Who Votes
What is the minimum age for a person to vote in the United States?
18
What’s blowing up, Doc? Exploding cigars, pianos, and watermelons are some of the unorthodox tactics used in a cartoon pitting Yosemite Sam in a mayoral race against what wascal?
Bugs Bunny
In 2016, General Mills's Monster Cereals held a mock election, with what cocoa-flavored cereal beating out Boo Berry and Franken Berry to win the most votes?
Count Chocula
What is the four-letter name for a fragment sometimes created when holes are made in a paper or card? The "hanging" variety of this common noun became a hot topic during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in the state of Florida.
Chad
“Compulsory,” “universal civic duty,” and “mandatory” are all terms that describe which act that citizens of legal age must partake in if they live in countries like Australia, Luxembourg, and Egypt?
Voting
Perhaps the most popular novelty t-shirt of the last twenty years was inspired by Napoleon Dynamite imploring his classmates to vote for whom in the class president election?
Pedro
The 1932 election of FDR over Herbert Hoover serves as the backdrop to what 1977 Broadway musical that sees the orphaned protagonist actually meeting Roosevelt during Act II?
Annie
President Joe Biden called what U.S. state's Election Integrity Act, which was signed into law in March 2021, "Jim Crow in the 21st century?"
They’d have to wait until 1920 in the USA and 1971 in Switzerland! Thanks to the work of Kate Sheppard, among others, New Zealand was the first country in the world to give votes in national elections to what group of people?
Women
Deputy director of the Pawnee Parks Department Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler, emerges victorious in a city council election against Paul Rudd’s Bobby Newport during the season four finale of what NBC comedy?
Parks and Recreation
Aunt Viv's husband, Uncle Phil, runs for Superior Court Judge against his former law school mentor in an episode of what 1990s sitcom?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
In the 2020 election cycle, the Super PAC that raised the most money that also had the name of a former president in its name featured which president?
Abraham Lincoln
What controversial U.S. representative was reelected from the state of Colorado in 2022 over challenger Adam Frisch by a margin of only around 500 votes?
Lauren Boebert
The election of 1912 was the first one to feature the 48 contiguous states, thanks to Arizona and New Mexico joining the union prior to the election. Both of those states went to which eventual winner?
Woodrow Wilson
Former Florida Governor Robert Ritchie should have known not to run against a show’s protagonist as he was only able to muster 119 electoral votes against incumbent Jed Bartlet during the 2002 presidential election on what NBC White House drama?
The West Wing
Selina Meyer's team forces a Nevada recount that causes her to lose the presidential election in the fifth season of what 2012-2019 HBO comedy with a second-string name?
Veep
As a result of the U.S. census in 2020, some of the electoral college vote allocations for each state have changed for the 2024 presidential election. How many electoral votes will Alaska be worth in 2024?
3
The third and final of the "Reconstruction Amendments" in the U.S. prohibited government from denying citizens the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." What number amendment is this overall in the U.S.?
15
"Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" was a Super PAC founded by what US comedian who raised awareness of Super PACs in his late-night television program during 2012?
Stephen Colbert
Adventurer Phileas Fogg is shocked by the kerfuffle over a San Francisco election for a justice of the peace that he encounters on his global travels in what Jules Verne novel?
Around the World in Eighty Days
Instant-runoff voting and single transferable vote are the two specific types of a more general voting system that is used in various jurisdictions in the United States. As of November 1, 2020, Maine is the only U.S. state which uses this voting system in all state primary, congressional, and presidential elections. What is the name of this system?
Ranked-choice voting