US Citizens
Bill of Rights
The United Nations
Types of Government
Current Events
100
What is an obligation of a male US citizen that you have to register for when you turn 18 in the US.
What is registering for the Draft.
100
The second amendment.
What is the right to bear arms.
100
The year the United Nations was formed.
What is 1945
100
The type of government that the US uses.
What is a Representative Democracy?
100
The name of the terrorist group that has seized a chunk of land stretching from northern Syria to central Iraq, that President Obama has made a speech about.
What is ISIS or ISIL?
200
Rights of US citizens
What is Freedom to express yourself, freedom to worship as you wish, right to a prompt, fair trial by jury, right to vote in elections for public officials, right to apply for federal employment requiring U.S. citizenship, right to run for elected office, freedom to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?”
200
The first amendment.
What is the freedom of religion, speech, press, and the right to petition?
200
Name at least 8 of the original 49 members of the United Nations.
What is Republic of China, France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Belarus, Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Haiti, Iran, Lebanon, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iraq, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay, and Venezuela?
200
The type of government that Russia uses.
What is a federation?
200
The country that is famous for cigars that has new diplomatic relations with the US.
What is Cuba?
300
Responsibilities/Duties of US citizens.
What is to support and defend the Constitution, stay informed of the issues affecting your community, participate in the democratic process, respect and obey federal, state, and local laws, respect the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others, participate in your local community, pay income and other taxes honestly, and on time, to federal, state, and local authorities, serve on a jury when called upon, defend the country if the need should arise?
300
The third amendment.
What says troops may not be quartered in homes in peacetime?
300
The number on member states (countries) that are currently a part of the United Nations
What is 193?
300
A form of government where political authority is monopolized by a single person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entity's power remains strong.
What is a Dictatorship?
300
The country where the Fukushima power plant is that leaked nucular waste into the ocean after a 2011 earthquake.
What is Japan?
400
What it takes to become a citizen of the United States
What is being born in the US or taking a test on English and Civics (US history and government).
400
The fifth amendment.
What is No "double jeopardy" -- being tried twice for the same offense. Forcing a person to testify against himself or herself prohibited. No loss of life, liberty or property without due process?
400
Where the General Assembly is located.
What is the United Nations Headquarters in New York?
400
The type of government that China uses.
What is Communism?
400
This federal commission approved net neutrality today.
What is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)?
500
What it means to be a good world citizen.
What is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices?
500
The eighth amendment.
What is no excessive bail or fines, no cruel and unusual punishments?
500
The six official languages of the United Nations.
What is Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish?
500
Five different types of government that are used today.
What is Democracy, Republic, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Dictatorship, Communism, Democratic Republic and many more?
500
The canadian oil pipeline that was vetoed by President Obama today.
What is Keystone?