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JEOPARDY!S2C13 Jeopardy Review

And the categories are…

“The Right Stuff”

“My Favorite College”

“Road to the White House”

“What’s in the Cabinet?”

“The Presidential Library”

TheRightStuff

My Favorite College

Road To TheWhite House

What’s In TheCabinet?

The Presidential

Library

100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500

Round 2:

Double Jeopardy

The Good Stuff

How is the

President?

My Favorite College

Changing Majors

Bush’s Brain.

400 400 400 400 400

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1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

Final Jeopardy

The Category is…

Make your wager now…

Presidential Firsts

And the answer is…This president was the first to use a

television ad in his campaign….

Who was Dwight Eisenhower?

The Right Stuff100

The 4 Constitutional requirements for the Presidency…

A: What are at least 35 years old, natural-born citizen, 14 year resident, can serve no more than 2 terms/10 years??

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The Right Stuff 200

A: What are white, male, protestant, married, middle/upper-class upbringing, educated?

Four common characteristics of past presidents…


The Right Stuff 300

A: What are governors, Senators, VP, Representatives?

2 examples of political positions held by many presidents…


The Right Stuff 400

A: What is $100 million?

In order to be considered a “serious” candidate for the 2008 presidential

election, candidates may have to raise more than this amount…


The Right Stuff 500

A: Who are Obama, Clinton, Edwards (others), McCain, Giuliani, Romney (others)?

One Democratic candidate for President and one Republican candidate for President…


The Good Stuff400

A: What is $400,000?

This is the dollar amount that the President is paid each year…


The Good Stuff 800

A: What is criticism, danger, responsibility, tough decisions, (others)?

One of the downsides to being the President of the United States…


The Good Stuff 1000

A: What is Camp David?

This is the name given to the Presidential retreat in Maryland…


My Favorite College 100

A: What is 538?

This is the total number of electoral votes in the whole US…



A: What is 21?

The number of EV’s that Pennsylvania has…



A: Who is # of Senators + # of Representatives?

The formula for determining the # of EV’s each state gets…



A: Who is a political party’s slate of electors?

When voters cast their ballots for President and VP, they are actually

voting for this group…



A: What is the popular vote winner can lose the election?

The 2000 election highlighted this problem with the Electoral College…



A: What are California, Texas (others), and PA, NY (others)?

Two states that are gaining EV’s and two states that are losing EV’s…



A: What is in their respective state capitals?

The Electoral College has no campus; its members meet here in the middle of

December…



A: Who are state legislatures?

Originally, the electoral college was chosen by these groups in each state…


Road to the White House100

A: What is self-nomination?

The first step in the Presidential electoral process…


Road to the White House 200

A: What is a closed primary?

A state-wide election, for the purpose of selecting a party’s candidate, in which

only party members can vote…



A: What is Super Tuesday?

After this important date, you may know who the Democratic and

Republican candidates for President are…



A: What is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November?

This is the day of the General Election, always the same every year…



A: What are Iowa and New Hampshire?

These 2 “first” states are often considered the most important when it comes to choosing candidates for the

Presidency…


How is the President? 400

A: Who is Dick Cheney?

Our current Vice-President…



A: Who are VP, Speaker, President Pro-Tem, Sec. Of State?

The first 4 people behind the President in the order of succession…



A: What is the order in which they were created chronologically?

The cabinet members in the order of succession are arranged in an order

based on this…


What’s in the Cabinet? 100

A: Who is Hillary Clinton?

Pictured here, our current Secretary of

State…



A: Who is Robert Gates?

Pictured here, our current Secretary of

Defense…



A: Who is Eric Holder?


Pictured here, our current Attorney

General…


A: What are the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Defense?


These first four departments are considered part of the “inner

cabinet”…


A: What is the Department of Justice?

The Attorney General, who is head of this department, could be called its Secretary, but

is not…


Changing Majors 400

A: What is the Department of Homeland Security?

After 9/11, this department was created; some want to move it forward in the order of

succession…


Changing Majors 800

A: What are direct national election, proportional distribution of Electoral Votes?

One of the proposed reforms/changes that could be made to the Electoral College…


Changing Majors 1000

A: What is the Vice-President?

The 25th amendment, dealing with presidential disability, enabled this person,

along with a majority of the Cabinet, to determine when the President was unfit to

hold office…


The Presidential Library100

A: Who is Gerald Ford?


Only un-elected President in American history…

The Presidential Library 200

A: What is the oath of office?


When a President is sworn into office, he recites this particular phrase, as required by

the Constitution…


A: What is 270, a majority?


The number of Electoral votes needed to win the Presidency…


A: Who is the House of Representatives?

If no candidate wins the Electoral College, this group decides the winner of the Presidency…



A: Who are John Tyler, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald Ford?


One example of a vice-president who took over after a president died,

resigned or was disabled…

Bush’s Brain400

A: What is Florida?


This state’s electoral votes were contested in the 2000 election; the Supreme Court’s ruling essentially gave them (and the Presidency) to

Bush

Bush’s Brain 800

A: What are Bushisms?


Term used to describe the funny quotes or misuses of words by the 43rd

president…

Bush’s Brain 1000

A: Who is Timothy Geithner?


Pictured here, the Secretary of the

Treasury…

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