How it works
In whose parlor did Lee surrender, and which word was carved into a post at Roanoke? These 250 American history trivia questions and answers run in ten eras of 25, from Cahokia to 2000. One tap checks each answer.
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Run one era as a round
Set Start from to an era and the round stays inside it, from First peoples and colonies, to 1763 through From Watergate to the millennium, 1968 to 2000. The host reads the question and its four choices, teams write a letter, and one tap shows the answer with its reason. Mark the teams on paper, because the card counts for one player only.
Start basic, then print
Set Level to Basic and only the 80 basic American history questions come up, eight in every era: who wrote the Declaration, which city burned in October 1871. By estimate, 101 are medium and 69 hard. After a set, Print lists the questions you played with lettered choices, and a tick on With answer key adds the reasons.
- Run two neighbors for a themed night: Civil War and Reconstruction then The Gilded Age and Progressive Era covers 1860 to 1914 in 50 questions.
- Read the reason aloud on hard ones. Strom Thurmond's 1957 filibuster began at 8:54 p.m. and ended at 9:12 p.m. the next day.
- Two tables in two rooms? Share this set sends both the same questions in the same order.
Questions and answers
Are these US history trivia questions with answers checked?
Yes. Each answer and each added fact was read on September 19, 2026 in the Wikipedia article linked under its question, and a detail the article did not state plainly was cut. Wikipedia was the only source used. No death toll is an answer.
Where do these United States history trivia questions and answers stop?
At 2000, and no living politician is an answer. The last era runs from the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 to the Dayton Agreement of 1995 and the first woman to serve as secretary of state, in 1997.
How hard is the hard level?
Hard asks which of the thirteen colonies sent no delegates to the First Continental Congress in 1774. It was Georgia, and the other twelve met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. Each era holds six or seven questions at that level.