enfranchised black
males, women, and eighteen year
olds.
What are amendments XV, XIX &
XXVI?
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And the Winner Is…