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JEOPARDY #2Ch. 12-15
Executive
Decision
Eat a ‘Peach Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit
By the Numbers
Cabinet
Making
Red Tape
100 100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500
Executive Decision- 100
The factor which has the greatest influence on a citizen’s approval of the
president
Executive Decision - 100
What is political party affiliation?
Executive Decision- 200
The president exercises his agenda setting power though it
every January
Executive Decision - 200
What is the State of the Union Address?
Executive Decision - 300
It does have the force of law, but, unlike a treaty, it does not
have to be ratified by the Senate or enforced by
subsequent administrations.
Executive Decision - 300
What is an EXECUTIVE ORDER?
Executive Decision - 400
The one is more efficient, but also more likely to deny presidential access for
opposing viewpoints while the other filters less, but is often
inefficient.
Executive Decision - 400
What are the relative advantages and
disadvantages of the pyramidal and circular models for organizing the White House
Office?
Executive Decision - 500
They are the three “biggie” organizations in the Executive
Office of the President
Executive Decision - 500
What are the NSC, the OMB, and the NEC?
Eat a ‘Peach - 100
Impeachment is a political process. This is the judicial
analog of impeachment.
Eat a ‘Peach - 100
What is INDICTMENT?
Eat a ‘Peach- 200
Tries all impeached officials
Eat a ‘Peach - 200
What is the Senate?
Eat a ‘Peach - 300
Presides over presidential impeachment trials
Eat a ‘Peach - 300
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Eat a ‘Peach - 400
Only Presidents who have been impeached
Eat a ‘Peach - 400
Who are Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
Eat a ‘Peach - 500
Committee responsible for impeachment
Eat a ‘Peach - 500
What is the House Judiciary Committee?
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 100
The most ususal way that vice presidents have become
presidents in American history
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 100
What is by taking the presidency when the president
dies?
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 200
In order to appeal to a portion of the electorate otherwise unlikely to vote for him
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 200
What is the most likely basis upon which a presidential
candidate will select a running mate?
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 300
It’s the two-step method constitutionally prescribed for
filling a vice presidential vacancy
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 300
What is the president nominates a new VP who then must be approved by BOTH houses of
Congress?
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 400
Gerald Ford
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 400
Who is the only Vice President to become president without ever facing national election?
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 500
1. He said this when he turned down the office of vice
president: “I do not choose to be buried until I am already
dead.”
2. He said the office was not worth this category’s title.
Not Worth a Bucket of Warm Spit - 500
Who are Daniel Webster and John Nance Garner?
By the Numbers - 100
435, 100, 535
By the Numbers - 100
What are the number of seats in the House, the Senate, and
the Congress?
By the Numbers - 200
25 and 7;
30 and 9
By the Numbers - 200
What are the age and citizenship requirements for
membership in the House and the Senate respectively?
By the Numbers - 300
35 and 14
By the Numbers - 300
What are the age and residency requirements for presidents?
By the Numbers - 400
90% male, 40% lawyers, most are well-educated and from
upper-middle or upper income backgrounds, mostly
Protestant, and mostly white and aged 55 or 60
By the Numbers - 400
What is the demography of Congress?
By the Numbers - 500
GS 1-18
By the Numbers- 500
What are the General Schedule Ratings (assigned by the
Office of Personnel Management) which determine the salaries of civil servants?
Cabinet Making - 100
By appointing administrators sympathetic to his policy
agenda
Cabinet Making - 100
How does the president exercise his influence over the
federal bureaucracy?
Cabinet Making - 200
15
Cabinet Making - 200
What is the current number of cabinet departments?
Cabinet Making - 300
The Department of Homeland Security
Cabinet Making - 300
What is the most recently created cabinet department?
Cabinet Making - 400
The cabinet department which hires the most people
Cabinet Making - 400
What is the Department of Defense?
Cabinet Making - 500
The most important reason that most presidents do not treat their cabinets as advisory
bodies
Cabinet Making - 500
What is that the cabinet secretaries engage in turf
battles, seeking to defend and promote departmental
interests in meetings with the president?
Red Tape - 100
To develop and enforce procedures for implementing
policy
Red Tape - 100
What is the main function of the federal bureaucracy?
Red Tape - 200
Under the spoils system, appointments to federal
bureaucratic jobs were based primarily on this.
Red Tape - 200
What is patronage?
Red Tape - 300
1. Duplicating responsibilities
2. authorizing and appropriating funds
3. Holding hearing to determine possible agency abuse
4. Re-writing legislation
Red Tape - 300
How does Congress engage in oversight of the bureaucracy?
Red Tape - 400
The biggest difference in the federal bureaucracy and most
other large bureaucracies
Red Tape - 400
What is “It has two masters: the president and Congress?
Red Tape - 500
The term which most aptly defines the policy-making
power of the federal bureaucracy
Red Tape - 500
What is “discretionary authority”?
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