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Question 1

You just got schooled. Which cabinet member develops and implements policies, programs, and activities related to schooling?

  • A
    Secretary of Education
  • B
    Secretary of Labor
  • C
    School Secretary
  • D
    Secretary of International Magical Cooperation

Question 2

Ensuring the safety of food produced and sold in-country is just one responsibility of this cabinet member.

  • A
    Secretary of the Interior
  • B
    Secretary of Homeland Security
  • C
    Secretary of Agriculture
  • D
    Secretary of Magical Law Enforcement

Question 3

This cabinet position used to run the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. What's it called now?

  • A
    Secretary of Magical Games and Sports
  • B
    Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • C
    Secretary of the Centers for Disease Control
  • D
    Secretary of the World Health Organization

Question 4

You can thank Susan B. Anthony and Co. for the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave what group the right to vote?

  • A
    All races
  • B
    Men
  • C
    All those 21 and older
  • D
    Women

Question 5

What cabinet member's position of command over the military is second only to that of the president?

  • A
    Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
  • B
    Secretary of Defense
  • C
    Secretary of the Military
  • D
    Secretary for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

Question 6

You may know this department as HUD. What cabinet position was created by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965?

  • A
    Secretary of Homeland and Universal Domain
  • B
    Secretary of Housing and Ultimate Destruction
  • C
    Secretary of Homeland User Data
  • D
    Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Question 7

With a mission to promote American businesses and industries, this cabinet member once also covered the Department of Labor?

  • A
    Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • B
    Secretary of Treasury
  • C
    Secretary of Commerce
  • D
    Secretary of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

Question 8

Money, money, money, money...MONEY. Who is the chief economic advisor to the president?

  • A
    Secretary of the First National Bank
  • B
    Secretary of the Treasury
  • C
    Secretary of the Magical Trading Standards Body
  • D
    Secretary of the Treasurer

Question 9

Not only did the Fourteenth Amendment define citizenship, it contained three clauses. What was NOT one of them?

  • A
    Equal Protection Clause
  • B
    Privileges or Immunities Clause
  • C
    Due Process Clause
  • D
    Santa Claus

Question 10

Wanna form a union? You'll be dealing with this department secretary.

  • A
    Secretary of Commerce
  • B
    Secretary of the Magical Office of Law
  • C
    Secretary of Labor
  • D
    Secretary of Defense

Question 11

From coal to solar, Jimmy Carter created what cabinet position in 1977?

  • A
    Secretary of Energy
  • B
    Secretary of Sustainable Resources
  • C
    Secretary of Commerce
  • D
    Secretary of Magical Transportation

Question 12

Appointed by Warren G. Harding, who is the only U.S. president to also serve as Supreme Court chief justice?

  • A
    Cher
  • B
    Clarence Thomas
  • C
    William Howard Taft
  • D
    Charles Evans Hughes

Question 13

Let's not get carried away...what did the Twenty-Second Amendment limit?

  • A
    The number of times a person can be elected American Idol
  • B
    The number of times a person can be elected senator
  • C
    The number of times a person can be elected president
  • D
    The number of times a person can be elected Supreme Court chief justice

Question 14

What Richard Nixon-appointee stabbed his nominator in the back in his ruling on the United States v. Nixon, rejecting the then-president's invocation of executive privilege during Watergate?

  • A
    Warren E. Burger
  • B
    Sam Cooke
  • C
    Elena Kagan
  • D
    Harlan F. Stone

Question 15

Ready, set, go – who is the only president to have ever run a marathon?

  • A
    George W. Bush
  • B
    Benjamin Harrison
  • C
    Brett Kavanaugh
  • D
    Andrew Johnson

Question 16

The Federal Aviation Administration is one agency that falls under the authority of this cabinet position.

  • A
    Secretary of Transportation
  • B
    Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • C
    Secretary of the Obliviator
  • D
    Secretary of Air Traffic

Question 17

The Eighteenth was perhaps the most unpopular amendment. It prohibited the sale of what in the U.S.?

