A brand new quiz every Thursday!

How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?

Quiz 23 timed a sunbeam, unpacked an acronym everyone uses and nobody expands, and put two nearly identical flags side by side.

How long does light from the Sun take to reach Earth?

About 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light covers the 150 million kilometres between the Sun and us at 300,000 kilometres per second, and it still needs the length of a school recess to arrive.

Which means when you look at the Sun, you are seeing it as it was eight minutes ago. Sit with that one.

What does LASER stand for?

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. It started life as a scientific acronym and became such an ordinary word that most people have no idea it stands for anything at all.

How do you tell the flags of Türkiye and Tunisia apart?

Flag of Tunisia is on the left. Türkiye on the right

Have a look at the pair above. Both are red with a crescent and star, but in the quiz image Tunisia is on the left and Türkiye on the right. Tunisia puts its crescent and star inside a white circle; Türkiye's sit directly on the red, slightly off-centre.

That was Quiz 23: an eight-minute-old sunbeam, an acronym in disguise and two flags doing their best to be confused for each other.

Ready for a new challenge? Play this week's quiz, browse hundreds more questions on our kids trivia page, or replay past quizzes in the quiz archive.

New quiz every Thursday

A fresh 15 questions for the whole family. Grab everyone and see how you go.

How to play

  • 15 family-friendly questions.
  • This is a self marking quiz – tap on the question to reveal the answer and mark correct or incorrect.
  • Submit your answers and if you have an account, you can compare you score with the community average.
  • Let the younger kids have a go at the easy questions first, then everyone else can jump in!