Point Loma Nazarene Universitys (PLNU) history and political science department

celebrated Constitution Day with a massive game of jeopardy between political science and
history majors with random attendees split between the two.

Im passionate about the quality and the rights of the American citizen because without
that we would not be the country we are today, sophomore history major Alex Vargas said.

Students from the history department wrote questions, putting them into the following
categories: Founding Fathers, We the People, Now a Days, Miscellaneous and Say
What. A typical question was How many judges serve on the Supreme Court? One
competitive student slammed the buzzer with nine. Another, What is the number of
electoral votes required to win the presidency? The answer is 270.

Senior political science major and president of the history club, Clint Betkey, organized
Constitution Day and hosted the jeopardy game.

It is important to celebrate the governing document of our country, Betkey said. It is a
great way for our department to come together and mingle where we normally would not.

In the end, the history, international studies and other majors beat the political science
major team. They won a framed copy of the U.S. Constitution to be hung in the history
department along with their own pocket size copies of the Constitution.

We celebrated Constitution Day this year with jeopardy but in the past we have done
panels talking about constitutional issues or just discussions, said Rosco Williamson, chair
of the department of history and political science.

Colleges celebrate Constitution Day nationwide because of a law that Congress passed in
2004 requiring every federally funded educational institution to teach about the
Constitution on September 17, the same day it was adopted in 1787.