Government
Executive, Congress, The Supreme Court.
What are the three branches of U.S. Government?
A story produced with verifiable facts that is as free of the author's opinion as possible.
What is a news story?
The U.S. Speaker of the House takes over as President under what circumstances?
What is if the president and vice president are killed or incapacitated?
The current speaker of the House and the state from which that person was elected.
Who is Mike Johnson from Louisiana?
The name of the organization formed after WWII that is a military and political alliance of 32 member countries from Europe and North America.
What is The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO?
What are six years and two years?
The number of U.S. Senators elected from each of the 50 states.
What is two?
A U.S. not-for-profit news agency, also called a "wire service," that operates as a cooperative. It produces news reports distributed to its news outlet members.
What is the Associated Press?
A method through which representatives chosen in each state indirectly elect the president of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
(more info: Each state's delegation is equivalent to their Congressional representation. It is established in the U.S. Constitution and modified by the 12th and 23rd Amendments.)
Kamala Harris' home state and the positions she held before being elected as U.S. Vice President.
What are California and U.S. Senator, California Attorney General and San Francisco District Attorney
The two biggest countries on earth by more than 1 billion people each.
What are India and China? (More than 1.4 billion each as of 2023, according to the United Nations.)
The burning of man-made fossil fuels including oil, gas and coal are the primary man-made causes of this.
What is climate change?
According to the majority of global scientists and the definition from the United Nations, burning these fuels emit greenhouse gasses, which blanket the Earth and trap the sun’s heat. that raises the temperature on earth, among other consequences.
The five freedoms in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
What are religion, speech, press, peaceable assembly, and the ability to petition the government for redress of grievances ?
Name at least three Boston-area journalistic outlets.
What are:
The Boston Globe
The Boston Herald
WBUR
GBH
The Bay State Banner
Statehouse News Service
Commonwealth Magazine
WBZ-TV
WHDH-TV
WCVB-TV
Bay Windows
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Directive in which the U.S. President steers Federal agency leaders to clarify and further existing laws.
What is an Executive order?
Was a real estate developer and oversaw other businesses he built on inherited wealth.
What did former President Donald Trump do before being elected and how did he get the initial investment to build the Trump Organization?
An international organization formed in 1945 at the end of WWII that is now comprised of some 193 governments.
What is the United Nations?
The richest person in the world. This person has a net worth of more than $239 billion.
Who is Elon Musk?
* That's almost as much as the value of the economies of New Zealand or Greece, according to the finance online resource called Investopedia and GDP figures from the World Bank.
One of a group of nine U.S. officials. Each must be nominated by the U.S. president and approved by the U.S. Senate before taking their lifetime position.
What is a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
The first independent news channel in the Arab world formed in Qatar in 1996.
What is Al Jazzera?
A federal health insurance program that helps pay for health care costs, mostly for people over 65.
What is Medicare?
The current majority leader of the U.S. Senate and the state from which this person was elected.
Who is Chuck Schumer from New York
Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (or "Lula")
Who are the President-Elect of Mexico, the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Brazil.
Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii–Aleutian, Samoa, and Chamorro
What are the nine time zones for the U.S. and its territories?
The number of elected U.S. Representatives in the House.
Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP, Dow Jones.
What are the names of some other wire services?
A joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.
What is Medicaid?
The current chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Who is Jerome Powell?
This state was declared in 1948 and recognized by President Truman of the United States.
What is the modern state of Israel?
The number of visitors vote.gov received in the 24-hour period after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, according to the GSA (the U.S. General Services Administration).
What is more than 400,000?