This document is a Jeopardy-style game about the structure and powers of Congress. It contains questions and answers about topics like the bicameral legislature, powers of Congress like taxation, and checks on its power from the Supreme Court and presidential veto. The game covers the key elements of the US congressional system like committees, the legislative process, and oversight of the executive branch.

1. Civics
&
Econ
JEOPARDY

2. Congress 1
Structure
100 200 300 400 500
Powers
100 200 300 400 500
Committees
100 200 300 400 500
Legislation
100 200 300 400 500
Check n’ balance
100 200 300 400 500
Non-legislative
100 200 300 400 500
F. J.

3. What is
bicameral?
The term that refers to a
legislature made up of
an upper and lower
house.

4. What is apportionment?
The process by which the
number of
representatives per state
is determined

5. Who is the Speaker of
the House?
Most powerful political
leader in the House of
Representatives.

6. What are white and
male?
The two most common
characteristics of
members of Congress

7. What is a Senator?
Elected by the entire
state

8. What are the enumerated
powers?
Powers specifically
mentioned in the
Constitution

9. What is the power to tax?
Enables Congress to raise
funds to maintain an
army and navy

10. What are concurrent power
Powers that can be
exercised both by the
federal government and
state governments

11. What is the Commerce Powe
The power most used by
Congress to extend its
power into everyday life

12. What are implied powers?
Those powers
contained in the
Necessary and Proper
clause in Article I of
the Constitution.

13. What is the need to
spread out the work
load?
The reason Congress
created its committee
structure

14. What is a conference
committee?
A type of joint committee
that works out the
differences between the
House’s and Senate’s
different versions of the
same bill

15. What are standing
committees?
Permanent committees
that are specialized by
topic

16. What is the House Rules
Committee?
Sets the time and
conditions under which
bills are considered by
the House of
Representatives

17. What is pigeonhole?
To set aside a bill to be
considered “later”

18. What is a 2/3 majority
vote of both Houses of
Congress?
Required to override a
President’s veto

19. What is a filibuster?
The tactic of talking a
bill “to death” in the
Senate

20. Daily
Double

21. What is the House of
Representatives?
Where tax and
appropriations bills
must begin

22. What is 1 %?
On average, the
percentage of bills that
become law

23. What is a rider?
A legislative measure
that is attached to a bill
likely to pass, because it
would not pass on its
own

24. What is to declare an
Act unconstitutional?
How the Supreme Court
checks the power of
Congress

25. What is to go through
the other House?
What a bill must do after
getting through one House
of Congress

26. Bulletin Board System
A central computer used
by special interest
groups to exchange info
on a particular topic

27. What is to amend the
Constitution?
The way that Congress
can get around a ruling
of “unconstitutional”
from the Supreme Court

28. What is a pocket veto?
A President lets a bill die
by not signing it before
Congress adjourns [if that
happens within 10 days of his
receiving it]

29. What is to impeach?
The first step in
removing a president or
federal judge from
office

30. Daily
Double

31. What is Congressional
oversight?
The power of Congress
to control the work of
an executive agency

32. What is the
investigative power?
Enables Congress to look
into possible wrongdoing by agencies or
individuals

33. What is the power of the
purse, or appropriations
power?
How a congressional
committee can stop the
actions of a president or
executive agency by denying
funding

34. What is the Senate?
The group that tries a
president who has been
impeached

36. FINAL
JEOPARDY

37. CATEGORY
Representation

38. Drawing the boundaries
of a congressional
district in a bizarre shape
to favor a political party

39. What is a
gerrymander?