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U.S. Citizenship Test Questions

Can you answer these questions that appear on the test to become a U.S. citizen?
Note: The actual test is easier and only requires 60% correct to pass.
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Last updated: December 22, 2019
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First submittedMay 8, 2013
Times taken183,677
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Question
Answer
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
What is the name of the national anthem?
The Star-Spangled Banner
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Louisiana Territory
What are the first three words of the Constitution?
We The People
What five freedoms are protected in the first amendment?
Speech
Religion
Assembly
Press
Petition the Government
What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
House of Representatives
Senate
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve,
who becomes President?
Speaker of the House
What are the two major political parties?
Democratic
Republican
What must all men register for at age 18?
Selective Service
Who wrote the Federalist Papers?
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
Who was president during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
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Level 87
Jul 10, 2019
Why is Woodrow Wilson specifically on this test? Is he special or something? I'd thing FDR, Washington, Truman, or any Cold War president should also be on this test if he is.
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Level 82
Nov 18, 2019
I think this is just a sampling of possible questions?
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2020
Correct. I sampled the questions to make it interesting to JetPunk users. The actual test is comically easy.
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Level 81
Jan 30, 2024
Comically easy, yet I'd wager a disturbingly high percentage of our citizens would fail.
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Level 52
Mar 10, 2024
When I took the test, the most difficult question asked me to name my local Senator and Representative. Kind of tough when you're a foreigner who doesn't vote yet! The others aren't that hard, and you can always cram for the test as there is a set list of possible questions.
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Level 66
Apr 1, 2020
Curious to find out which questions you have omitted!
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Level 60
Jun 23, 2023
There aren't any omitted questions per se. I don't there is a literal selection, I'm pretty sure these are just some possible questions.
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Level 50
Dec 9, 2019
As a Filipino, I'm quite proud of my 14 points.
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Level 66
Jan 6, 2020
The description says "can you answers". That is improper grammar.
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Level ∞
Jan 6, 2020
How embarrassing. Now fixed.
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Level 50
Jan 8, 2020
Got all except the 5 protections from the first amendment lol
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Level 43
Feb 15, 2020
Such a stupid test. Why do we make people do this? How does passing this show that they will be any better of a citizen than someone who couldn't pass this? Shouldn't it at least be current? Why does an immigrant care what we bought in 1803?
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Level 65
Oct 27, 2020
Yeah! Knowledge makes no difference in any person's life! Knowing stuff is stupid!!!!! We'll never make the same mistakes again because of instincts and luck and good looks!
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Level 69
Mar 15, 2020
I'll stay right where I am in the Netherlands I guess...
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Level 73
Mar 31, 2020
Lucky I don't want to live in the USA.
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Level 51
Mar 31, 2020
Got 50% even though I am an American citizen!🤣😂🤣😂
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Level 80
Mar 31, 2020
100% first try - not bad for a Brit. And having an American wife may have actually hindered me rather than helped :D
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Level 62
Mar 31, 2020
got them with 0:01 left
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Level 56
Mar 31, 2020
that is terrifyingly easy. I've taken it 3 separate times, each around six months apart, and got 100% each time
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Level 56
Mar 31, 2020
context: British
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Level 82
Apr 1, 2020
you're American now. Read the small print.
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Level 66
Apr 1, 2020
Did you expect the 2nd and 3rd time to suddenly get a lot wrong? Was that the terrifying part? "Ok maybe this time I ll get a few wrong... What??! still got everything right? Man.. not again..."
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Level 67
Apr 1, 2020
Can you accept GOP for Republican Party?
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Level ∞
Apr 1, 2020
Okay
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Level 68
Apr 20, 2020
42% only. I hardly can be an American (though I was born in the continent of the same name)
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Level 70
Apr 23, 2020
i better study if i can join the citizenship :/
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Level 44
May 2, 2020
9/20. Looks like Britain gets to keep me ;) I’ve seen some versions of ours and the questions are just as odd... was surprised they don’t include more practical ones. Maybe because that kind of knowledge changes faster depending on trends, election results etc and so ‘correct’ answers would constantly need to be updated??
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Level 31
May 23, 2020
58%, guess i have to stay in.. america
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Level 41
May 25, 2020
LOL I read the five freedoms one wrong and thought it meant the first five amendments so I just kept typing "guns" over and over
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Level 62
Aug 7, 2020
Looks like I'm not an American (no offense Americans, but I'm glad i only got 53%!)
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Level 67
Oct 27, 2020
Why are you glad you didn't know something?
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
I'm not offended I'm just embarrassed on your behalf.
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Level 48
Oct 27, 2020
I feel the same.
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Level 40
Sep 10, 2020
Can you allow assemble? Or, more accurately, peaceably assemble for the 5 freedoms? That is the wording in the Constitution. Great quiz though!!!
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
The freedom to assemble is only guaranteed to Avengers.
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Level 61
Oct 27, 2020
Can 'belief' be accepted for 'religion'?
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
Sad that I can answer these questions much faster and more easily than the more recent judge appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Level 57
Oct 27, 2020
Well, you take quizzes much more than ACB does
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Level 86
Oct 27, 2020
If a Guatamalan migrant fleeing drug cartels needs to know the answers to these questions, so should every politician in America, including Supreme Court nominees.
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
I do... but... I would HOPE that SC justices have studied the Constitution more than I have. The question I was thinking of was about the first amendment.
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Level 67
Oct 27, 2020
Wait, I missed this. I'm on a news cleanse because everything is making me nuts right now. What didn't Judge Barrett know?
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
She was asked during confirmation hearings what freedoms were guaranteed by the first amendment. She could only come up with four.
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Level 48
Oct 27, 2020
Curious. I thought these patriotic things were like a religious thing in US, even more for conservatives.
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Level 82
Nov 2, 2020
some of them border on that. Particularly the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms. Though, like all religious people, Americans tend to cherry pick which parts of the Constitution they believe are important or even know about, and it's always up for interpretation.
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Level 67
Mar 15, 2022
In my experience, when conservatives talk about "the Constitution," they really just mean the Second Amendment. That, and occasionally a tragicomic misunderstanding of what "free speech" means.
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Level 65
Mar 16, 2022
Not "all" religious people cherry pick what we religious people feel are important. Maybe some or even most, but not all. Be careful when using that word.
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2022
it's so close to all that to say all is preferable to finding fault with saying all. It's almost impossible to conceive of someone who didn't do that, in fact, given how voluminous the texts of certain religions are and how rife with contradictions they also are. Though of course the cherry pickers who think they're somehow more special than the other cherry pickers they feel have picked the wrong cherries will deny, credulously, that those even exist.
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Level 62
Oct 27, 2020
33%, looks like I'll have to stay in Canada...Oh well.
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Level 55
Oct 27, 2020
Horray for me! I'm a citizen of the US of A
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Level 45
Oct 27, 2020
I was born here (U.S.) and I got 29 percent :( (but to be fair I am a kid)
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Level 52
Oct 27, 2020
Watching Hamilton recently helped NGL
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Level 61
Oct 27, 2020
Please accept "military service" for "selective service".
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Level 76
Oct 27, 2020
Not the same thing. Signing up for selective service means that you are registered as a potential draftee. Signing up for military service means actually joining the military. I did the former, but not the latter.
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Level 47
Oct 27, 2020
Can the word "protest" or "right to protest" work for 5 freedoms?
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Level 81
Oct 27, 2020
The newest member of the SCOTUS couldn't answer the five freedoms lollll facepalm
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Level 48
Oct 27, 2020
hahaha for 2%, I could not be a US citzen.
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Level 78
Oct 27, 2020
Except for Press, Petition and John Jay I found this one easy. Looking at my stats, this wasn't always the case.
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Level 62
Oct 28, 2020
John Jay got sick after writing 5. Madison wrote 29. HAMILTON WROTE... THE OTHER FIFTY ONE!!!!!!
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Level 34
Mar 17, 2022
exactly me trying to remember nonstop lol
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Level 69
Oct 28, 2020
Got everything except the federalist papers and one of the 1st amendment rights :)
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Level 45
Oct 29, 2020
58%, no citizenship for me lmao. Think I'll stick to the UK anyway ;)
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Level 38
Apr 11, 2021
How I got through this test in Hamilton Quotes:

