Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Legislative Branch
Amendments & Such
Wild Card
100
This is the main requirement for being president that no other electable position has as a requirement.
What is "being born a citizen"?
100
These are the nine top members of this branch.
Who are the Supreme Court?
100
This is how many senators there are, also the point value of this question.
What is 100?
100
This is the concept that different branches of the government get different abilities and ways to check the abilities of the other branches.
What is the Separation of Powers?
100
This is the longest running primetime television show of all time. (It is still running.)
What is the Simpsons?
200
This has to take place for a bill to become a law.
What is "The President signing it"?
200
Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark case that overturned this longstanding policy.
What is segregation or separate but equal doctrine?
200
This is the most powerful position in the house of representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
200
The 19th Amendment is important to at least half of any given group.
What is Women's right vote?
200
What element is produced by dying stars by fusing helium atoms?
What is Carbon?
300
This position/person is next in line to the presidency after the Vice-President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
300
This is the method of trying to get another court to look at your case after it is settled.
What is appealing?
300
Representatives serve for this many years after being elected.
What is two?
300
This amendment from the bill of rights deals with the housing of soldiers during peacetime
What is the third amendment?
300
What is the more common name for Emmental cheese in the USA?
What is Swiss Cheese?
400
This is the unusual method by which we elect the president.
What is the Electoral College?
400
This is a power that is completely in the purview of the Judicial Branch.
What is interpreting the constitution?
400
This is a method of blocking debate and killing a bill on the senate floor.
What is the filibuster?
400
To Legally search a home, police must always have this.
What is a Search Warrant?
400
This car company invented the 3 point seat belt then didn't patent it so that all car companies could use it.
What is Volvo?
500
When no candidate receives the necessary majority of votes in the Electoral College, the president is elected by this group.
What is the House of Representatives?
500
An Accused person has the a right to be released from jail if the court cannot give just cause while they are being held. This is provided by a writ of....
What is Habeas Corpus?
500
This is the sometimes legal method of changing districts to favor your political parties in elections.
What is gerrymandering?
500
The first amendment includes all of the following rights. (Name at least 3)
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, press, assembly, and petition?
500
This 1980s cult classic is actually a remake from the 1950s. It tells the story of a group of Antarctic scientists during first contact with an alien, leading to fatal consequences.
What is The Thing?
600
This President is often considered the worst ranked on most lists.
Who is James Buchanan?
600
This term refers to returning a criminal suspect to the state/country in which the crime took place.
What is extradition?
600
With the senate being a continuous body, this is the number of senators up for election every 2 years.
What is 33/34?
600
The Constitution contains some dated provisions, including this segment meant to please Southern states who want to include their enslaved persons as full people for the purposes of taxation and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
600
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva is a rare genetic disorder where this happens.
What is muscle tissue is rebuilt as bone tissue?
