President
Congress
Parties
Mr. Smith
Knowledge
100
This was the President of the United States immediately before Barack Obama.
Who is George W. Bush?
100
This is the fundamental power of Congress in terms of law.
What is creating law?
100
This is the major U.S. political party whose symbol is a donkey.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
This is the bill that Senator Smith wants to pass through Congress.
What is a bill to start a boy's camp in Smith's home state?
100
This is what must be done to the title of a book in a bibliographical citation.
What is underlining?
200
These are the two wars started by George W. Bush between 2001 and 2003.
What are the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
200
This is the name of a select group of Representatives or Senators who meet to discuss and write a bill.
What is a committee?
200
This is the major party that does not support a woman's right to abortion.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This is the name of Senator Smith's secretary, who falls in love with Smith.
Who is Clarissa Saunders?
200
This is the name of a map that displays some sort of variable besides land mass.
What is a cartogram?
300
This is the power of the President to release convicted criminals from incarceration.
What is granting pardons?
300
This is the name of the American system in which no branch of government can have more power than the other two.
What are checks and balances?
300
This is the "L" word used to describe the political philosophy of the Democratic Party.
What is "liberal"?
300
This is the reason why the Governor was forced to appoint a new Senator from his state.
What is the death of Senator Foley?
300
This is the real distance between two locations if on a map, whose scale is 25 miles to every inch, the locations are 4 inches apart.
What is 100 miles?
400
This is the name of the President who led the country through the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
This is the state from which Barack Obama was a Senator before he became President.
What is Illinois?
400
This is the "C" word used to describe the political philosophy of the Republican Party.
What is "conservative"?
400
This is why Senator Smith brought a cage full of pigeons to Washington.
What is to send messages back to his home state?
400
This is the real distance between two locations if on a map, whose scale is 50 miles to every inch, the locations are half an inch apart.
What is 25 miles?
500
This is the name of the President's airplane.
What is Air Force One?
500
This is the name of the judge that recently came before the Senate to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
500
This is the year in which the Democratic Party was founded.
What is 1792?
500
This is the name of the Senate rule that Smith invoked to speak for as long as he can, without sleeping or sitting down.
What is a filibuster?
500
This is the country that appears largest on a world cartogram whose variable is national population.
What is China?
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