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Final Jeopardy Round 1 Round 2

Who’s yer fav teacher? 1 Wuzup? 6 You da bomb 2 Pass da APGO 3 Who Loves Ya? 4 Yo Mama 5 Round 2 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 Final Jeopardy $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 Scores $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

$100 What is the name of the powerful House committee that determines how much time for debate and how many amendments will be allowed on the floor of the House?

What is the “Rules” Committee? $100 What is the “Rules” Committee? Scores

$200 The title given to the assistant to the majority leader whose job is to keep party members in line when there is a vote… $200

What is the “Whip”? $200 Scores

$300 The name of the nonpartisan agency that provides Congress with cost estimates for every bill and economic reports related to budget proposals $300

What is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)? $300 Scores

$400 What is the term for representatives trading their votes to gain support from colleagues for bills they support? $400

What is “Logrolling?” $400 Scores

$500 The term for a joint committee of members of the House and Senate that is formed to reconcile bills passed by both houses $500

What is a “Conference Committee?” $500 What is a “Conference Committee?” Scores

$100 The name of the committees in the House and Senate that approve all spending bills $100

What is Appropriations? $100 Scores

$200 Leader of the House of Representatives who is second in line to be president if the president dies in office $200

What is the Speaker of the House $200 What is the Speaker of the House Scores

$300 The name of the Senate committee that holds confirmation hearings for all federal judicial nominees. $300

What is the Judiciary Committee? $300 Scores

Daily Double

$400 Identify the house of Congress that permits a minority of members to block legislation by Filibuster. : $400

$400 What is the Senate? Scores

$500 The name for organized groups of congressmen or women such as the Blue Dogs or Tea Party who share interests based on common characteristics such as political philosophy, race, or ethnicity $500

What is a caucus? $500 Scores

$600 The title of the speech the president presents to Congress each year in accordance with Article II, Section 3 of the constitution $600

What is the State of the Union Address $600 Scores

$700 What is the title of the president’s closest advisor who coordinates the president’s daily schedule? $700

What is the Chief of Staff? $700 Scores

$100 Identify three formal or constitutional powers of the president.

$100 Commander in Chief (Commit Troops) Executive Power (i.e. Executive Orders) Legislative Powers (Chief Legislator) Appointment Powers (Supreme Court Nominations) Clemency Powers (Pardon) Scores

$200 Informal power of the president, limited by the Supreme Court in the case of U.S. v. Nixon $200

What is Executive Privilege? $200 Scores

Daily Double

Identify one formal constitutional power of the vice-president $300 Identify one formal constitutional power of the vice-president

Becoming President if Chief is killed? Tie Breaker in Senate? Becoming President if Chief is killed? Becoming acting Pres. If Chief is incapacitated? $300 Scores

$400 What is the title of the White House advisor who is the president’s spokesperson and who meets daily with the media?

What is the Press Secretary? $400 Scores

$500 What is the name of the agency in the Executive Office of the President that oversees preparation of the president’s budget? $500

Management and Budget (OMB)? What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)? $500 Scores

$100 Name of the agency in the Executive Office of the President that advises the president on economic policy

What is the Council of Economic Advisors? $100 Scores

What is the name the executive department responsible the $200 What is the name the executive department responsible the nation’s foreign policy?

What is the State Department? $200 What is the State Department? Scores

$300 Name the 1883 law that established the merit system for hiring and promoting federal employees $300

What is the Pendleton Act? $300 What is the Pendleton Act? Scores

$400 General name for the part of the federal bureaucracy that includes AMTRAK, the US Postal Service, and FDIC

What are Government Corporations? $400 Scores

Daily Double

$500 Identify one way that Congress can limit bureaucratic power

They can: 1. Cut an agency’s budget. 2. Hold hearings on an agency’s conduct. 3. They can change a law that affects an agency’s authority. $500 Scores

Title of the head of the Department of Justice $100 Title of the head of the Department of Justice

Who is the Attorney General (AG)? $100 Scores

$200 Name the agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to investigate complaints of job discrimination $200

What is the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)? $200 Scores

Daily Double

The 1939 law that placed restrictions on the political activities of federal employees $300

$300 What is the Hatch Act? Scores

Name given to the 94 lowest level courts in the federal court system $400 Name given to the 94 lowest level courts in the federal court system

What are the District Courts? $400 What are the District Courts? Scores

Name of the longest serving Chief Justice whose decisions transformed the Court into an equal branch of government $500

Who is John Marshall? Scores

Number of Supreme Court justices who must agree to hear a case $100

The “Rule of 4.” $100 Scores

$200 Term for a “friend of the court” brief filed by an interest group that provides the justices with information that may be relevant to the case $200

What is Amicus Curiae? $200 Scores

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Term for a written appeal for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court $300

What is writ of certiorari? $300 Scores

Term for the authority of a court to hear a case first $400

What is Original Jurisdiction? $400 Scores

$500 Term for the authority of a court to review a case heard by a lower court $500

What is Appellate Jurisdiction? Scores

Approximate number of cases heard by the Supreme Court each year $100

What is 100? $100 Scores

$200 Term for an opinion written by one or more justices who are in the majority but want to express a separate opinion from the majority opinion $200

What is a concurring opinion? $200 Scores

Daily Double

$300 Name of the Chief Justice who presided over the Court during the 1960s, during which the Court expanded the rights of persons accused of crimes $300

Who is Earl Warren? $300 Scores

Name of the current Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court $400

Who is John Roberts? $400 Scores

$500 Term for a judicial philosophy that interprets the Constitution broadly $500

What is judicial activism? Scores

Final Jeopardy Question Becoming a Senator Final Jeopardy Question Scores

Identify three constitutional qualifications for members of the Senate Scores

Resident of state he/she is At least 30 years of age Citizen of US for 9 years Resident of state he/she is going to run for Scores