Legislative
Potpourri
Executive
American History
Judicial
100

The job of the Legislative Branch.

What is creating laws?

100

The building blocks of living things, composed of a nucleus, wall/membrane, mitochondria, and other organelles.

What are cells?

100

The job of the Executive Branch.

What is enforcing/executing laws?

100

The 16th president responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, being a founder of the Republican Party, and is also featured on the five dollar bill.


Bonus: What state is he from?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?


Bonus: What is Kentucky?

100

The job of the Judicial Branch.

What is judging/interpreting laws?

200

The 100 equally distributed lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

What is the Senate?

200

In Spongebob, Mr. Krabs' daughter Pearl is this animal.

What is a whale?

200

The current President of the United States of America.

Who is Joe Biden?

200

The first president of the United States of America.

Who is George Washington?

200

The legal representative for a defendant in a courtroom, responsible for proving innocence, or reducing charges.

What is a Lawyer?

300

The 435 population-based lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

What is the House of Representatives?

300

The answer to a multiplication problem.

What is a product?

300

Every this many years there is a presidential election.

What is 4?

300

The two groups that fought American Civil War.

Who were the Union and Confederates?

300

The group composed of randomly selected adult American citizens responsible for making the guilty or not guilty verdict in the court of law.

What is a Jury?

400

The name of a law while being debated in Congress, before it is ratified as a law.

What is a bill?

400

The current best-selling video game of all time.

What is Minecraft?

400

The term for when a President says "no" to a law being created.

What is a veto?

400

The document sent to the king of England stating that America was no longer under their rule, beginning the Revolutionary War.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

400

The nine most powerful judges in the American court system.

What is the Supreme Court?

500

The person that has the authority to break ties in Congress.

Who is the Vice President?

500

"Go hang a salami Im a lasagna hog" a sentence that has the same letters forwards and backwards is an example of this.

What is a palindrome?

500

The Presidential power to excuse a criminal from the crimes they have committed, bypassing the Judicial powers.

What is a [Presidential] pardon?

500

The document setting up the structure of the government and its constraints.


Bonus: A change or addition to this document.

What is the Constitution?


Bonus: What is an amendment?

500

The person who appoints the nine major judges.

Who is the President?