Philosophers & Founders
District Lines
Constitution & The Purse
Throwback Tech (2005-2015)
Government on TV
100
This philosopher said everyone has natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
100
In 2005, this MLB team moved from Montreal and became DC’s baseball team.
What are the Washington Nationals?
100
This article of the Constitution creates Congress.
What is Article I?
100
Apple released this device in 2007, and phones were never the same.
What is the iPhone?
100
On this 2014 ABC drama, Viola Davis plays Annalise Keating, a law professor and defense attorney.
What is How to Get Away with Murder?
200
This philosopher warned that life without government would be “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
On this 2012 ABC drama, Olivia Pope runs a crisis-management firm in DC.
What is Scandal?
200
When a government spends more than it collects in a year, the gap is called this.
What is a deficit?
200
In 2006, this site opened to anyone 13 or older with an email address and soon overtook MySpace.
What is Facebook?
200
In this 2013 action film, Jamie Foxx plays the president and Channing Tatum fights to protect him inside the White House.
What is White House Down?
300
This philosopher argued that government should follow the “general will” of the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
300
President-elect Obama visited this U Street restaurant, famous for its half-smoke, in January 2009.
What is Ben’s Chili Bowl?
300
This amendment reserves to the states the powers not given to the federal government.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
300
This was a tweet’s original character limit.
What is 140?
300
This 2015 Broadway musical turns the Hamilton–Jefferson fight over the national bank into a rap battle.
What is Hamilton?
400
This founding principle means government gets its power from the people’s permission.
What is consent of the governed?
400
This actress was born in DC, graduated from Howard University, and played Cookie Lyon on Empire in 2015.
Who is Taraji P. Henson?
400
Under Home Rule, DC’s local budget still has to go through this body before it takes effect.
What is Congress?
400
Nintendo’s 2006 console had players swinging a motion-sensing remote at bowling pins.
What is the Wii?
400
In this 2012 film, Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar playing a president pushing Congress to pass the 13th Amendment.
What is Lincoln?
500
This thinker argued that splitting power among branches protects liberty, an idea the Framers built into the Constitution.
Who is Montesquieu?
500
Known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” this musician shaped DC’s homegrown sound.
Who is Chuck Brown?
500
In this 1952 case, the Court ruled that President Truman could not seize the nation’s steel mills during the Korean War.
What is Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer?
500
This app, launched in 2013, was famous for six-second looping videos.
What is Vine?
500
On this sketch-comedy show, Luther plays President Obama’s “anger translator.” Obama later brought Luther to the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
What is Key & Peele?