A hundred quiz questions for children, sorted into three levels: 5 to 7 years, 8 to 10 years and 11 to 13 years. The answers appear when you tap. Works at birthday parties, in the car, at the dinner table and as a tipspromenad (a Swedish quiz walk).
A quiz is one of the few games where a seven-year-old and an eleven-year-old can join in at the same time. The younger one gets questions about animals and fairy tales, the older one about planets and dates, and both get to feel clever. Here are the hundred questions our nannies use most often, checked and sorted by when children usually learn the answers at school.
An eighth birthday party in Solna, Saturday at three. Ten children, one sofa, and it is that moment after the cake when the energy is about to tip into chaos. The nanny splits them into two teams, reads the first question about the planets, and ten children go quiet and put their hands up. Twenty minutes later they have won ice cream together. That is how the quiz is used most often: not as a competition, but as the thing that gathers a group.
How to run a quiz with children
- Teams, not individuals. Two or three teams with mixed ages. Nobody has to sit alone not knowing.
- Ten questions per round. Then a break, then the next level.
- Let the children be judges. One child reads the question, another holds the answer. The adults can join a team and lose.
- A shared goal instead of a winner. If we get thirty right together, it's ice cream.
- Say the level before the question. Then the five-year-old knows when it is her turn to answer, and the ten-year-old keeps quiet until it is his.
Three levels, and what they contain
| Level | Age | Topics | Questions per round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 to 7 | Animals, fruit, colours, storybook characters, the family, simple sums | Eight to ten, then a break |
| 2 | 8 to 10 | Planets, the body, Sweden and the Nordic countries, books, counting to a hundred | Ten |
| 3 | 11 to 13 | The world, history, chemistry, music, Stockholm, harder sums | Ten to fifteen |
Level 1: questions for children aged 5 to 7
- Which animal says baa?
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The sheep.
- Which fruit is yellow and curved?
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The banana.
- How many days are there in a week?
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Seven.
- What is the season that comes after summer called?
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Autumn.
- Which animal has a trunk?
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The elephant.
- Which animal has the longest neck?
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The giraffe.
- What colour is a fire engine?
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Red.
- Which number comes after nine?
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Ten.
- What is a baby cat called?
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A kitten.
- And a baby dog?
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A puppy.
- What is a horse's baby called?
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A foal.
- What is a sheep's baby called?
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A lamb.
- What does a panda like to eat most?
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Bamboo.
- What do you get if you mix blue and yellow?
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Green.
- Which animal makes honey?
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The bee.
- How many legs does a spider have?
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Eight.
- How many legs does an insect have?
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Six.
- What is Pippi Longstocking's horse called?
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Lilla Gubben.
- What is Pippi's monkey called?
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Mr Nilsson.
- What is Pettson's cat called?
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Findus.
- What is the name of Bamse's friend who is a tortoise?
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Skalman.
- Who is Mamma Mu's best friend?
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The Crow.
- What colour is Pippi's hair?
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Red.
- Who brings presents on Christmas Eve?
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Jultomten, Father Christmas.
- What is the capital of Sweden?
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Stockholm.
- Which shape has three sides?
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A triangle.
- How many fingers do you have on both hands?
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Ten.
- What does a baker do?
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Bakes bread and buns.
- Where do penguins live, the North Pole or the South Pole?
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The South Pole, in Antarctica.
- And polar bears?
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At the North Pole, in the Arctic.
Level 2: questions for children aged 8 to 10
- How many planets are there in our solar system?
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Eight.
- Which planet is closest to the sun?
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Mercury.
- Which planet is called the red planet?
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Mars.
- Which is the largest planet?
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Jupiter.
- How long does it take the Earth to go once around the sun?
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One year.
- What is the largest animal in the world?
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The blue whale.
- What is the fastest land animal in the world?
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The cheetah.
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
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Three.
- What is the smallest bird in the world?
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The hummingbird.
- What is the highest mountain in the world?
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Mount Everest.
- What is Sweden's largest lake?
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Vänern.
- What is Sweden's highest mountain?
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Kebnekaise.
- What is Sweden's largest island?
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Gotland.
- What is Sweden's second largest city?
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Gothenburg.
- What is the capital of Norway?
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Oslo.
- What is the capital of Denmark?
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Copenhagen.
- What is the capital of Finland?
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Helsinki.
- How many letters are there in the Swedish alphabet?
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29.
- What date is Sweden's National Day?
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6 June.
- On what date is Lucia celebrated?
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13 December.
- What is the money in Sweden called?
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Kronor.
- What is the money in the USA called?
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Dollars.
- How many seconds are there in a minute?
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60.
- How many weeks are there in a year?
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52.
- How many days are there in a leap year?
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366.
- What is seven times eight?
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56.
- How many zeros are there in a million?
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Six.
- Which shape has six sides?
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A hexagon.
- Which gas do we need to breathe in to live?
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Oxygen.
- At what temperature does water freeze?
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Zero degrees.
- At what temperature does water boil?
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A hundred degrees.
- Which organ pumps blood around the body?
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The heart.
- How many milk teeth does a child get?
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Twenty.
- Who wrote the books about Pippi Longstocking?
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Astrid Lindgren.
- Who created the Moomins?
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Tove Jansson.
Level 3: questions for children aged 11 to 13
- In which year did the first people land on the moon?
