Multiple answer trivia questions ask for a whole list: the five Great Lakes, the six strings of a guitar, the eight phases of the Moon. Teams write as many as they can, and every right answer scores a point.
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Topic keeps the deck to science and nature, geography, history and civics, words, music and the arts, or sports, games and everyday. Easy cards ask for short lists most tables know. Hard cards run as long as the twelve signs of the zodiac. Every question is listed under the deck with its answers.
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What is a multiple answer trivia question?
A question whose answer is a short, fixed list, such as the four chambers of the heart. A team scores a point for each item it names, so half a list still counts.
Are these multiple choice questions?
No. Nothing here offers choices: teams recall the list themselves. For questions with one answer each, deal the random trivia generator.
Have the lists been checked?
Yes. On 2 October 2026 every list was read in the English Wikipedia article on its subject. Lists that a vote, an election or a new discovery could change were left out.
How long do teams get for each question?
One minute, if you use the clock: Play a 1-minute round, under the first card, starts it. A long list such as the ten provinces of Canada can fill the whole minute.
Name the eight phases of the Moon in order, starting at new moon.Answer: New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent.
Name the eight planets of the solar system.Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Name the five layers of Earth's atmosphere, from the ground up.Answer: Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere.
Name the five Platonic solids.Answer: Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron.
Name the five traditional classes of animals with backbones.Answer: Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
Name the five traditional senses.Answer: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.
Name the four bases of DNA.Answer: Adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine.
Name the four blood groups of the ABO system.Answer: A, B, AB, O.
Name the four chambers of the human heart.Answer: Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle.
Name the four fundamental forces of nature.Answer: Gravity, electromagnetism, strong force, weak force.
Name the four fundamental states of matter.Answer: Solid, liquid, gas, plasma.
Name the four giant planets.Answer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Name the four kinds of human teeth.Answer: Incisors, canines, premolars, molars.
Name the four large moons of Jupiter that Galileo found.Answer: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.
Name the four layers of the Earth, from the outside in.Answer: Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core.
Name the four lobes of each half of the brain.Answer: Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital.
Name the four main operations of arithmetic.Answer: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
Name the four rocky inner planets.Answer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
Name the seven base units of the metric system (SI).Answer: Second, meter, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela.
Name the seven colors of the rainbow in order.Answer: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
Name the six classical simple machines.Answer: Lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, screw.
Name the six noble gases found in nature.Answer: Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon.
Name the three common kinds of radioactive decay named for Greek letters.Answer: Alpha, beta, gamma.
Name the three kinds of triangle, sorted by their sides.Answer: Equilateral, isosceles, scalene.
Name the three main types of rock.Answer: Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic.
Name the three Ms that a math class calls averages.Answer: Mean, median, mode.
Name the three particles that make up an atom.Answer: Proton, neutron, electron.
Name the three parts of an insect's body.Answer: Head, thorax, abdomen.
Name the three primary colors a painter mixes from.Answer: Red, yellow, blue.
Name the three tiny bones of the middle ear.Answer: Malleus, incus, stapes. In plain words: the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.
Geography 30
Name the eight main islands of Hawaii.Answer: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe.
Name the eight US states that begin with the letter M.Answer: Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana.
Name the eight US states that begin with the letter N.Answer: Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota.
Name the five boroughs of New York City.Answer: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island.
Name the five Great Lakes.Answer: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario.
Name the five major circles of latitude, from north to south.Answer: Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle.
Name the five Nordic countries.Answer: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.
Name the five oceans.Answer: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic.
Name the five US states on the Gulf of Mexico.Answer: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.
Name the five US states with a coast on the Pacific Ocean.Answer: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington.
Name the four cardinal directions.Answer: North, east, south, west.
Name the four countries of the United Kingdom.Answer: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
Name the four hemispheres of the Earth.Answer: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western.
Name the four islands of mainland Japan.Answer: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.
Name the four time zones of the contiguous United States.Answer: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific.
Name the four US states that begin with the letter A.Answer: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas.
Name the four US states that begin with the letter I.Answer: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa.
Name the four US states that begin with the letter W.Answer: Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Name the four US states that border Mexico.Answer: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
Name the four US states that share Lake Michigan.Answer: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan.
