Below are the Christmas and Easter quizzes for the AS and A2 courses. Scroll down and have a go! If you are not sure, check your answers from the relevant pages of Plebisite.
AS Xmas Quiz
AS EASTER QUIZ
A2 Quizzes: XMAS
Question 1 Which Articles of the US Constitution establishes a) Congress as the national legislature and defines its membership, powers and method of election; b) The Supreme Court; and c) the President? ( 3 marks)
Question 2 What is the significance of the 22nd Amendment and in what year was it passed?? (2 marks)
Question 3 What majority does Congress need to overturn a Presidential veto and what is such a majority called? (2 marks)
Question 4 What is bipartisanship, why is it important to Congress and why has it declined recently? (3 marks)
Question 5 What are the stages (including dates) of Federalism in the USA?
Question 6 Name 2 powers of the Senate? (2 marks)
Question 7 Name 2 shared powers of the House and Senate? (2 marks)
Question 8 Name 3 powers of the House of Representatives? (2 marks)
Question 9 Name 2 imperial presidents. Name 2 imperilled presidents (4 marks)
Question 10 What is a bifurcated president? Name one. Why are presidents likely to be bifurcated? (3 marks)
Question 11 Give four reasons why a President might have to leave office. (4 marks)
Question 12 What is EXOP? What is the White House Office? (4 marks)
Question 13 Name 3 constitutional constraints on the president (3 marks)
Question 14 Name 3 landmark cases of judicial review in the US and briefly describe them (3 marks)
Question 15 Which Chief Justice did Eisenhower appoint, later claiming it was “the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made” and which Justice Reagan successfully nominate? (2)
Question 16 Which Constitutional amendment was used in the case of Roe vs Wade (1973) (1 mark)
Question 17 How are US Federal judges/justices appointed? Name a justice whose nomination was refused by the Senate (3 marks)
AS Xmas Quiz
- Identify six primacy (or long term) factors that influenced voting behaviour in the period of alignment (6 marks)
- What was a ‘deviant voter’? (3)
- Identify five short term factors (known also as Recency factors) that influence voting today (5)
- a. What type of system is the STV system? (1)
b. What is the name of the quota used in the STV system? (1)
c. What type of electoral system is the AMS system? (1) - Identify two advantages or proportional systems and two disadvantages (4).
- Identify two reasons why referenda enhance democracy and two reasons why they don’t. (4)
- What is Boris Johnson’s full name? (1)
- Identify two reasons why governments use referendums and give two examples of their use (4)
- List 4 functions of parliament? (4 marks)
- Identify 3 reasons for keeping the House of Lords (3)
- What do select committees do? How are they composed? Give an example (3)
- What is the Speaker and who currently holds this office? (2 marks)
- Identify two powers of the Prime Minister and two constraints on Prime Ministerial power (4)
- Given two reasons why the civil service may no longer be described as permanent, anonymous, or neutral (2)
- What is the Cabinet system of government? (4)
- Give two reasons why the Prime Minister is drawn from the House of Commons. (2)
AS EASTER QUIZ
- Identify a) the two main parties in British politics, and b) two nationalist parties (4)
- Identify three functions of political parties (3)
- By whom is the Conservative party mostly funded and, traditionally, by which organisations was the Labour party mostly funded? Who was Bernie Eccleston and what is his significance to Labour Party policy & funding? (3)
- Give two reasons why parties should be state funded and two reasons why they should not (4)
- Give two recent conservative policy and two recent Labour policy (4)
- Identify two functions of Pressure Groups/Social movements (2)
- Give two reasons why pressure groups are democratic and two reasons why they are not (4)
- What is the difference between a pressure group and a Social Movement? (2)
- Identify one ‘insider’ pressure groups and one ‘outsider’ pressure group. (2)
- Who identified the ‘insider’/’outsider’ typology and who identified the ‘cause/sectional’ typology? (2)
- Identify three factors that make a pressure group successful (3)
- Identify three methods that pressure groups use (3)
- Identify one ‘cause’ pressure group and one ‘sectional’ pressure group (2)
- What is a codified constitution and what is an uncodified constitution? Give examples of each. (4)
- Which court, separated from the House of Lords in 2009, is the highest court in the land? How many Justices are there? How many female Justices are there (3)
- Name two sources of the British constitution (1)
- Name four key institutions of the European Union (4)
A2 Quizzes: XMAS
- How does Classical Liberalism differ from Progressive Liberalism? (2)
- What is the Orange Book and what did it propose (4)
- Identify four ways in which liberal ideas have influenced the policies of major parties in the last 30 years. (4)
- Identify two reasons why, at the beginning of the 21st century, the Liberal Democrats might be regarded as Britain’s ‘party of the left’.(2)
- How does One Nation Conservatism differ from traditional conservatism? (2)
- Identify two ways in which Cameron’s Conservatism represents a break from Thatcherism and two ways in which it doesn’t. (4)
- What is George Osborne’s full name? (1)
- Identify three characteristics of the Conservatives’ view of human nature. (3)
- Identify four core themes of socialism. (4)
- Give three reasons why socialists support collectivism. (3)
- Identify two Labour policies since 1945 that reflect the core values of socialism and two that do not (4).
- Identify two of New Labour’s economic policies and two of their social policies (4)
- Identify three core values of Fascism (3)
- What is corporatism in fascism? (2)
- What is Social Darwinism and why is it significant to fascism? (3)
- Give an example of a contemporary far right movement and one of its policies (2)
Question 1 Which Articles of the US Constitution establishes a) Congress as the national legislature and defines its membership, powers and method of election; b) The Supreme Court; and c) the President? ( 3 marks)
Question 2 What is the significance of the 22nd Amendment and in what year was it passed?? (2 marks)
Question 3 What majority does Congress need to overturn a Presidential veto and what is such a majority called? (2 marks)
Question 4 What is bipartisanship, why is it important to Congress and why has it declined recently? (3 marks)
Question 5 What are the stages (including dates) of Federalism in the USA?
Question 6 Name 2 powers of the Senate? (2 marks)
Question 7 Name 2 shared powers of the House and Senate? (2 marks)
Question 8 Name 3 powers of the House of Representatives? (2 marks)
Question 9 Name 2 imperial presidents. Name 2 imperilled presidents (4 marks)
Question 10 What is a bifurcated president? Name one. Why are presidents likely to be bifurcated? (3 marks)
Question 11 Give four reasons why a President might have to leave office. (4 marks)
Question 12 What is EXOP? What is the White House Office? (4 marks)
Question 13 Name 3 constitutional constraints on the president (3 marks)
Question 14 Name 3 landmark cases of judicial review in the US and briefly describe them (3 marks)
Question 15 Which Chief Justice did Eisenhower appoint, later claiming it was “the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made” and which Justice Reagan successfully nominate? (2)
Question 16 Which Constitutional amendment was used in the case of Roe vs Wade (1973) (1 mark)
Question 17 How are US Federal judges/justices appointed? Name a justice whose nomination was refused by the Senate (3 marks)