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Current Government:
1. Name the President of the United States, their political party, and the state they reside in.
Barack Obama, Democrat, Illinois

2. Name the Vice President of the United States
Joe Biden

3. Nancy Pelosi is from which state and serves what role in the Congress?
California, Speaker of the House

4. Harry Reid is from which state and holds what position in the Congress?
Nevada, Senate Majority Leader

5. Who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
John G. Roberts Jr.
6. Name 2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
Thomas, Scalia, Beryer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kennedy, Stevens, Gisnburg

Constitution:
7. The Constitution was written in:
1787. It was adopted in 1789

8. There are ___ Amendments, the first ___ of which are called the Bill of _____
27, 10, Rights

9. How many Articles are in the Constitution?
7

10. The Constitution creates a system of _______ and _______ in order to regulate against the power of any one branch of government.
Checks and Balances

11. What are the three branches of government?
Executive, Legislative, Judicial

12. Federalists and anti-Federalists disagreed about the scope of?
The scope and power of the federal government

History:
13. In what case was the principle of judicial review established?
Marbury v. Madison

14. The Spanish American War is famous for what kind of journalism?
Yellow Journalism

15. Name the two generals who negotiated the end of the Civil War, the armies they respectively served in, and the location of the negotiations
Grant and Lee, Union and Confederate, Appomattox

16. World War I was ignited by what event?
The assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

17. ______ 11 was commanded by Neil ____________ and was the first manned mission on the _______
Apollo, Armstrong, Moon

18. The killing of 5 people in what event sparked the US Revolution?
Boston Massacre


Economics:
19. Income tax is: direct/flat, indirect/progressive, direct/progressive, indirect/fair
Direct/progressive

20. Adam Smith wrote which book that dealt with the division of labor?
The Wealth of Nations

21. FDR greatly expanded the power of __________ unions during his ____ _____ policies in response to the _______ ________
Labor, New Deal, Great Depression

22. There are two major market forces that determine price, what are they?
Supply and Demand

23. The U.S. Treasury buys and sells what kind of assets?
Securities and bonds

24. The Bretton Woods conference led to the creation of what international economic regime?
IMF

Grab Bag:
25. Federalist 10 deals with what problem?
The influence of groups on politics

26. Who is credited with writing the Constitution?
Madison

27. What case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and what issue did it resolve?
Brown v. Board, that separate was inherently unequal beginning the end of segregation

28. The election of Harry Truman was a surprise, who did he beat?
Dewey

29. What did George Washington warn against in his farewell address?
Entangling alliances with Europe

30. What Presidents have their faces on Mount Rushmore?
Washington, Lincoln, TJ, TR

Bonus:
1. Name the current Federal Reserve Chairman
Bernanke

2. Who wrote the book Democracy in America?
Tocqueville

3. What are the first 5 words of the First Amendment?
Congress shall make no law

4. What Amendment applied the Constitution to the States?
14th

5. What role does the Vice President play?
As President of the Senate, he casts the deciding vote