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Civics trivia on Everyday Civics

This library holds 120 clues across 12 categories. Pick a difficulty — easy serves the gentler clues, hard the toughest — then clear two boards and a final question.

Categories in this library

  • Founding Documents
  • Three Branches
  • Voting and Elections
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Landmark Cases
  • How Laws Are Made
  • State and Local Government
  • Civic Participation
  • Checks and Balances
  • Federalism
  • The Presidency
  • Citizenship

Sample questions

  • Which 1776 document announced American independence? Declaration of Independence
  • Which document is the supreme law of the United States? The Constitution
  • Which branch makes laws? Legislative

How to play

  1. Choose a topic or grade, difficulty, and players, then begin. Each game draws a fresh random board from that library.
  2. Open a card, then pick one of the four answers.
  3. A correct pick adds points; a miss subtracts them.
  4. Finish the first board, then the second, then the final question.