Civics test games
Short games built on the official 2025 civics questions. They are a change of pace from reading the list: you match, sort and answer against the clock, and every answer the games mark as right is one USCIS accepts.
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People questions
Famous Americans: match the face to the answer
Match each portrait to an answer USCIS accepts for "famous for many things" questions, from Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Dates and order
Put U.S. history in order
Sort the events and presidents from the official civics questions into the right order, then see the year each one belongs to. -
Quick recall
Civics speed round
Sixty seconds, as many official civics questions as you can answer. At the end you get the list of the ones you missed.
Which game to play, and when
Famous Americans is the place to start if the people questions blur together. It covers the eight people who have their own “famous for many things” question on the 2025 list, and puts a face next to each name so the answers have something to hang on.
The timeline works on order: eight events whose date appears in an official question or answer, from 1776 to 2001, and a second deck with the five presidents whose number is part of an accepted answer.
The speed round is for when you think you know the list. It draws from 113 of the 128 questions and gives you a minute. What you miss is your study list for the next session.
Built on the official list
No right answer in these games is a paraphrase. Each one is taken word for word from the USCIS list, from the same data as the question pages, and each game links back to the questions it draws on. The wrong choices in the speed round are the same ones the practice test uses, and none of them is an accepted answer. The short event labels in the timeline are ours, worded after the question they come from, and the dates are the ones that appear in the questions and answers themselves; the games leave out anything the list does not date.
The portraits and documents are public domain images from Wikimedia Commons, credited at the bottom of every page where they appear. The games are free and need no account. The only thing they save is your best speed-round score, and it stays in your browser.
When the games start to feel easy, the real check is the practice test, with the same number of questions and the same passing score as the interview.
Picture credits
- Portrait of George Washington. Gilbert Stuart, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
- Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Alexander Gardner, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
- Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Dick DeMarsico, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
- Portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Rembrandt Peale, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
- The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence. original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
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