Spelling Trivia

252+ Best Spelling Trivia Questions & Answers

Mike Oberman

Updated: June 15th, 2023

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Want to prove your spelling skills? This collection of spelling trivia questions will put your spelling prowess to the test with easy, medium, and hard questions.

Easy

Question: What word means the start of something?

Answer: Beginning

Question: What is a sweet treat made from cocoa?

Answer: Chocolate

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Agreement

Question: What word means the same as leaflet?

Answer: Pamphlet

Question: When you are feeling tired you might…?

Answer: Yawn

Question: What day comes before Sunday?

Answer: Saturday

Question: What is another word meaning worried?

Answer: Anxious

Question: Which word means writing your name?

Answer: Signature

Question: One euro is divided into 100 what?

Answer: Cent

Question: Which season comes after summer?

Answer: Autumn

Question: Which word means a gentle wind?

Answer: Breeze

Question: Which is the correct spelling?

Answer: Mischievous

Question: What number comes after thirty nine?

Answer: Forty

Question: Which of these is spelled correctly?

Answer: Theorem

Question: Something which has to be done is what?

Answer: Necessary

Question: Choose the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Pawn

Question: What is the correct spelling for a type of beer?

Answer: Ale

Question: Select the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Consider

Question: What is the name of the large deer like an elk?

Answer: Moose

Question: What word means biology, chemistry or medicine?

Answer: Science

Question: Which is the correct spelling of the army rank?

Answer: Lieutenant

Question: What word means easily moved around?

Answer: Portable

Question: What word means precise or exact?

Answer: Accurate

Question: What do you use to stop a car?

Answer: Brakes

Question: What word means neither good nor bad?

Answer: Mediocre

Question: If someone has no hair, what are they?

Answer: Bald

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Checklist

Question: What is the month after July?

Answer: August

Question: Where is the North Pole located?

Answer: Arctic

Question: What do we carve at Halloween?

Answer: Pumpkins

Question: Where might you go to borrow books?

Answer: Library

Question: What might you have for lunch?

Answer: Sandwich

Question: How do you spell the capital of Greece?

Answer: Athens

Question: How do you spell the Mexican state and small dog?

Answer: Chihuahua

Question: In school PE classes, what does the P stand for?

Answer: Physical

Question: How do you correctly spell the baking ingredient?

Answer: Flour

Question: What is the spelling of the currency in the US?

Answer: Dollar

Question: What is the name for the upper part of your leg?

Answer: Thigh

Question: If someone has lots of money, they might be what?

Answer: Millionaire

Question: How do you spell the place where scientists work?

Answer: Laboratory

Question: What is the correct spelling for a church song?

Answer: Hymn

Question: What is the correct spelling for part of a car?

Answer: Wheel

Question: What's the correct spelling of the dried fruit?

Answer: Currant

Question: What is the correct spelling for a Barons wide?

Answer: Baroness

Question: Choose the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Illegal

Question: What number comes before three?

Answer: Two

Question: Which is the correct spelling?

Answer: Circumference

Question: How do you spell a type of boat?

Answer: Yacht

Question: Marriage can also be referred to as…?

Answer: Wedlock

Question: Which European's capital is Athens?

Answer: Greece

Question: What word means sport or keeping fit?

Answer: Exercise

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Between

Question: Which word means more than a few?

Answer: Several

Question: What word indicates an estimate?

Answer: Approximate

Question: What word means a very clever person?

Answer: Genius

Question: Where do children go to learn?

Answer: School

Question: Which of these is spelled correctly?

Answer: Horizontal

Question: Which of these is correctly spelt?

Answer: Harassed

Question: What do you take pictures with?

Answer: Camera

Question: What is another word for sweat?

Answer: Perspiration

Question: What word means the same as an office?

Answer: Bureau

Question: What is another word for the ocean?

Answer: Sea

Question: What do you use to sew with?

Answer: Needle

Question: What comes after evening?

