JEOPARDY TEACHER ANSWER KEY
The Constitution
100- The Three Branches of
Government.
What are the executive,
legislative, and judicial
branch?
200 The highest court in the
land.
What is the Supreme Court?
300 A responsibility of the
Supreme
Court.
What are cases that:
interpret the Constitution,
involve foreign ministers,
are between two states or
citizens of two states, or
between the US and foreign
governments? Any one of
those.
400 The document that
guarantees a fair trial with a
jury of peers.
What is Constitution?
500 The length of time a
Supreme Court Justice
serves.
What is a lifetime?
The Supreme Court
Numbers Only
Landmark Supreme Court
Cases
100- The Supreme Court
case that determined what
cases the SC would hear.
What is Marbury v.
Madison?
200 The SC case that gave
us “separate but equal
opportunities”.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100- The title of head judge
of the Supreme Court.
What is the Chief Justice?
100- The number of
branches of government.
What is 3?
200 –The person who
nominates Supreme Court
justices to the bench.
Who is the President of the
US?
300 This group approves
the nomination of a
Supreme Court justice.
What is Congress or the
Senate?
200 The number of
Supreme Court justice
positions.
What is 9?
300 The current number of
vacancies on the Supreme
Court.
What is 1? Antonin Scalia has
passed away and Congress
has waited to approve a
new SC Justice.
300 The SC cases that
allowed for all students to
attend school for an equal
education.
What is Brown v. Board of
Education?
400 The process by which
the Supreme Court hears a
case.
What is judicial review?
400 The number of US
Circuit Courts of Appeals.
What is 13? The federal
government has assigned
multiple states into 13 larger
districts.
500 The number of US
District Courts.
What is 94?
400 The SC case that
allowed students freedom
of speech if it was not
disruptive in school.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines
School District?
500 The SC case that
determined the 2000
presidential election.
What is Bush v. Gore?
500 what SC can do to a law
it declares unconstitutional.
What is “null and void” as
the law is no longer a law?
Legal Terms
100-The process in which
the SC hears a case based
on certain criteria.
What is Judicial Review?
200 When a case is sent to
a higher court because the
rule of law is being
challenged
What is an Appeal?
300 The legal power or
ability of a specific court to
hear a case.
What is Jurisdiction?
400 The promise written
the SC building and
guaranteed by the
Constitution.
What is equal justice under
the law?
500 The number of cases
the SC court hears per year.
What is the Docket? About
150 a year.
Final Jeopardy: Who is the civil rights attorney who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education case and later became a Supreme Court justice
himself? Thurgood Marshall
THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM