World capitals quiz — 20 questions with answers.

Who it's for: Ages 13 and up: a geography class, a team quiz, or a quiz night with adults.

Use them as a geography starter, a team quiz on the last day of term, or a revision round before a map test. Every question has one correct answer, and all twenty fit in one Quizoma quiz.

The 20 capital city questions with answers

Correct answers are marked with a tick. The same questions, with the same answers, are in the CSV file, in the same order.

Asia

1. What is the capital of Japan?
   A. Kyoto · B. Osaka · C. Tokyo ✓ · D. Hiroshima
2. What is the capital of Pakistan?
   A. Karachi · B. Lahore · C. Islamabad ✓ · D. Peshawar
3. What is the capital of Turkey?
   A. Istanbul · B. Ankara ✓ · C. Izmir · D. Bursa
4. What is the capital of India?
   A. Mumbai · B. Kolkata · C. New Delhi ✓ · D. Chennai
5. What is the capital of Vietnam?
   A. Ho Chi Minh City · B. Hanoi ✓ · C. Da Nang · D. Hue

Europe

6. What is the capital of France?
   A. Lyon · B. Marseille · C. Paris ✓ · D. Nice
7. What is the capital of Germany?
   A. Munich · B. Berlin ✓ · C. Hamburg · D. Frankfurt
8. What is the capital of Spain?
   A. Barcelona · B. Seville · C. Madrid ✓ · D. Valencia
9. What is the capital of Poland?
   A. Kraków · B. Warsaw ✓ · C. Gdańsk · D. Wrocław
10. What is the capital of Italy?
    A. Milan · B. Venice · C. Rome ✓ · D. Naples

Africa

11. What is the capital of Egypt?
    A. Alexandria · B. Cairo ✓ · C. Giza · D. Luxor
12. What is the capital of Kenya?
    A. Mombasa · B. Nairobi ✓ · C. Kisumu · D. Nakuru
13. What is the capital of Nigeria?
    A. Lagos · B. Abuja ✓ · C. Kano · D. Ibadan
14. What is the capital of Morocco?
    A. Casablanca · B. Marrakesh · C. Rabat ✓ · D. Fez
15. What is the capital of Ghana?
    A. Kumasi · B. Accra ✓ · C. Tamale · D. Takoradi

Americas & Oceania

16. What is the capital of Canada?
    A. Toronto · B. Vancouver · C. Ottawa ✓ · D. Montreal
17. What is the capital of the United States?
    A. New York · B. Washington, D.C. ✓ · C. Los Angeles · D. Chicago
18. What is the capital of Brazil?
    A. Rio de Janeiro · B. São Paulo · C. Brasília ✓ · D. Salvador
19. What is the capital of Australia?
    A. Sydney · B. Melbourne · C. Canberra ✓ · D. Perth
20. What is the capital of Argentina?
    A. Córdoba · B. Rosario · C. Buenos Aires ✓ · D. Mendoza

Many wrong options are the country's biggest or best-known city, which is exactly the mistake most people make: Istanbul in question 3, Lagos in question 13, Toronto in question 16 and Sydney in question 19. If a lot of the class picks the same one, that is worth five minutes on why capitals are often not the largest city. Quizoma's results show the accuracy of every question, so you will see it straight away.

Students can use the same set to revise on their own: import it, switch on Show Score and Retake, and it becomes a practice test they can take until every capital sticks.

How to use this template

1. Download the file: quizoma-template-world-capitals-quiz.csv.
2. Open Quizoma Studio in your browser (or the Android app) and choose Import from file.
3. Pick the .csv. Quizoma shows every question for review before anything is saved, so you can fix a wording, drop a question or add your own.
4. Save, then share the 6-character quiz code or QR with your class. Participants answer at quizoma.com/take in any browser.

Timing and points are set on the quiz when you import, not in the file. If you would rather not import at all, you can type the questions into the online quiz maker directly.

What is in the file

One row per question: the question, then the options, then a final correct column holding the number of the right option. Where more than one option is right, the numbers are joined with a |. The first lines look like this:

question,option1,option2,option3,option4,correct
What is the capital of Japan?,Kyoto,Osaka,Tokyo,Hiroshima,3
What is the capital of France?,Lyon,Marseille,Paris,Nice,3

Open it in any spreadsheet to edit, and save it as CSV again before importing — an .xlsx file is not read. The same format is described on the templates page.