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U.S. Congressional Basics: House, Senate, and Key Terms

Learn the basics of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and key terms like reapportionment and gerrymandering.

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U.S. Congressional Basics: House, Senate, and Key Terms

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  1. House Senate Basics 1 Basics 2 Grab Bag 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

  2. This is the length of a House term

  3. What is 2 years?

  4. This is the number of members in the House of Representatives

  5. What is 435?

  6. In terms of residency, the Constitution requires this of House members

  7. What is living in the state represented?

  8. This is the term for when distribution of House seats occurs after each census

  9. What is reapportionment?

  10. This city currently has no representation in the House

  11. What is Washington D.C.?

  12. This is the length of a Senate term

  13. What is 6 years?

  14. This is the number of years you must be a citizen in order to run for Senate

  15. What is 9 years?

  16. Daily Double! The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for reelection at the same time

  17. What is a continuous body?

  18. This is how Senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment

  19. What are state legislatures?

  20. The Senate is the equivalent of this in the British parliament

  21. What is the House of Lords?

  22. This is what we call each 2 year period of Congress

  23. What is a term?

  24. This is another word for a 2 house legislature, such as the U.S. Congress

  25. What is bicameral?

  26. An emergency can prompt the president to call one of these

  27. What is a special session?

  28. This is what typically happens in off-year elections

  29. What is the president’s party loses seats?

  30. Congress keeps its pay high while preventing public outcry over its pay by using these

  31. What are allowances or fringe benefits?

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

  33. What is a session?

  34. This is changing district lines to benefit one party or group over another

  35. What is gerrymandering?

  36. When one person is allowed to represent a geographic region, this is the name of the system

  37. What is single member district?

  38. Daily Double! This is the act that permanently set the number of seats in the House of Representatives

  39. What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?

  40. This is the number of the current term of Congress

  41. What is the 112th Congress?

  42. This is the number state representing Arizona’s statehood

  43. What is 48?

  44. This Middle Eastern country is the world’s only theocracy

  45. What is Iran?

  46. This actress received an Academy Award for best actress in 2010 for “The Blindside”

  47. Who is Sandra Bullock?

  48. Term used to describe the annual NCAA Division I basketball tournament ?

  49. What is “March Madness”

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

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