New NYTimes Weekly History Quiz: Flashback

Flashback, a new New York Times weekly history quiz, in its first iteration, was extraordinarily easy for me, to place eight events over the last 2100 years in chronological order. See how you do. A relative who is not a history buff like me got 7 out of 8 correct. What's cool about the quiz …

8th Grade History Scores Plunge. Can You Pass A Quiz?

New York Times: "It's not just math and reading. US History scores for 8th graders plunge, continuing a decade-long decline." Knowledge of civics has also declined. Click. "About 40 percent of eighth graders scored “below basic” in U.S. history last year, compared with 34 percent in 2018 and 29 percent in 2014. Just 13 percent …

10 Questions in Scotland Trivia Quiz

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How Well Do You Know British History?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWfGINdH6WY Quiz Time: Test your knowledge of British history with these 30 questions. https://youtu.be/ZOURr2gdlHY These are slightly more difficult.

Deck of Cards for Critical Thinking Are Among School of Thought’s Resources

Schoolofthought.org is a non-profit providing free education resources on critical thinking, creative thinking, and philosophy, It helps students question all schools of thoughts, with a virtual "department of BS detection." sot_launch_v03_FINALMIX from Alex Kulikov on Vimeo. offers cards and posters which discuss 24 common logical fallacies that advertisers, politicians and the media use to manipulate …

How Well Do You Know the Republican Party?

From the Christian Science Monitor, 2016 or 2017, this is an interesting quiz. However, it is a bit dated, and the official answers to two questions are no longer correct. I would have done better if the answers were updated. See how you do.https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1204/How-well-do-you-know-the-Republican-Party

There’s a Plethora of Online History Quizzes

A number of quizzes have been inspired by Crash Course history courses. Among them: Quizizz: American history in the 1930s. The New Deal Crash Course US History: Worksheets and Teacher Resources AP US History Practice Quizzes History Quizzes    

Testing Basic Knowledge of Middle East, Africa, South America and Diplomacy

I certainly wouldn't have done as well on this map quiz of the Middle East before I lived in the region. Click. Related: Are you smarter than a US Diplomat? Take Our Foreign Service Quiz. Think you know Africa? Take our Geography quiz. Think you know South America? Take our Geography quiz.

Quizzes, Tests for Courses Incorporating Alternate History

Objective quizzes on English, French and European History Objective quizzes on most significant events of 20th and 21st Century History: Change happens in high velocity from the 1940s to 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The new isolationism and the new globalization. Modern Western World: 1500s through 1930s or start of WWII. Study by century from …

Quizzes on English, French and European History

Quiz on French history. Quiz on English history. The College Board has an AP course in European history from 1450 (High Renaissance) to the present. Answer some of the same quiz questions.