Kids Lit Quiz 2022

By Rachael Hind and Gemma Wilson, JS Teacher Librarians

Kids Lit Quiz is an annual competition for book lovers and avid readers from Year 5 to Year 8. It is a trivia-style competition, where teams of four students face 10 rounds of questions.

The questions are very tough and require students to read broadly, rather than in one specific genre.

This year, 37 teams from schools across the ACT participated in the event at Merici College. The four-year age range of participants makes a huge difference in the number of reading years, so our youngest students did extremely well.

Each round is on a different theme. Examples for 2022 were beverages, clothing, females, glasses and birds.

Test yourself against some of our favourite questions this year!

  1. In the picture book series featuring Spot the Dog, what is Spot's mum’s name?
  2. Which river flowed through Mr Wonka's factory?
  3. Who is Angelina Ballerina’s best friend?
  4. What is Minnie Mouse’s real name?
  5. We know the BFG was very friendly, but how many unfriendly giants where there?

This year, we entered more teams than previously. We had four teams from Radford Junior School and three teams of Secondary School students. All our teams did extremely well, despite finding the questions tough. The competition is loud and active, with spot prizes given out during the afternoon. There is always a spot prize for identifying the first line of a book and it is incredible how quickly the students can guess the book. This year, the first line came from The BFG by Roald Dahl. Do you know the first line?

We were extremely proud of all our students and look forward to participating in this competition for many years to come.

Answers:

  1. Sally
  2. Chocolate river
  3. Alice
  4. Minerva
  5. 9
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Students participating in this year's Kids Lit Quiz
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Students participating in this year's Kids Lit Quiz
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Students participating in this year's Kids Lit Quiz














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