General Knowledge Quiz Template
Six capitals-to-chemistry questions that grade themselves and file every attempt — a general knowledge check with tiered verdicts out of the box.
Six questions across geography, science, history, and language. No trick questions, no time limit — just you against the facts.
General knowledge is the friendliest genre of quiz because nobody is supposed to be an expert — a geography question, then chemistry, then history, then language, and everyone at the table gets at least one moment of feeling sharp. This template packages that genre into a six-question, self-grading form: answers are checked by logic rules the instant someone submits, the score lands in the result headline, and every attempt files itself neatly into your responses view.
How the grading works. Each question carries one rule watching for its correct option — choose Canberra and a point lands on the score variable, choose Sydney and nothing happens. Three tier rules then read the final number: five or better earns the Encyclopedic ending, three or four is Well Read, two or under gets the encouraging Curious verdict. All nine rules sit in the Logic panel in plain sight, which makes this template double as the best tutorial on scored forms you can clone.
Why these six questions. Each one is a settled, single-answer fact — the kind that ends arguments rather than starting them. Canberra is the classic misdirection question (two famous cities, neither correct), the hexagon and photosynthesis questions reward paying attention in school, 1989 anchors the history slot with a date that matters, mercury is the science fact everyone half-remembers, and Mandarin closes with a statistic that surprises people who guess English. Difficulty is deliberately staircased: most players should land in the middle tier, which keeps both endings above and below feeling earned.
What we left out. True-or-false questions, which grade a coin flip as competence. "Longest river" and "largest desert" style questions too — geographers genuinely dispute them, and a self-grading quiz must never mark a defensible answer wrong. Six questions instead of twenty keeps the whole run under two minutes, which is the length at which people finish and forward rather than abandon.
Who uses this. Teachers running a Friday warm-up with a real score at the end, workplace social committees seeding the #random channel, pub quiz hosts auditioning questions before the live night, and newsletter writers who want a measurable spike in click-throughs.
Make it yours. Swap any question by editing its options and re-pointing its rule at the new correct answer — one rule per question means no archaeology. Keep the tier thresholds proportional if you change the question count (roughly 80 percent for the top tier, 50 for the middle). Duplicate prevention in Settings keeps score-chasers from grinding attempts, and the CSV export makes a tidy record if you run it as a classroom checkpoint. Embedding works well in both directions: the inline variant sits cleanly on a newsletter landing page, while the popup makes a neat "test yourself" button.
Frequently asked questions
Is the score visible to the person taking the quiz?
Yes — the final screen pipes the computed score into the headline and the tier copy matches it, so feedback is instant without you touching anything.
How do I make the quiz harder or easier?
Swap questions and adjust the tier thresholds in the Logic panel. The wiring pattern stays identical: one scoring rule per question, three range rules for the endings.
Can people retake it to improve their score?
Your call — leave it open for retries, or switch on duplicate prevention in Settings to hold everyone to a single attempt per device or IP.
Where do I see everyone’s results?
The responses view lists each attempt with its answers, and the CSV export includes every column — handy for a class register or an office leaderboard.