Jeopardy Basics Executive Branch BureaucracyDepartments Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy President’s Powers

$100 Question from Basics What the President’s salary is called

$100 Answer from Basics What is compensation?

$200 Question from Basics One of the requirements to be President

$200 Answer from Basics What is 35 years of age/natural-born citizen/14 year resident?

$300 Question from Basics The person assigned the task of presiding over the Senate in the Constitution

$300 Answer from Basics Who is the Vice President?

$400 Question from Basics Electors are elected by popular vote, but the president is elected by

$400 Answer from Basics What the Electoral College?

$500 Question from Basics This created the civil service system.

$500 Answer from Basics What is the Pendleton Act?

$100 Question from President’s Powers The most important duty of the President

$100 Answer from President’s Powers What is to execute the laws faithfully?

$200 Question President’s Powers The President has the power to make these with the heads of other countries without any congressional action or approval

$200 Answer from President’s Powers What are executive agreements?

$300 Question from President’s Powers Franklin D. Roosevelt won in a landslide because Herbert Hoover failed to understand this

$300 Answer from President’s Powers What are the moods and fears of the people?

$400 Question from President’s Powers A group pardon for an offense against the government is known as?

$400 Answer from President’s Powers What is amnesty?

$500 Question from President’s Powers This resolution has essentially limited the President’s power to make undeclared war

$500 Answer from President’s Powers What is the War Powers Resolution of 1973?

$100 Question from Executive Branch The title of department is reserved for agencies of this rank?

$100 Answer from Executive Branch What is Cabinet?

$200 Question from Executive Branch The other role of Cabinet members, in addition to advising the President

$200 Answer from Executive Branch What is head of one of the 14 departments?

$300 Question from Executive Branch Which method does the United States use to elect its president? a)direct election b)chosen by representatives of the people c)nominated by people, chosen by legislature d)elected by legislature

$300 Answer from Executive Branch What is b) chosen by representatives of the people

$400 Question from Executive Branch When agencies, congressional committees, and client groups work together it is called

$400 Answer from Executive Branch What is an iron triangle?

$500 Question from Executive Branch The right of the president to refuse to testify before Congress or a court

$500 Answer from Executive Branch What is executive privilege?

$100 Question from Bureaucracy What federal employees who report wrongdoing in their department or agency

$100 Answer from Bureaucracy What are whistleblowers?

$200 Question from Bureaucracy What civil servants who work for the federal government are called

$200 Answer from Bureaucracy What are bureaucrats?

$300 Question from Bureaucracy The major power Congress has over the bureaucracy is the

$300 Answer from Bureaucracy What is the power of the purse?

$400 Question from Bureaucracy Offices of ambassadors in foreign countries are called

$400 Answer from Bureaucracy What are embassies?

$500 Question from Bureaucracy Independent agencies function as government corporations, serving the public while being operated by the government as a business. Complete the chart, identifying three of these corporations.

$500 Answer from Bureaucracy What is the U.S. Postal Service?

$100 Question from Departments This department is responsible for the overall foreign policy of the United States

$100 Answer from Departments What is the Department of State/State Dept.?

$200 Question from Departments This department was once called the Department of War?

$200 Answer from What is the Department of Defense?

$300 Question from Departments This act limits federal employees’ involvement in election campaigns.

$300 Answer from Departments What is the Hatch Act?

$400 Question from Departments This cabinet agency was created in response to the terrorist attacks of 2001

$400 Answer from Departments What is the Department of Homeland Security?

$500 Question from Departments The MAIN goal of the civil service today

$500 Answer from Departments To recruit and keep the best available people in the federal work force

Final Jeopardy

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