Presidential Powers
100: What document outlines the President’s constitutional powers?
Answer: What is the U.S. Constitution?
100: What is the title given to the President as the head of the armed forces?
Answer: What is Commander in Chief?
100: How many executive departments make up the Cabinet?
Answer: What is 15?
100: How many senators are there in the U.S. Senate?
Answer: What is 100?
100: Which clause allows Congress to coin money and set standards?
Answer: What is Article I, Section 8, Clause 5?
200: Which type of directive allows the President to manage the operations of the federal government?
Answer: What is an executive order?
200: As Chief Diplomat, what does the President do?
Answer: Directs foreign policy and negotiates treaties.
200: Who nominates Cabinet members?
Answer: The President.
200: What is the House of Representatives often called?
Answer: What is “The People’s House”?
200: What U.S. system of measurement is still officially used?
Answer: What is the Imperial System?
300: True or False: Executive orders can be overturned by Congress only.
Answer: What is false — they can be overturned by future presidents or courts.
300: Which role involves the President ensuring laws are faithfully executed?
Answer: What is Chief Executive?
300: Who confirms Cabinet members?
Answer: The Senate.
300: What special power does the House have regarding impeachment?
Answer: It brings (initiates) impeachment charges.
300: What organization was created in 1913 to manage U.S. monetary policy?
Answer: What is the Federal Reserve?
400: What act determines who becomes President if both the President and Vice President cannot serve?
Answer: What is the Presidential Succession Act of 1947?
400: What role allows the President to influence Congress’s lawmaking process?
Answer: What is Chief Legislator?
400: Name one independent agency that operates outside the Cabinet structure.
Answer: What is NASA or EPA?
400: What power does the Senate have in impeachment trials?
Answer: It tries impeachment cases and can remove officials.
400: What type of crime involves producing counterfeit money?
Answer: What is white-collar crime?
500: Which amendment clarifies what happens if the President is incapacitated?
Answer: What is the 25th Amendment?
500: Which role represents the President as the ceremonial leader of the United States?
Answer: What is Chief of State?
500: What is the main purpose of the Cabinet?
Answer: To advise the President and administer policy areas.
500: What Article of the Constitution establishes Congress?
Answer: What is Article I?
500: Who has the constitutional power to declare war?
Answer: What is Congress?