  • A
    Coca-Cola
  • B
    Alcohol
  • C
    Marijuana
  • D
    Guns

Question 18

When the president needs advice on a legal matter, he goes to this cabinet member. Name that secretary.

  • A
    Attorney General
  • B
    Supreme Court Chief Justice
  • C
    Secretary of Treasury
  • D
    Secretary of Broom Regulatory Control

Question 19

The Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Control are just two agencies that fall under this cabinet member's authority.

  • A
    Secretary of Homeland Security
  • B
    Secretary of Magical Education
  • C
    Secretary of Defense
  • D
    Secretary of the Central Intelligence Agency

Question 20

When you return home from your tour of duty overseas, you'll be dealing with this cabinet member.

  • A
    Secretary of the Pest Advisory Board
  • B
    Secretary of Commerce
  • C
    Secretary of the Military
  • D
    Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Question 21

"You're gonna need a search warrant..." What two things does the Fourth Amendment prohibit?

  • A
    Due process and probable cause
  • B
    Unreasonable searches and seizures
  • C
    Guns and free speech
  • D
    Search warrants and double jeopardy

Question 22

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Which president was undoubtedly a distant relative of Winston Churchill?

  • A
    George W. Bush
  • B
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • C
    Brian Larsen
  • D
    Barack Obama

Question 23

Bow, wow. Which animal lover hosted two beagles named "Him" and "Her" at the White House?

  • A
    John F. Kennedy
  • B
    Lyndon B. Johnson
  • C
    Lana Del Rey
  • D
    James Madison

Question 24

Writing the majority opinion in such cases as Brown v. Board of Education, this Dwight D. Eisenhower-appointee presided over what is considered a "Constitutional Revolution" and liberal shift.

  • A
    Sonia Sotomayor
  • B
    Oliver Ellsworth
  • C
    Gloria Estefan
  • D
    Earl Warren

Question 25

This amendment is a hot-button issue. What amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms?

  • A
    13th
  • B
    1st
  • C
    34th
  • D
    2nd

Question 26

Apparently, this guy saw the nation's capital as a "fixer-upper". Which extravagant president had the White House remodeled by the designer for Tiffany & Co.?

  • A
    Ronald Reagan
  • B
    Miley Cyrus
  • C
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • D
    Chester A. Arthur

Question 27

Winning the presidency by a single electoral vote, which president was called "His Fraudulency"?

  • A
    Rutherford B. Hayes
  • B
    Neil Gorsuch
  • C
    Bill Clinton
  • D
    William Howard Taft

Question 28

The first (and only) president to serve two non-consecutive terms, which president was affectionately known as "Uncle Jumbo"?

  • A
    William McKinley
  • B
    John Adams
  • C
    Jennifer Hudson
  • D
    Grover Cleveland

Question 29

After experiencing a series of strokes, which president led the country (with help from his wife) while partially paralyzed?

  • A
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • B
    Harry S. Truman
  • C
    Sheryl Crow
  • D
    Woodrow Wilson

Question 30

Who is the current Supreme Court chief justice, appointed by George W. Bush?

  • A
    John Marshall
  • B
    John Roberts
  • C
    Brett Kavanaugh
  • D
    Aretha Franklin

Question 31

The Twenty-Third Amendment granted electors in the Electoral College to which district?

  • A
    The Virgin Islands
  • B
    District of Columbia
  • C
    Puerto Rico
  • D
    Guam

Question 32

If you're diplomatic, then you could hold this position, which is equivalent to a foreign minister.

  • A
    Secretary of Aurors
  • B
    Vice President
  • C
    Secretary of State
  • D
    Secretary of Interior

Question 33

Which president was variously known by the nicknames "Handsome Frank" and "Fainting Frank"?

