Write Your Own Trivia Questions

Index cards for questions

Pen or marker

Research sources

Scoring paper

Choose a topic to research.

Research and take notes on interesting facts.

Write 20 questions in 3 difficulty levels.

Write answers on the back or in a key.

Format clearly: specific questions, not vague ones.

Include some multiple choice options.

Organize by difficulty with point values.

Host trivia night!

Writing trivia questions is harder than answering them. To write a good question, your child must understand the material deeply enough to identify what's interesting and challenging — that's genuine comprehension.

The difficulty-level sorting requires evaluating what most people know (easy) versus specialized knowledge (hard). This teaches audience awareness: "Will my players know this or not?"

Research skills (finding reliable sources, extracting key facts, verifying accuracy) are practiced naturally because the questions need to be correct.

Multiple choice questions teach a specific skill: creating plausible wrong answers (distractors) that test real understanding.

Rotate topics monthly. Your child builds a growing collection of trivia decks and becomes an expert in multiple subjects.