Baby Shower Games True or False

Tap True or False on each statement about babies and the answer shows with its reason.

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A full set of baby teeth is 32 teeth.

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Round 1: bones, teeth and toes 12

  • A baby is born with hard, bony kneecaps. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Patella
  • A baby's eyeballs are already full size at birth. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Human eye
  • A baby's fingerprints form before it is born. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Fingerprint
  • A full set of baby teeth is 32 teeth. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Deciduous teeth
  • A newborn's feet already have arches. Answer: False. Source: MedlinePlus: Flat feet
  • A newborn's head makes up about a quarter of its whole length. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Infant
  • Babies are born bowlegged. Answer: True. Source: MedlinePlus: Bowlegs
  • Baby teeth start to form before a baby is born. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Deciduous teeth
  • No baby is ever born with a tooth. Answer: False. Source: MedlinePlus: Natal teeth
  • The number of bones in a person's body goes down between birth and adulthood. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Human skeleton
  • Some newborns have fine, downy hair on their back and shoulders that is gone within a few weeks. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Infant
  • Two babies who share all of their DNA also share their fingerprints. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Fingerprint
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Round 2: senses, sleep and growing 12

  • A baby breathes faster than an adult. Answer: True. Source: MedlinePlus: Rapid shallow breathing
  • A baby can hear before it is born. Answer: True. Source: MedlinePlus: Infant - newborn development
  • A baby is expected to weigh twice its birth weight by six months old. Answer: True. Source: MedlinePlus: Normal growth and development
  • A newborn cannot taste anything yet. Answer: False. Source: MedlinePlus: Infant - newborn development
  • A newborn keeps warm by shivering. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Brown adipose tissue
  • A newborn's first stool is pale yellow. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Meconium
  • A newborn's heart beats more slowly than an adult's. Answer: False. Source: MedlinePlus: Pulse
  • A stork bite is a rare birthmark, seen on about one newborn in a hundred. Answer: False. Source: MedlinePlus: Stork bite
  • Babies can get hiccups before they are born. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Hiccup
  • Babies raised with a sign language use their hands to babble. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Babbling
  • Babies spend less of their sleep in REM sleep than adults do. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Rapid eye movement sleep
  • Peekaboo is thought to show that a young baby does not yet understand that hidden things still exist. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Peekaboo

Round 3: words, numbers and customs 14

  • A layette is a kind of cradle. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Layette
  • About half of all babies arrive on their due date. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Estimated date of delivery
  • An early baby carriage, made in 1733, was meant for a goat or a small pony to pull. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Baby transport
  • The baby rattle was invented in the 1800s. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Baby rattle
  • By 1900, pink for girls and blue for boys was already the rule. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Gendered associations of pink and blue
  • Identical twins are the most common kind of twins. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Twin
  • In every language, a word that sounds like mama means mother. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Mama and papa
  • Lullabies are found in many countries and have been sung since ancient times. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Lullaby
  • Nappy, the British word for a diaper, is thought to be short for napkin. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Diaper
  • Slightly more boys than girls are born. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Human sex ratio
  • To a doctor, a baby is a newborn for its whole first year. Answer: False. Source: Wikipedia: Infant
  • Vernix, the waxy white coating on a newborn's skin, takes its name from the Latin word for varnish. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Vernix caseosa
  • The word diaper first named a pattern woven into cloth. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Diaper
  • The word toddler comes from toddle, meaning to walk unsteadily. Answer: True. Source: Wikipedia: Toddler

How this list was compiled: Written for this site; nothing was copied from another quiz or list. Each statement and each reason was matched on 2026-10-12 against the page named beside it: an entry of MedlinePlus, the health encyclopedia of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (https://medlineplus.gov/encyclopedia.html), or an English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under CC BY-SA 4.0). A reason gives only figures that page gives. Half of the statements in each round are true. These are party facts about babies, not advice: no statement says what to do with a baby, and nothing here covers feeding, sleep safety or illness. No statement repeats a question of this site's baby shower trivia pack or its baby shower question cards. Left out on purpose: figures that change from year to year, and anything sad. Levels are our own estimate. Licence: own work

How it works

This true or false baby shower game is 38 statements about babies in three rounds. Half of each round is true. The false ones sound right, such as a newborn having bony kneecaps, and every answer names the page it was checked on.

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Baby shower true or false game questions, round by round

Round 1 is bones, teeth and toes. Round 2 is senses, sleep and growing. Round 3 is words, numbers and customs, such as what the word diaper first meant. Start from, under the statement, keeps a game to one round.

Baby shower games printable true or false

Print the question sheet, under the statement, lists the statements, ready to trim. Guests circle True or False beside each line. A tick on With answer key there adds the host's page, with each answer and its reason.

Questions and answers

How do you play the true or false baby shower game?

Give each guest a printed sheet and a pen. Guests circle True or False beside each statement, the host reads out the answer key, and the most right answers wins. On a phone, tap True or False to see it marked.

Where are the true or false baby shower game answers?

Tap True or False and the answer shows at once with its reason. All 38 statements are also listed with their answers under the game.

Which baby shower game true or false statements are hardest?

Try these three. A newborn keeps warm by shivering. A layette is a kind of cradle. By 1900, pink for girls and blue for boys was already the rule. All three are false, and the reasons say why.

Where do the answers come from?

From MedlinePlus, the health encyclopedia of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and from Wikipedia articles, each read on October 12, 2026 and named beside its answer. They are party facts, not advice on caring for a baby.