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Quiz for 12 year olds with answers

Flags that are easy to mix up, world capitals and element symbols that come from Latin. This is a quiz for 12 year olds with answers on the page, pitched at Year 7, and it sticks to things worth knowing. There are no film, music or sport rounds.

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45 questions in 5 subject groups, every one with its answer. Questions last changed: .

Numbers

  1. What is 1/4 of 120?

    30. To find a quarter, divide by 4: 120 ÷ 4 = 30.

  2. What is −2 + 3?

    1. Start at −2 on a number line and count 3 to the right: 1.

  3. Put these in order, smallest first: 0.8, 0.55, 0.35, 0.3.

    0.3 → 0.35 → 0.55 → 0.8. 0.8 is the same as 0.80, so it is bigger than 0.55.

  4. What is 7/10 of 90?

    63. Find 1/10 first: 90 ÷ 10 = 9. Then 7 lots of 9 make 63.

  5. What is 17 × 11?

    187. 17 × 11 is 17 × 10 plus 17 × 1: 170 + 17 = 187.

  6. True or false: 210 ÷ 21 = 21.

    False. 210 ÷ 21 = 10. Think backwards: 10 × 21 = 210, so 210 ÷ 21 = 10.

  7. True or false: 102 ÷ 17 = 6.

    True. Think backwards: 6 × 17 = 102, so 102 ÷ 17 = 6.

  8. What is 15 × 19?

    285. 15 × 19 is 15 × 10 plus 15 × 9: 150 + 135 = 285.

  9. What is 189 + 186?

    375. Hundreds, tens, then ones: 100 + 100 = 200, 80 + 80 = 160, 9 + 6 = 15. Altogether: 375.

The world

  1. True or false: This is the flag of Monaco.

    Two horizontal stripes: red on top, white below, on a nearly square flag.

    True. It's Monaco. Monaco and Indonesia are both red over white. Monaco's flag is squarer.

  2. True or false: This is the flag of Lebanon.

    Three horizontal stripes: red, white and red.

    False. It's Austria. Austria's red, white and red flag is one of the oldest national flags in the world.

  3. What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?

    • Port of Spain
    • Washington, D.C.
    • Managua
    • Nassau

    Port of Spain. The steelpan, a drum made from an oil barrel, was invented in Trinidad and Tobago.

  4. What is the capital of Kiribati?

    • Port Vila
    • Suva
    • South Tarawa
    • Palikir

    South Tarawa. Kiribati is the only country with land in all four hemispheres: north, south, east and west.

  5. Put these in order, oldest first: Big Ben, Space Needle, Terracotta Army, White House.

    Terracotta Army → White House → Big Ben → Space Needle. Oldest first: Terracotta Army (about 210 BC), White House (1800), Big Ben (1859), Space Needle (1962).

  6. What is the capital of Paraguay?

    • Santiago
    • Sucre
    • Asunción
    • Caracas

    Asunción. Paraguay has two official languages, Spanish and Guaraní, and many people speak both.

  7. True or false: This is the flag of Djibouti.

    Light blue over green, with a white triangle at the pole side holding a red star.

    True. It's Djibouti. Lake Assal in Djibouti is the lowest point in Africa, more than 150 m below sea level.

  8. Which continent is Nicaragua in?

    North America. Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America.

  9. Which country's flag is this?

    Split diagonally by a thin yellow band, with blue above holding five white stars and green below.
    • Solomon Islands
    • Vanuatu
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Micronesia

    Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands are made up of nearly 1,000 islands.

Science and nature

  1. True or false: K is the symbol for potassium.

    True. Potassium is K. Potassium reacts so fiercely with water that it bursts into lilac flames. K comes from its Latin name, kalium.

  2. Name the element with the symbol Cu.

    Copper. Copper slowly turns green outdoors. Cu comes from the Latin cuprum, after Cyprus, where copper was mined in ancient times.

  3. Which element was once known by the Latin name natrium?

    • Nitrogen
    • Neon
    • Nickel
    • Sodium

    Sodium. Sodium is a metal soft enough to cut with a knife. Its symbol Na comes from the Latin natrium.

  4. True or false: Dilophosaurus could spit venom.

    False. No fossil shows Dilophosaurus with venom or a neck frill. Both were made up for Jurassic Park.

