Election Basics
Money & Interest Groups
The Electoral Process
Voter Turnout / Behavior
Misc Trivia
100
The three universal requirements to cast a ballot in a general election.
What is 18 years old, a U.S. Citizen, and a resident of the state where you vote?
100
When an individual donates directly to a candidate, that is ______ money.
What is Hard Money
100
This is the preliminary election to decide which two candidates will represent the major parties in the General Election.
What is the Primary Election (and caucus, in some states).
100
People with higher incomes tend to associate with the ______ party.
What is Republican?
100
According to Buddy the Elf, this is the best way to spread Christmas cheer.
What by singing loud for all to hear?
200
The physical location where you go to cast your vote (when voting in-person on election day).
What is a polling place.
200
What "role of media" might this classy as?
The Campaign as Drama
200
What is the minimum number of Electoral Votes that a Presidential candidate needs to win?
What is 270 Electoral Votes
200
Young voters have the lowest voter turnout, but when they do vote, they are more likely to vote ______.
What is Democrat.
200
What is Scooby Doo’s full name?
What is Scoobert Doo?
300
Casting your ballot prior to election day by mail.
What is absentee voting
300
This organization sets finance laws and regulations
What is the Federal Election Commission (FEC)
300
Who can vote in a Closed Primary?
Who are only those voters registered to that party?
300
Income, occupation, education, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, family, and geography are all ___________ factors of voter behavior.
What are Sociological factors?
300
This is the most expensive home in the world.
What is Buckingham Palace?
400
Smallest unit of election administration.
What is a precinct.
400
With a Super PAC, the money cannot be given to...
Who are the candidates or their campaigns.
400
Meets in the late summer of every presidential election year to formally select the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidate (based on the primary results).
What is the National Convention?
400
The single most significant and lasting predictor of how a person will vote.
What is party identification?
400
The most viewed video all-time on YouTube.
What is Baby Shark. (9.8 Billion Views)
500
This is the type of Ballot used in the US, ironically not called the US Ballot.
What is the Australian Ballot?
500
List at least two of the current trends in mass media and news.
What are 24/7 news cycle and entertainment news, Consolidation of media and news, shift to Social Media and new media outlets, Streaming (instant news, Misinformation.
500
A critically important step in the election process, where parties and people select who will run for office.
What is a nomination?
500
Party identification is one of the three psychological factors of voting. What are the other two additional psychological factors of voting that can impact voter behavior, closer to election time?
What are the candidates and the issues?
500
What is the painting “La Gioconda” more usually known as?
What is "The Mona Lisa"?
600
This is the name for the psychological impact from frustration or confusion over lengthy ballots. Often results in fewer votes being cast towards the end of the ballot. 
What is Ballot Fatigue?
600
This is the role media plays by the reporting on scandals, government actions, and abuse by individuals and government.
What is the Watchdog / Investigative role.
600
At what point in the electoral process was this famous speech made?
What is during the Inauguration?
600
This is one's individual sense of how important their vote is or how effective their vote will be in influencing the political process.
What is political efficacy?
600
This popular Swiss ski town sits at the base of one of the most famous Alps mountain peaks, the "Matterhorn".
Where is Zermatt, Switzerland?