Government
Executive, Congress, The Supreme Court.
What are the three branches of U.S. Government?
A story produced with verifiable facts that is as free of the author's opinion as possible.
What is a news story?
The U.S. Speaker of the House takes over as President under what circumstances?
What is if the president and vice president are killed or incapacitated?
The current speaker of the House and the state from which that person was elected.
Who is Mike Johnson from Louisiana?
The name of the organization formed after WWII that is a military and political alliance of 32 member countries from Europe and North America.
What is The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO?
What are six years and two years?
The number of U.S. Senators elected from each of the 50 states.
What is two?
A U.S. not-for-profit news agency, also called a "wire service," that operates as a cooperative. It produces news reports distributed to its news outlet members.
What is the Associated Press?
Which constitutional amendment guarantees citizenship to people born on U.S. soil?
What is the 14th Amendment?
The richest person in the world. This person has a net worth of more than $400 Billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.
Who is Elon Musk?
* That's almost as much as the value of the economies of New Zealand or Greece, according to the finance online resource called Investopedia and GDP figures from the World Bank.
The two biggest countries on earth by more than 1 billion people each.
What are India and China? (More than 1.4 billion each as of 2023, according to the United Nations.)
The burning of man-made fossil fuels including oil, gas and coal are primary man-made causes of this, as defined by most scientists and the United Nations.
What is climate change?
The five freedoms in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
What are religion, speech, press, peaceable assembly, and the ability to petition the government for redress of grievances ?
Name at least three Boston-area journalistic outlets.
What are:
The Boston Globe
The Boston Herald
WBUR
GBH
The Bay State Banner
Statehouse News Service
Commonwealth Magazine
WBZ-TV
WHDH-TV
WCVB-TV
Bay Windows
?
Directive in which the U.S. President steers Federal agency leaders to clarify and further existing laws.
What is an executive order?
Was a real estate developer and oversaw other businesses he built on inherited wealth.
What did former President Donald Trump do before being elected and how did he get the initial investment to build the Trump Organization?
An international organization formed in 1945 at the end of WWII that is now comprised of some 193 governments.
What is the United Nations?
At tax on imported goods paid for by the importing company is called ____?
What is a tarriff?
One of a group of nine U.S. officials. Each must be nominated by the U.S. president and approved by the U.S. Senate before taking their lifetime position.
What is a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
The nonprofit overseeing PBS and NPR that gets a small portion of its budget from the federal government.
What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
A federal health insurance program that helps pay for health care costs, mostly for people over 65.
What is Medicare?
The current minority leader of the U.S. Senate and the state from which this person was elected.
Who is Chuck Schumer from New York
Claudia Sheinbaum, Justin Trudeau and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (or "Lula")
Who are the President of Mexico, the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Brazil.
What news outlet was banned from White House press events for "Gulf of Mexico" in its stylebook for international outlets rather than changing it to "Gulf of America" to follow the Trump Administration's name change?
What is the Associated Press?
The number of elected U.S. Representatives in the House.
The agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
What is the Federal Communications Commission?
A joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.
What is Medicaid?
The current chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Who is Jerome Powell?
This state was declared in 1948 and recognized by President Truman of the United States.
What is the modern state of Israel?
The name of the first Federal agency that Trump and the entity known as DOGE tried to dismantle before a court order temporarily stopped them.
What is the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ?