General Trivia
The role/job of the Legislative Branch?
What is to create laws
The name for the united houses of the legislative branch
What is Congress
Where the President lives
What is the White House (DC)
How the judicial branch checks other branches
What is by ruling laws/actions unconstitutional
Name of the leader of the House of Representatives
What is the Speaker of the House
The job of the Executive Branch
What is to enforce laws
The number of senators in the Senate
What is 100
How long a presidential term lasts
What is 4 years (2 terms maximum)
The highest court in the United States
What is the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C.
The name of the sitting President
Donald Trump
The role/job of the Judicial Branch
What is interpreting the laws.
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives
What is 435
How the President checks the legislative branch
What is by vetoing bills.
What is 9 Supreme Court Justices
The name of the first president of the United States
George Washington
When the President doesn’t sign a bill within 10 days while Congress is not in session, and it fails to become law
What is a pocket veto
How the Legislative Branch checks the President
What is by Overriding vetoes, approving presidential appointments, and declaring war
The requirements to run for President of the United States
Must be at least 35 years old.
Must be a natural-born citizen.
Must have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years (uninterrupted)
How the Judicial Branch is organized
What is The Supreme Court, lower federal courts, circuit courts.
The name of the 16th President
Abraham Lincoln
Name of the leader of the Senate
What is the Vice President
How the Legislative Branch checks the Supreme Court
What is by impeaching judges and by confirming presidential judicial appointments
The order of succession if the President dies in office
What is The Vice President → the Speaker of the House → the President Pro Tempore of Senate
How appeals travel up the court system
What is the Original Court → Court of Appeals (Appellate Court) → State Supreme Court → (if applicable) U.S. Supreme Court
Where Ms. G is going for Spring Break
Washington DC