  • A
    Franklin Pierce
  • B
    Franklin McKinley
  • C
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • D
    Sonia Sotomayor

Question 34

"Born in the U.S.A..." Who was the first American-born president?

  • A
    Kesha
  • B
    Martin Van Buren
  • C
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • D
    Gerald Ford

Question 35

This president didn't have writer's block. Who was the first president to write a biography about another president?

  • A
    Herbert Hoover
  • B
    William Henry Harrison
  • C
    Lana Lane
  • D
    John F. Kennedy

Question 36

Which president put ego aside, saying, "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit"?

  • A
    Gerald Ford
  • B
    Harry S. Truman
  • C
    Zachary Taylor
  • D
    Anna Kendrick

Question 37

What group does the Twenty-Sixth Amendment give the right to vote?

  • A
    The Pope
  • B
    All races
  • C
    Those 18 or older
  • D
    Women

Question 38

What dreamer said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader"?

  • A
    John Tyler
  • B
    Sam Cooke
  • C
    Franklin Pierce
  • D
    John Quincy Adams

Question 39

Known for his outdoorsmanship, which president wrote in his diary, "The light has gone out of my life," when both his mother and wife died on Valentine's Day?

  • A
    Elena Kagan
  • B
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • C
    William McKinley
  • D
    James Monroe

Question 40

Ever the patriots, which three presidents died on the Fourth of July?

  • A
    Jefferson, Adams, and Clinton
  • B
    Monroe, Van Buren, and Taft
  • C
    Taft, Madison, and Jefferson
  • D
    Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe

Question 41

This Herbert Hoover-appointee once lost out to Woodrow Wilson in a presidential campaign. He was seen as a key swing vote in the Supreme Court between the conservative "Four Horsemen" and the liberal "Three Musketeers".

  • A
    William Rehnquist
  • B
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • C
    Charles Evans Hughes
  • D
    Harry Connick Jr.

Question 42

Appointed by George Washington, what "first president of South Carolina" holds the record as shortest tenure as chief justice?

  • A
    Harry Blackmun
  • B
    John Roberts
  • C
    John Rutledge
  • D
    Jimmy Buffett

Question 43

What a snoozefest! Which president gave the longest inauguration speech and lived to regret it, dying just a month later?

  • A
    Amy Grant
  • B
    Richard Nixon
  • C
    Zachary Taylor
  • D
    William Henry Harrison

Question 44

Which "acting" president regularly sought advice from an astrologer?

  • A
    Abraham Lincoln
  • B
    Samuel Alito
  • C
    Warren G. Harding
  • D
    Ronald Reagan

Question 45

What "Rule of Reason" member of the Democratic Party was appointed by Republican president William Taft, and upheld a ruling in favor of segregation?

  • A
    David Souter
  • B
    Edward Douglass White
  • C
    Miley Cyrus
  • D
    Salmon P. Chase

Question 46

What group did the Fifteenth Amendment give the right to vote?

  • A
    Women
  • B
    All races
  • C
    White people
  • D
    Men

Question 47

"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty..." this amendment abolished slavery.

  • A
    13th
  • B
    31st
  • C
    12th
  • D
    19th

Question 48

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." Which trust fund-baby purposefully donated all of his presidential salary to charities, including the Boy and Girl Scouts of America?

  • A
    Benjamin Harrison
  • B
    Ronald Reagan
  • C
    John F. Kennedy
  • D
    Paris Hilton

Question 49

Do you like Smokey Bear? Then this is the cabinet position for you, as it concerns federal land and natural resources.

  • A
    Secretary of the Floo Network
  • B
    Secretary of the National Park Service
  • C
    Secretary of the State
  • D
    Secretary of the Interior

Question 50

Who was the first vice president to become president via the line of succession?

  • A
    Chester A. Arthur
  • B
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • C
    Josh Groban
  • D
    John Tyler

Question 51

The last of George Washington's nominations, what chief justice was the primary author of the Judiciary Act of 1789 – the backbone of the U.S. federal judiciary?

