Economics
Name the point where supply and demand meet on a graph
What is Equilibrium Price?
Name the first U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.
Who is Donald J. Trump?
The power that allows the Supreme Court to declare laws and executive orders unconstitutional.
Judicial review
What is the smallest country in the world?
Bonus +100: What is the name of the religious leader that lives in this country?
What is the Vatican City?
Bonus: Pope Francis
Name the only flying mammal.
What is a bat?
Explain why government regulations are beneficial.
Bonus +100: Explain the concept of Entrepreneurship
Regulations help ensure that businesses' goods/services are safe for people
Bonus: Individuals take on risk in order to start a business and make a profit.
Name the country that just elected their first female president over the weekend.
Bonus +100: Name the country that elected the first ever female president.
What is Mexico?
Bonus: Iceland (Vigdís Finnbogadótti)r
Name the two chambers of Virginia's bicameral state legislature.
Senate and House of Delegates
A landlocked country in South America with rich deposits of silver, lithium, and copper. Its capital city, La Paz, has the highest elevation of any capital in the world.
What is the Bolivia?
Name the continent that sits in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
Name the concept where what people want is what is produced.
Consumer Sovereignty
Name the country's whose president was recently killed in a helicopter crash.
Bonus +100: Name the president
What is Iran?
Bonus:President Ebrahim Raisi
This independent commission is in charge of regulating and enforcing campaign finance laws.
FEC (Federal Election Commission)
Located in Russia, this large mountain range forms the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia
Ural mountains
Name the most popular beverage worldwide.
What is tea?
Name and define 3 types of economies.
Bonus +100: Name and define the 4th economy
Traditional, Mixed, Free Market and Command.
Name the actress who is suing OpenAI for using her voice without her consent on ChatGPT.
Scarlett Johansson
This number is the minimum number of electoral votes needed to win the electoral college and become President.
270
This river, the longest in Asia, has played a major economic and cultural role in Chinese civilization. The Three Gorges Dam, located on this river, is the worlds largest power station.
Yangtze river
Name the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise.
What is Venus?
How does the government interact with businesses and individual in the Circular Flow Model?
Gov't taxes businesses, gov't provides subsidies and benefits in return
Name the Supreme Court Justice that has been asked to recuse themself (not participate) in cases involving the January 6 attack on the Capitol because there were flags flying upside down at his personal residence.
This amendment gives all 'persons born or naturalized in the United States' American citizenship
14th amendment
Located in East Africa, this landlocked country is the second most populous country in Africa and was one of the only African nations to not be colonized in the 19th century. Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia
Name a fibrous fruit that is technically a 'berry'. It is sterile, which means that you cannot plant its seeds for more fruit.
A banana