Mode 01
Prepare for Competition
GHC-aligned. The mode David uses to prep.
A focused curriculum of U.S. history, civics, the Revolution, the Civil War, both World Wars, the Cold War, the Supreme Court, and key world events — exactly the topics tested in real history competitions.
- ▸Eight topics aligned to The Great History Challenge curriculum.
- ▸Difficulty ranges 5th-grade through master’s level.
- ▸Question matchmaking targets your weak spots within the curriculum.
Sample questions
What you’ll see.
First clue only — the hardest one. The real flow shows you three clues progressively. Buzz in on the first to gain the most rating.
Sample 1 · world war 2
ELO 701
Clue 1This Axis power, led by Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland in 1939 to start World War 2 in Europe.
Reveal answer
Nazi Germany
Sample 2 · ancient greece
ELO 1200
Clue 1This Macedonian ruler founded cities across the Hellenistic world and famously cut the Gordian Knot rather than untie it.
Reveal answer
Alexander the Great
Sample 3 · ancient greece
ELO 1800
Clue 1Thucydides attributed the conflict's root cause to Athenian imperial ambitions and Spartan fear, a dynamic he explored in the Melian Dialogue where Athenian envoys famously declared that 'the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.'
Reveal answer
The Peloponnesian War
Sample 4 · american revolution
ELO 2400
Clue 1Delegates from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 to coordinate resistance, excluding Georgia, and produced the Declaration and Resolves.
Reveal answer
Continental Congress
Sample 5 · us presidents
ELO 3000
Clue 1His secretary of state drafted the foreign policy doctrine opposing European colonization in the Western Hemisphere, formalized in 1823 and named after the president himself.
Reveal answer
James Monroe
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