  • A
    Oliver Ellsworth
  • B
    Doris Day
  • C
    Earl Warren
  • D
    Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Question 52

Which amendment lays the foundation for state sovereign immunity?

  • A
    30th
  • B
    27th
  • C
    25th
  • D
    11th

Question 53

"Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends..." Which president was frenemies with Thomas Jefferson?

  • A
    Alexander Hamilton
  • B
    George H. W. Bush
  • C
    George Washington
  • D
    John Adams

Question 54

What does the Tenth Amendment state about the federal government?

  • A
    That it holds all veto power
  • B
    That checks and balances enable it to retain equal power with the state
  • C
    That its authority will remain in check through the two other branches of government
  • D
    That it possesses only those powers delegated, or enumerated, to it through the Constitution

Question 55

R.I.P. What president's untimely death was caused by bacteria from cherries and/or iced milk?

  • A
    Zachary Taylor
  • B
    Franklin Pierce
  • C
    Abraham Lincoln
  • D
    Cyndi Lauper

Question 56

Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the only chief justice NOT to have served in elected office, what former attorney general famously said, "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern"?

  • A
    Patsy Cline
  • B
    Harlan F. Stone
  • C
    John Jay
  • D
    Stephen Breyer

Question 57

Remember, the Bill of Rights was written fresh out of a war. What amendment restricts the quartering of soldiers in private homes?

  • A
    26th
  • B
    3rd
  • C
    41st
  • D
    16th

Question 58

Ruling federal income tax to be unconstitutional, what conservative Grover Cleveland-appointee championed limited federal government, states' rights, and economic freedom?

  • A
    Fred M. Vinson
  • B
    Anthony Kennedy
  • C
    Melville Fuller
  • D
    Hilary Duff

Question 59

What amendment provides the right to a jury trial in civil lawsuits?

  • A
    33rd
  • B
    3rd
  • C
    20th
  • D
    7th

Question 60

Weighing in at a mere 5'4" and 100 lbs, who was our smallest president?

  • A
    Adam Lambert
  • B
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • C
    James Monroe
  • D
    James Madison

Question 61

Appointed by Andrew Jackson, this chief justice's legacy is wrapped up in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which ruled that African Americans could not be considered citizens – widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history.

  • A
    John Lennon
  • B
    William Howard Taft
  • C
    Roger B. Taney
  • D
    John Paul Stevens

Question 62

Well, that seems cruel...Which amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?

  • A
    16th
  • B
    47th
  • C
    8th
  • D
    9th

Question 63

"Take me out to the balll gameee..." Who was the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch on opening day?

  • A
    Barack Obama
  • B
    Woodrow Wilson
  • C
    William Howard Taft
  • D
    Norah Jones

Question 64

As one of the Founding Fathers and a Federalist leader, he was the first Supreme Court chief justice. Name that big wig, appointed by George Washington.

  • A
    Thurgood Marshall
  • B
    Alexander Hamilton
  • C
    John Jay
  • D
    Ciara

Question 65

If he were a Hollywood star today, this president would be on the "best dressed" list. Name that commander-in-chief who's "just like us".

  • A
    Clarence Thomas
  • B
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • C
    Andrew Johnson
  • D
    James Buchanan

Question 66

"I wanna be popular..." What group did the Seventeenth Amendment allow the direct election of by popular vote?

  • A
    Senators
  • B
    President
  • C
    Cabinet Members
  • D
    House of Representatives

Question 67

"We wish you a Merry Christmas..." Which president made Christmas a national holiday?

  • A
    James Monroe
  • B
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • C
    James K. Polk
  • D
    Aretha Franklin

Question 68

Perhaps the inspiration behind Footloose, what buzzkill banned dancing from the White House?

  • A
    Kevin Bacon
  • B
    James K. Polk
  • C
    Andrew Jackson
  • D
    James Buchanan

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