What's inside
- 250 multiple-choice questions, each with four options and one right answer
- Ten themed rounds: the founding and the Revolution, government and politics, geography and nature, American firsts, culture and society, wars and conflicts, food and drink, science and technology, sports and entertainment, and states and cities
- Three difficulty levels, so a mixed group can all play the same round
- An answer key that explains every answer instead of just marking it
- A sources page, because the explanations are checked rather than remembered
- 6 × 9 inches, 133 pages — sized to pass around a table
2026 is the year the United States turned 250, and this book takes the anniversary as a challenge rather than a lecture. The questions run from the ones everybody thinks they know — and gets wrong — to genuine obscurities about state borders, presidential trivia and inventions that were not invented where you think. Because every answer comes with an explanation, a wrong guess still leaves you knowing something.
Perfect for
Trivia nights
Ten themed rounds and three difficulty levels are the structure of a quiz night, already built.
History buffs
The hard tier is properly hard. If you clear it you have earned the right to be smug about it.
Families and road trips
Multiple choice means a ten-year-old and a grandparent can answer the same question and both have a chance.
Good to know
- Trim size 6 × 9 inches, 133 pages
- Questions are grouped by theme; the difficulty tiers run inside each theme
- Answers sit apart from the questions, so nobody reads them by accident
- Available in paperback and on Kindle
- Prefer facts to questions? 250 Fascinating Facts About America covers the same ground without the quiz
Think you know American history? Get your copy on Amazon and find out.