Nebraska/U.S. Constitutions
Pride of the Prairie Biome
Criminal Law
Know your Namesake, Lincoln
Space Law
Guess that Legal Movie
100
This is the year Nebraska’s first constitution was adopted, one year before Nebraska was officially granted statehood.
What is 1866?
(March 1)
100
This prairie plant is a favorite of monarch caterpillars.
What is milkweed?
100
This canon of statutory interpretation dictates that an ambiguous statute must be read in the light most favorable to the defendant.
What is the rule of lenity?
100
Ten years after his death, several criminals attempted to steal and ransom Lincoln's remains, but were caught by this federal law enforcement agency.
What is the Secret Service
(which was created by Lincoln)
100
The U.S. has this percentage ownership interest in the moon.
What is zero/none?
Under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 the U.S., and all space faring nations, agreed to the concept of non-appropriation of “celestial objects.” Nations, and by extension their citizens, may not claim ownership of space. We do, however, own the flag and landers we’ve left there.
100
A famous quote from this movie is:
“if I'm gonna be a partner in a law firm by the time I'm 30, I’m going to need a boyfriend who’s not such a complete bonehead.”
What is Legally Blonde?
200
This is the number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What is 27?
200
The foliage of this tallgrass prairie plant is blue-green in the summer and changes to a deep bronze in the fall. It has a distinctive three-parted seed head, said to resemble a turkey's foot.
What is What is Big Bluestem?
200
Nebraska’s “speedy trial” statute dictates that a criminal defendant must be brought to trial within this amount of time after a felony indictment is filed.
What is 6 months?
200
The famed Lincoln Bedroom was used by Lincoln for this purpose
What is Lincoln’s personal office?
200
The number of countries party to the inter-governmental agreement for the operation of the International Space Station is this.
What is 15?
U.S., Russia, Japan, Canada, and the European Space Agency (ESA). If you count each ESA state, the total number of parties is 15 (adding, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
200
A famous quote from this movie is:
“Now, gentlemen, in this country, our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of your jury system – that’s no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality. Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review, without passion, the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision and restore this man to his family.”
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
300
U.S. Constitution Day is celebrated every year on this day.
What is September 17?
300
Nebraska declared this perennial the state flower in 1895.
What is Goldenrod?
300
In Lincoln, it is illegal to ride your horse over this speed within city limits.
What is 6 miles per hour?
300
Remarkably, Lincoln’s oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was saved from being hit by a moving train by this man.
Who is Edwin Booth?
(brother of John Wilkes Booth)
300
The Federal Aviation Administration require a license from their Office of Commercial Space Transportation for any of these three space activities
What are launches, reentires or spaceport operators?
There are 13 space ports in the U.S., as well as additional launch and reentry sites licensed by the FAA. They also regulate some other space-based activities, but these specific actions require a license.
300
A famous quote from this movie is:
“It appears to me that you want to skip the arraignment process, go directly to trial, skip that, and get a dismissal. Well, I’m not about to revamp the entire judicial process just because you find yourself in the unique position of defending clients who say they didn’t do it.”
What is My Cousin Vinny?
400
This article in the Nebraska Constitution establishes the judicial branch.
What is Article V?
400
This native prairie grass stays low most of the year but can get up to 8 feet tall in early autumn, when its plume-like, golden-brown seed head turns a deep orange to purple.
What is Indiangrass?
400
An early 20th century Nebraska law made it illegal to sell beer unless the establishment also brewed this food item.
What is soup?
400
The Great Emancipator was an accomplished athlete as a young man. In fact, he was an inductee of the National Hall of Fame for this sport.
What is Wrestling?
(National Wrestling Hall of Fame)
400
In this year was the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies” opened for signature and entered into force
What is 1967?
The “Outer Space Treaty” as its usually referred to, opened for signature in January, with the U.S. and Russia signing on January 27, 1967. It was entered into force in October 1967. It was written and considered by the U.N. General Assembly in 1966.
400
A famous quote from this movie is:
“Pride has lost more cases than lousy evidence, idiot witnesses and a hanging judge all put together. There is absolutely no place in a courtroom for pride.”
What is A Civil Action?
500
This is the year the U.S. Constitution was most recently amended.
What is 1992?
500
This native prairie plant begins flowering in July, and it blooms from the top down, just like a 4th of July sparkler.
What is Prairie Blazing Star?
(will also accept Liatris)
500
This U.S. Supreme Court case established a right to an attorney for indigent defendants.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
500
While working as a lawyer in Illinois in 1858, Abraham Lincoln produced this two-word manual to prove that the witness testimony of seeing a crime in the moonlight could not have been true. Lincoln ultimately won the case
What is the Farmers' Almanac?
500
In 1997, David Wolf became the first American to vote from space. This state enacted a law that enabled him to do so.
What is Texas?
500
A famous quote from this movie is:
“I’m a prosecutor. I’m part of the business of accusing, judging and punishing. I explore the evidence of a crime and determine who is charged, who is brought to this room to be tried before his peers. I present my evidence to the jury and they deliberate upon it. They must determine what really happened.”
What is Presumed Innocent?