A free, timed history trivia game: 12 multiple-choice questions per run, four question types, 20 seconds each, and a streak multiplier that rewards you for not guessing. Questions are drawn fresh every run from 50 documented historical moments — from the building of the Great Pyramid to the present day. No sign-up, and every answer comes with the fact behind it.
12 questions · 4 question types
Date the event, name the country, order the centuries. Answer fast for a bigger time bonus and keep a streak alive to double your points.
Best run per player · weekly board, resets in 6 days
Base points
100 – 200
Every correct answer is worth 100 points, rising to 140 for a medium question and 200 for a hard one. Difficulty is set by how far back the event sits — dating 1969 is easier than dating 447 BC.
Time bonus
up to +100
In timed mode you have 20 seconds per question, and the share of the clock you leave on the table is added as a bonus. Answer instantly and you bank the full 100.
Streak multiplier
up to ×2
Three correct in a row multiplies everything by 1.25, five by 1.5, eight by 2. One wrong answer resets the streak to zero, which is where the game gets tense.
A perfect timed run lands somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 points depending on how hard the run's twelve events are, and the result screen always shows the ceiling you were playing against. Your best score is kept on this device so you can chase it. Prefer no clock? Switch the timer off before you start — you keep the base points and the multiplier.
In what year did this happen? Four years, one right, and the decoys get closer together the more recent the event is.
In what year did this happen: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone?
Options: 1759 · 1765 · 1787 · 1799
Answer: 1799 — 1799. The Rosetta Stone's three scripts (hieroglyphic, Demotic, Greek) unlocked 1,400 years of lost Egyptian history when Champollion cracked the code in 1822.
In which country would you find this? Four countries drawn from the same library the panorama game uses.
In which country would you find this: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
Options: 🇫🇷 France · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇺🇸 the United States · 🇨🇳 China
Answer: 🇺🇸 the United States — the United States, 1963. MLK's famous 'I Have a Dream' refrain was improvised after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted 'Tell them about the dream, Martin!'
Which of these happened first? Four events, sometimes centuries apart, sometimes a handful of years.
Which of these happened first?
Options: Lindbergh's Arrival in Paris After Transatlantic Flight · The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, London · V-J Day Celebration in Times Square · Burj Khalifa and Dubai Skyline Under Construction
Answer: The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, London — The earliest of the four, in 1851 — the next one followed in 1927. Built in 9 months from 293,655 glass panes, the Crystal Palace was so large that mature elm trees were enclosed inside rather than cut down.
Which of these happened in a given year? The reverse of a dating question, and usually the one that breaks a streak.
Which of these happened in 1879?
Options: Christ the Redeemer Under Construction, Rio de Janeiro · Discovery of the Rosetta Stone · Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Summit · Edison's Light Bulb Demonstration, Menlo Park
Answer: Edison's Light Bulb Demonstration, Menlo Park — 1879, and the only one of the four from that year. Edison didn't invent the light bulb—he improved it after testing 3,000 materials and built the entire electrical system to make it practical.
This run pulls from every era in the library. If you'd rather stay in one — ancient Rome, the age of exploration, the 20th century — each era has its own timed round with its own personal best and its own dating cues. Or read the questions with the answers printed underneath: the full bank of 72 questions lives on the trivia page, grouped by era.