Answer: Night

Question: What word means a large bird of prey?

Answer: Hawk

Question: What type of tasty fish has pink flesh?

Answer: Salmon

Question: Which of these is spelled correctly?

Answer: Divergent

Question: What word means to hide something?

Answer: Conceal

Question: How do you spell what cars drive on?

Answer: Road

Question: Which word means huge or gigantic?

Answer: Enormous

Question: What is the plural of woman?

Answer: Women

Question: Where might you go out to eat?

Answer: Restaurant

Question: What is the plural of person?

Answer: People

Question: What word means a period of 1000 years?

Answer: Millennium

Question: Who lives next door you you?

Answer: Neighbour

Question: What word means referring to weddings?

Answer: Bridal

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Chosen

Question: How do you spell the number 1?

Answer: One

Question: What word means the same as naked?

Answer: Bare

Question: What word means one hundred years?

Answer: Century

Question: How do you spell the capital of Japan?

Answer: Tokyo

Question: What number comes after seven?

Answer: Eight

Question: What city is the capital of Italy?

Answer: Rome

Question: What word means against the law?

Answer: Illegal

Question: What word means the same as to vanish?

Answer: Disappear

Question: What day comes after Tuesday?

Answer: Wednesday

Question: Which is a correct spelling of a metal?

Answer: Steel

Question: What number comes after thirteen?

Answer: Fourteen

Question: What vegetables are made into chips?

Answer: Potatoes

Question: What word means a measurement of heat?

Answer: Temperature

Question: Complete the novel title: Pride and ?

Answer: Prejudice

Question: What is another word for a sea?

Answer: Ocean

Question: Which is the correct spelling?

Answer: Sincerely

Question: Which word is the opposite of giving?

Answer: Receiving

Question: Where might you go for a meal?

Answer: Restaurant

Question: Which of these is spelled correctly?

Answer: Addition

Question: What is the name of a young swan?

Answer: Cygnet

Question: Which is another word meaning valuable?

Answer: Precious

Question: What is the correct spelling of 12th?

Answer: Twelfth

Question: Which is another verb meaning to break?

Answer: Fracture

Question: Which word is the opposite of roughly?

Answer: Smoothly

Question: What is another word for a problem?

Answer: Dilemma

Question: What word means very pretty?

Answer: Gorgeous

Question: What month comes after January?

Answer: February

Question: What is another word for not expensive?

Answer: Cheap

Question: What might you eat for breakfast?

Answer: Cereal

Question: Which part of the body stores urine?

Answer: Bladder

Question: What is the second month of the year?

Answer: February

Question: What word means the same as permitted?

Answer: Allowed

Question: What word refers to cleanliness?

Answer: Hygiene

Question: What word means something scary?

Answer: Frightening

Question: How do you spell the number 2?

Answer: Two

Question: The Prime Minister leads which body?

Answer: Government

Question: Which is a type of hard English cheese?

Answer: Cheddar

Question: What is celebrated on 25th December?

Answer: Christmas

Question: What comes after eleventh?

Answer: Twelfth

Question: Portable bags may be called a…?

Answer: Holdall

Question: What word is a shade of red?

Answer: Crimson

Question: What is the first month of the year?

Answer: January

Question: What word is the opposite of expensive?

Answer: Cheap

Question: What word means 'not tight'?

Answer: Loose

Question: What do you use to unlock a door?

Answer: Key

Question: What is the correct spelling for 5th?

Answer: Fifth

Question: What time period comes after night?

Answer: Morning

Question: What number comes after fourteen?

Answer: Fifteen

Question: What number comes after eleven?

Answer: Twelve

Question: Which word means to receive something?

Answer: Accept

Medium

Question: What word means someone who has no hair?

Answer: Bald

Question: Whch large animal lives in African waters?

Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: What is the correct spelling of a wild pig?

Answer: Boar

Question: What word means water coming through a gap?

