Home: Quiz List: Advent Quizzes for Chalet School fans 2025

My friends are coming from all around the world, and I've used a native language to explain where they are from. Do you know which language is used for each?

All these place names begin with K, but what sort of places are they? Can you sort them into four different groups? Some names may fit in more than one group, but there is only one correct solution. Recommended for grades: 10,11,12

Children learn to count from a young age, but numbers can get more complicated. Can you match the numbers with the definition given. Some numbers may fit more than one category, but there is only one way to match them all correctly.

The English language is full of homonyms - words with the same spelling and sound, but different meanings. Try not to make a slip as you look for the odd one out 'twixt cup and lip.

These pictures are clues to the titles or parts of the plots of some ballets. Many are well-known, others perhaps less so. Can you match them up correctly?

There are many different types of games and sports. They could be played by a team or by individuals. The games may be played indoors or outside. They might be played professionally or just for fun. Can you sort these games into their correct categories?

These flags, which are blowing in the wind, belong to countries which have been members of the EU. Can you match the pictures of the flags with the name of the European country they represent?

Rudyard Kipling's famous poem contains the recurring words 'If you can'. How well can you remember what follows those words?

Do you know which body of water is spanned by these ten bridges in the United Kingdom?

Composers, conductors, instruments or musical instructions from A to Z. Can you find the odd one out in these sets? Nearly all of them are taken from the world of classical music.

All these events took place in the sixties, but in different centuries of the second millennium. Can you put them in order from the eleventh century to the twentieth century?

If it's not going right it must be going either left or wrong. Can you find the correct prefix for these words to make a common word or phrase?

Take hands with your partner and come and join in some folk dancing. I'll briefly describe some movements, and you pick the name from the list given. By the end of this quiz I hope you will have learnt a new contra dance and a new square dance.

Can you put these words in the right places to complete the text for Psalm 150?

There are cryptic clues to currencies from around the world. Can you pick the correct answer for each one?

One elephant is good, but five elephants are better. Most plural words are made by adding the letter 's' to the end of the singular word. Elephants are like that, but not all animals are. Can you spell the words for more than one of these animals? Recommended for grades: 2,3,4

These people all give their names to scientific units. Can you match them up?

In the days before the advent of out-of-town hypermarkets which sell everything you could possibly want under one roof my mother used to take me shopping in the local high street with a collection of individual shops specialising in one type of thing.

For my hundredth quiz, I decided to do one about people who all lived to be at least 100 years old. Can you match the people with their occupations? Recommended for grades: 4,5,6,7,8

Radio programmes, like quizzes, usually have short snappy titles. Can you identify the BBC radio programmes, past and present, trying to escape from the more long-winded versions below?

There are forty colours hidden in the following nonsense tale. They may be within a single word, or spread across two or more words. There is more than one colour in each question but you only need to give ONE of them for your answer.

The Chalet School, created by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, moved locations several times during the course of the series of fifty-eight books. In which country were each of the following books set?

But how fast is it blowing? The Beaufort wind force scale has thirteen named levels, with descriptions of the associated movement. Do you know which they are? Some describe sea conditions, and others refer to what happens on land.

Which character narrates the following tales?

In the word of the old rhyme "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat". Not many people eat goose now. What does make a traditional British Christmas dinner in the 21st century?

This quiz is about places which have held the games more than once. Good luck!

A colour is the name given to a chromatic hue. Pluralised, the word can mean something different, which may or may not relate to that hue. How many do you recognise?

The Achensee is one of the loveliest lakes in the Austrian Tirol. If you get the chance, it's well worth a visit. This quiz should give you some tips on what to see and how to get around when you go.

"The Lobster Quadrille", or "The Mock Turtle's Song", is one of the poems in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Can you put the correct words into the spaces to complete the rhyme?

The cover shows a picture of a white lotus, but what flowers do the other pictures show?

If you just have a drink while watching fireworks in Sydney or the ball drop in Times Square, perhaps you could consider something else? You may know about the Scottish first footing, but can you match these other traditions with their countries?