History Bee Resources
The IHBB Canada Study Guide contains both a list of topics that can be referenced in our tournaments and some strategies for preparation.
Past questions used at our tournaments in Canada (see below)are quite possibly your best resource for practicing. We use new questions each year, but the people, places, and events in history that are referenced in questions from one year to the next are usually quite similar.
Please also see NAQT’s (National Academic Quiz Tournaments) “You gotta know” pages.
ORQE Questions:
Please note that this is the first year that IAC is holding Online Regional Qualifying Exams in Canada so we don’t yet have past questions for these. You can find the 2020 USA ORQEs questions below, and older ones here. Please note that these questions are at a similar level as the questions that will be used in Canada, but that the Canadian exam will include only about 15-20% questions about US History questions, rather than the about 40-50% included in the sets played in the USA.
History Bee Regionals Questions:
2018-19 Canadian Regional History Bee Questions
You can find more past History Bee questions here.
Please note that this is the first year that IAC is holding an Elementary Division in the History Bee so we don’t yet have past questions for these. You can find past USA Elementary Level History Bee questions here. Please note that these questions are at a similar level as the questions that will be used in Canada, but that the Canadian set will include only about 15-20% questions about US History questions, rather than the about 40-50% included in the sets played in the USA.
History Bee Nationals Questions:
2019 Canadian Championships History Bee Questions
You can find more past History Bee questions here.
Please note that this is the first year that IAC is holding an Elementary Division in the History Bee so we don’t yet have past questions for these. You can find past USA Elementary Level History Bee questions here (look for the National Championships questions). Please note that these questions are at a similar level as the questions that will be used in Canada, but that the Canadian set will include only about 15-20% questions about US History questions, rather than the about 40-50% included in the sets played in the USA.