Quiz Questions: Jeopardy in Reverse
Out of all the activities on the website, this activity never fails me. Not a single time… It’s even unsilenced my quietest kids. The thing about this activity is that it always boosts students’ talking time. I’ve had all levels of students enjoy the reverse quiz show game. They just have to know how to play.
Instead of answering questions like in a quiz show, students are making the questions. Each card has a word with a point value. Similar to Jeopardy, you create 5 categories. Each category has 5 questions with harder cards as a higher point value.
In groups of 4, students pick the category and point value. After flipping over the card, the fastest group to raise their hands make a question. Give a countdown for how fast they have to respond. Don’t be afraid to give negative points if they are too slow to respond or make an incorrect question.
Students get quite competitive when you tally points. And this is a good thing.
Quiz Questions Answers
CAPITALS
100$ – London (What is the capital of England?)
200$ – Ottawa (What is the capital of Canada?)
300$ – Lima (What is the capital of Peru?)
400$ – Ulaanbaatar (What is the capital of Mongolia?)
500$ – Accra (What is the capital of Ghana?)
ANIMALS
100$ – Cheetah (What is the fastest animal)
200$ – Giraffe (What animal has the longest neck?)
300$ – Reindeer (What animal pulls Santa’s sleigh?)
400$ – Whale (What is the largest animal in the ocean?)
500$ – Turtle (What animal had the longest life span?)
FOOD & DRINK
100$ – Sushi (What is the national dish of Japan?)
200$ – Grapes (What is wine made of?)
300$ – Maple Syrup (What type of syrup is extracted from maple syrup)
400$ – Kimchi (What is the national food of Korea?)
500$ – Nasi Goreng (What is fried rice in Indonesian?)
SPORTS
100$ – Soccer (What is the world’s most popular sport?)
200$ – Baseball (What sport does Ichiro Suzuki play?)
300$ – Ice Hockey (What is the most popular sport in Canada?)
400$ – Badminton (What sport do you use a racquet and shuttle?)
500$ – Curling (What sport do you throw rocks on the ice into rings?)
WORLD
100$ – Mount Everest (What is the tallest mountain in the world?)
200$ – Antarctica (What is the coldest continent in the world?)
300$ – China (What country had the highest population?)
400$ – Alaska (What is the coldest state in the United States?)
500$ – Dead Sea (What is the lowest place on Earth?)
SCIENCE
100$ – Jupiter (What is the largest planet in our solar system?)
200$ – Isaac Newton (Who discovered gravity?)
300$ – The Brain (What body part controls how you think?)
400$ – H2O (What is the symbol for water?)
500$ – Alexander Graham Bell (Who invented the telephone?)
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Loved all the ideas, they will work perfectly for Speech Lessons
This is great! Thanks!! Just wondering, do you have the cards already made? I checked in a comment that you do but I can’t find them. Thx!
Where are cards? It would be handy to be able to download these too.
Love it. Would it be possible to change the nation’s name from North Korea to Korea? Kimchi is a traditional food for both South and North Korea, and since North Korea has shut its borders, Kimchi is actually more known as South Korea’s food. Nang Myeon (cold noodles) is famous in North Korea.
Yes, I updated it. Thanks very much for the suggestion.
thank you very much indeed!