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"..."Not surprising Men quote 'em. Don't act surprised you guys, cause I wrote 'em" -Thomas Jefferson

"Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution entitled The Federalist Papers"

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Level 60
Jun 23, 2023
Although "What did they say to get you to sell New York City down the river? / Or did you know even then it doesn't matter where you put the U.S. Capital?" might mislead you to saying New York City for the capital city question.
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Level 27
Jul 23, 2021
I got 9%. wow.
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Level 65
Jul 30, 2021
I've never heard of the Federalist Papers and I'm an American...
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Level 67
Aug 14, 2021
You probably learned it in Government in school, maybe even U.S. history, I took both a couple years ago so it was easier to remember
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Level 77
Mar 15, 2022
You haven't seen the musical Hamilton then. That's the reason I know and I am Australian.
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Level 67
Aug 14, 2021
Ah it's been a while since I looked at the Federalist papers
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Level 44
Aug 17, 2021
Just want to get a vacation in US someday or never..........

Or just go to a way closer country AUSTRALIA

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Level 70
Dec 18, 2021
15/24 - Thanks to so many American TV shows.
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Level 70
Jan 29, 2022
I made a pigs ear of that; however, when the UK equivalent was first introduced I tried the sample, and failed that too!

I am obviously meant to be a stateless person...

