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Jeopardy A B C D Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Final Jeopardy

What is the Legislative Branch’s main job? $100 Question What is the Legislative Branch’s main job?

$100 Answer from Fraction Lingo To make laws

What is the main job of the Executive Branch? $200 Question What is the main job of the Executive Branch?

$200 Answer To carry out the laws

Name one group that makes up Congress $300 Question Name one group that makes up Congress

Senate or House of Representatives $300 Answer Senate or House of Representatives

List 2 requirements to be President $400 Question List 2 requirements to be President

Citizen of the US for 14 years $400 Answer 35 years old Natural born citizen Citizen of the US for 14 years

What is the job of the Judicial Branch? $500 Question What is the job of the Judicial Branch?

To interpret (understand) laws $500 Answer To interpret (understand) laws

$100 Question Which branch of government has the Supreme Court?

$100 Answer Judicial Branch

$200 Question What is the name of the document that the United States uses as its rule of law?

$200 Answer The Constitution

$300 Question from Multiplying Fractions Who were three framers of the Constitution?

$300 Answer from Multiplying Fractions George Washington James Madison Benjamin Franklin

After an idea for a bill, the proposed bill goes to a... $400 Question After an idea for a bill, the proposed bill goes to a...

$400 Answer Committee

$500 Question Where does a bill go after it’s gone to committee for review?

Senate or House of Representatives for vote $500 Answer Senate or House of Representatives for vote

Who is the head of the Executive Branch? $100 Question Who is the head of the Executive Branch?

$100 Answer The President and cabinet members

$200 Question Changes to the Constitution are called

$200 Answer Amendments

List one duty of the Legislative Branch $300 Question List one duty of the Legislative Branch

$300 Answer

$400 Question Explain one power of the Executive Branch

$400 Answer

$500 Question If the President signs a bill, then it is sent to the ____________ Branch to decide if the law in constitutional.

$500 Answer Judicial

The Bill of Rights is the first ____Amendments $100 Question The Bill of Rights is the first ____Amendments

$100 Answer 10

$200 Question What is a change to the Constitution called?

$200 Answer Amendment

When a President denies a bill going through, this is called …: $300 Question When a President denies a bill going through, this is called …:

$300 Answer veto

$400 Question When the Constitution was first written, what was missing?

$400 Answer A Bill of Rights

$500 Question Why are there three Branches of Government?

Checks and Balances- so not one Branch has too much power. $500 Answer Checks and Balances- so not one Branch has too much power.

Name 5 of the first 13 colonies? Final Jeopardy Name 5 of the first 13 colonies?

Final Jeopardy Answer New Hampshire Georgia New York North Carolina Massachusetts South Carolina Maryland Virginia Delaware New Jersey Rhode Island    Pennsylvania Connecticut