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Quiz Questions for 10 to 12 Year Olds

Free general knowledge quizzes and trivia questions with answers, pitched at 10 to 12 year olds and a good fit from about 9 up. Sorted by topic, a fair challenge for older primary kids, not too easy and not too tricky. Tap any question to reveal the answer.

Made in Australia for families and classrooms. Want easier or harder? Try quiz questions for 5 to 9 year olds or trivia for teens and adults, or see all our kids trivia by topic.

Animals trivia for kids

From backyard critters to Aussie icons, see how many of these the kids can pick.

  • Elephant

  • An exoskeleton

    "exo" means outside. Our skeleton is on the inside holding us up, theirs is on the outside like a suit of armour, which is why they have to shed the whole thing and grow a new one to get bigger

  • b) Kitten

    (or kit) - Yep, same word as a baby cat!

Art trivia for kids

Paint, colour and a few famous masterpieces. Have a go at these art questions.

  • Mexico

  • A bust

    You'll often see marble busts of kings, emperors and famous thinkers in museums

  • A collage

Want more Art trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Australia trivia for kids

Big country, big trivia. These ones are all about home.

  • Townsville (TSV) to Brisbane (BNE)

  • b) Beach Day

  • Victoria

    It's right up in the north-west corner, close to where Victoria, NSW and South Australia all meet.

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Books trivia for kids

From Narnia to the Bad Guys, here are some questions for the bookworms.

  • Greg Heffley

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • Mr Wolf

Want more Books trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Flags trivia for kids

Can the kids name the country from the flag alone? Tap to find out.

  • Germany

  • Argentina

  • Japan

Games trivia for kids

Board games, card games and video games all get a look in here.

  • Impostors

  • Roblox games

  • 200

Want more Games trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

General Knowledge trivia for kids

A proper mixed bag. Handy for warming up before a full quiz.

  • 13

    Bakers used to add an extra bun so they would never accidentally short-change a customer and get in trouble

  • A hectare

    A hectare is 10,000 square metres (100m x 100m), while an acre is about 4,047 square metres (roughly 64m x 64m). So a hectare is about 2.5 times bigger

  • b) Wobbler

Geography trivia for kids

Countries, capitals and a few far flung places to track down.

  • Canada

  • Brazil

  • China

Want more Geography trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

History trivia for kids

Step back in time with questions about the people and moments that shaped the world.

  • William Shakespeare

  • The Inca civilisation

  • Brazil

    1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002.

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Language trivia for kids

Spelling, word play and a few tricky ones to puzzle over.

  • A word that reads the same forwards and backwards

  • Cat

  • Honey

    honeypot, honeycomb, honeybee, honeymoon

Want more Language trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Logic trivia for kids

No facts needed here, just a clear head and a bit of lateral thinking.

  • 8

    The seven daughters all share the same brother. So Mary has 7 daughters + 1 son = 8 children.

  • 3D Movie

  • Metaphor

Maths trivia for kids

Number puzzles and brain benders that are more fun than they sound.

  • 2

    A prime number is a whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself (so 3, 5, 7, 11, 13... are all primes). Every other even number can be divided by 2, which means 2 is the only even prime that exists.

  • 12


    Here's how we work it out:

    Step 1: Find 10%
    To find 10%, just divide by 10:
    80 ÷ 10 = 8

    Step 2: Find 5%
    5% is half of 10%, so divide 8 by 2:
    8 ÷ 2 = 4

    Step 3: Add them together
    10% + 5% = 15%, so:

    8 + 4 = 12

  • 1,440

    There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, so 60 x 24 = 1,440 minutes. (That's 86,400 seconds, if anyone's counting)

Want more Maths trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Movies / TV trivia for kids

From Bluey to Frozen, here are some questions for the screen lovers.

  • How to Train Your Dragon

  • Shrek

  • Raichu

Music trivia for kids

Instruments, lyrics and a singalong or two.

  • BILLY BOILED

    You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me!

  • 6

  • Triple J

Want more Music trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Nature trivia for kids

Weather, plants and the world just outside the window.

  • Oak

  • Condensation

    The opposite of evaporation. It's also why dew forms on grass overnight and why your bathroom mirror fogs up after a shower

  • Cloud

    Cumulus are the fat cotton-wool ones, cirrus are the thin wispy high ones, and stratus is the flat grey sheet that ruins a Saturday

Pop Culture trivia for kids

The stuff kids are actually talking about right now.

  • Film directors

  • Any 5 of: Bug, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fairy, Fighting, Flying, Ghost, Grass, Ground, Ice, Normal, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel, Water

    Fairy is the newest, added in 2013.

  • Lie / Not true

    (no cap = telling the truth)

Want more Pop Culture trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Science trivia for kids

Experiments, elements and the odd why does that happen question.

  • Meteorite

  • O negative

  • Sugar is the solute and water is the solvent

    The solute is the substance that gets dissolved, and the solvent is the substance that does the dissolving

Space trivia for kids

Planets, stars and the big questions about what is out there.

  • A supermassive black hole

  • Uranus

    Tilted at about 98 degrees (Earth is only tilted 23.5 degrees). As a result, each pole gets 42 years of constant sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness.

  • The same

    • Solid/rocky: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
    • Gas: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
    • Sadly, Pluto is no longer classified as a planet but is a rocky and icy dwarf planet

Want more Space trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Sport trivia for kids

Footy, cricket, tennis and plenty more for the sport mad.

  • 42 km

    42.195 km exactly

  • The Golden Boot

  • Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide

Tech trivia for kids

Computers, keyboards and the gadgets we use every day.

  • Image file formats

  • Two-Factor Authentication

  • Frames Per Second

    In gaming, FPS can also mean “First-Person Shooter,” a game where you see through the character’s eyes.

Want more Tech trivia for kids? These are all plucked from our past Kids Quiz Weekly quizzes.

Frequently asked questions

  • The ones here. They are graded by how often kids this age get them right, so they are a fair challenge for upper primary.

  • Yes. Every topic on this page is general knowledge, from animals and space to sport, history and geography, so it works as a general knowledge quiz for 10, 11 and 12 year olds.

  • Yes. Each topic runs easiest to hardest, so a 9 year old can start at the top of a bank and an 11 or 12 year old can jump further down.

  • Yes, every question and answer is free, with no login.

  • Absolutely. They work well as a Years 5 to 7 warm up, brain break, or team quiz.

  • Tap or click a question and it flips open to show the answer.

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!