Quiz 5: Government

Government Databases

Quiz 5 Government Form
Questions:

1. For all US Senate floor votes, how many times did Barack Obama and John McCain vote together/differently?

2. What date was the earliest US House or Senate report to investigate James R. Hoffa issued and who was the chairman of the investigating committee?

3. According to an article by Jennifer Weeks, a corrosion problem at what facility was cited as the most serious incident at a US Nuclear reactor since Three Mile Island?

4. Which Supreme Court Justices voted in dissent in the case involving Lilly Ledbetter?

5. What two states have set their maximum age for juvenile court at 15 years old?

6. Since 1945, which female US Senator has served the shortest term?

7. What was the name and date of the first “key vote” that Senator Edward Kennedy voted on?

8. In Alabama Legal Forms, how many Birmingham attorneys specializing in Divorce are listed?

9. I need to find an illustration that details all of the features of the Yosemite Valley from a birds eye view, and I don’t know where to start.

10. Who was the first Roman Catholic Supreme Court Justice?

One of our goals for 2009 is to encourage the use and increase the awareness of the information found in the databases. To get staff more familiar with what is in some of our databases, we thought an incentive of a prize would be good. :-) So, each month we are going to post questions on survey monkey about a particular subject. You must use the databases to answer these questions. As long as you are a staff person at BPL, you may enter.

The rules:
Answer all questions in the quiz.
You may enter only one time per quiz.
If your answers are correct, you name will go into a drawing.
One name will be pulled for each quiz from the group of correctly answered surveys.
The winner will receive a $20 gift certificate, probably to Wal-Mart.
The winner will be posted on the staff blog and will need to claim his/her prize. (to get you to look at the staff blog as well!)You have until 5:00 p.m. on April 20th to complete the quiz.

Trying to find the answers will hopefully help you become more proficient in using the databases.