Civics Test Practice

Legislative

100

What is the term for both chambers of the legislative branch put together?

Congress

200

How many members make up the House?

How many members make up the Senate?

435

100

300

Who is the presiding officer of the House?

Speaker of the House

400

What is a filibuster?

When a senator talks until people give up trying to pass the law being discussed

500

Name all of your current federal legislators

2 Senators

1 Representative

Senator Hoever

Senator Cramer

Representative Armstrong

Executive

100

What do we call the leader of the executive branch?

The President

200

Who is the president right now?

Joe Biden

(If Taycee says Trump I win a Brbblr)

300

Who is the governor right now?

Doug Burgum

400

If the President and Vice President die, who becomes president?

Speaker of the House, (then President of the Senate if Speaker dies)

500

How many terms does a president get maximum AND what was the amendment that made that a rule?

2, 22nd Amendment

Judicial

100

What is the highest court of the land?

Supreme Court

200

How many judges are on the Supreme Court

9

300

What does the Supreme Court do? aka What is it's Power?

Acceptable List -->Reviews Laws, Explains Laws, Declares laws Unconstitutional etc.

400

How many justices were originally on the Supreme Court?

6

500

Name a justice on the Supreme Court

John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice

Clarence Thomas

Samuel A. Alito

Elena Kagan

Sonia Sotomayor

Neil M. Gorsuch

Brett M. Kavanaugh

Amy Coney Barrett

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Geography

100

What is the capitol of the US?

Washington D.C.

200

Name the two longest rivers in the US

Mississippi, Missouri

300

Name two states that border Mexico

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Texas

400

Name a US territory (land that the US owns but doesn't meet the requirements to be a state)

Puerto Rico

US Virgin Islands

American Samoa

Guam

Northern Mariana Islands

500

Name the two rivers that Fargo is placed between

Sheyenne and Red

Constitution miscellaneous

100

What is the supreme law of the land?

The Constitution

200

What are the first three words of the Constitution?

We the People

300

What is the Rule of Law?

Acceptable Answers:

Everyone must follow the law.

Leaders must follow the law.

The government must follow the law.

No one is above the law.

400

How many amendments are in the Constitution?

27

500

Say the Preamble to the Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.