Welcome to GuessTheUS.com, an informative quiz game about The United States

Test your knowledge of The United States and become a more knowledgeable citizen!

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
-- Billionaire Warren Buffett, 2006

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
-- Grover Norquist

Because our federal government has worked reasonably well, Americans have had the luxury of remaining rationally ignorant of how it operates and what it does.

With much of our government getting suddenly dismantled, we're getting a crash course on what we may lose:

• safe food and drinking water
• clean air
• quickly and safely traveling around our country
• hurricane forecasting
• disaster relief
• safely visiting our beautiful national parks
• our economy, long the envy of the world
• collective defense of free democratic nations against Russia & China
• low levels of corruption, fraud, and bribery
• efforts to fight global warming
• freedom of/from religion
• the world's greatest universities
• our travel industry
• the many talented immigrants we attract, who have founded some of America's great tech companies
• steady improvements in medicines enabled by government spending to educate young scientists and invest in speculative research lacking obvious short-term profitability but with potentially massive long-term benefits

We were clueless that shuttering USAID will likely kill 25 million over the next 15 years and leave a moral and soft-power vacuum in African countries that China is rushing to fill and leverage to expand its political, military, and economic power.

American democracy will soon die unless we all appreciate what our government does and how greatly we all benefit from it.

GuessTheUS is an informative quiz game about the United States, primarily covering important political and economic topics.

I intend to regularly add more questions and expand into other areas — especially history, law, and international relations — and allow users to select questions in areas of interest.

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