  5. Which part of your skeleton joins your spine to your legs?

    • Skull
    • Thigh bone
    • Pelvis
    • Spine

    Pelvis. The pelvis is a bowl-shaped ring of bones in your hips.

  6. Which element was once known by the Latin name plumbum?

    • Platinum
    • Phosphorus
    • Potassium
    • Lead

    Lead. Romans made water pipes from lead, and plumbers are named after it. Pb comes from the Latin plumbum.

  7. Put the Moon's phases in order, starting from a full Moon. Waning means shrinking. Gibbous means more than half lit: Full Moon, Last quarter, New Moon, Waning crescent, Waning gibbous.

    Full Moon → Waning gibbous → Last quarter → Waning crescent → New Moon. From one full Moon to the next takes about 29 and a half days.

  8. True or false: Your tongue can only taste sweet things with its tip.

    False. The 'tongue map' is a myth. Taste buds all over your tongue pick up every basic taste.

  9. The Plough is part of which constellation?

    • Ursa Minor
    • Cassiopeia
    • Ursa Major
    • Orion

    Ursa Major. Ursa Major means the Great Bear. In America, the Plough is called the Big Dipper.

  10. Name the element with the symbol Sn.

    Tin. Bend a bar of tin and it makes a faint crackling sound called the tin cry. Sn comes from the Latin stannum.

  11. True or false: Coelophysis ate meat.

    True. Hundreds of Coelophysis skeletons were found together at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

  12. Which part of a cell is the jelly where most chemical reactions happen?

    • Mitochondria
    • Chloroplast
    • Cytoplasm
    • Nucleus

    Cytoplasm. Cytoplasm is the jelly inside a cell, where most chemical reactions happen.

History

  1. True or false: Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1889.

    False. It was 1928. It went on to become one of the most important medicines ever found.

  2. Put these in order, earliest first: Channel Tunnel opens, Great Pyramid of Giza built, Penny Black stamp issued, Storming of the Bastille.

    Great Pyramid of Giza built (around 2560 BC) → Storming of the Bastille (1789) → Penny Black stamp issued (1840) → Channel Tunnel opens (1994). The Channel Tunnel opened about 4,600 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.

  3. Which came first?

    • Eiffel Tower completed
    • Victoria becomes queen

    Victoria becomes queen. Victoria became queen in 1837, 52 years before the Eiffel Tower was completed.

  4. In which year did Julius Caesar first land in Britain?

    • 55 BC
    • 75 BC
    • 80 BC
    • 35 BC

    55 BC. He came back the next year with a bigger army, but went home again.

  5. Which came first?

    • Magna Carta sealed
    • Thomas Becket killed

    Thomas Becket killed. Thomas Becket was killed in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, 45 years before Magna Carta was first sealed.

  6. In which century were the first modern Olympic Games held?

    • 18th century
    • 19th century
    • 17th century
    • 20th century

    19th century. The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, which is in the 19th century.

  7. In which year did James Cook land at Botany Bay?

    • 1795
    • 1776
    • 1820
    • 1770

    1770. Scientists on his ship found so many new plants there that it was named Botany Bay.

Words

  1. Which word fills the gap? We had tea, and _____ we watched a film.

    • then
    • than

    then. Then is about time, and both then and when have an e.

  2. True or false: Danke is how you say thank you in German.

    True. Danke is thank you in German. Danke schön is thank you very much. The usual reply is bitte, which also means please.

  3. Which is spelt correctly?

    • availabel
    • available
    • availible
    • avaliable

    available. Available ends in able, as in able to get.

  4. Which language is this thank you from: "Grazie"?

    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Swedish

    Italian. Grazie mille, a thousand thanks, is how Italians say thanks a lot.

  5. Spot the right spelling.

    • immediatly
    • imediately
    • immedietly
    • immediately

    immediately. Immediately is immediate plus ly. Keep the e.

  6. How do you say hello in Welsh?

    • Olá
    • Privet
    • Yia sou
    • Shwmae

    Shwmae. Shwmae is a friendly Welsh hello. Helo works too, and bore da means good morning.

  7. How do you say thank you in Russian?

    • Dziękuję
    • Danke
    • Spasibo
    • Grazie

    Spasibo (Спасибо). Spasibo grew from an old phrase meaning God save you.

  8. Which is spelt correctly?

    • rhime
    • rhyme
    • ryhme
    • ryme

    rhyme. Rhyme starts r, h, y, just like rhythm.

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