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This is Jeopardy!

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Presidential Succession

and Vice President

Miscellaneous Presidential Roles

Presidential Trivia

Is first in line for the Presidency

Answer: Vice President

After the President Pro-Tempore, these

members are in line to be President

Answer: Cabinet

The Vice President determines this about

the President

Answer: Disability

The Vice Presidential Candidate can be chosen

to do this to the ticket

Answer: Balance

Who determines that the Vice President can take

over the Presidency

Answer: Congress

Makes the President the head of the armed

forces

Answer: Commander in Chief

President is the head of the political party

Answer: Chief of Party

The salary paid to the President every year they

are in office

Answer: $400,000 with $50,000 expense account

“The representative of all the people”

Answer: Chief Citizen

Minimum length of residence in the United

States to become President

Answer: 14 years

The first president to be a Rhodes Scholar

His inaugural address included the line, “the only thing we have to

fear is fear itself”

This President’s wife rescued Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of

George Washington from the White House during the War of

1812

Answer: Madison

This Republican campaigned using the

slogan “Morning in America” during the

1984 election

He was the first candidate to make

successful use of cable channels such as MTV

This was the first year women were allowed to

vote in a presidential election

He was the first to install indoor toilets in the

White House

Answer: Jefferson

This former president went on to be the

president of the National Rifle Association

This former president was a scholarship

football player at the University of Michigan

He was the first president to live in the

White House

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Presidential Nominations

The Presidential

Election

MiscellaneousVice

Presidential Trivia

This state has the first primary of the election

season

Answer: New Hampshire

A closed group of registered voters who

decide delegates or presidential nominees

Answer: Caucus

Other than determining the party nominees, this is

a job of the national conventions

Answer: Create Party Platform

Candidates try to inject themselves into this to

gain the support of younger voters

Answer: Pop Culture

Potential presidential candidates start their race

to the presidency on average this many years

before the election

Answer: 1-4 years

A state that is “too close to call”

Answer: Battleground State

This amendment deals with the electoral

system that we have today

Answer: 12th

An elector that doesn’t vote with their party is

called this

Answer: “Faithless Elector”

The first time a president was elected by the electoral college without winning the popular vote was in this year

Answer: 1824

This reform to the electoral system would take into

account the popular vote within a state without

abolishing the entire system

Answer: District or Proportional Plan

He was the first Vice President to assume the office of president upon the passing of the sitting

president

This is former Vice President Dan Quayle’s

first name

He was the first vice president to have an

actual office in the White House

This vice president had the term

“gerrymandering” named after him

This vice president won the Nobel Peace Prize in

the same year that he and Calvin Coolidge

were elected to office

During the 2000 campaign, his prescription drug plan

was criticized by the Republican National

Committee using an ad that featured the word “RATS”

This candidate used “A time for greatness” and “We can do better” as campaign slogans in

1960

The first televised presidential debate was

held in this city

This former president’s late-20th-century

campaign made wide use of the slogan “It’s the

economy, stupid!”

He was president when the voting age was

changed from 21 to 18.

Final Jeopardy!

This former president had the longest

inaugural address in history and died shortly

after it


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