1. Federal and Supreme Court
Jeopardy
What to do in
Court
State and
Local Courts
Federal and Supreme Court
Your
Freedoms
Supreme Court Cases
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Final Jeopardy

2. $100 Question from What to do in Court
What is the plaintiff seeking in a
civil lawsuit?

3. $100 Answer from What to do in Court
Money
(16)

4. $200 Question from What to do in Court
Name the 2 ways they
select you for jury duty.

5. $200 Answer from What to do in Court
Through your voter registration records
and through your driver’s license #s
(30)

6. $300 Question from What to do in Court
What is a court order forbidding the
defendant (even if it’s the government)
from taking or continuing a certain action
called?

7. $300 Answer from What to do in Court
An injunction
(18)
(a writ of mandamus is court order ordering someone to do something)

8. $400 Question from What to do in Court
What does a grand jury determine?

9. $400 Answer from What to do in Court
If there is enough evidence to go onto
a trial jury
(26)

10. $500 Question from What to do in Court
What is a delinquent?
(in the judicial sense)

11. $500 Answer from What to do in Court
Any minor who has committed offenses/crimes that would also be considered crimes for an adult
(40)

12. $100 Question from State and Local Courts
Where is the Loudoun County Courthouse?

13. $100 Answer from State and Local Courts
Leesburg
(43)

14. $200 Question from State and Local Courts
Who elects justices to the VA Supreme Court?

15. $200 Answer from State and Local Courts
The General Assembly
(45)

16. $300 Question from State and Local Courts
Which court handles divorce cases?

17. $300 Answer from State and Local Courts
Circuit Court
(42)

18. $400 Question from State and Local Courts
Who gives marriage licenses out in
Loudoun County?

19. $400 Answer from State and Local Courts
Loudoun County Court Clerk Gary Clemens
(46)

20. $500 Question from State and Local Courts
What is the $ limit for small claims court?

21. $500 Answer from State and Local Courts
$5000 (or less)
(41)

22. $100 Question from Federal and Supreme Court
What article of the Constitution talks about
the judicial branch?

23. $100 Answer from Federal and Supreme Court
Article 3
(5)

24. $200 Question from Federal and Supreme Court
Who appoints/nominates
all federal judges and Supreme Court justices?

25. $200 Answer from Federal and Supreme Court
The President (38,54)
(Congress must approve of them though!)

26. $300 Question from Federal and Supreme Court
How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?

27. $300 Answer from Federal and Supreme Court
Nine
(52)

28. $400 Question from Federal and Supreme Court
What is the winning opinion about a
Supreme Court case called?

29. $400 Answer from Federal and Supreme Court
The Majority Opinion
(69)
(the opinion from the losing side is called
the dissenting opinion)

30. $500 Question from Federal and Supreme Court
What is the name of the lawyer who represents the
government in front of the Supreme Court called?

31. $500 Answer from Federal and Supreme Court
The Solicitor General
(58)

32. $100 Question from Your Freedoms
What is the “verbal expression of
thought and opinion before an audience
that has chosen to listen called”?
(for example – a guest speaker at a lecture)

33. $100 Answer from Your Freedoms
Pure Speech
(79)

34. $200 Question from Your Freedoms
Name 2 examples when the police does not need
to use a warrant.

35. $200 Answer from Your Freedoms
Searching around the area of the accused
They think you are carrying a weapon
You agree to be searched
An object connected to case is in plain eyesight
You flee the scene of a crime
The police believe your car contains illegal items
An emergency situation occurs
If you are under the influence
You are crossing the border or boarding a plane or boat
You are in the presence of a felon
(93)

36. $300 Question from Your Freedoms
What is the difference between slander and libel?
(Give a definition for each)

37. $300 Answer from Your Freedoms
Slander is false speech that damages someone’s reputation that has been spoken. Libel is false speech that damages someone’s reputation that has been written down
(86)

38. $400 Question from Your Freedoms
What 3 part test stated that laws passed by the
government should not try to establish a government
religion (thus violating the 1st amendment –
freedom of religion)?

39. $400 Answer from Your Freedoms
The Lemon Test
(76)

40. $500 Question from Your Freedoms
What’s another name for the following?
“lewd and obsecene, the libelous, and the insulting or _____________ – those which by their very utterance inflict injury or intend to incite a breach of the peace”
- Justice Frank Murphy, 1942

41. $500 Answer from Your Freedoms
Fighting Words
(87)

42. $100 Question from Supreme Court Cases
What Supreme Court case produced judicial review (the idea that the Supreme Court can rule any presidential or Congressional action unconstitutional)?

43. $100 Answer from Supreme Court Cases
Marbury V Madison
(50 and 61)

44. $200 Question from Supreme Court Cases
What is the Supreme Court’s view on
pornography?

45. $200 Answer from Supreme Court Cases
“I’ll know it when I see it”
(65)

46. $300 Question from Supreme Court Cases
What court case struck down segregation (the separation of the races) as well as the earlier decision of Plessy V Ferguson?

47. $300 Answer from Supreme Court Cases
Brown V Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
(62)

48. $400 Question from Supreme Court Cases
What court case allows teachers and
administrators to suspend students for lewd and indecent speech (even though they could say the same stuff at home)?

49. $400 Answer from Supreme Court Cases
Bethel School District V Fraser
(88)

50. $500 Question from Supreme Court Cases
What court case allows school officials to
search you in school?

51. $500 Answer from Supreme Court Cases
New Jersey V TLO
(95)

52. Final Jeopardy Question
Who is the Chief Justice
of the United States?

53. Chief Justice John Roberts
Final Jeopardy Answer
Chief Justice John Roberts
(53)