Name the seven continents.Answer: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America.
Name the seven countries of Central America.Answer: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
Name the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.Answer: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm Al Quwain.
Name the seven hills of Rome.Answer: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal.
Name the six New England states.Answer: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
Name the six states of Australia.Answer: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.
Name the ten provinces of Canada.Answer: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan.
Name the three Benelux countries.Answer: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
Name the three largest countries of North America.Answer: Canada, United States, Mexico.
Name the three territories of Canada.Answer: Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut.
History and civics 30
Name the first five presidents of the United States, in order.Answer: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe.
Name the five freedoms in the First Amendment.Answer: Religion, speech, press, assembly, petition.
Name the Five Good Emperors of Rome, in order.Answer: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius.
Name the five nations that first formed the Iroquois Confederacy.Answer: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca.
Name the four cardinal virtues of the ancient philosophers.Answer: Prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance.
Name the four classical elements of the ancient Greeks.Answer: Earth, water, air, fire.
Name the Four Freedoms of Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 speech.Answer: Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
Name the four humors of ancient medicine.Answer: Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile.
Name the four presidents carved on Mount Rushmore.Answer: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln.
Name the four US states that call themselves commonwealths.Answer: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
Name the seven letters used as Roman numerals.Answer: I, V, X, L, C, D, M.
Name the seven liberal arts of the medieval university.Answer: Grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.
Name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.Answer: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus, Temple of Artemis, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Name the six wives of Henry VIII, in order.Answer: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.
Name the three ages of prehistory, named for what tools were made of.Answer: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.
Name the three branches of the United States government.Answer: Legislative, executive, judicial.
Name the three Charters of Freedom kept at the National Archives.Answer: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights.
Name the three classical orders of Greek columns.Answer: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian.
Name the three colors of the French flag, from the pole outward.Answer: Blue, white, red.
Name the three colors of the German flag, from the top down.Answer: Black, red, gold.
Name the three colors of the Italian flag, from the pole outward.Answer: Green, white, red.
Name the three colors of the United States flag.Answer: Red, white, blue.
Name the three estates of medieval society.Answer: Clergy, nobility, commoners.
Name the three Greek thinkers in one chain of teacher and student.Answer: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle.
Name the three kingdoms that historians divide ancient Egypt into.Answer: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom.
Name the three men of Rome's First Triumvirate.Answer: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus.
Name the three rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.Answer: Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
Name the three ships of Columbus's first voyage.Answer: Niña, Pinta, Santa María.
Name the Three Sisters, the crops Native American farmers grew together.Answer: Corn, beans, squash.
Name the three words of the French national motto.Answer: Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Words, music and the arts 30
Name the eight traditional parts of speech.Answer: Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection.
Name the first five letters of the Greek alphabet.Answer: Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon.
Name the first five words of the radio spelling alphabet.Answer: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo.
Name the five most widely spoken Romance languages.Answer: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian.
Name the five vowel letters of the English alphabet.Answer: A, E, I, O, U. Y is sometimes counted as a sixth.
Name the five Ws a reporter asks.Answer: Who, what, when, where, why.
Name the four families of instruments in an orchestra.Answer: Strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion.
Name the four instruments of an orchestra's string section.Answer: Violin, viola, cello, double bass.
Name the four kinds of sentence, sorted by what they do.Answer: Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory. A statement, a question, a command and an exclamation.
Name the four standard brass instruments of an orchestra.Answer: Trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba.
Name the four standard woodwinds of an orchestra.Answer: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon.
Name the four strings of a violin, from lowest to highest.Answer: G, D, A, E.
Name the four voice parts of a mixed choir, highest first.Answer: Soprano, alto, tenor, bass.
Name the nine Muses of Greek myth.Answer: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania.
Name the seven letters used for musical notes.Answer: A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
Name the seven modes of the major scale, starting with Ionian.Answer: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian.
Name the seven syllables of the do-re-mi scale.Answer: Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti.
Name the six strings of a guitar in standard tuning, low to high.Answer: E, A, D, G, B, E.
