$2,500 Pyramid

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TheInstitutions Pyramid
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Game Rules

• Teams divided into groups
• One partner has their back to the TV
• Other partner faces them while looking at the TV
• When the answer is given on the TV the sender
  begins giving clues
• PASS if you dont know that answer
• There are 7 questions per round
• We will be playing 3 rounds
• Team with the highest total moves onto the Final
  Round

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Each team must now choose their first two
contestants. First group step up to the front,
other groups step outside.
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Round 1Congress
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Appropriation
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Conference Committee
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Constituents
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Discharge Petition
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Filibuster
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Franking Privilege
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Answers
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Money that Congress has allocated to be spent
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Works out a compromise between differing
House-Senate versions of a bill
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The people who are represented by elected
officials
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A motion to force a bill to the House floor that
has been bottled up in committee
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Nonstop Senate debate that prevents a bill from
coming to a vote
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Allows members of Congress to send mail postage
free
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Now two NEW contestants from each group
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Round 2Más Congress
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Gerrymandering
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Logrolling
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Mark Up
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Open Rule
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Pork Barrel Spending
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Rules Committee
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Standing Committee
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Round 2Answers
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Redrawing district lines to favor one party over
the other
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When 2 members of Congress agree to vote for each
others bill
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Committee action to amend a proposed bill
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House Rules Committee rule that allows amendments
to a bill
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Wasteful congressional spending, e.g., funding
for a museum
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The traffic cop of the House that sets the
legislative calendar and issues rules for debate
on a bill
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The permanent congressional committees that
handle legislation
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Round 3
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Round 3Más y más Congress!
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Appropriations Committee
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Closed Rule
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Impeachment
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Line item veto
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Pocket Veto
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Rider
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Reapportionment
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Round 3Answers
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Congressional committee that deals with federal
spending
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Rules Committee rule that bans amendments to a
bill
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House action that formally charges an official
with wrongdoing. Conviction requires 2/3 vote
from Senate
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Power of most governors ( Pres. Clinton for only
a few years) to delete or reduce funding in a
bill on a line by line basis.
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Presidential killing of a bill by inaction after
Congress adjourns
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Amendment to a bill that has little to do with
that bill. Also known as a nongermane amendment
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Reallocation of House seats to the states on the
basis of changes in populations, as determined by
the census
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Winners Circle
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Your team needs 5 out of 6 to win!!!
Choose your 2 contestants
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Casework
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100
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100
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Cloture
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100
150
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100
150
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Patronage
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100
150
200
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100
150
200
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Seniority System
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450
100
150
200
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450
100
150
200
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Pigeonholing
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450
600
100
150
200
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450
600
100
150
200
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Trustee Role
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1000
450
600
100
150
200
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