I’m excited to announce GuessTheUS.com, a challenging quiz on important topics regarding current American government, law, and economics.
In my previous post, I explained how I used AI to build a website using a language with which I had little familiarity, Python.
In this post, I’ll simply focus on what I built and why anyone might care.
I created GuessTheUS because too many Americans aren’t paying attention to politics/government, aren’t bothering to vote, and are voting against their selfish economic interests and our broad collective interests.
In 2024, The Presidential Greatness Project had 154 experts on the American presidency rank America’s presidents. They voted Joe Biden America’s 14th-best president and Donald Trump America’s 45th-best, i.e., absolute worst president. Lincoln, FDR, and George Washington topped the list. Trump was the biggest loser, with a “greatness” score of just 10.92 out of 100!
Months later, America re-elected the man whom presidential historians consider America’s absolute worst president.
Something is seriously wrong in America, and I want to help Americans understand important facts that will help us become better informed citizens and voters.
When you visit GuessTheUS.com, you’ll find a “Welcome” page that hopefully answers your questions and concerns before you start the quiz.
You don’t provide your name or a username. We generate a random code that you can use to pick up your quiz in the future where you left it. GuessTheUS is as anonymous as we can make it while letting you revisit the site as the same user.
After you start your quiz, you’ll be asked a series of mostly multiple-choice questions, like this one:
After you submit your answer, you’ll see the answer, along with a breakdown – for all “Select One” questions – of how others have responded to that question:
If you scroll down on the answer page, you’ll see source information for the answer, like this:
If you scroll further down on the answer page, you’ll usually see a “Learn More” section with links to Youtube videos, documents, etc. to learn more broadly and deeply about the topic:
There are currently 80 questions, and you’re free to skip any you don’t like.
You’re also free to skip around.
If you visit the “Dashboard” page, you’ll find a list of ALL questions, each indicating whether you answered correctly, incorrectly, or have not yet answered.
You can click on any unanswered questions to answer them.
You can click on any answered questions to revisit its answer page.
You can also filter the questions via the search box and/or by the checkboxes. This lets you see, for example, all questions about “Supreme Court” or all questions you answered incorrectly.
I hope you’ll try it out!
With thanks to Louis Velazquez for the photo shared through Unsplash