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Level 57
Feb 22, 2022
I got.... 71%. I am qualified to be a citizen in a country I live in already. Woohoo!
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Level 61
Mar 15, 2022
Of course synonyms for "assemble" should be allowed. The First Amendment secures certain freedoms — the specific word itself is malleable and less important than what the word represents.
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Level 72
Mar 15, 2022
When Kurt Gödel, famous for his incompleteness theorem that postulated that every formal system will have some irreconcilable inconsistencies (I'd explain it better, but I can't--even this is probably wrong), was being driven from Princeton to Philadelphia to take his citizenship test, he told the fellow faculty member driving him that he intended to tell the examiner of a number of logical inconsistencies he had found in the Constitution. His driver talked him out of it.
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Level 57
Mar 15, 2022
The line of succession after VP is President Pro Temp of the Senate, not speaker of the House
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Level 89
Mar 15, 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
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Level 89
Mar 15, 2022
@AGR1, nope.
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Level 58
Mar 15, 2022
Quizmaster wasn't kidding about the official test being much easier; here is the official practice test from the U.S. Government: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/civics-practice-test-2008
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Level 57
Mar 15, 2022
Protest should count for petition
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Level 65
Mar 15, 2022
It's techlically already covered by speech + assembly
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Level 28
Mar 15, 2022
I’m gonna cry. I got 33% and I was born in America- BUT HEY CUT ME SOME SLACK IM NOT EVEN IN HIGHSCHOOL YET :,)
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Level 72
Oct 19, 2023
Sorry mate, you’ll have to be deported. Actually, I guess since it’s been 19 months since your post you’ll already have been. :-( Unless they’re still messing with you and you’re currently wandering around Martha’s Vineyard?
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Level 41
Mar 16, 2022
All of this I learnt from movies.

Oops, this is an American test, so I should write: learned.

By the way, on a day-to-day basis, how often do U.S. citizens actually use and need this information?

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Level 43
Mar 17, 2022
Sad.... It wouldn't accept my answer of "Bear Arms" as one of the 5 rights.
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Level 30
Mar 19, 2022
Thats because it is the second ammendment
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Level 72
Mar 19, 2022
I must have been overtired, clicked on this quiz, glanced at the title and for some reason read UK Citizenship test. Thought question 1 was weird, but when “God Save the Queen” didn’t work I spent a good few seconds trying to decide if it there was another, arcane, official name I’d not heard of before, or whether some daft Yank (no offence) had butchered it.

I did manage to get full marks though so, if someone can disregard my ‘daft yank’ remark and send me the appropriate paperwork? What jobs do you have for Brit’s anyway? Is it still mainly wise-cracking butlers and haughty librarians? Or do you still need ridiculously aristocratic maîtres d’, who for some reason still work in restaurants, despite clearly being members of the English nobility?

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Level 82
May 15, 2022
You can also get work narrating documentaries.
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Level 30
Mar 19, 2022
Studying this in History, I thought it was the secretary of defense who served. Good quiz.
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Level 31
May 19, 2022
oh no only 38% so sad no america

what am i going to do with my dirt poor, wanting-to-be-american european self! ...

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Level 33
Oct 20, 2023
Move to Yemen??
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Level 42
Jul 15, 2022
John Jay is the least correctly guessed answer... clearly Jetpunkers haven't seen Hamilton :"D
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Level 41
Oct 11, 2022
tried "house speaker" and it didn't work, damn
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Level 53
Dec 30, 2022
thanks Hamilton for the federalist papers question
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Level 47
May 14, 2023
As an American citizen I can proudly say I got the first three, the three branches, and the two parts of Congress correct. Also the Louisiana purchase one because I researched the Napoleonic wars a bit ago.
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Level 60
Jun 23, 2023
Please accept "gather" for "assembly".
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Level 27
Oct 19, 2023
Btw, the three branches you talk about is the separation of power theorized by Montesquieu (for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers). You probably know that, but as an european that seemed to obvious and broad to be asked in a us specific quiz. It might be me tho
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Level 46
Oct 19, 2023
79%, where's my citizenship?! lol
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Level 52
Oct 19, 2023
I missed quite a bit as a Canuck, but somehow I got 50% for press even though I didn't get press
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Level 55
Oct 19, 2023
Thanks, Hamilton!
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Level 33
Oct 20, 2023
92%, got all but 2. Guess I don't know all my rights being an American myself, but I DOOO know who Alexander Hamilton is :P
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Level 48
Nov 8, 2023
The only reason I knew the ones of the federalists papers is because of Hamilton the musical lmaoooo
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Level 41
Nov 25, 2023
Accept "house speaker"?
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Level 49
Jan 11, 2024
Accept assemble for assembly, I tried it and it didn’t accept, then I couldn’t think of anything else.
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Level 42
Feb 28, 2024
this should be an "only wrong answers" quiz for us foreigners