Like any other child growing up in the late '80s/early '90s, I had certain toys and games that I loved. This quiz is about some of them. Note: there is a slight UK bias.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Mar 19 21
Category:
Games & Toys
Voice actors might not get the attention their live-action counterparts do, but without them, so many iconic cartoon characters wouldn't have been brought to life. Here's a quiz about the voices behind the toons.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 11 22
Category:
Voice Actors Mixed
Elinor M Brent-Dyer's 'Chalet School' books have featured Christmas plays and concerts, featuring several carols, both classic and obscure. This quiz is about some of them. NB: you don't have to have read the books to play the quiz!
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Dec 07 19
Category:
Christmas Music
Ears! What are they good for? Hearing for a start, and a whole lot more. Let's take a look at those legendary lugholes.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Feb 09 22
Category:
Ears and Hearing
However, this doesn't mean it's not worth writing a quiz about. This quiz is a mini category safari, and each question has something in common: they're all about the colour purple, or purple things. Note: this quiz has a British bias.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 03 21
Recommended for grades: 5,6,7
Category:
Something in Common
Birds love to sing, and plenty of musicians love to sing about them. I've picked ten songs that are about birds - can you match them with the musicians who sang them?
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 31 22
Category:
Birds in Songs
Love dogs? Love Disney? Then you'll love 'Lady and the Tramp', a tale of an American cocker spaniel and a mongrel who fall in love.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jan 01 19
Category:
Lady and the Tramp
You might know everything about Uzumaki Naruto and his fellow teen ninja, but what about their parents? Read the statements and guess who's who. PLEASE NOTE: surnames go before first names.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Sep 03 09
Category:
Naruto
'I am unlike a lifeform you've ever met, getting very hungry, but I won't eat you yet...'. From the dawn of time, humankind has told stories about all kinds of weird and wonderful mythical creatures. Here are ten of them.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 13 18
Category:
Beasts of Myth
The sea has provided the movie world with plenty of inspiration, especially when it comes to the fish, whales and other creatures who live there. Match the sea creatures with the films in which they appear.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jul 10 18
Category:
Animals in Movies
Heroin has been both a creative and destructive influence on musicians throughout the years. This quiz looks at songs specifically about the drug.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Oct 09 12
Category:
Drugs in Songs
'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' is a magical girl show with a dark twist, where the life of a magical girl is not a happy one. This quiz is about the original series. Warning: contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Mar 09 20
Category:
P
O Henry was a prolific writer of short stories, most of which had a twist ending of some kind. I give you ten synopses, and you match the synopsis with the story title.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Aug 22 20
Recommended for grades: 9,10
Category:
Henry, O.
Popular music is not without its controversies. Over the years, various musicians have found themselves banned from TV shows, venues and even countries for a variety of reasons. This quiz is about some of them.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Apr 23 21
Category:
Banned or Censored Music
This quiz is about occupational surnames - surnames named after types of job - and I've decided to give it a footballing twist (albeit with a UK bias).
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 14 21
Category:
Names
Jesse James was one of the Old West's most notorious outlaws, and the subject of a folk song covered by the Pogues on their album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash', which portrays him as a tragically murdered hero. The song inspired this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jul 22 21
Category:
Old West
Darrell Rivers and friends are now Third Formers, and some new girls arrive: wannabe opera singer Mavis, ditzy American Zerelda and horse-mad Bill.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Mar 20 22
Category:
Malory Towers
If the green pigs ever consider stealing the eggs of any of these birds, they'd better think again. You wouldn't like them when they're angry...
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jun 02 16
Category:
Wild Birds
Cold, silver and beautiful, the Moon, like the Sun, is ruled by a god or goddess in many different myths and cultures. Can you match these ten moon gods and goddesses with the cultures they come from?
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Apr 20 20
Category:
Something in Common
'This is a dangerous day...' The 20th and 21st centuries have seen some terrible disasters, some caused by humans, some as the result of Mother Nature. Match the disasters with the decades in which they occurred.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Aug 08 18
Category:
Disasters
Darrell Rivers, a hot-headed young girl, is starting at her new boarding school, Malory Towers. It's an entirely new experience for her and she meets a wide variety of girls, from sharp-tongued Alicia to shrinking violet Mary-Lou.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Oct 18 21
Category:
Malory Towers
'I'm headed for a punk rock funeral...' Death is the great equaliser. However, what kind of funeral you have when you die is another thing altogether. This quiz is about funeral rites, and death-related rituals from across the globe.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 27 18
Category:
Death Becomes Them
Many songs by the Manic Street Preachers namecheck or are named after famous people. This quiz is about a few of them, from many walks of life. You don't have to be a fan of the band to play this quiz, don't worry!)
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 18 18
Recommended for grades: 8,9,10,11,12
Category:
Mixed People
Purple, according to TV Tropes, is powerful, and some of these purple-clad magical girls are among the most powerful in their home series. Can you match the magical girl to her home series?
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 23 19
Category:
Anime
'I've never thrown my knickers at you!' 'And I don't come from Wales!' First there was Elvis, now there's Tom Jones. Each of these questions has a connection to the Welsh crooner.
