congress
Congress is bicameral. This topic is part of Government within Government & Society. This page currently draws on 94 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
congress trivia questions
A congress is commonly a type of what?
Answer: Legislature
Bonus fact: Several countries use the term for national lawmaking bodies.
What are the two chambers of the U.S. Congress?
Answer: House of Representatives and Senate
Bonus fact: Congress is bicameral.
Where does the U.S. Congress meet?
Answer: U.S. Capitol
Bonus fact: The Capitol stands on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The population totals from the U.S. census are used to reapportion seats in which chamber of Congress?
Answer: House of Representatives
Bonus fact: House seats are redistributed among the states based on decennial census population counts.
Which U.S. founding figure served as the first Postmaster General under the Continental Congress?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Bonus fact: Franklin had extensive postal experience before independence.
Who can veto a bill passed by the U.S. Congress?
Answer: President
Bonus fact: The president may sign or veto legislation.
Congress can override a presidential veto with what fraction in both chambers?
Answer: Two-thirds
Bonus fact: A two-thirds vote in each chamber overrides a regular veto.
The Congress met in which city?
Answer: New York City
Bonus fact: Representatives from nine colonies attended.
On what date did the Continental Congress vote to declare American independence?
Answer: July 2, 1776
Bonus fact: Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776; the text of the Declaration was ratified two days later.
Who was the official printer to Congress who produced the first broadside copies of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Dunlap
Bonus fact: John Dunlap worked through the night to print the first broadside copies of the Declaration after its adoption.
How many constitutional amendments did the First U.S. Congress originally propose to the states as a Bill of Rights?
Answer: 12
Bonus fact: Ten of the twelve proposed amendments were ratified in 1791 and became the Bill of Rights.
According to the Library of Congress 1492 exhibit, Columbus’s voyage brought Mediterranean and American peoples together on an island in which archipelago?
Answer: The Bahamas
Bonus fact: The encounter initiated sustained contact between peoples of the Mediterranean world and the Americas.