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1969.
- How many bones does an adult have in their body?
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206.
- How many teeth does an adult have?
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32.
- What is the body's largest organ?
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The skin.
- What is the hardest substance found in nature?
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Diamond.
- What is the chemical formula for water?
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H2O.
- Which element has the symbol O?
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Oxygen.
- Roughly how fast does light travel?
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About 300,000 kilometres per second.
- What do you call a word that reads the same backwards, like Anna?
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A palindrome.
- How many degrees are there in a full circle?
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360.
- What is the smallest prime number?
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Two.
- How many years are there in a century?
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A hundred.
- Which country has the most inhabitants in the world?
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India, which overtook China in 2023.
- Which language is spoken in Brazil?
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Portuguese.
- What is the largest ocean in the world?
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The Pacific Ocean.
- What is the largest continent in the world?
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Asia.
- Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Leonardo da Vinci.
- Who wrote the books about Harry Potter?
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J.K. Rowling.
- What is Harry Potter's owl called?
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Hedwig.
- How many rings are there in the Olympic symbol?
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Five.
- In which year did the Second World War begin?
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1939.
- And in which year did it end?
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1945.
- Who became Sweden's first female prime minister?
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Magdalena Andersson, in 2021.
- What is the name of Sweden's king?
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Carl XVI Gustaf.
- How many countries are usually counted as the Nordic countries?
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Five: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
- In which city is the Turning Torso?
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Malmö.
- What is the name of the warship that sank in 1628 and is now a museum in Stockholm?
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Vasa.
- On which island in Stockholm is Gröna Lund?
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Djurgården.
- What are the three colours of the Stockholm metro lines?
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Red, green and blue.
- How many chromosomes does a human normally have?
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46.
- How many strings does an ordinary guitar have?
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Six.
- Which instrument has black and white keys?
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The piano.
- How many moons does the Earth have?
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One.
- What is the name of the star closest to the Earth?
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The sun.
- How long does it take the Earth to spin once on its own axis?
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One day, 24 hours.
How to read the questions so it stays fun
Read the question once, clearly, and wait. Count silently to five before you take an answer, otherwise the quickest child always wins and the others stop thinking. If a child gives an answer that is nearly right, Oslo instead of Helsinki, say that it is a Nordic capital but not Finland's, and let the team try again. That is the kind of clue that lets even the one who did not know learn something and feel they were part of it.
Mix in one question per round that is about the children themselves: what is the dog at preschool called, what colour is the birthday child's room. Everyone can answer those, and they break the tension if one team is a long way behind.
Questions the children can make up themselves
From the age of seven, children can write their own questions, and they turn out better than you would think. Give them a sheet of paper and three rules: the question must have an answer that can be checked, it must be about something they know themselves, and they must write the answer on the back. An eight-year-old who gets to write five questions about dinosaurs for their parents is a real quizmaster, and the parents really lose. Keep the sheets, they are fun to read a year later.
Turn the questions into a tipspromenad
Write twelve questions on separate sheets of paper with three answer options, mark them 1, X and 2, and put them up along a route through the park or the stairwell. The children walk round with a sheet and tick their answers. We have a Tipspromenad for kids if you would rather not write your own. At a birthday party the quiz works best after the food, as one of Party games for kids by age before it is time for the lucky dip.
How we do it with our families
A quiz in the car is one of our nannies' best tricks on the way home from förskola (municipal preschool, from age one). Three questions, then the child gets to ask three back. Esther picks up two siblings in Täby on Wednesdays, a five-year-old and a nine-year-old, and the drive home takes fifteen minutes. She does level one for the five-year-old and level two for the nine-year-old, every other question, and the nine-year-old may only say the answer to his little sister's question if she has said pass. Because it is the same nanny every time, she knows which questions have already been used, and which topics these particular children love showing they know: horses for one, planets for the other. Last Friday it was the nine-year-old who had written five questions about space for Esther. She got three.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions do you need for a children's quiz?
Ten to fifteen per round. Three rounds with breaks in between work at a party; in the car, one round at a time is enough. More than twenty in a row loses even ten-year-olds, and five-year-olds are done after ten. Stop while they still want more, and they will ask for it again next time.
How do you make a quiz fair between different ages?
Split into teams with mixed ages and give questions from different levels in each round. Or let the youngest answer the easy questions in the team, and the older ones the hard ones. Say which level the question is before you read it, so the children know whose turn it is. Beating an older cousin is the best thing there is.
Which questions suit a five-year-old?
Animals, colours, storybook characters, the family and things around the home. Which animal says baa, what is Pippi's horse called, how many fingers do you have. Questions about Sweden and the world work from seven or eight, once school has started on them. Before that a capital city is just a word, and the child loses interest.
How do you run a quiz without it becoming a competition?
Let the whole group answer in chorus, or count points for everyone together towards a goal: if we get twenty right together, everyone gets ice cream. That works especially well at parties, where a child who loses can get upset in the middle of the celebration. The teams cheer for each other instead of against, and the adults are the only ones allowed to lose.
How do you check that the answers are correct?
The answers here have been checked against standard reference works, but some change over time: who the prime minister is, how many countries there are. Read through level three before a party and cross out anything uncertain. If a child gives a different answer that is also reasonable, give the point. It is a game, not a test.