True or false
True or false quiz for kids
Twenty true or false questions for children of about 6 to 11, in four rounds. Every answer comes with a one-line reason, so they learn why as well as what.
A shortened quiz, to play solo
20 questions to play on your own, online. Type your answers and get your score at the end. No PDFs and no group play.
Playing with other people? Get the full quiz
- 60 questions, none of them on this page
- Question and answer PDFs, with answer sheets and tie-breakers
- Host it live: a private game room, everyone answers on their phones
- Questions
- 20
- Rounds
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy to hard
Round 01
Animals
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: a shark's skeleton has no bones?
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True
It's made of bendy cartilage, like the tip of your nose.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: bats are blind?
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False
Bats can see. Many also find their way in the dark using echoes.
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain?
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True
Each eye is about the size of a snooker ball.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: penguins live at the North Pole?
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False
Wild penguins live in the southern half of the world. Polar bears have the North Pole.
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: butterflies taste with their feet?
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True
They stand on a leaf to find out if it is good to eat.
Round 02
Space and science
- Difficulty: easy
True or false: the Sun is a star?
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True
It is the closest star to Earth.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: sound travels faster than light?
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False
Light is far faster, which is why you see lightning before you hear thunder.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: you can see the Great Wall of China from the Moon?
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False
It is far too thin to see. Astronauts have looked.
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: lightning is hotter than the surface of the Sun?
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True
A bolt of lightning is about five times hotter.
- Difficulty: easy
True or false: your heart is a muscle?
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True
It squeezes about 100,000 times a day.
Round 03
Around the world
- Difficulty: easy
True or false: Australia is both a country and a continent?
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True
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: the capital city of Australia is Sydney?
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False
It is Canberra.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: Africa is the biggest continent?
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False
Asia is the biggest. Africa is second.
- Difficulty: easy
True or false: Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world?
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True
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: the River Nile is in South America?
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False
The Nile is in Africa. South America has the Amazon.
Round 04
Odd but true
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: bananas grow pointing upwards?
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True
They start pointing down, then curl up towards the light.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: a tomato is a fruit?
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True
It grows from a flower and has seeds inside, which makes it a fruit.
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: honey never goes off?
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True
Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs was still safe to eat.
- Difficulty: medium
True or false: goldfish only have a three-second memory?
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False
Goldfish can remember things for months.
- Difficulty: hard
True or false: an octopus has blue blood?
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True
Its blood uses copper instead of iron, which turns it blue.
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That was the free solo version. The Kids' Quiz has 60 brand-new questions in 6 rounds, with question and answer PDFs to print, or host it live with everyone on their phones. Instant download.
Solo is free. Playing with a group? That’s the full quiz.
Free version · this page
A shortened quiz, solo only
20 questions to play on your own, online
- 20 questions, marked for you
- Your score, answers and explanations at the end
- No PDFs: nothing to print or hand round
- No group hosting or live game room
- No team answer sheets or tie-breakers
- Anyone can look these questions up
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The Kids' Quiz
- A longer quiz: 60 questions (this page has 20), none of them on this site
- Host pack with questions and answers (PDF)
- Written for ages 6 to 11: animals, science, the world, stories, numbers and sport
- Team answer sheets and scoresheet
- Two tie-breakers
- Host it live for 30 days: a private game room with a join code, everyone answers on their phones, live leaderboard, up to 100 players
- For family and friends · instant download, and it never expires
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How to run it
- Everyone answers at once: stand up for true, sit down for false. Last one standing wins.
- Read the reason out after each answer. That's where the learning sneaks in.
- No reading or writing needed, so it works for mixed ages.