Election Basics
Money & Interest Groups
The Electoral Process
Voter Turnout / Behavior
Misc Trivia
100

The three universal requirements to cast a ballot in a general election.

What is 18 years old, a U.S. Citizen, and a resident of the state where you vote?

100

When an individual donates directly to a candidate, that is ______ money.

What is Hard Money

100

This is the preliminary election to decide which two candidates will represent the major parties in the General Election. 

What is the Primary Election (and caucus, in some states). 

100

People with higher incomes tend to associate with the ______ party.

What is Republican?

100

According to Buddy the Elf, this is the best way to spread Christmas cheer.

What by singing loud for all to hear?

200

The physical location where you go to cast your vote (when voting in-person on election day). 

What is a polling place. 

200

What "role of media" might this classy as? 


The Campaign as Drama

200

What is the minimum number of Electoral Votes that a Presidential candidate needs to win?

What is 270 Electoral Votes

200

Young voters have the lowest voter turnout, but when they do vote, they are more likely to vote ______. 

What is Democrat.

200

What is Scooby Doo’s full name?

What is Scoobert Doo?

300

Casting your ballot prior to election day by mail. 

What is absentee voting

300

This organization sets finance laws and regulations

What is the Federal Election Commission (FEC)

300

Who can vote in a Closed Primary?

Who are only those voters registered to that party?

300

Income, occupation, education, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, family, and geography are all ___________ factors of voter behavior.

What are Sociological factors? 

300

This is the most expensive home in the world. 

What is Buckingham Palace?

400

Smallest unit of election administration.

What is a precinct. 

400

With a Super PAC, the money cannot be given to...

Who are the candidates or their campaigns.

400

Meets in the late summer of every presidential election year to formally select the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidate (based on the primary results).


What is the National Convention?

400

The single most significant and lasting predictor of how a person will vote.

What is party identification? 

400

The most viewed video all-time on YouTube.

What is Baby Shark. (9.8 Billion Views)

500

This is the type of Ballot used in the US, ironically not called the US Ballot.

What is the Australian Ballot?

500

List at least two of the current trends in mass media and news.

What are 24/7 news cycle and entertainment news, Consolidation of media and news, shift to Social Media and new media outlets, Streaming (instant news, Misinformation.

500

A critically important step in the election process, where parties and people select who will run for office.

What is a nomination? 

500

Party identification is one of the three psychological factors of voting. What are the other two additional psychological factors of voting that can impact voter behavior, closer to election time?

What are the candidates and the issues? 

500

What is the painting “La Gioconda” more usually known as?

What is "The Mona Lisa"?

600

This is the name for the psychological impact from frustration or confusion over lengthy ballots. Often results in fewer votes being cast towards the end of the ballot. 

What is Ballot Fatigue?

600

This is the role media plays by the reporting on scandals, government actions, and abuse by individuals and government.

What is the Watchdog / Investigative role.

600

At what point in the electoral process was this famous speech made? 

What is during the Inauguration?

600

This is one's individual sense of how important their vote is or how effective their vote will be in influencing the political process.

What is political efficacy? 

600

This popular Swiss ski town sits at the base of one of the most famous Alps mountain peaks, the "Matterhorn".

Where is Zermatt, Switzerland?