Quizzes for 10-12 year olds with answers

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

Finland → Poland → Switzerland → Greece. In the far north of Finland, inside the Arctic Circle, the summer sun does not set for weeks on end.

Great Pyramid → Colosseum → Big Ben. Oldest first: Great Pyramid (about 2560 BC), Colosseum (AD 80), Big Ben (1859).

Age 10 True or false: This is the flag of Thailand.

False. It's the Philippines. The Philippines flies its flag with the red stripe on top in times of war.

Age 11 Which country's flag is this?

• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Peru
• Argentina

Peru. Machu Picchu, in Peru, was built by the Inca in the 1400s.

Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain. Its highest point is Uhuru Peak, and uhuru means freedom in Swahili.

Asia. The United Arab Emirates is made up of seven emirates.

Age 12 Which country's flag is this?

• Canada
• Saint Lucia
• Bahamas
• Panama

Bahamas. The Bahamas is made up of about 700 islands, but only around 30 have people living on them.

Hobbiton film set. The Hobbiton film set, used in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, sits on a working farm.

Nicosia. Cyprus is one of the very few countries with a map of itself on its flag.

Algae → Shrimp → Fish → Seal → Shark. Tiny algae floating in the sea make around half of the oxygen on Earth.

Kidneys. Your kidneys filter all your blood many times every day.

False. No bat is blind. Many also listen for echoes to find food in the dark.

True. Calcium is a soft silvery metal. In your bones and teeth it is locked into hard minerals.

Spine. Your spine is a stack of small bones called vertebrae. Having so many lets it bend.

14. Silicon is element 14, so every silicon atom has 14 protons.

False. Gravity up there is nearly as strong as on the ground. Astronauts float because they are falling round Earth.

Distance. A light year is how far light travels in a year: about 9.5 trillion kilometres.

Carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide through tiny holes in their leaves.

Sulfur. Sulfur collects around volcanoes. When it burns it makes a choking gas with a sharp smell.

20th century (the 1900s). The fighting in the First World War ended in 1918, which is in the 20th century.

False. Magna Carta sealed: 1215. Second World War ends: 1945. The Second World War ended in 1945. Germany surrendered in May and Japan a few months later, after six years of war.

Great Pyramid of Giza built (around 2560 BC) → Work starts on Hadrian's Wall (AD 122) → Great Fire of London (1666) → Battle of Waterloo (1815). The Great Pyramid of Giza was built in around 2560 BC. It stayed the tallest thing people had built for more than 3,000 years.

16th century (the 1500s). William Shakespeare was born in 1564, which is in the 16th century.

Telephone patented. The telephone was first patented in 1876, 93 years before people first walked on the Moon.

First satellite launched. The first satellite was launched in 1957. Sputnik 1 was about the size of a beach ball and beeped as it circled the Earth.

19th century. Charles Darwin first published On the Origin of Species in 1859, which is in the 19th century.

Penny Black stamp issued. The world's first sticky postage stamp showed young Queen Victoria and cost one penny.

True. It was 1086, in the 11th century. William the Conqueror ordered it to record who held land, and what it was worth.

Elizabeth I becomes queen. Elizabeth I became queen in 1558, 30 years before the Spanish Armada sailed.

9,023 → 9,032 → 9,203 → 9,230. Compare the thousands first, then the hundreds, then the tens.

400. The ones digit is 8. 5 or more rounds up, so 398 becomes 400.

5. Go through the 6 times table: 6 × 5 = 30.

0.2 → 0.3 → 0.45 → 0.65. Compare the tenths first, then the hundredths.

10. Divide to find it: 750 ÷ 75 = 10, because 75 × 10 = 750.

17. To find an eighth, divide by 8: 136 ÷ 8 = 17.

9.25. Line up the decimal points: 7.10 + 2.15 = 9.25.

256. 16 × 16 is 16 × 10 plus 16 × 6: 160 + 96 = 256.

21. Find 1/5 first: 35 ÷ 5 = 7. Then 3 lots of 7 make 21.

False. 15 × 11 = 165. 15 × 11 is 15 × 10 plus 15 × 1: 150 + 15 = 165.

flour. Flour is the powder you bake with. A flower grows in the garden.

weather. Weather is rain, sun and snow. Whether means if.

exaggerate. Exaggerate doubles the g, but don't exaggerate the r: just one.

aggressive. Aggressive doubles up twice: gg, then ss.

yacht. Yacht comes from an old Dutch word. In English, the ch is silent.

Thai. Thai speakers often greet with a wai: palms pressed together and a small bow.

False. Bonjour is hello in French. Bonjour literally means good day. Friends often say salut instead.

French. Merci beaucoup means thank you very much. Beaucoup means a lot.

aloud. Aloud means out loud. Allowed means permitted.

True. Gracias is thank you in Spanish. Gracias comes from the Latin gratia, which also gave English the word grace.