Category: Quiz - LEARN. THINK. EXPLORE.

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12/15/2023

Learn Constitutional law by playing the iCivics game "Do I Have a Right?" "In Do I Have a Right? you can run your own firm of lawyers who specialize in constitutional law. Decide if potential clients have a right, match them with the best lawyer, and win their case. The more clients you serve and the more cases you win, the faster your law firm grows!" www.icivics.org/games/do-i-have-right

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11/17/2023

Teachers Pay Teachers has a bunch of free Thanksgiving-themed logic puzzles and other activities: www.teacherspayteachers.com/browse?order=Price-Asc&search=thanksgiving%20logic%20puzzles%20free

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11/3/2023

This quiz contains several questions about lesser-known aspects of North America that, if you get them wrong, might make for a fun learning diversion: play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-pass-this-difficult-north-american-geography-quiz (The quiz also contains at least one mistake. Let me know if you spot it.)

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8/25/2023

If you're looking for geography trivia (or great maps) to expand your learning, the Map Shop has a section of its website devoted to geography trivia questions and their answers: www.mapshop.com/trivia

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7/21/2023

Geographical magazine (UK) has a new daily geography quiz. (A score of 75% or better wins you a discount on a Geographical subscription.) geographical.co.uk/quizzes

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5/5/2023

Looking for a new verbal game? Merriam-Webster offers a variety of free vocabulary-based games, from a four-at-a-time wordle puzzle to farm idioms and famous last lines of literature: www.merriam-webster.com/games

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3/31/2023

Mastered Statele* already? This daily quiz from the makers of Worldle* and Statele features images from U.S. states and challenges participants to identify where the photos were taken: wheretakenusa.teuteuf.fr/
*Statele: statele.teuteuf.fr/
*Worldle: worldle.teuteuf.fr/

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3/10/2023

Understanding a place requires so much more than being able to find it on a map. The makers of Worldle and Statele have a new daily game, WhereTaken, that promotes a different kind of geographic literacy by challenging users to identify images associated with various countries: wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/

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2/24/2023

Practice your logical deduction skills with the old-fashioned code-breaking game Bulls and Cows. The game is like Mastermind except there can be no duplicates: www.mathsisfun.com/games/bulls-and-cows.html

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1/27/2023

Cursory. Misnomer. Squall. Abjure. Those are recent words featured as the New York Times Learning Network's word of the day. During the school year, the site offers a new word each day (M-F) along with examples of the word's usage from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-quizzes-crosswords

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12/16/2022

Practice your knowledge of U.S. geography with the daily Statele quiz: statele.teuteuf.fr/

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11/4/2022

Try this devilishly difficult U.S. geography quiz! On a blank U.S. map, click on where you think the state named is. If you're right, the game continues. If you're wrong, the game ends and you need to start over. (Hint: if you're able to get past about 35%, the going gets easier.) www.sporcle.com/games/mhershfield/us-states-no-outlines-minefield

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8/26/2022

An MIT student group is launching this year's Galactic Puzzle Hunt today. Sort of like an escape room, the hunt is a series of puzzles designed to do in teams but can be done individually. The FAQ at the site has a link to examples of previous years' puzzles that might be worth checking out before diving in. The game ends at 6:02 AM ET on Sept. 6. 2022.galacticpuzzlehunt.com/

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8/19/2022

Test your geography: how many countries can you name in 15 minutes? [Note: you don't have to label them, just name them (spelling counts).] This Sporcle quiz courtesy of my older son (yes, we are that nerdy!): www.sporcle.com/games/g/world

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7/29/2022

If you're looking for a bit of summer learning fun, Google Earth's Carmen Sandiego game takes students around the world, using clues to solve a crime while seeing some of the world's most iconic landforms and structures in 3D:
earth.google.com/web/data=CiQSIhIgYmU3N2ZmYzU0MTc1MTFlOGFlOGZkMzdkYTU5MmE0MmE

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7/1/2022

How good is your vocabulary (or your child's)? This quick two-part checklist helps you assess your vocabulary and perhaps learn a few new words in the process: preply.com/en/learn/english/test-your-vocab

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4/29/2022

Thinking ahead to your summer reading list? You can test your knowledge of classic literature by matching characters to novels with this 35-question quiz: play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-name-which-literary-classic-these-characters-are-from

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3/4/2022

There's a new free online geography game called Worldle (clearly riffing on the popular word game, Wordle). Worldle shows one image per day of a country (shape only). Users have six tries to guess the country; each guess generates feedback on distance (in km) and approximate direction to the correct answer. Playing with a world map on hand instead of just working from memory or guessing, though, creates a lot more learning: by consulting a map between guesses, students of geography develop a more refined sense of distance as well as country positions and shapes. worldle.teuteuf.fr/

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1/21/2022

Wordle is the game of the moment. The game combines the word play of hangman with the deductive logic game Mastermind. Players have six chances to figure out the day's five-letter word. www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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1/14/2022

Start the new semester with a geography quiz: identify a country based on three cities and an image. (This starts easy and gets harder.) play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/if-you-can-name-2525-of-these-countries-from-just-three-cities-youre-a-geography-genius

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10/29/2021

Want to practice your map-labeling skills? ThatQuiz has short map-labeling exercises for Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. ThatQuiz also has options to practice math, science, and foreign language vocabulary skills. www.thatquiz.org/

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9/24/2021

Think you know Africa? Take this quiz from Britannica to find out: www.britannica.com/quiz/geography-of-africa-quiz Be sure to click on "results" afterwards for more information about each answer. (There is one major typo, and one question seems to not match up with the answers.)

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8/6/2021

Prime numbers are divisible only by themselves and 1. This free online game designed by a British mathematician helps sharpen your mental math skills by seeing how many prime numbers you can correctly identify in 60 seconds -- but that means clicking "no" on all those tricky non-primes like 87 (which might look prime but is 3x29) that also pop up. isthisprime.com/game/

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7/9/2021

Want to test your knowledge of islands? This 40-question quiz provides a peek at some of the world's islands. (The maps are a bit quirky, but the content is good.) play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-name-these-island-destinations-from-a-map

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5/21/2021

Test your geography knowledge with this quiz, which I found a bit harder than usual without resorting to the obscure :-) Be sure to read the information that accompanies each answer. play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/world-geography-quiz