Founding Fathers
The founding father who had a role in the discovery of electricity
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The only president to be unanimously elected
Who is George Washington?
The phrase abbreviated by the letters "GDP"
What is Gross Domestic Product?
The national holiday that unofficially started with a harvest feast shared by the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag tribe
What is Thanksgiving?
The branch of government which "interprets" the law
What is the Judicial Branch?
The founding father whose name is a synonym for the word "signature"
Who is John Hancock?
The president after whom a stuffed animal is named
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
The primary source of a government's income
What are taxes (or levies)?
The European country who gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States
What is France?
The number of years in the term of a U.S. Senator
What are 6?
The founding father who wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The first president to appear on television
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The two primary economic forces that determine prices in a competitive market
What are supply and demand?
The sport often referred to as "America's national pastime"
What is baseball?
The number of amendments to the United States Constitution
What are 27?
The founding father who was first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John Jay?
The first president to appear in a movie
Who is Grover Cleveland? (In the silent film A Capital Courtship)
The Scottish man considered the "father of modern economics"
Who is Adam Smith?
The most popular self reported ethnicity in the United States
What is "German"?
The figure who becomes President if both the sitting President and Vice President are killed
Who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?
The date of death of both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
What is July 4, 1826?
The only president to be sworn in as his nickname
Who is James "Jimmy" Carter?
The fundamental problem, according to economists, that all societies face
What is scarcity?
The film inspired by the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s victory over the Soviet Union
What is "Miracle"?
The year in which the Constitution was written
What is 1787?