Easy quiz questions and answers

Free easy quiz questions across every topic, for opening rounds, charity nights and mixed-age rooms. The round whose job is that every single table scores.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026

What an easy round is for

Not for making a quiz simple. For making sure every table scores in the first ten minutes, which is the single biggest factor in whether they enjoy the rest of the night.

A table that gets two out of ten in round one has decided how their evening is going before the second round starts. A table that gets eight out of ten is invested, and will happily be beaten up by round three.

Easy rounds are also the right choice for a charity night, a hotel lounge with a mixed-age crowd, or a members' club where the room came for the company rather than the competition.

Round one openers

Drawn from every category, so no table is at a disadvantage in the first ten minutes of the night.

1
What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
2
How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: 366
3
What colour do you get by mixing blue and yellow?
Answer: Green
4
How many sides does a triangle have?
Answer: Three
5
Which animal is known as man's best friend?
Answer: The dog
6
What is the first letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Alpha
7
How many minutes are there in an hour?
Answer: Sixty
8
Which sea creature has eight arms?
Answer: The octopus
9
What is the opposite of hot?
Answer: Cold
10
How many wheels does a bicycle have?
Answer: Two
11
What is frozen water called?
Answer: Ice
12
Which month has 28 days in a common year?
Answer: February

Still easy, slightly more thought

For the second half of an easy round, or as the opening of a normal one.

13
How many players are in a basketball team on court?
Answer: Five
14
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
15
Which country is famous for the Great Wall?
Answer: China
16
How many letters are in the English alphabet?
Answer: 26
17
What do bees make?
Answer: Honey
18
Which fruit is traditionally used in a Christmas pudding?
Answer: Dried fruit, especially raisins and currants
19
What is the name of the toy cowboy in Toy Story?
Answer: Woody
20
How many continents are there?
Answer: Seven
21
Which instrument has black and white keys?
Answer: The piano
22
What is the young of a cat called?
Answer: A kitten
23
Which season comes after summer?
Answer: Autumn
24
How many hours are there in two days?
Answer: 48

The gentle end of general knowledge

Useful when you need an easy round that does not feel patronising to the stronger tables.

25
What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
Answer: O
26
Which country does sushi come from?
Answer: Japan
27
How many strings does a violin have?
Answer: Four
28
What is the tallest animal in the world?
Answer: The giraffe
29
Which planet do we live on?
Answer: Earth
30
How many players are in a doubles tennis match in total?
Answer: Four
31
What is the main ingredient in bread?
Answer: Flour
32
Which bird cannot fly and lives in Antarctica?
Answer: The penguin
33
How many sides does a square have?
Answer: Four
34
What is the capital of England?
Answer: London

Easy does not mean patronising

There is a line between a round everybody can score on and a round that insults the room, and it is worth watching. The trick is that easy questions should still be about something, a fact worth knowing that happens to be widely known, rather than being trivially obvious.

The third group above is the practical version of that: nobody will get them all wrong, and nobody feels talked down to.

Where else to use these

A charity quiz, where a good share of the room has not done one in years and came for the cause. A hotel or holiday park, where the tables span fifty years of age. A club with an older crowd.

And as the two openers in an otherwise normal round of ten. Two easy, six medium, two hard is the standard shape, and the two easy ones are doing more work than they look like they are.

Run a gentle first round

The number of questions in a session is a setting, so a shorter, easier first night is a change you make at setup rather than in the questions.

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