Summer term end-of-year quiz 2024

Last updated: 18/07/2024
Summer term end-of-year quiz 2024
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Back for 2024, this bumper end-of-year quiz ensures that your non-exam students are usefully occupied at the end of the school year while also having fun and letting off steam!

It’s the perfect end-of-term activity for a tutor group or mixed year groups as there are questions on a whole host of topics for a wide range of ages.

What’s included

Our big fat quiz includes 65 questions on a summer holiday theme and combines a current affairs quiz with a trivia / general knowledge quiz (aka low-stakes retrieval practice of your students’ subject knowledge!) and some brain-teasing puzzles and riddles.

How to use this end-of-year quiz

If you’re with your tutor group all day, why not attempt the whole thing? For shorter sessions, you can either do the first and final rounds or pick and mix from the questions to compile your own version.

The seven rounds in our end-of-year quiz are as follows:

  1. a review of the year’s news — updated for 2024!
  2. a languages round
  3. a round of maths / verbal reasoning puzzles
  4. a science round
  5. a geography picture round
  6. a history round
  7. a round of rebuses and riddles.

The question types include multiple-choice questions, pictures, puzzles and riddles, with plenty of bonus points up for grabs.

Our fun summer quiz is great for encouraging teamwork, practising communication skills and keeping students focused in the last week or on the last day of term before the summer holidays. To really harness their competitive spirit, why not offer prizes for each round?

Answers are provided in the PowerPoint.

Looking for more like this?

Find more tutor time resourcessummer activities and end-of-year activities. We’ve also got lots of Christmas quizzes for the end of the calendar year.

You might also like these free online geography quizzes on our sister site Infoplease:

Examples from our giant summer quiz:

In the news

7. Why were we alarmed at 3pm on Sunday 23 April?

Languages – A foreign holiday

5. How do you say 'summer' in Spanish?

A.  Été   B. Verano   C. Sommer

For a bonus point, can you identify the other languages?

Maths – Summer problem-solving

1. A group of friends is planning a summer road trip. The trip will cover a distance of 1200 km, and they plan to drive for 8 hours each day. If they drive at an average speed of 50 km/h, how many days should the trip take?

A. 5 days   B. 3 days   C. 2 days

Science – Waves, sand and sunlight

2. How many colours are there in sunlight (visible light)?

A. Five   B. Seven   C. Nine

For a bonus point, can you list them all?

History – A blast from the past

6. When were workers in the UK first allowed to take a week’s paid holiday?

A. 1898   B. 1938   C. 1968

Riddle me this!

6. What is always in front of you but can never be seen?

All reviews

Have you used this resource?

5
Excellent quiz and very well set up to allow to do as many rounds as want/need.
Some rounds were too tricky for year 8 though.

Katie Hillier

17/07/2024

5
Great for KS3 - thank you

Melanie Turner

12/07/2024

5
Brilliant quiz that covers a wide variety of subjects.

Keeley Usher

08/07/2024

5
Excellent quiz and very well set up to allow to do as many rounds as want/need.
Some rounds were too tricky for year 8 though.

Katie Hillier

17/07/2024

5
Great for KS3 - thank you

Melanie Turner

12/07/2024

5
Brilliant quiz that covers a wide variety of subjects.

Keeley Usher

08/07/2024