Election Trivia
In the 2026 midterm elections, North Carolina voters will elect candidates to fill these two types of federal congressional seats.
What are one U.S. Senate seat and one U.S. House of Representatives seat?
This branch of government has the constitutional power to declare war.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the former capital and current capital of North Carolina.
What is New Bern and Raleigh?
In 1992, Donald Trump appeared in this children's movie.
What is Home Alone 2?
This is the name of the oldest building on campus (and the oldest public university building in the US)
What is Old East?
This is the number of constitutional amendments.
What is 27?
These are the total number of seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate.
What is 435 and 100?
This state was the first to grant women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
Before becoming president, this famously tall president was a skilled wrestler and is honored in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This rapper appeared in a selfie with Hillary Clinton.
This is the amount of Senators from each party currently in the Senate.
What is 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats (2 independents included)?
This chamber of Congress has the sole power to impeach federal officials, including the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
This many states must ratify a constitutional amendment for it to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
What is 38 states?
This president played Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" on his saxophone on late-night TV.
Who is Bill Clinton?
What is 7?
This is the congressional district that Chapel Hill is in.
What is the 4th congressional district?
This chamber of Congress is presided over by the vice president, who has the power to break tie votes.
What is the Senate?
This is the only US state that borders exactly one other state.
What is Maine?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This is the name for a group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
One proposed amendment on North Carolina's November 2026 ballot would lower the maximum allowable state income tax rate from 7% to this percentage.
What is 3.5%?
This chamber of Congress votes to approve or reject the President’s nominees to the Supreme Court.
What is the Senate?
This state was the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution.
This president's parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it kept swearing in front of the mourners.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These are Albus Dumbledore's three middle names.