Average, 20 Qns, Kankurette,
Dec 29 19
Category:
Thematic People
England and the USA are both home to many big name rock and metal acts, from Iron Maiden and Venom to Slipknot and Marilyn Manson, but what about bands from other countries? Match each metal/rock band with their homeland.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 31 21
Category:
Heavy Metal
O-Ren Ishii, the Bride's former team mate in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, is one of my favourite characters in Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' series. This quiz is about her, and is exclusively focused on 'Kill Bill Vol. 1'.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Feb 21 23
Category:
Kill Bill Vol. 1 .
Here's some fishy questions about dishes from around the world. Some have fish, some are made from seafood.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jan 22 19
Category:
Seafood
Arsène Wenger once said that "being a football manager is like living on a volcano", and the life of a football manager is a precarious one. In the 2015-16 season, 13 Premier League clubs changed managers. Can you guess which manager left which club?
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Apr 23 18
Category:
Premiership 2010s
'Fate/Grand Order' is a mobile phone/gacha game based on Kinoko Nasu's 'Fate' anime and visual novel series, where legendary heroes and historical figures are summoned from across history to become your Servants. NB: the JP version is ahead of the US one
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Feb 14 19
Category:
F
Of all the Jewish festivals, Passover is my favourite, especially when it comes to the Seder, the celebratory meal held on the first night. This quiz is about the various foods on the Seder plate, and what they represent.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Mar 16 20
Category:
Passover
Several animals have escaped from the zoo and are hiding in these sentences. Can you find them?
Easier, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Apr 05 19
Category:
Hidden Words
Tin! Its name is synonymous with cans, it's soft, it's silver in colour, and it's the fiftieth element of the Periodic Table. What do you know about tin?
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 07 19
Category:
Specific Elements
I spent a fair amount of time in various bars and pubs when I was at Manchester University, so I thought I'd write a quiz about the student's favourite mini cocktail: the shooter.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 26 18
Category:
Cocktails and Mixed Drinks
The Super Furry Animals are one of Wales' more unusual bands, and sing in both English and Welsh. I'm learning Welsh myself, so I thought it would be nice to write a quiz about them.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jun 27 19
Category:
Super Furry Animals
In honour of Italy winning Euro 2020, I've decided to do a category safari quiz with an Italian theme. Each question is related to Italy or Italians in some way.
Average, 20 Qns, Kankurette,
Sep 23 21
Category:
Mixed Italy
'Dark clouds drift away to reveal the sunshine...' All the words hidden in this quiz are associated with weather, bad or otherwise.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
May 03 18
Category:
Hidden Words by Theme
Inspired by Alison McCallum's 'Chalet School Encyclopaedias', a must for any hardcore 'Chalet School' fan, I've decided to create my own 'Chalet School' alphabet-themed quiz.
Average, 25 Qns, Kankurette,
Jun 08 19
Category:
Brent-Dyer, Elinor
'If the sea was warm, would sharks be more friendly?' Maybe, maybe not, but sharks - comedic, heroic or just plain terrifying - have been the source of entertainment for many years. Here's a quiz about sharks in entertainment.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jun 27 19
Category:
Famous Animals
'I love this island but this island's killing me...' So I decided to head to some of the world's remotest places where few or no people live at all and, as the band Gomez once sang, get miles away.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 14 19
Category:
Where am I? Average
As a child, I was a huge fan of the Police, and the early solo work of their frontman Gordon Sumner - or, as he is more popularly known, Sting. This quiz is about his first four solo albums, from 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles' to '10 Summoner's Tales'.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Mar 05 22
Category:
Sting
No, it's not a Bon Jovi quiz, though it does use Bon Jovi lyrics! This quiz is, in fact, about one of the wettest and most slippery parts of the human body - the mouth. (Note: British English spelling is used in this quiz.)
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 22 16
Category:
Digestive System and Metabolism
The Chalet School's had its fair share of troublesome pupils, from Tyrol to Switzerland. Some are mischievous, some are unhappy, and some are, frankly, horrible. Here's a quiz on ten of them, based on the books by Elinor Brent-Dyer.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Oct 13 14
Category:
Brent-Dyer, Elinor
'This is the day that the English language let me down...' ...so I decided to focus on the Celtic languages of Britain: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Manx.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Dec 29 19
Category:
Languages
Do you have a sweet tooth? Do you enjoy baking and/or eating cake? Then you'll like this quiz, which is based on the song 'Cooking by the Book' from 'Lazytown'. There is a slight UK bias.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Sep 06 14
Category:
Cakes
My star sign is Taurus, the sign of the Bull, and that - along with Kyle's demand for more Thematic Fun quizzes - gave me the idea to do a quiz with a bovine theme.
Average, 20 Qns, Kankurette,
Nov 17 21
Category:
Thematic Cows
'Don't freak him out, or you'll blow his top...' Football has had its fair share of hard men, eccentrics and bad boys over the years. Here are some particularly memorable players.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Aug 25 18
Category:
UK Football Players
The Wirral Peninsula might not be as glamorous or famous as its neighbour, Liverpool, but it's still given the world its fair share of famous names. Some of the celebrities in this quiz were born in the Wirral, while others grew up there.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Jul 14 14
Category:
UK Celebs
The Snow White story, made famous by the Grimm brothers, has existed in many variations for hundreds of years. This quiz is not just about the story we know, but other regional variations too.
Tough, 10 Qns, Kankurette,
Apr 26 24
Category:
Fables and Fairy Tales
First there were cows. Now it's time to cast some pearls about swine. You guessed it - each of these questions has a porcine theme.
Average, 20 Qns, Kankurette,
Dec 15 21
Category:
Thematic Pigs