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Landmark Supreme Court Cases 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

  • Free Speech Cases
  • Civil Rights Cases
  • Criminal Justice Cases
  • Early Landmark Cases
  • Voting and Election Cases
  • Privacy Cases
  • Federal Power Cases
  • Education Cases
  • Due Process Cases
  • Equal Protection Cases
  • Executive Power Cases
  • Religion Cases

Sample questions

  • Which 1969 case protected students' symbolic armband speech? Tinker v. Des Moines
  • Which amendment's speech clause do these cases interpret? First Amendment
  • Which 1954 case ended legal school segregation? Brown v. Board of Education

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.