Georgia Trivia
What is the peach?
What is a Republic?
The title given to the head of the executive branch at the state level of government.
What is the governor?
A term that means "law proposer" when broken down to its Latin roots.
What is Legislator?
This serves as the highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
Named the state bird of GA in 1935.
What is the Brown Thrasher?
Name 1 of 2 organizations that work across borders (worldwide) to ensure world peace and aid to other nations in trouble.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) OR United Nations
Stepping in for the President, being a tie breaker in the Senate, and engaging in foreign travel are all roles of this executive position.
What is the Vice President of the US?
The first step in the creation of a law.
What is an "idea" and what does it have to do with the formation of new laws?
What is the main job of the Judicial Branch?
To defend the Constitution.
The current governor of Georgia.
Who is Brian Kemp?
List at least 3 issues which arise from communism.
What are financial poverty, unequal distribution of wealth, food shortages, media controlled by govt., closely regulated schooling (brainwashing), human rights issues?
The Founding Fathers set up our government to ensure that the no single branch of government had too much control. "Blank and Blank".
What are checks and balances?
T or F? The Senate is known as the "upper house" and the House of Representatives is knows as the "lower house?"
TRUE.
The term limit for a Supreme Court justice.
Who is "appointed for life" unless they resign or are removed?
Georgia state symbols are signed into law in this location.
This type of government is characterized by the strict enforcement of the predominant religion.
What is theocracy?
Name 3 of the 12 departments within the President's cabinet.
Department of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Commerce, Defense, Health, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Treasury, Interior, Urban Development...
T or F? The Founding Fathers intentionally made it difficult to create laws.
What is TRUE?
The title applied to the highest ranking judge on the Supreme Court.
What is Chief Justice?
*Bonus for +100 pts. Name the current Chief Justice.
The original namesake of the state of Georgia.
Who is King George II of England?
Though truly powerful during the Middle Ages, this type of government still exists, but mostly in a symbolic form for the people.
What is a monarchy?
This is the main job of the executive branch of government.
What is "execute" or enforce the laws created by Congress?
Congress can override a president's veto if both chambers pass it with this much of a majority vote.
What is a two-thirds majority vote?
*Hint: Think of referees at a football game.
What is judicial review?