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Quiz Questions for Teenagers and Adults

Free, genuinely hard general knowledge and trivia questions with answers for teenagers and adults, sorted by topic. These are the ones that stump the most players, so they will test the grown-ups too. Tap any question to reveal the answer.

Made in Australia for families and classrooms. Want a gentler warm up? Try our quiz questions for 10 to 12 year olds, 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.

  • Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

  • 40 times per day

    Because their carnivore digestive system is poorly adapted to their diet of nutrient-poor bamboo

  • One stomach

    (with four compartments inside).

Australia trivia for kids

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

  • B

    a 12-sided shape called a dodecagon.

  • c) The Big Surfing Wombat in Byron Bay

  • Queensland

  • The Northern Territory

  • 30%

    (27.6%)

Want more Australia 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.

  • The colours are inverted

    Greece
  • Tunisia

  • Lebanon

    It's actually a cedar tree, but it looks awesome!

Stickers to collect

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Games trivia for kids

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

  • Obsidian

  • A run — three or more consecutive numbers in the same colour (e.g., red 4, 5, 6) or a group — three or four of the same number in different colours (e.g., blue 9, red 9, black 9)

  • The Wii

    Super Nintendo (1991), Nintendo 64 (1996), GameCube (2001), Wii (2006)

  • Victory Royale

  • The Queen of Spades

    she's worth 13 points all by herself, the same as all 13 Heart cards combined!

  • Candlestick, Dagger, Lead Pipe, Pistol, Rope, Wrench

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.

  • Atlas

    often mistakenly said to hold up the Earth, but it was actually the heavens/sky

  • c) 2 hours

    The Australian Department of Health recommends no more than 2 hours of recreational screen time per day.

  • 50s

    (1958)

  • $6.50 ($6.45)

  • Hypertension

  • Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Geography trivia for kids

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

  • Greenland

  • 3 of Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Equatorial Guinea; Papua New Guinea.

  • Torres Strait

Want more Geography 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.

  • She kicked it straight up in the air!

    Gravity did the rest.

  • BOWLING

    It hides OWL (b-OWL-ing), a bird. The other four hide insects: gi-ANT, po-LICE, MOTH-er and hum-BUG.

  • 16

  • V

    Colours of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. ROY G BIV.

  • 3

    This works when there's a grandmother, mother, and daughter. The grandmother and mother are the 2 mothers, while the mother and daughter plus the grandmother make 3 daughters.

  • G

    ANGEL (faded) is interleaved with DEVIL (solid).

Maths trivia for kids

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

  • Day 29

    The pond goes from half covered to completely covered in a single day

  • 5 days

    Each chicken lays 1 egg every 5 days, so 100 chickens would each lay 1 egg in the same 5 days. It's a brain-bender!

  • 2 goals

    Senegal must beat Norway by at least 2 goals (e.g. 2–0, 3–1, 4–2). Remember, every goal Senegal scores improves their goal difference while reducing Norway’s!

    *We wrote this question before realising FIFA had changed its rules and now uses head-to-head results instead of goal difference. Please mark yourself correct if you worked this out!

  • 40

    The X (10) sits before the L (50), and a smaller numeral first means subtract: 50 - 10 = 40

  • 47

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.

  • Sarabi

  • Amy, Morgan or Lulu

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Science trivia for kids

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

  • Hydrogen

  • c) Sound traveling through steel

    The molecules in a solid are much more closely packed and tightly bonded than in liquids or gases, allowing sound vibrations to be transferred more quickly between them. Sound cannot travel through space at all

  • Any one of Troposphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere or Exosphere.

    Atmosphere layers answer

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

Space trivia for kids

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

  • 90 minutes

    The ISS zips along at about 28,000 km/h, looping the planet 16 times in a single 24hr day.

  • A cosmonaut

  • Micro-organisms

    AKA Life on Mars!

  • Venus

    A day on Venus (one full rotation) takes 243 Earth days...which is actually longer than Venus's year, which is only 225 Earth days. So it goes around the Sun before it finishes spinning once!

  • Ganymede

    Jupiter's moon, even larger than Mercury

  • Andromeda Galaxy

    It sits about 2.5 million light years away and appears as a faint smudgy patch in the night sky.

Sport trivia for kids

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

  • Fulham

  • 4

    Plus a further 2 points if the conversion kick is successful

  • c) Wilson

  • b) 13

  • 9.85 seconds

    Thats fast! The world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Usain Bolt

  • 170 (171)

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

Tech trivia for kids

Computers, keyboards and the gadgets we use every day.

  • Global Positioning System

  • 8

    Eight bits make one byte. A kilobyte is officially 1,000 bytes, though computers often count it as 1,024.

  • Portable Document Format

    Invented by Adobe in 1993.

  • Large Language Model

  • Command

  • c) $1 billion

Frequently asked questions

  • The ones on this page. Every question here is in the bottom band for correct answers, so they genuinely test teenagers and grown-ups alike.

  • Yes, this is it. Every topic on this page is general knowledge, and every question is drawn from the hardest band, so it doubles as a general knowledge quiz for teens and adults.

  • Yes, this is the page for them. Every question is drawn from the hardest band, so it suits high schoolers through to adults.

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

  • These are our toughest, the questions the fewest players get right. Expect to lose a few.

  • 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!