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House Senate Basics 1 Basics 2 Grab Bag
This is the length of a House term
What is 2 years?
This is the number of members in the House of
Representatives
What is 435?
In terms of residency, the Constitution
requires this of House members
What is living in the state represented?
This is the term for when distribution of House seats
occurs after each census
What is reapportionment?
This city currently has no representation
in the House
What is Washington D.C.?
This is the length of a Senate term
What is 6 years?
This is the number of years you must be a
citizen in order to run for Senate
What is 9 years?
The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for reelection at
the same time
What is a continuous body?
This is how Senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment
What are state legislatures?
The Senate is the equivalent of this in
the British parliament
What is the House of Lords?
This is what we call each 2 year period of
Congress
What is a term?
This is another word for a 2 house
legislature, such as the U.S. Congress
What is bicameral?
An emergency can prompt the president to
call one of these
What is a special session?
This is what typically happens in
off-year elections
What is the president’s party
loses seats?
Congress keeps its pay high while
preventing public outcry over its pay by
using these
What are allowances or fringe benefits?
This is what we call the time it takes to finish the year’s
business
What is a session?
This is changing district lines to
benefit one party or group over another
What is gerrymandering?
When one person is allowed to represent a
geographic region, this is the name of the
system
What is single member district?
This is the act that permanently set the
number of seats in the House of
Representatives
What is the Reapportionment Act
of 1929?
This is the number of the current term of
Congress
What is the 112th Congress?
This is the number state representing
Arizona’s statehood
What is 48?
This Middle Eastern country is the world’s
only theocracy
What is Iran?
This actress received an Academy Award for
best actress in 2010 for “The Blindside”
Who is Sandra Bullock?
Term used to describe the annual NCAA
Division I basketball tournament ?
What is “March Madness”
This is the current U.S. Speaker of the House
Who is John Boehner (R-Ohio)?
