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The Executive Department that is currently unfunded due to a "partial" government shutdown.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Bonus: What is the reason for the shutdown?
Double Bonus: What part of the defunded DHS is causing the biggest problem?
The two main U.S. political parties.
What are the Democrats and the Republicans?
The highest or Supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a refugee?
a multinational militant Sunni Islamic extremist network composed of Salafist jihadists. It was founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War.
What is Al-Qaeda?
The name of the 2025 bombing operation of the underground Iran Nuclear facilities.
What is Operation Midnight Hammer?
The title of the leader of Iran?
Who is the Ayatolla, the Supreme Leader?
The country of ___________ is currently invading the Eastern European country of ___________.
What are Russia and Ukraine?
Bonus: 200 points each: Name the leaders of these 2 countries?
The first and last names of the current President and Vice President of the United States AND their political affiliation.
Who are Donald Trump and JD Vance AND Republicans?
Bonus: What states do these 2 politicians currently represent?
The 2 chambers of our National Legislature.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Bonus: 200 points for each:
The names of those that represent the Snowflake / Taylor area in the United States Congress?
The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
What is asylum?
a form of government in which one or more deities of some type is recognized as the supreme ruling authority, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the day-to-day affairs of the government.
What is a theocracy?
The 2 most likely potential targets of flight 93 on 9/11.
Worth double.
What are the White House and U.S. Capital Building?
The name of the current military action taking place in Iran.
What is Operation Epic Fury?
Three of the agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.
An Extra 300 points for each one named after 3.
What are:
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
ICE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement
CBP – U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Secret Service
TSA – Transportation Security Administration
USCG - United States Coast Guard
To accuse an elected official of a crime and start the process to remove them from office.
What is impeachment?
The 3 branches of our Federal Government.
What are the Executive, Legislative and the Judicial Branches?
The modern Jewish nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe with the primary goal of establishing—and later supporting—a Jewish national state in the Land of Israel.
What is Zionism?
Bonus: In What year was the modern country of Israel established?
an Arabic word which literally means "striving" or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim. Often referring to fighting against the enemies of Islam.
What is Jihad?
The name and the country of the dictator that was "arrested" earlier this year by the Trump Administration.
Who is Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela?
Bonus: What was the name of this operation?
Multiple answers possible. Worth 300 Points each.
The reasons the Trump Administration has given to justify the current war in Iran.
What are:
Recent killing of 30,000+ protesters
The American Embassy Hostages
The bombing and killing of U.S. soldiers in Lebanon
October 7th
Nuclear Program
Eliminating imminent Terror threats
Iran sponsoring terrorists
Destroy Iran's ability to wage war, WMD's
4 Answers needed.
What are the 2 parts of Congress?
Which political party has the majority in each part.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Republicans currently control both houses.
The jury in a U.S. Federal Impeachment trial.
Who is the Senate?
Bonus? How many of the Senators does it take to remove an elected official from office?
Division of powers between different levels of government and what those levels are top to bottom.
What is federalism? The Constitution, Federal, state, county, and local.
The phrase that has been used to refer to the human and monetary costs associated with war.
What is "Blood and Treasure"?
The number of terrorists on the airplanes on 9/11.
What is 19?
Bonus: From what country did most of them come from?
How the U.S. Military refers to suspected terrorists who are being held at Gitmo as prisoners of war.
What are "Detainees"?
The main U.S. Ally in the current war in Iran.
Who is Israel?
2 answers
The main U.S. foreign spy agency
AND
the main U.S. domestic spy or intelligence agency?
What are the CIA and the NSA?
Bonus: What do each stand for?
The place on the simple political spectrum where most Americans are and why.
What is Most people are somewhere in the middle, moderate, of the political spectrum because the middle is the sum of the overall political beliefs of Americans at any given time?
The most powerful of the 3 branches of our Federal Government.
TRICK QUESTION!!
NONE ARE MORE POWERFUL -
CHECKS AND BALANCES:)
To forgive a large group of people of a political crime, especially associated with people who have illegally migrated into a country.
What is Amnesty?
The estimated number of muslims who are sympathetic to the radical Islamic ideology.
What is 5-25% or 50-500 million radical muslims?
Bonus: What is the goal of the most extreme Islamic radicals?
The approximate amount of money being spent each day on the current war in Iran.
What is about $1 Billion?
The waterway that is currently causing gas prices to rise.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
The simple way, according to the Constitution, for a bill to become a law.
3 steps - in the right order:)
What is a bill must get a majority vote in the House of Representatives, a majority vote in the Senate, then it must be signed by the President of the U.S.?
Bonus: What is the minimum # of votes from Senators that a bill can get and still pass?
The body or group that holds ULTIMATE power in the United States of America.
What is the people?
2 answers - WORTH DOUBLE!!!
The country where Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Military AND the President who authorized the mission.
What is Pakistan and President Obama?
Multiple Answers! Worth double! Make sure you know them all before attempting to answer.
Who has the Constitutional power to Declare War?
AND Name at least 4 different countries that we have officially declared war on in our history for 1200 points
Name 6 countries for 1800 points
Who is Congress?
And Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
The Political / Terrorist group that attacked Israel on 10/7/2023.
Who is Hamas?