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Democracy Matters Jeopardy

Explore key issues like scandals, healthcare, and ethics affecting democracy and the environment, with quotes from political figures.

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Democracy Matters Jeopardy

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  1. Democracy Matters Jeopardy Environment Quotes Scandals Ethics Healthcare $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400

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  3. PrizeQuestion

  4. This compound is one of the leading causes of global warming in the world

  5. Carbon Dioxide

  6. 2

  7. Bush’s most environmentally controversial plan to reduce dependency on foreign oil.

  8. Drilling in Alaska for oil or Increasing nuclear power

  9. 3

  10. Law established by Congress in 1980 to clean up toxic waste sites.

  11. Superfund

  12. 4

  13. Act Bush proposed to deal with air pollution, in which polluting plants could “buy” the right to pollute from clean plants.

  14. Clear Skies

  15. 5

  16. PrizeQuestion

  17. “I get donations from business and individuals, absolutely. They’re powerful interests who control things.”

  18. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

  19. 6

  20. “The issue here isn’t, with respect to Enron, isn’t what advice they may have offered the energy task force. The issue, with respect to Enron, is the corporate collapse.”

  21. Vice President Richard Cheney

  22. 7

  23. PrizeQuestion

  24. “I think that for them to have the opportunity to [donate] is the American way.”

  25. Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)

  26. 8

  27. “We are the only people in the world required by law to take large amounts of money from strangers and then act as if it has no effect on our behavior.”

  28. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts)

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  30. One of the most famous corporate scandals that occurred in 2002 and was connected to the “power shortage” in CA

  31. Enron

  32. 10

  33. Names of two senators who tried to create a bill addressing campaign finance reform in 2001

  34. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

  35. 11

  36. House majority leader who was close friends with Abramoff and founded TRMPAC.

  37. Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)

  38. 12

  39. PrizeQuestion

  40. Three charges that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to.

  41. fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials

  42. 13

  43. The number of Americans who lack health insurance in 2004

  44. Over 45 Million

  45. 14

  46. Number of Cong. committees that investigated why the FDA approved 13 dangerous drugs that were later taken off the market

  47. Zero

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  49. The opposing group to the law that would remove all asbestos lawsuits from the courts that has raised 13.9 million since 03.

  50. Association of Trial Lawyers of America

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