Free Christmas quiz for kids and families, with answers

A quiz night in a web page, with your own questions

You'll describe the quiz to a free AI assistant, paste what it writes into a file, and open it in your browser. Then add teams and a scoreboard, a timer, your own questions and a printable answer sheet, one step at a time. It's a lovely one to make together, because everyone can write a question.

• Multiple-choice questions, one at a time, in big text for the TV or the board
• Play on your own, with instant right and wrong, or in teams with a quiz master who reveals each answer
• A scoreboard with team names, and a winner at the end
• An optional countdown timer for each question, with sound effects made in the browser
• Your own questions in a simple box, saved on your device, and a printable question and answer sheet

Good for: family quizzes after Christmas dinner, the class Christmas party or the last day of term, office and team socials, Brownies, Cubs and youth groups, and anyone who's been asked to "do the quiz this year".

What you need

Build it in five steps

Step 1 gives you a simple quiz that works, and each step after it adds more. The quiz at the top of this page is roughly what you'll have once you've done every step. Yours will look a bit different, because the AI writes its own version each time.

1. Ask for the quiz

   Copy this prompt into your AI assistant:

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   I don't know how to code. Please make me a Christmas quiz game that runs in a web browser.
   
   Requirements:
   - ONE single HTML file (HTML, CSS and JavaScript together), no external libraries, no internet needed. I will save it and double-click it.
   - 15 Christmas multiple-choice questions for a family, each with one right answer and three wrong ones. Keep the questions in a list near the top of the code, so I can change them easily.
   - Show one question at a time in big text, with the four answers as big buttons labelled A, B, C and D. Mix up the order of the answers each time.
   - When I tap an answer, turn the right one green, and the one I picked red if it was wrong. Then show a Next button.
   - Keep a score, and at the end show how many I got right, with a Play again button that mixes up the questions.
   - A festive design: a dark night-sky background, gold and green colours, and buttons big enough to tap on a phone.
   
   Please give me the complete file in one code block, then tell me in simple steps how to save and open it.

   Copy the code, paste it into your text editor, and save it as christmas-quiz.html. Double-click it and play a round. Check the answers yourself: AI assistants sometimes get trivia wrong, so read through the list before quiz night.

2. Add teams and a quiz master

   At a party, one person reads the questions and the teams write their answers down. The quiz needs a mode for that.

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   That works, thank you. Please add a team mode, with a switch between "Just me" and "Teams":
   - Let me choose 2 to 6 teams and type a name for each one, with festive names to start with (Elves, Reindeer, Snowmen and so on).
   - In team mode, tapping an answer does nothing. Instead there's a "Show the answer" button for the quiz master.
   - After the answer shows, show a button for each team so I can tap the teams who got it right. Each one gets a point when I press Next.
   - A scoreboard along the bottom with every team's name and score.
   - At the end, show the teams in order, with the winner at the top, and say if it's a draw.
   - Save the team names in localStorage.
   
   Send me the complete updated file.

   Always ask for the complete file. Replace everything in christmas-quiz.html, save, and refresh the tab (F5 or Cmd+R).

3. Add question packs and an emoji round

   Little ones and grown-ups need very different questions, and an emoji round gets everyone shouting.

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   Please split the questions into packs I can choose from:
   - Kids: 20 easy questions for ages 5 to 8 (Rudolph, Santa, snowmen, Christmas songs).
   - Family: 20 questions for everyone, including Christmas films and traditions.
   - Grown-ups: 20 harder questions about Christmas history, number ones and traditions around the world.
   - Emoji round: 12 Christmas films and songs written as emojis, shown really big, for example 🏠👦😱 for Home Alone.
   - Buttons to choose a pack, and a choice of 10, 15, 20 or all the questions. Pick them at random each time.
   - Only use facts you're sure about, and keep the wrong answers believable but clearly wrong.
   
   Send me the complete updated file.

4. Add a timer and sounds

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   Please add a timer and some sound effects:
   - A choice of no timer, 20 seconds, 30 seconds or 1 minute for each question.
   - Show the time left as a bar that shrinks, turning red for the last 5 seconds, with a soft tick each second.
   - When time runs out on your own, count it as wrong and show the answer. In team mode, just say "Time's up!".
   - A happy chime for a right answer, a low "uh-oh" for a wrong one and a little fanfare at the end. Make the sounds with the Web Audio API, so there are no sound files, and add a button to turn them off.
   - A Full screen button, so it fills the TV or the classroom board.
   
   Send me the complete updated file.

5. Add your own questions and a printable answer sheet

   The best quiz questions are about your own family or class. And the quiz master needs the answers on paper.

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   Please add two more things:
   1. A "Your own" pack with a text box where I type my own questions, one on each line, like this:
      What is our dog called? | Biscuit | Pickle | Rex | Bruno
      The first answer after the question is the right one, and the rest are wrong. If I only give a right answer, make it a write-it-down question: show the question, then reveal the answer when I press "Show the answer". Save the box in localStorage.
   2. A "Print questions and answers" button. Print the questions for the round about to be played, with their A to D answers, on one page, and the answers on a second page for the quiz master. Hide everything else on the page when printing, and use black text on white so it's cheap to print.
   
   On a phone, put the settings under the quiz and make sure nothing scrolls sideways.
   
   Send me the complete updated file.

Quick fixes

Twist it into something else

A list of questions and a scoreboard can run almost any quiz. Change the first prompt to make:

Questions only your family can answer

Most Christmas quizzes online are long lists of questions to read out, or slideshows that need a login, adverts or a subscription. Yours runs on the TV without the internet, keeps score for you, and has the questions that get the biggest laughs: who fell asleep first last Christmas, what the dog ate, and which teacher wears the loudest jumper. You can change the colours, add rounds, and use it again for birthdays and New Year.

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