Sponge Questions Days 21 & 22

Question 1

How many sessions are for each term of Congress?

Answer 1

Two

Question 2

The total number of sheets in the House of Representatives is _________ among the states

Answer 2

apportioned

Question 3

Every ten years a census is taken. Also, the seats are

Answer 3

reapportioned

Question 4

What two houses make up Congress

Answer 4

House of Representatives and the Senate

Question 5

Which name is given to Congressional elections that occur in non-presidential years?

Answer 5

Off-year elections or Mid-Term

Question 6

Means that district maps have been drawn to favor a political party or faction that controls the Senate legislature

Answer 6

Gerrymandering

Question 7

What name is given to the people who elected officials represent?

Answer 7

Constitutents

Question 8

What set the number of representatives in the House at 435?

Answer 8

Reapportionment Act of 1929

Question 9

What term describes the number of members that must be in attendance to conduct business?

Answer 9

Quarum

Question 10

Who is the permanent presiding officer in the House of Representatives

Answer 10

Speaker of the House

Question 11

What book scared President Teddy Roosevelt to the point that he proposed the Food and Drug Administration to Congress?

Answer 11

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair