Elections and Voting
This is the special day when people go to the polls to choose their leaders, like the President or Mayor.
What is Election Day?
This is the highest court in the United States?
What is the Supreme Court?
This is the symbol of the Democratic Party.
What is a donkey?
This person is the leader of a city and is often in charge of local government decisions.
Who is the Mayor?
Ruggles, Stony Brook, Assembly, and Chinatown are all stops on which of Boston's MBTA train routes?
Orange Line
This person is in charge of running an election and making sure everything is fair and accurate.
Who is an election official?
he U.S. Congress is made up of the Senate and this other house.
What is the House of Representatives?
This is the symbol of the Republican Party.
What is an elephant?
This person is the head of the U.S. government and is elected every four years.
Who is the President?
An Arboretum maintained by Harvard University, located in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston, is the ______ Arboretum. Fill in the one word blank, a first name most commonly associated with the star of “The Terminator” and “Junior.”
Arnold Arboretum
When you choose someone to represent you or make decisions for you, it’s called this.
What is voting?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The current President of the United States is a member of this political party (as of 2024).
What is the Democratic Party?
These people are elected to make laws in the U.S. Congress, with some representing states in the Senate and others in the House of Representatives.
Who are Senators and Representatives?
"The Pru" is a nickname for what Shopping Center and skyscraper named after an insurance company?
The Prudential/ Prudential/ Prudential Center
This is the name for the piece of paper you fill out with your choices during an election.
What is a ballot?
The President of the United States serves a term of this many years.
What is four years?
his third party, often focusing on environmental issues, is known by this color.
What is the Green Party?
This person helps enforce laws and represents the government in legal matters, often seen in court.
Who is a Judge?
Zoo New England operates a zoo based out of what Boston park, which shares its “F” name with the surname of a Founding Father who invented bifocals?
Franklin Park Zoo
What is the minimum age to vote in U.S. Federal Elections?
What is 18?
This is the official residence and workplace of the U.S. President.
What is the White House?
The U.S. has this type of political party system, dominated by two main parties.
What is a two-party system?
This person is in charge of a state government, similar to how the President is in charge of the country.
Who is the Governor?
The largest art heist in the city of Boston's history occurred at which of the city's museums in 1990?
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum