Do you need to take political science? Test your knowledge.
Idea for this page is taken from an article by Greg Freeman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The answers are at the bottom of the page.
1. For how long do we elect members of the House of Representatives?
2. What major river running north to south divides the United States?
3. What is the minimum voting age in the United States?
4. What is the supreme law of the United States?
5. What is the Bill of Rights?
6. Who becomes president if both the president and vice president die?
7. Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court?
8. What are the three constitutional requirements to be eligible to become president?
9. How many Senators in the U.S. Senate? Why?
10. What are some of the basic beliefs of the Declaration of Independence?
11. Who was the first commander‑in‑chief of the Army and Navy?
12. In what year was the Constitution written?
13. How many times may a senator or congressman be re‑elected?
14. What kind of government does the United States have?
15. How many amendments are there to the Constitution?
16. Who makes the federal laws in the United States?
17. What branch of government has the power to declare war?
18. Name the amendments that guarantee or address voting rights.
19. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death"?
20. What were the original 13 states?
Answers: 1) Two years. 2) Mississippi River. 3) 18. 4)
The Constitution. 5) The first 10 amendments to the
Constitution. 6) Speaker of the House. 7) William
Rehnquist. 8) Be a natural‑born citizen; be at least 35;
have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. 9)
100; Each state elects two. 10) That all are created equal and have the right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 11) George
Washington. 12) 1787. 13) No limit. 14) A republic.15) 27.
16) Congress. 17) Congress 18) 14th, 15th and 19th.
19) Patrick Henry.
20) Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South
Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Georgia.