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Court-A-Palooza
Failure
Its the Law
They did WHAT?!
I Have No Idea Who You Are Talking About
100
In Coates v. Cincinnati the Court upheld your constitutional right to be annoying (yes, I read that correctly) on these grounds
What is the First Amendment?
100
Name two out of the four presidents who failed to win the popular vote, despite winning the presidential election
Who is George W. Bush/Benjamin Harrison/Rutherford B. Hayes/John Quincy Adams?
100
The nationwide drinking age was snuck in as a federal mandate connected to funding for this
What are highways?
100
This independent regulatory agency issued rules allowing for 8 insect parts in every 100 grams of chocolate
What is the FDA?
100
This is Richard Nixon's middle name
What is Milhouse?
200
This case's majority ruling contains the sentence: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
What is Schenck v. United States?
200
The failure of this supreme court nominee to gain 50 votes eventually led to the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor
Who is Robert Bork?
200
When President Johnson signed this law after his reelection, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were in attendance.
What is the Voting Right Act of 1965?
200
In 1995 2 members of congress were convicted of using this special congressional power to embezzle thousands of dollars from the post office
What is the Franking Privilege?
200
Bill Bradley, senator from NJ and Presidential candidate, got a sharp rebuke from a waiter who didn't know who he was and thus refused to give him any more of this.
What is butter?
300
Alfred Smith sued the Employment Division of the State of Oregon because they fired him for using this drug to get high as a kite at work.
What is peyote?
300
Al Gore lost the presidency, and his self-respect, when he failed to win the electoral votes of this, his home state
What is Tennesee?
300
This law reforming the Civil Service system was passed after President Garfield was assassinated by a man who felt he had been cheated out of a government post.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
300
The Pentagon contains more bathrooms per employee than any other Cabinet department headquarters for this depressing reason. It never would have happened if they had just built it in Washington DC like the other headquarters.
What is segregation? (the pentagon was built in the 1940's in Virginia)
300
This group starts their sessions on January 3rd of all odd-numbered years
Who is The United States Congress?
400
In National Federation of Independent Business v. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services the supreme court ruled that this law was, in fact, a form of taxation and thus was completely constitutional
What is Obamacare/Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/PPACA?
400
This president has had the largest number of direct (armed and in person) assassination attempts. All failed.
Who is Gerald Ford? BONUS QUESTION!!!- What feature did both of Ford's would-be assassins have in common?
400
President Warren G. Harding was said to have violated the constitution on a daily basis while in office by doing this. Don't worry, he waited until after 5 p.m.
What is drinking alcohol?
400
This government agency once ran a project called MKULTRA to create a mind-control drug. All they ended up creating was LSD.
What is the CIA?
400
This convicted rapist and murderer appeared in several ads attacking the record of Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis
Who is Willie Horton?
500
This 1942 case about a farmer who grew more wheat than the New Deal allowed led to a vast expansion of federal power under the Commerce Clause
What is Wickard v. Filburn?
500
This president lost 8 straight elections before becoming president, a presidential failure record.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
500
This is the subject of the 11th amendment
What are limits on Judicial Authority?
500
This government agency was lambasted for spending 823,000 dollars on a weekend conference for its leadership in Las Vegas. Oh well, at least it was well organized.
What is the GSA?
500
This South Carolina Democrat delivered the longest filibuster in American History (against the Civil Rights Act)
Who is Strom Thurmond?