Answer: Leak

Question: What festival is celebrated on 31st October?

Answer: Halloween

Question: How do you spell the capital of Scotland?

Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What is the part of the day before 12 noon?

Answer: Morning

Question: What type of weather comes with thunder?

Answer: Lightning

Question: What word means a very tall African mammal?

Answer: Giraffe

Question: What is the correct spelling for a light wind?

Answer: Zephyr

Question: Which organ pumps blood around the body?

Answer: Heart

Question: What would you put a letter in before posting?

Answer: Envelope

Question: How do you spell another word for nothing?

Answer: Zero

Question: Something which sticks out might be what?

Answer: Noticeable

Question: What is a word for an ill person in hospital?

Answer: Patient

Question: Two items which are held apart are what?

Answer: Separate

Question: What is the name of an animal like a frog?

Answer: Toad

Question: What might scientists do in laboratories?

Answer: Experiments

Question: What word means a shellfish like a prawn?

Answer: Shrimp

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Manager

Question: What hot drink is very popular in the UK?

Answer: Tea

Question: Reviewing something in the past is using…?

Answer: Retrospect

Question: What is another word for 'in simple terms'?

Answer: Basically

Question: How do you spell the capital city of Iraq?

Answer: Baghdad

Question: How is the capital city of Malaysia spelled?

Answer: Kuala Lumpur

Question: Which word means the same thing as 'to go up'?

Answer: Ascend

Question: What is the name of a sweet like toffee?

Answer: Fudge

Question: What word can mean charm, allure or beauty?

Answer: Glamour

Question: What is the paper you are giving after paying?

Answer: Receipt

Question: What is the correct spelling of a female dear?

Answer: Doe

Question: Which word means not artificial or man-made?

Answer: Natural

Question: Outlines of events may be described as a…?

Answer: Scenario

Question: What is the spelling of a type of light beer?

Answer: Lager

Question: If you are sure about something, what are you?

Answer: Definite

Question: What is the spelling of part of your mouth?

Answer: Tongue

Question: What word means being let down or upset?

Answer: Disappointed

Question: Who is someone who you know only vaguely?

Answer: Acquaintance

Question: What is the spelling of messengers from God?

Answer: Angel

Question: What is the name of a precious green gemstone?

Answer: Emerald

Question: What is another word for a king or a ruler?

Answer: Emperor

Question: If you are taking care, what are you being?

Answer: Careful

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Interview

Question: What are the passages in a supermarket called?

Answer: Aisle

Question: What word comes after sixth and seventh?

Answer: Eighth

Question: What is the name for a space devoid of air?

Answer: Vacuum

Question: What is the correct spelling for what ears do?

Answer: Hear

Question: Which is the correct spelling of a U.S. State?

Answer: Maine

Question: Which of these would you hit a golf ball of?

Answer: Tee

Question: What is the correct spelling for not yes?

Answer: No

Question: What word means really pretty and attractive?

Answer: Beautiful

Question: What word means 'doing as you are told'?

Answer: Obedience

Question: How do you spell America's longest river?

Answer: Mississippi

Question: What relative is your uncle or aunt's child?

Answer: Cousin

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Progress

Question: What is the name of a popular hot drink?

Answer: Coffee

Question: What is the correct name for a warm spice?

Answer: Ginger

Question: How do you spell the word meaning a wild pig?

Answer: Boar

Question: What is the word for a small, red fruit?

Answer: Raspberry

Question: Correctly spell another term for breadth?

Answer: Width

Question: What word is a maths term measured in degrees?

Answer: Angle

Question: If you are keen you may be said to be..?

Answer: Eager

Question: What is the correct spelling of a baby duck?

Answer: Duckling

Question: Which of these is the correct spelling?

Answer: Depending

Question: What is an old fashioned term for a doctor?

Answer: Physician

Question: How do you spell the word for a large rock?

Answer: Boulder

Question: What is the name for one of your fingers?

