The Constitution
Midterm Elections
Political Zaddies and Zommies
Presidential
Political History
100

The first three words of the Constitution

What is "We the People"?

100

The number of House seats up for election

What is 435 (or all of them)?

100

Number 44

Who is President Barack Obama?

100

The two candidates who participated in the first televised presidential debates

Who are Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy?

100

The policy put forth by FDR in response to the Great Depression

What is the New Deal?
200

The minimum age requirement to be a Senator

What is 30?

200

The senator from Missouri up for reelection in a hotly contested race

Who is Claire McCaskill?

200

NYC Latina running for Congress, defeated Rep. Joe Crowley in primaries

Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

200

The two father-son pairs who have been president

Who are George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush and John Quincy Adams and John Adams?

200

The act passed in the 1920s that severely restricted immigration to the United States

What is the Immigration Act of 1924 or the Johnson-Reed Act?

300

The amendment that granted women the right to vote

What is the 19th amendment?

300

The number of Senate seats up for election

What is 35 (33 regular and 2 special!)?

300

Congressman for the 16th District of Texas

Who is Congressman Beto O’Rourke?

300

Eisenhower’s nickname

What is Ike?

300

The first two political parties in the United States

What are the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans (or the Anti-Federalists)?

400

The number of amendments to the Constitution

What is 27?

400

The name of the DNC’s arm seeking to elect Democrats to the House

What is Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (or DCCC)?

400

First openly LGBT governor in the US

Who is Governor Kate Brown (D-OR)?

400

The first president to visit all 50 states

Who is Richard Nixon?

400

The acts promulgated by John Adams that criminalized false statements critical of the federal government and allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous or who were from a hostile nation

What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

500

The clause that grants Congress the power to make all laws needed to execute the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States

What is the "Necessary and Proper" or elastic clause?

500

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Who is Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)?

500

This disabled U.S. veteran was the first member of congress born in Thailand

Who is Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)?

500

The age George Washington would be if he were alive today

What is 286?

500

The president who refused to use the telephone while in office

Who is Calvin Coolidge?