Order in the House
What is the total number of voting members in the United States House of Representatives?
What is 435?
Thanks to a successful petition by Delaware schoolchildren in 1974, this spotted red-and-black insect became the official state insect of the First State.
What is Ladybug?
This European capital city has served as the headquarters of NATO since 1967.
What is Brussels?
Artemis II made history with a crewed lunar flyby mission lasting this many days and carrying astronauts from both the United States and Canada.
What is 10?
This actress and comedian, known for her roles in Parks and Recreation and The White Lotus, once beat Joe Biden in a poll for ‘Delaware’s Most Famous Person.’
Who is Aubrey Plaza?
For this House procedure, a majority of members can sign a petition to force a bill out of committee and bring it directly to the House floor for a vote, bypassing committee leadership.
What is a Discharge Petition?
On June 15, 1776, Delaware declared independence not only from Pennsylvania, but also from this European country.
What is England?
In 2010, this nation located at the southern tip of Africa joined Brazil, Russia, India, and China to turn ‘BRIC’ into ‘BRICS.
What is South Africa?
This Delaware town is home to ILC Dover, the company that has manufactured materials and components for NASA space suits since the Apollo era.
This actress and member of the British royal family holds the title Duchess of Sussex, sharing the name of Delaware’s southernmost county.
Who is Meghan Markle?
For this unofficial House tradition, the Speaker, Majority Leader, or Minority Leader may speak on the House floor for an unlimited amount of time — sometimes for hours — despite normal debate limits.
What is Magic Minute?
In the 1864 presidential election, Kentucky, Delaware, and New Jersey were the only states to vote against this incumbent president, instead supporting Democratic candidate George B. McClellan.
This E-word refers to a diplomatic representative sent abroad by a country, ranking below an ambassador.
What is Envoy?
A University of Delaware chemistry professor won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in this year for discovering the ‘Heck reaction,’ which uses palladium to link carbon atoms.
What is 2010?
This actress, who won an Academy Award for Walk the Line, has two children with Delaware native and Cruel Intentions star Ryan Phillippe.
Who is Reese Witherspoon?
For this type of amendment, the entire text of a bill is struck after the enacting clause and replaced with completely new language, while retaining the original bill number.
What is an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute?
Although Delaware stretches 96 miles from north to south, at its widest point the state measures only about this many miles across.
What is 39?
This French term meaning ‘relaxation’ describes the easing of Cold War tensions, especially associated with President Richard Nixon’s policies toward the Soviet Union.
This Midwestern state is home to Fermilab, the nation’s leading particle physics laboratory.
What is Fermilab?
Much of the film Dead Poets Society was shot at St. Andrew’s School in this Delaware town, which stood in for the fictional Welton Academy.
What is Middletown?
An outdated House tradition, members formally introduce bills and resolutions by dropping them into a wooden box located on the House floor.
What is the Hopper?
Delaware ranks as the nation’s second-smallest state, spanning about this many total square miles.
What is 2,490?
This woman became the first female United States Secretary of State when President Bill Clinton appointed her to the position in 1997.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
In the AI acronym ‘GPT,’ the letter ‘T’ stands for this word, which describes the model’s architecture.
What is Transformer?
This NFL team defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII (47) with Joe Flacco, a University of Delaware alum, at quarterback.
What is the Baltimore Ravens?