1. Presidential
JEOPARDY!
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2. And the categories are…
“The Right Stuff”

3. “My Favorite College”

4. “Road to the White
House”

5. “What’s in the
Cabinet?”

6. “The Presidential Library”

7. The The
My Favorite Road To The What’s In The
Right Presidential
Stuff
College White House Cabinet?
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

8. Round 2:
Double Jeopardy

9. How is
The Good My Favorite Changing
the Bush’s Brain.
Stuff College Majors
President?
400 400 400 400 400
800 800 800 800 800
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

10. Final Jeopardy
The Category is…
Presidential Firsts
Make your wager now…

11. And the answer is…
This president was the first to use a
television ad in his campaign….
Who was Dwight
Eisenhower?

12. The Right Stuff
100
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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13. The Right Stuff
200
Four common characteristics of past
presidents…
A: What are white, male, protestant, married, middle/upper-
class upbringing, educated?
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14. The Right Stuff
300
2 examples of political positions held by
many presidents…
A: What are governors, Senators, VP, Representatives?
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15. The Right Stuff
400
In order to be considered a “serious”
candidate for the 2008 presidential
election, candidates may have to raise
more than this amount…
A: What is $100 million?
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16. The Right Stuff
500
One Democratic candidate for President and
one Republican candidate for President…
A: Who are Obama, Clinton, Edwards (others), McCain,
Giuliani, Romney (others)?
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17. The Good Stuff
400
This is the dollar amount that the President is
paid each year…
A: What is $400,000?
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18. The Good Stuff
800
One of the downsides to being the President
of the United States…
A: What is criticism, danger, responsibility, tough decisions,
(others)?
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19. The Good Stuff
1000
This is the name given to the Presidential
retreat in Maryland…
A: What is Camp David?
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20. My Favorite College
100
This is the total number of electoral
votes in the whole US…
A: What is 538?
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21. My Favorite College
200
The number of EV’s that Pennsylvania
has…
A: What is 21?
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22. My Favorite College
300
The formula for determining the # of
EV’s each state gets…
A: Who is # of Senators + # of Representatives?
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23. My Favorite College
400
When voters cast their ballots for
President and VP, they are actually
voting for this group…
A: Who is a political party’s slate of electors?
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24. My Favorite College
500
The 2000 election highlighted this
problem with the Electoral College…
A: What is the popular vote winner can lose the election?
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25. My Favorite College
400
Two states that are gaining EV’s and
two states that are losing EV’s…
A: What are California, Texas (others), and PA, NY
(others)?
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26. My Favorite College
800
The Electoral College has no campus;
its members meet here in the middle of
December…
A: What is in their respective state capitals?
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27. My Favorite College
1000
Originally, the electoral college was
chosen by these groups in each state…
A: Who are state legislatures?
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28. Road to the White House
100
The first step in the Presidential
electoral process…
A: What is self-nomination?
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29. Road to the White House
200
A state-wide election, for the purpose of
selecting a party’s candidate, in which
only party members can vote…
A: What is a closed primary?
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30. Road to the White House
300
After this important date, you may
know who the Democratic and
Republican candidates for President
are…
A: What is Super Tuesday?
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31. Road to the White House
400
This is the day of the General Election,
always the same every year…
A: What is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November?
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32. Road to the White House
500
These 2 “first” states are often
considered the most important when it
comes to choosing candidates for the
Presidency…
A: What are Iowa and New Hampshire?
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33. How is the President?
400
Our current Vice-
President…
A: Who is Dick Cheney?
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34. How is the President?
800
The first 4 people behind the President
in the order of succession…
A: Who are VP, Speaker, President Pro-Tem, Sec. Of State?
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35. How is the President?
1000
The cabinet members in the order of
succession are arranged in an order
based on this…
A: What is the order in which they were created chronologically?
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36. What’s in the Cabinet?
100
Pictured here, our
current Secretary of
State…
A: Who is Hillary Clinton?
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37. What’s in the Cabinet?
200
Pictured here, our
current Secretary of
Defense…
A: Who is Robert Gates?
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38. What’s in the Cabinet?
300
Pictured here, our
current Attorney
General…
A: Who is Eric Holder?
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39. What’s in the Cabinet?
400
These first four departments are
considered part of the “inner
cabinet”…
A: What are the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice,
Defense?
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40. What’s in the Cabinet?
500
The Attorney General, who is head of this
department, could be called its Secretary, but
is not…
A: What is the Department of Justice?
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41. Changing Majors
400
After 9/11, this department was created;
some want to move it forward in the order of
succession…
A: What is the Department of Homeland Security?
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42. Changing Majors
800
One of the proposed reforms/changes that
could be made to the Electoral College…
A: What are direct national election, proportional
distribution of Electoral Votes?
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43. Changing Majors
1000
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…
A: What is the Vice-President?
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44. The Presidential Library
100
Only un-elected President in
American history…
A: Who is Gerald Ford?
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45. The Presidential Library
200
When a President is sworn into office, he
recites this particular phrase, as required by
the Constitution…
A: What is the oath of office?
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46. The Presidential Library
300
The number of Electoral votes needed to
win the Presidency…
A: What is 270, a majority?
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47. The Presidential Library
400
If no candidate wins the Electoral College, this
group decides the winner of the Presidency…
A: Who is the House of Representatives?
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48. The Presidential Library
500
One example of a vice-president who
took over after a president died,
resigned or was disabled…
A: Who are John Tyler, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman,
Lyndon Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore,
Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald Ford?
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49. Bush’s Brain
400
This state’s electoral votes were contested in
the 2000 election; the Supreme Court’s
ruling essentially gave them (and the
Presidency) to Bush
A: What is Florida?
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50. Bush’s Brain
800
Term used to describe the funny quotes
or misuses of words by the 43rd
president…
A: What are Bushisms?
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51. Bush’s Brain
1000
Pictured here, the
Secretary of the
Treasury…
A: Who is Timothy Geithner?
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52. Daily Double
Make your
wager now…

53. Daily Double
Make your wager
now…