Wordplay
The "highest court" in the land.
What is the basketball court on the top floor of the Supreme Court building?
This person was a famous but distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson.
Who is John Marshall?
This state did not show up to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
Name the current Supreme Court Justices. (Each is worth 10 points - a bonus 5 points each for properly designating the Chief Justice and the newest appointee.)
Who are John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This is the definition for gradus as it appears in our class.
What is a step?
These two U.S. presidents died on exactly the same day.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
The number of commissions from the Judiciary Act of 1801 that were not delivered.
What is 11?
Name one of the years from the in-class timeline on the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. (40 pts each)
When was 1776, 1777, 1781, 1783, and 1787?
The name of the chair that George Washington sat in during the Constitutional Convention.
This U.S. president is the only president to also be a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is William Howard Taft?
These delegates were at the Constitutional Convention but did not sign the document. (Name at least 1)
Who is Edmund Randolph, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry?
Name one scene depicted on either the bronze doors or a person depicted in the South and North Friezes of the Supreme Court building. (15 points per correct answer)
What is the Shield of Achilles, the Praetor's Edict, the Julian and Scholar, the Justinian Code, the Magna Carta, the Westminister Statute, Coke and James I, and Marshall and Story?
Who are Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, Octavian, Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemagne, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon?