Executive Departments
The 5 branches of the U.S. Military that are under the direction of the Department of Defense.
Worth Double
What are the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Space Force?
The Department responsible for fostering relationships with foreign countries.
What is the Department of State?
What BLM (not Black lives matter) stands for and the Executive Department to which it belongs.
Worth Double (200 points)
What is Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior?
Government Agency charged with collecting the countries top source of revenue.
Full Name, not just the Acronym.
What is the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service?
The name of the President's official government residence.
What is the White House?
Bonus: What is the address of the White House?
The Department in charge of enforcing the law and prosecuting those who violate Federal laws.
What is the Department of Justice?
Bonus: What is the TITLE of the leader of the Justice Department? (Not the person's name)
The name of the Chief Ambassador of the United States.
Who is President Joe Biden?
Government run entity that is deemed vital to ensure communication between different parts of the United States.
What is the United States Postal Service?
Bonus: What is the Title of the Head of the Postal Service?
An official inspection of an individual's or organization's accounts and records to make sure things were done correctly.
What is an audit?
The Department that runs medicare, medicaid, The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and other healthcare related services.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
A diplomat sent by a country as its official and head representative to a foreign country.
What is an Ambassador?
Originating during the Great Depression, this government run corporation was established to restore confidence in the U.S. Banking system.
Full name, not just the acronym.
What is the FDIC, the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation?
Bonus: What is the current amount guaranteed to be covered per bank account?
The day by which income taxes must be filed.
What is April 15th.
Executive Agencies that are the responsibility of the Department of the Interior. WORTH 400 points EACH, name at least 1, but name more = more points!
What are NPS - National park Service
FWS - Fish and Wildlife Service
BIA - Bureau of Indian Affairs
BLM - Bureau of Land Management?
a government's strategy in dealing with other nations.
What is foreign policy?
The executive agency that is tasked with regulating the stock market by protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets.
What is the Securities Exchange Commission, SEC?
When a court issues an order requiring your employer to withhold a certain amount of your paycheck and send it directly to the person or institution to whom you owe money, until your debt is paid off.
What is Garnish your wages?
The government agency that regulates radio and television stations.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
The U.S. Executive Department that runs OSHA and what OSHA stands for and what they do.
Worth Double
What is the Labor Department and Occupational Safety and Health Administration and make rules to promote workplace or job safety?
If a U.S. Citizen was travelling outside of the United States and had problems, this is where they should go to get help.
What is the U.S. Embassy?
an independent agency of the United States government that seeks to promote the safety of products by addressing "unreasonable risks" of injury; developing uniform safety standards; and conducting research into product-related illness and injury.
The Full name, not just the Acronym.
What is the CPSC, Consumer Product Safety Commission?
Issued by employers to employees, this document shows wages earned and taxes paid for a given year.
What is a W-2 form?
Bonus: W-2's must be mailed to Employees by what date?
The last 8 U.S. Presidents in order, starting with Jimmy Carter.
Who are Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden?
Who are the 2 Presidents on this list that are deceased?
The most recent Cabinet level Executive Department created and after what event?
Department of Homeland Security and after the attack on the World Trade Center, 9/11?
Bonus: What are the 2 main goals of the Department of Homeland Security?
What USFS stands for and what Executive Department it belongs to.
What is the United States Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture?
The government can take or confiscate your possessions if you are in violation of the law.
What is "Seize Assets"
The length of time a President can wage war without permission from Congress AND what specific power allows him to do this.
What is 60 days AND the President is the Commander in Chief?
Bonus: During what "war" did Congress place these restrictions on the Commander in Chief?