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Political Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge on Potent Politicos and Committee Commotion

Challenge your political knowledge with questions about politicians, staffers, and legislative processes. Test yourself in this engaging Jeopardy-style quiz!

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Political Jeopardy: Test Your Knowledge on Potent Politicos and Committee Commotion

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Potent Politicos Hill Staffer “Meet and Greet” My High School Civics Teacher Would Be Ashamed Committee Commotion “I’m just a bill, a lonely old bill” 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. This party controls the Presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, every single committee and subcommittee chairmanship and therefore all of the programs you care about. (OR – why you currently have less funding that you did five years ago)

  5. What is the Republican Party?

  6. The most senior Democratic member of a committee

  7. What is “WHO CARES” or Who is the Ranking Member?

  8. This nice old lady introduced SELHA – oh yeah and she’s also the head of the Republican Committee in the House

  9. Who is Rep. Deborah Pryce? (R-OH)

  10. This Mid-West Republican Senator controls Senate purse strings for HUD and has been relatively helpful on housing issues.

  11. Who is Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)?

  12. This Mid-West Republican Senator controls Senate purse strings for HUD and has been relatively helpful on housing issues. This Senator barely won his reelection bid in 2004 and is on the Appropriations Committee and Chairs the Judiciary Committee. He also sent Project HOME a large chocolate Passover egg.

  13. Who is Senator Arlen Specter (R-OH)?

  14. This staffer is the “gatekeeper” of the Senator or Representative’s whereabouts.

  15. Who is the scheduler?

  16. This staffer reports directly to the Member of Congress and oversees the entire congressional office.

  17. Who is the chief of staff?

  18. This person heads up a Member of Congress’ local office(s) and is generally less powerful than his/her staff counterparts in the DC office.

  19. Who is the district director?

  20. This person is responsible for covering a set list of legislative issues and is often who you meet or speak with regarding your legislative agenda

  21. Who is the legislative assistant?

  22. This person oversees the entire legislative schedule and makes recommendations regarding the pros and cons of particular issues.

  23. Who is the legislative director?

  24. A period of time when Members of Congress play golf with major campaign contributors and the best time to get them on a site visit or schedule an in-district meeting.

  25. What is recess?

  26. The process of attempting to influence the passage, defeat, or content of legislation by individuals or a group other than Members of Congress

  27. What is lobbying?

  28. The period of time from October 1 to September 30 2006 for which Congress is currently creating a budget.

  29. What is the fiscal year? OR What is fiscal year 2006?

  30. DAILY DOUBLE A resolution enacted to allow specific Executive Branch agencies (like HUD) to continue operating even though funds have not been appropriated for them yet for the following fiscal year (like Congress asking for an extension on their term paper)

  31. DAILY DOUBLE What is a continuing resolution?

  32. Process, usually in committee of analyzing a piece of legislation section by section and making changes.

  33. What is marking up a bill?

  34. The members of a whole committee are each part of one of these, smaller, associated committees.

  35. What is a subcommittee?

  36. This very powerful Committee exists in both the House and Senate and determines how much funding goes to each program by diving up billions amongst its subcommittees.

  37. What is the appropriations committee?

  38. DAILY DOUBLE The subcommittee under the Energy and Commerce Committee through which SELHA will pass. *Bonus (100 points)* Who is the chair of this committee?

  39. What is the Health Subcommittee? Bonus: Who is Rep. Nathan Deal (R-GA)?

  40. The Appropriations subcommittee that determines how much funding HUD programs will receive (or the sound Buck makes when Kiley drop-kicks him against the wall)

  41. What is TTHUD (Transportation, Treasury, and HUD) Committee?

  42. Meeting between Representatives and Senators (well really their staffers) to resolve differences when two versions of a similar bill have been passed by the House and Senate.

  43. What is the Conference Committee?

  44. Legislation introduced in either the House or the Senate.

  45. What is a Bill?

  46. A change in a bill or document by adding, substituting or omitting portions of it.

  47. What is an amendment?

  48. Legislation establishing a program and setting funding limits.

  49. What is an Authorization Bill?

  50. Legislation that provides funds for authorized programs (this is how Section 8 gets funded or not-so funded)

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