The Constitution
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is The Bill of Rights
What makes up the legislative branch?
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate (Congress)
When the President rejects a law sent to him by Congress to sign.
What is veto
Who nominates people to the Supreme Court?
Who is the President
In New York it was illegal to slurp your soup at a restaurant.
Choices: True or False.
What is false (it is actually a law in New Jersey!)
What is the total number of Founding Fathers who signed the U.S. Constitution?
Choices: 25, 29, 35, 39 or 100
What is 39
Kevin McCarthy
Who is the Speaker of the House
What is the term of office for President?
What is four years
How long can justices serve on the Supreme Court?
What is for life
This President loved to cook and was credited with helping to bring macaroni and cheese as well as french fries to the United States.
Choices: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln
Who was Thomas Jefferson
How many votes are needed, in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, to pass an amendment?
Choices: 1/3, 2/3 or 3/4
What is 2/3
If there is a tie vote in the U.S. Senate who breaks it?
Who is Kamala Harris (the Vice President serves as President of the Senate and can break ties)
What is the name for the group of people who advise the President on important issues?
What is the cabinet
John Roberts
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
It is still illegal to throw snowballs in Topeka, Kansas.
Choices: True or False.
What is true
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What was the name of the oldest Founding Father who signed the U.S. Constitution?
Who was Benjamin Franklin (he was 81 at the time of the signing)
By which method do members of the House of Representatives vote?
What is through an electronic button
Which President was known as "The Father of the Constitution?"
Who was James Madison
How many women currently sit on the Supreme Court?
What is four (Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson)
George Washington only had one real tooth as he got older. He started to lose his teeth in his early twenties and wore a combination of dentures and hippopotamus teeth.
Choices: True or False.
What is true
How many amendments to the U.S. Constitution are there?
What is 27
What is the total number of members of the U.S. Congress?
535 (435 in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate)
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
President Reagan loved this candy so much that he kept a jar of it on his desk in the Oval Office in the White House. What was the candy?
What are jelly beans
Sandra Day O'Connor
What is the first female appointed to the Supreme Court
This former general during the Civil War and later President, was once ticketed for $20 for riding his horse and buggy too fast on a street in Washington, D.C.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant