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Family Quiz

A quiz the whole family can play at once: easy questions the children will get first, a few the grown-ups will have to think about, animals to sort by size, a number to guess and a country to find on the map. It starts gentle and gets trickier.

Read the questions and answers here, or host the quiz live: put it on the TV and let everyone answer on their own phones, with points for speed and a podium at the end. Family in another house can join an online room from where they are.

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The questions

  1. 1.What colour do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint?

    • AOrange
    • BGreen
    • CPurple
    • DBrown
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    Green. Blue and yellow paint mix to make green. Red and yellow make orange; red and blue make purple.

  2. 2.Which is the fastest land animal?

    • AHorse
    • BGreyhound
    • CCheetah
    • DKangaroo
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    Cheetah. A cheetah can sprint at around 100 km/h (60 mph) for a few hundred metres — faster than any other animal on land.

  3. 3.Bats are birds.

    True or false?

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    False. Bats are mammals: they are covered in fur and feed their young on milk. They are the only mammals that truly fly.

  4. 4.What is the capital city of Italy?

    • AMilan
    • BVenice
    • CRome
    • DNaples
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    Rome. Rome is the capital of Italy and was once the centre of the Roman Empire.

  5. 5.Which of these instruments has strings?

    • ATrumpet
    • BDrum
    • CViolin
    • DFlute
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    Violin. A violin has four strings, played with a bow. The trumpet and flute are blown, and a drum is struck.

  6. 6.Put these animals in order of size, smallest first.

    Put in order: Ant · Cow · Dog · Frog

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    Ant → Frog → Dog → Cow. An ant is a few millimetres long, a frog fits in a hand, a dog comes up to your knee, and a cow weighs several hundred kilograms.

  7. 7.How many keys does a standard piano have?

    Guess the number (between 40 and 120).

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    88. A full-size piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black.

  8. 8.How many months of the year have 31 days?

    • AFive
    • BSix
    • CSeven
    • DEight
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    Seven. Seven months have 31 days: January, March, May, July, August, October and December.

  9. 9.Water freezes into ice at _____ degrees Celsius.

    Words to choose from: five · minus ten · ten · twenty · zero

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    zero. Pure water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F) and boils at 100 °C at sea level.

  10. 10.What is the largest planet in our solar system?

    • AEarth
    • BSaturn
    • CNeptune
    • DJupiter
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    Jupiter. Jupiter is so big that more than 1,300 Earths would fit inside it.

  11. 11.In which country are the pyramids of Giza?

    Find it on the map.

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    Egypt. The pyramids of Giza stand on the edge of Cairo, in Egypt. The Great Pyramid is about 4,500 years old.

  12. 12.How many players does a football team have on the pitch?

    • ANine
    • BTen
    • CEleven
    • DTwelve
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    Eleven. Each football team has eleven players on the pitch, one of them the goalkeeper.

  13. 13.Which is the tallest animal in the world?

    • AElephant
    • BGiraffe
    • COstrich
    • DCamel
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    Giraffe. An adult giraffe can stand over 5 metres tall, most of it neck and legs.

  14. 14.The Great Wall of China can be seen from the Moon with the naked eye.

    True or false?

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    False. It is a myth. The wall is very long but only a few metres wide, far too narrow to pick out from the Moon — astronauts have said they could not even see it from low orbit.

  15. 15.What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?

    • AThumbelina
    • BTinker Bell
    • CSugar Plum
    • DBlue Fairy
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    Tinker Bell. Tinker Bell is Peter Pan’s fairy companion in J. M. Barrie’s story and the Disney film.

  16. 16.How many sides does a stop sign have?

    • ASix
    • BSeven
    • CEight
    • DTen
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    Eight. A stop sign is an octagon — eight sides — so it is recognisable even from behind.

  17. 17.Which ocean lies between Europe and North America?

    • AThe Pacific
    • BThe Atlantic
    • CThe Indian
    • DThe Arctic
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    The Atlantic. The Atlantic Ocean separates Europe and Africa from the Americas.

  18. 18.Which country has the largest population in the world?

    • AChina
    • BIndia
    • CUnited States
    • DIndonesia
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    India. India overtook China in 2023 and now has more than 1.4 billion people, according to the United Nations.

  19. 19.What is H₂O better known as?

    • ASalt
    • BOxygen
    • CWater
    • DSugar
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    Water. H₂O is the chemical formula for water: two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom.

Play it live, everyone on their phones

Put the questions on a big screen, share the PIN, and the leaderboard keeps score. Change any question first — it becomes your own quiz.