Local Government Jeopardy

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Local Government Jeopardy

• Developed by Janet Morrison of Mount Tabor High
  School
• Modified by the North Carolina Civic Education
  Consortium

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Directions

• Divide the class into three to six groups of
  equal size.
• The team with the youngest person selects the
  first question.
• After the first question is selected, teams will
  have one minute to attempt to answer the
  question. When a team knows the answer to the
  question, a representative from the team raises
  his/her hand. The team will then have 15 seconds
  to attempt to answer the question.
• All questions will be answered in the form of a
  question.
• If the team answers correctly, it earns the
  points indicated by the question and gains
  control of the board, allowing its members to
  select the next question. If the team answers
  incorrectly or if time runs out, the question
  goes back to the other teams to answer, who have
  thirty seconds to answer the question. If no team
  answers the question correctly, no points are
  awarded, and the team in control of the board
  retains control.

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Directions Continued

• First round play continues in this manner until
  all questions are exhausted or until time runs
  out. If time runs out during a question, the team
  can finish answering the question before second
  round play begins.
• Play in the second round is the same as the
  first. The team with the lowest point total at
  the end of round one starts with control of the
  board. Point values are doubled in the second
  round. Play continues in the second round until
  all questions are exhausted or until time runs
  out. If time runs out during a question, the team
  can finish answering the question before second
  round play begins.

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ROUND 1
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ROUND 2
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• The game that is 100 fun is 100 over!

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Local Government and You

• For 20
• Name the three levels of government.
• What are National, State and Local?
• Return to Main Screen

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Local Government and You

• For 40
• People who live within a city or within the
  limits of a town are citizens of the
  _______________.
• What are Municipalities?
• Return to Main Screen

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Local Government and You

• For 60
• State and local governments cannot pass laws that
  contradict the ____________.
• What is the United States Constitution?
• Return to Main Screen

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Local Government and You

• For 80
• Name the clause in the U.S. Constitution that
  spells out that state and local governments
  cannot pass laws that contradict the national
  constitution.
• What is the Supremacy Clause?
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Local Government and You

• For 100
• Name three cities in North Carolina that have
  partisan municipal elections.
• What are Winston Salem, Kinston Lincolnton,
  Charlotte, Albemarle, or Murphy?
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North Carolina Municipalities

• For 20
• These codes regulate construction and reduce
  hazards to health and safety to workers and
  occupants.
• What are building codes?
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North Carolina Municipalities

• For 40
• Name the act that creates a new city or town.
• What is incorporation?
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North Carolina Municipalities

• For 60
• Identify the official who is the administrative
  leader of city employees.
• What is the city manager?
• Return to Main Screen

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North Carolina Municipalities

• For 80
• Identify the official who presides over the
  governing board and is the spokesperson for a
  town.
• What is the mayor?
• Return to Main Screen

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North Carolina Municipalities

• For 100
• Name the act of local government that extends the
  boundaries of a municipality.
• What is annexation?
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North Carolina Counties

• For 20
• Name a service North Carolina requires its
  counties to provide.
• What are alcoholic beverage control, education,
  elections, mental health, public health, or
  social services?
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North Carolina Counties

• For 40
• Name the areas in a county that are outside the
  limits of any town.
• What are unincorporated areas?
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North Carolina Counties

• For 60
• Identify the location where official records of
  births, deaths and property are kept.
• What is the county courthouse?
• Return to Main Screen

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North Carolina Counties

• For 80
• This board oversees the county budget and
  allocates county funds.
• What is the Board of County Commissioners?
• Return to Main Screen

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North Carolina Counties

• For 100
• This program pays for the medical expenses of
  citizens whose incomes are below the poverty
  line.
• What is Medicaid?
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Public Services

• For 20
• This is the place where most solid waste is
  taken.
• What is a landfill?
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Public Services

• For 40
• This is a charge levied by local governments to
  provide a specific service.
• What is a user fee?
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Public Services

• For 60
• Identify the two names for water collection
  underground and in rivers and lakes.
• What are ground water and surface water?
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Public Services

• For 80
• Name the public body that investigates traffic
  accidents on rural roads and highways.
• What is the State Highway Patrol?
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Public Services

• For 100
• This is the process by which a government
  transfers ownership of a public service to a
  private sector entity.
• What is privatization?
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Improving the Community

• For 40
• These programs identify and protect buildings and
  areas that have special significance to the
  community.
• What are historic preservation programs?
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Improving the Community

• For 80
• This encompasses basic services like roads
  bridges, water sewer lines.
• What is infrastructure?
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Improving the Community

• For 120
• The function of local chambers of commerce.
• What is to promote local business?
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Improving the Community

• For 160
• These laws require owners of pets to control said
  pets?
• What are leash laws?
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Improving the Community

• For 200
• This is a prominent club that is active in
  preserving wildlife and clean water.
• What is the Sierra Club?
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Popular Government

• For 40
• This act allows citizens control over the
  government.
• What is voting?
• Return to Main Screen

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Popular Government

• For 80
• The process by which the state legislature
  modifies electoral constituencies.
• What is redistricting?
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Popular Government

• For 120
• Voters may submit a petition to propose an
  ordinance in a procedure called _________?
• What is initiative?
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Popular Government

• For 160
• When voters are allowed to approve or reject an
  ordinance, it is known as a __________?
• What is a referendum?
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Popular Government

• For 200
• An individual or organization whose profession it
  is to influence a governing body into endorsing a
  particular point of view.
• What is a lobbyist?
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Paying for Local Government

• For 40
• The primary revenue source for a city or a
  county.
• What are property taxes?
• Return to Main Screen

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Paying for Local Government

• For 80
• Typically, the largest expenditure category in
  the county budget.
• What is education?
• Return to Main Screen

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Paying for Local Government

• For 120
• The primary financial instrument by which state
  and local governments borrow money.
• What are bonds?
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Paying for Local Government

• For 160
• The two bodies that determine the property tax
  rates.
• What are the Board of County Commissioners and
  the Town Council?
• Return to Main Screen

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Paying for Local Government

• For 200
• A charge assessed against newly constructed
  property to pay for the expansion of local
  services.
• What are impact fees?
• Return to Main Screen

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Making Government Work

• For 40
• Hiring on the basis of family connections.
• What is nepotism?
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Making Government Work

• For 80
• Hiring on the basis of qualifications.
• What is merit?
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Making Government Work

• For 120
• A type of meeting that allows the public to
  comment on government activities.
• What are public hearings?
• Return to Main Screen

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Making Government Work

• For 160
• The years that elections for members of the city
  council and mayor are held.
• What are odd-numbered years?
• Return to Main Screen

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Making Government Work

• For 200
• The amendments to the U.S. Constitution that
  enfranchised black males, women, and eighteen
  year olds.
• What are amendments XV, XIX XXVI?
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And the Winner Is