Answer: Thumb

Question: What is the meal eaten outside, on a blanket?

Answer: Picnic

Question: In which country would you find the pyramids?

Answer: Egypt

Question: What is the name of a Muslim place of worship?

Answer: Mosque

Question: Sun, rain and snow are all types of what?

Answer: Weather

Question: What often comes with thunder in a storm?

Answer: Lightning

Question: Something which is the one and only is what?

Answer: Unique

Question: What word means a serious lung infection?

Answer: Pneumonia

Question: What is the name for a book containing maps?

Answer: Atlas

Question: What do you do if you misplace something?

Answer: Lose

Question: Something which happens once a year is what?

Answer: Annual

Question: Which word means a precious green gemstone?

Answer: Jade

Question: How do you spell what your ear is made from?

Answer: Cartilage

Question: What is the spelling of the joint in your leg?

Answer: Knee

Question: How do you spell the tool used for digging?

Answer: Spade

Question: What day does the US celebrate on July 4th?

Answer: Independence

Question: What is the correct spelling of a type of nut?

Answer: Almond

Question: What green vegetable looks like little trees?

Answer: Broccoli

Question: What is the correct spelling for the currency?

Answer: Cent

Question: What is the occupation of someone in the Army?

Answer: Soldier

Question: How do you spell the name for an inside roof?

Answer: Ceiling

Question: Which word means the opposite of smooth?

Answer: Coarse

Question: What word means something which you own?

Answer: Possession

Question: What is the correct spelling for the number 8?

Answer: Eight

Question: What is the name often given to craft beer?

Answer: Ale

Question: What's the word for your brother's daughter?

Answer: Niece

Question: What is another word meaning real or genuine?

Answer: Legitimate

Question: Latte and capuccino are types of which drink?

Answer: Coffee

Question: If you are very happy, you might be what?

Answer: Ecstatic

Question: What is the name for blue denim trousers?

Answer: Jeans

Question: What is the correct spelling of the number 40?

Answer: Forty

Question: Which is the correct spelling of a male royal?

Answer: Prince

Question: How do you spell the police or army rank?

Answer: Sergeant

Hard

Question: What is the correct spelling for a type of food?

Answer: Meat

Question: What word is a sweet treat similar to a cookie?

Answer: Biscuit

Question: Select the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Certain

Question: What is the correct spelling for foot clothing?

Answer: Shoe

Question: Which is the correct spelling of denim trousers?

Answer: Jeans

Question: Choose the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Normally

Question: What is the correct spelling of a female sheep?

Answer: Ewe

Question: What form of energy involves fusion and fission?

Answer: Nuclear

Question: What is the name for a teacher in a university?

Answer: Professor

Question: Select the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Attention

Question: Choose the word which has the correct spelling?

Answer: Prevent

Question: Which American state has Boston as its capital?

Answer: Massachusetts

Question: How do you spell a small country close to France?

Answer: Belgium

Question: What is the spelling of the word meaning extra?

Answer: Additional

Question: What is the correct spelling of a type of pasta?

Answer: Macaroni

Question: What might you say to someone on their birthday?

Answer: Congratulations

Question: What is the correct spelling for a slab of meat?

Answer: Steak

Question: What is the correct spelling for the sea animal?

Answer: Whale

Question: What is the correct spelling of a flat 2D shape?

Answer: Circle

Question: What's the name of a loan secured on your house?

Answer: Mortgage

Question: What is the correct spelling of an assumed name?

Answer: Alias

Question: What is traditionally the last course of a meal?

Answer: Dessert

Question: What is the name of a green and white vegetable?

Answer: Cauliflower

Question: How do you spell the word which means not moving?

Answer: Stationary

Question: How do you spell the word meaning the next day?

Answer: Tomorrow

Question: What is the name for someone who steals things?

Answer: Thief

Question: What are the rubber things you put on your are?

Answer: Tyre