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House Senate Basics 1 Basics 2 Grab Bag

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This is the length of a House term

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What is 2 years?

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This is the number of members in the House of

Representatives

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What is 435?

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In terms of residency, the Constitution

requires this of House members

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What is living in the state represented?

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This is the term for when distribution of House seats

occurs after each census

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What is reapportionment?

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This city currently has no representation

in the House

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What is Washington D.C.?

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This is the length of a Senate term

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What is 6 years?

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This is the number of years you must be a

citizen in order to run for Senate

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What is 9 years?

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The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for reelection at

the same time

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What is a continuous body?

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This is how Senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment

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What are state legislatures?

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The Senate is the equivalent of this in

the British parliament

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What is the House of Lords?

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This is what we call each 2 year period of

Congress

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What is a term?

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This is another word for a 2 house

legislature, such as the U.S. Congress

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What is bicameral?

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An emergency can prompt the president to

call one of these

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What is a special session?

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This is what typically happens in

off-year elections

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What is the president’s party

loses seats?

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Congress keeps its pay high while

preventing public outcry over its pay by

using these

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What are allowances or fringe benefits?

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This is what we call the time it takes to finish the year’s

business

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What is a session?

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This is changing district lines to

benefit one party or group over another

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What is gerrymandering?

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When one person is allowed to represent a

geographic region, this is the name of the

system

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What is single member district?

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This is the act that permanently set the

number of seats in the House of

Representatives

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What is the Reapportionment Act

of 1929?

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This is the number of the current term of

Congress

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What is the 112th Congress?

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This is the number state representing

Arizona’s statehood

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What is 48?

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This Middle Eastern country is the world’s

only theocracy

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What is Iran?

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This actress received an Academy Award for

best actress in 2010 for “The Blindside”

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Who is Sandra Bullock?

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Term used to describe the annual NCAA

Division I basketball tournament ?

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What is “March Madness”

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This is the current U.S. Speaker of the House

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Who is John Boehner (R-Ohio)?