Skip to content
Menu

People questions

Famous Americans: match the face to the answer

Pick a portrait, then the answer that belongs to that person. Every answer card is one that USCIS accepts on the 2025 civics test, and each round mixes 6 of the 8 people on the official list.

Game board

Matched
0 / 6
Misses
0
Round
1

1. Pick a person

2. Pick the answer that goes with them

Every accepted answer, person by person

The game shows one answer at a time. These cards show the full official list for each person, with a link to the question page where each answer is explained.

How these questions come up at the interview

The 2025 list has a family of questions built the same way: a name, then “is famous for many things. Name one.” This game uses all eight of them, from the founders through the civil rights movement. The officer reads the question and you give a single answer. Any answer on the official list counts, so you do not need all of them, only one you can say without hesitating.

That changes how to study them. Pick the answer that sticks best for each person and make it automatic. For George Washington, the official list has four answers, and “First president of the United States” is enough on its own. The game helps by attaching each answer to a face and a name, so you have two ways to reach it instead of one.

Answers the game leaves out

Some official answers belong to more than one person. A card that matches two portraits cannot be marked right or wrong, so these never appear as cards:

  • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers (James Madison and Alexander Hamilton)

A few more stay out because, next to another person on the board, they would leave two matches you could defend. Franklin “helped write” the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson was its “writer,” for example, and in the same round those two cards would be a coin toss:

  • Helped write the Declaration of Independence (Benjamin Franklin)
  • Writer of the Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
  • Aide to General George Washington (Alexander Hamilton)

Every one of them is a correct answer at the interview. They are still on the cards above and on each question page.

Where to go next

5 of these people were presidents, and the official answers say which number each one was. The timeline game asks you to put them in order. When the names feel easy, take the practice test, or review the rest of the history questions in American History.

Picture credits
  • Portrait of George Washington. Gilbert Stuart, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Portrait of Thomas Jefferson. Rembrandt Peale, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Portrait of James Madison. John Vanderlyn, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Portrait of Alexander Hamilton. John Trumbull, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Alexander Gardner, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Photograph of Dwight Eisenhower. White House, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Dick DeMarsico, public domain. Wikimedia Commons
  • The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence. original: Second Continental Congress; reproduction: William Stone, public domain. Wikimedia Commons

More games

All games