Creating Trivia for Kids in the Classroom

What do the following questions have in common?

What Shakespearean play is known as “the cursed play?”

What detective series focuses on two brothers, Frank and Joe?

Where is Starfleet Headquarters located in the original Star Trek series?

What are the names of Cinderella’s two wicked stepsisters?

Who finds the first Golden Ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

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These are all trivia questions. 

​What is Trivia?

Trivia is bits of unimportant information and it can be used as a powerful tool for your child’s learning by using classroom trivia games. ​

In the 1960’s and 70’s trivia nights sprang up on college campuses in the US, while pub quizzes became popular in the United Kingdom. In 1966, The Great Midwest Trivia Contest began at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. The first question was “Who is Superman’s father?” (answer – Jor-El)

In 1979, this love for obscure facts launched one of the world’s most famous board games, Trivial Pursuit. This popular game quizzed players in six categories: geography, entertainment, sports and leisure, history, arts and literature, and science and nature. Trivial Pursuit was inducted into the “Games Hall of Fame” in 1993. By 2014, over 100 million games had been sold. ​

Celebrating National Trivia Day

One of the first holidays of the new year is National Trivia Day which falls on January 4. Without even realizing it, our brains are constantly storing information. Recalling this information has become an entertaining pastime.

How to Make a Trivia Game

Television embraced the trivia mania in 1964 when the game show Jeopardy debuted. Today, you can easily play classroom trivia games like jeopardy online by going to https://jeopardylabs.com/ where you can find jeopardy games on any subject or create your own games by using the jeopardy generator. The game board can be projected onto a large screen just like the one found on the tv program.

You can create classroom trivia questions about history, science, movies, literature, etc. It’s fun and easy to create a game that fits your group’s or family’s interests. Here’s a free download from one of our family’s get-togethers. You can see that we love sci-fi, literature, movies, and Christmas!

Download our jeopardy game

Answers:
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Macbeth
The Hardy Boys
San Francisco
Drizella and Anastasia
Augustus Gloop