Name the three basic tenses of a verb.Answer: Past, present, future.
Name the three Brontë sisters who wrote novels.Answer: Charlotte, Emily, Anne.
Name the three degrees of comparison of an adjective.Answer: Positive, comparative, superlative. Tall, taller, tallest.
Name the three kinds of instrument in a string quartet.Answer: Violin, viola, cello. A quartet has two violins, one viola and one cello.
Name the three kinds of poem or play in ancient Greek theater.Answer: Tragedy, comedy, satyr play.
Name the three playwrights whose Greek tragedies survive complete.Answer: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides.
Name the three points of view a story can be told from.Answer: First person, second person, third person.
Name the three punctuation marks that can end a sentence.Answer: Period, question mark, exclamation mark.
Name the three secondary colors a painter mixes.Answer: Orange, green, purple.
Name the three sections of sonata form.Answer: Exposition, development, recapitulation.
Name the three unities of classical drama.Answer: Action, time, place.
Name the twelve signs of the zodiac, starting with Aries.Answer: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.
Sports, games and everyday 30
Name the first five prime numbers.Answer: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11.
Name the five basic tastes.Answer: Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami.
Name the five fingers of the hand, starting with the thumb.Answer: Thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger.
Name the five positions on a basketball team.Answer: Point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, center.
Name the four bases on a baseball diamond.Answer: First base, second base, third base, home plate.
Name the four card ranks marked with a letter.Answer: Ace, king, queen, jack.
Name the four infield positions in baseball.Answer: First baseman, second baseman, shortstop, third baseman.
Name the four jumping events in track and field.Answer: High jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump.
Name the four months that have exactly thirty days.Answer: April, June, September, November.
Name the four natural gaits of a horse, slowest first.Answer: Walk, trot, canter, gallop.
Name the four pieces of apparatus in women's artistic gymnastics.Answer: Vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor.
Name the four seasons, starting with spring.Answer: Spring, summer, fall, winter.
Name the four strokes of a four-stroke engine, in order.Answer: Intake, compression, power, exhaust.
Name the four strokes of a medley swimming race.Answer: Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
Name the four suits in a deck of cards.Answer: Clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades.
Name the four throwing events in track and field.Answer: Shot put, discus, javelin, hammer.
Name the nine fielding positions in baseball.Answer: Pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, shortstop, left fielder, center fielder, right fielder.
Name the pieces on a chess player's back row, left to right for White.Answer: Rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, rook.
Name the seven events of the heptathlon.Answer: 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 meters, long jump, javelin throw, 800 meters.
Name the six colored balls of snooker, lowest value first.Answer: Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black.
Name the six kinds of chess piece.Answer: King, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn.
Name the six pieces of apparatus in men's artistic gymnastics.Answer: Floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar.
Name the ten events of the decathlon.Answer: 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1500 meters.
Name the three colors of a traffic light, top to bottom.Answer: Red, yellow, green.
Name the three lifts of a powerlifting meet.Answer: Squat, bench press, deadlift.
Name the three medals on a winners' podium, best first.Answer: Gold, silver, bronze.
Name the three outfield positions in baseball.Answer: Left fielder, center fielder, right fielder.
Name the three phases of eventing, the horse sport.Answer: Dressage, cross-country, show jumping.
Name the three Rs of cutting down on waste.Answer: Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Name the three throws in the hand game that settles who goes first.Answer: Rock, paper, scissors.
How this list was compiled
Questions and answer lists written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another quiz. Each card asks for a short closed list, three to twelve answers long. Every list was checked on 2 October 2026 against the English Wikipedia article named on the card (its text is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license): each answer was found in the article, and the lists made of single letters and numbers (blood groups, note letters, string tunings, Roman numerals, vowels, prime numbers) were read against it line by line. Only lists that the article gives one way are in the deck. Left out on purpose: lists a vote, an election or a new discovery can change (members of a council, record holders, counts of moons), lists that name a team, a league, a brand or a living person, and the events of the modern pentathlon, which changed in 2024. Where a list has a traditional form and a newer one (the classes of vertebrates, the colors of the rainbow, the parts of speech), the question says traditional, classical or the name of the scheme. Licence: own work