Introducing: Weekly Education Trivia Games for Curious Minds

Hi Everyone — My apologies! An earlier version of this post had the incorrect link to the new Quiz. That has now been fixed. My apologies and enjoy! Thank you to those who commented and sent me a note!

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How well do you know education?

Not policy opinions. Not what you’d argue over coffee. Pure, factual trivia. The kind that makes you say “I should have known that” or “I had no idea”!

Today I’m launching a new recurring feature: a five-question multiple choice quiz about education history, research, and ideas, published every other Saturday. And starting next week, I’ll be alternating it with a second game — a six-event timeline challenge where you arrange historical moments in chronological order.

Why am I launching this?

Mainly because it’ll be fun. I won’t say mindless because it will require a bit of thinking, but it’s not “mindful” either. The goal is to offer just a couple minutes of escape time each weekend to let you test yourself on how well you know different aspects of education. It’s something you can do with your kids over breakfast—or compare how you did with your friends.

Second, while the education conversation is often dominated by hot takes, news, optimistic or pessimistic stories about students and teachers, policy fights and the like, underneath all of that is an important history — of ideas, of reformers, of facts — that rarely gets airtime. And it turns out that history impacts and shapes the conversations and debates of today. What’s new today is often, it turns out, kinda old. It benefits all of us to know that history.

How it works

Five questions. Multiple choice. You get immediate feedback after each answer, along with a brief fact that adds context. At the end you get your score—and a shareable result you can send to friends or post online.

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New quiz every other Saturday. Timeline game alternates on the off weeks. All editions stay live at michaelbhorn.com so you can catch up or replay.

Have a suggestion for a topic for a quiz? Have a correction? Want to just tell me how you did? Hit reply and let me know—or drop a note in the comments. I read every response.

Enjoy!