Constitution basketball

Question 1

What is the term length for the House?

What is the word for speaking endlessly to “kill a bill”?

Answer 1

• 2 yrs.

- filibuster

Question 2

Which house of Congress presents impeachment charges?

Name one of California’s two senators.

Answer 2

• House of Reps

- Kamala Harris or Dianne Feinstein

Question 3

What is the title of the person who presides over the House of Representatives?

Who presides over the Senate?

Answer 3

• Speaker of the House

- VP (Mike Pence)

Question 4

What are the three requirements for being in the Senate?

Answer 4

• 30 years old
• 9 years a citizen
• live in the state you’re representing

Question 5

How many days does a President have to make a decision on a bill?

How many hours can a speech last in the House of Representatives?

Answer 5

• 10 days

- 1 hr.

Question 6

Who would win an election if the votes were distributed like this:

State 1: 4 electoral votes, 8 Keller, 11 Eisner

State 2: 8 electoral votes, 17 Keller, 12 Eisner

State 3: 4 electoral votes, 6 Keller, 7 Eisner

Answer 6

It would be a tie… so the House would decide.

Question 7

What is the term for when the President holds onto the bill for more than ten days and Congress is NOT still in session?

Does the bill become a law or does it die?

Answer 7

• pocket veto

- dies

Question 8

What are the three requirements for being President?

Answer 8

• 35 years old
• natural-born citizen
• lived in US 14 years

Question 9

What is the name for the people who advise the President?

How long do federal judges serve?

Answer 9

• the Cabinet

- for life (on good behavior)

Question 10

How many people are in the House of Representatives?

If a state has 35 Electors, how many people does it have in the House of Representatives?

Answer 10

• 435

- 33

Question 11

What fraction of the states need to ratify an amendment?

What are the three branches of government?

Answer 11

• 3/4

- executive, judicial, legislative

Question 12

Extradition must be requested by whom?

Who must approve if West Virginia and Virginia want to merge?

Answer 12

• Governor (of the state the criminal fled from)

- Congress and both states’ legislatures

Question 13

What fraction of Congress is needed to propose an Amendment to the Constitution?

If you are from Arizona but are traveling in Kansas, which state’s laws must you follow?

Answer 13

• 2/3

- Kansas’

Question 14

What is the name of the clause that requires Oregon to respect all of California’s laws, legal decisions, etc.?

Who is Menlo Park’s current Representative?

Answer 14

• full faith and credit clause

- Anna Eshoo

Question 15

Which President resigned rather than face impeachment?

What is the vote required in Congress to override a Presidential veto?

Answer 15

• Nixon

- 2/3

Question 16

Who can declare a law unconstitutional?

What is the name of the procedure for stopping a filibuster?

Answer 16

• Supreme Court

- cloture

Question 17

• What is the name of the power of the Supreme Court to judge the constitutionality of executive and legislative actions?
• Who are the two Presidents (last names are fine) who were impeached?

Answer 17

• judicial review

- Johnson and Clinton

Question 18

If someone commits a murder in North Dakota and vandalism in South Dakota, to which state is s/he returned for a trial?

How much of the Senate is up for reelection ever time there is an election (every two years)?

Answer 18

• North Dakota

- 1/3

Question 19

What is the last major stop for a bill before it goes to the President?

Who presides over an impeachment trial in the Senate?

Answer 19

• Conference Committee

- Chief Justice

Question 20

How many people are on the Supreme Court?

What fraction of the Senate has to approve treaties made by the President?

Answer 20

• 9

- 2/3