Baby Shower Trivia: 60 Questions With Answers

Trivia is the easiest baby shower game to run well. It needs no supplies, works for any group size, and gives the quiet guests a fair shot at winning. The hard part is finding questions that are actually interesting — and answers you can trust when someone challenges them.

Below are 60 questions in five rounds. Each round has its answers tucked under a "Show answers" button, so you can print the page or read straight from your phone without spoiling anything. Pick one or two rounds for a short game, or play all five as a tournament.

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Round 1: Newborn facts

Surprising facts about brand-new babies. Most guests will get about half of these right — which is exactly where you want a trivia round.

  1. About how many bones is a newborn born with: 150, 206 or about 300?
  2. What is a baby's very first poop called?
  3. What's the name for the soft spots on a baby's head?
  4. How far away can a newborn see clearly: 8–12 inches, 3 feet or across the room?
  5. True or false: babies are born with kneecaps made of bone.
  6. About how many hours a day does a newborn sleep: 8–10, 11–13 or 14–17?
  7. What is the name of the reflex that makes a startled baby fling their arms out?
  8. Stroke a newborn's cheek and they turn toward your hand, looking for food. What's that reflex called?
  9. By about what age do most babies double their birth weight: 2 months, 5 months or 1 year?
  10. What's a typical resting heart rate for a newborn: 60–80, 90–110 or 120–160 beats per minute?
  11. Which teeth usually come in first?
  12. Around what age do most babies say their first real word?
Show answers
  1. About 300. Many fuse together as the baby grows; adults have 206.
  2. Meconium.
  3. Fontanelles.
  4. 8–12 inches — about the distance to a parent's face during a feed.
  5. False. They start as cartilage and turn to bone over the first few years.
  6. 14–17 hours, in short stretches.
  7. The Moro (startle) reflex.
  8. The rooting reflex.
  9. Around 5 months. Most babies roughly triple their birth weight by their first birthday.
  10. 120–160 beats per minute.
  11. The two bottom front teeth (lower central incisors), usually around 6 months.
  12. Around 12 months, though anywhere from about 10 to 15 months is normal.

Round 2: Pregnancy

Keep this round light and factual. Nothing here puts the mom-to-be on the spot.

  1. How many weeks does a full-term pregnancy usually last, counted from the last period?
  2. How many trimesters are there in a pregnancy?
  3. What's the name for the fine, soft hair that covers a baby in the womb?
  4. What's the white, waxy coating that protects a baby's skin before birth?
  5. True or false: babies can taste flavors from what the mom eats while they're in the womb.
  6. What are "practice" contractions that don't lead to labor usually called?
  7. Which land mammal has the longest pregnancy — about 22 months?
  8. What's the word for the first flutters of movement a mom-to-be feels?
  9. About how many babies are born in the United States each year: 360,000, 3.6 million or 36 million?
  10. What is the medical term for a baby's due date estimate: EDD, ETA or DOB?
  11. What does the "C" in "C-section" stand for?
  12. True or false: only a small share of babies — around 1 in 20 — arrive on their exact due date.
Show answers
  1. About 40 weeks.
  2. Three.
  3. Lanugo.
  4. Vernix (vernix caseosa).
  5. True. Flavors like garlic and vanilla reach the amniotic fluid.
  6. Braxton Hicks contractions.
  7. The elephant.
  8. Quickening.
  9. About 3.6 million.
  10. EDD — estimated date of delivery.
  11. Cesarean.
  12. True. Most babies arrive within a couple of weeks either side of it.

Round 3: Baby animals

Name the baby animal. Guests without kids tend to dominate this round, which is half the fun.

  1. A baby kangaroo is called a…
  2. A baby swan is called a…
  3. A baby owl is called an…
  4. A baby goose is called a…
  5. A baby fox is called a…
  6. A baby hare is called a…
  7. A baby platypus is called a…
  8. A baby frog is called a…
  9. A baby goat is called a…
  10. A baby turkey is called a…
  11. A baby eel is called an…
  12. A baby seal is called a…
Show answers
  1. Joey.
  2. Cygnet.
  3. Owlet.
  4. Gosling.
  5. Kit (also called a cub or pup).
  6. Leveret.
  7. Puggle.
  8. Tadpole (or froglet once it grows legs).
  9. Kid.
  10. Poult.
  11. Elver.
  12. Pup.

Round 4: Finish the nursery rhyme

Read the first part aloud and have guests write the missing words. Grandparents usually win this one.

  1. Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the…
  2. Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her…
  3. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a…
  4. Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the…
  5. Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as…
  6. Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir…
  7. Little Bo Peep has lost her…
  8. Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give her poor dog a…
  9. Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating his…
  10. Rock-a-bye baby, on the…
  11. Peter Piper picked a peck of…
  12. The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the…
Show answers
  1. Moon.
  2. Curds and whey.
  3. Pail of water.
  4. Clock.
  5. Snow.
  6. Three bags full.
  7. Sheep.
  8. Bone.
  9. Christmas pie.
  10. Treetop.
  11. Pickled peppers.
  12. Water spout.

Round 5: Classic picture books

A nice round to play right before guests sign the books they brought instead of a card.

  1. Who wrote Goodnight Moon?
  2. In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, what does the caterpillar turn into?
  3. What is the name of the boy who sails to where the wild things are?
  4. Who wrote Green Eggs and Ham?
  5. In Corduroy, what is the bear missing from his overalls?
  6. Who illustrated Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
  7. In Guess How Much I Love You, what kind of animals are the two main characters?
  8. Whose garden does Peter Rabbit sneak into?
  9. Who is Curious George's best friend?
  10. In Make Way for Ducklings, which city do the ducks call home?
  11. What color pajamas does Llama Llama wear?
  12. Who wrote Love You Forever?
Show answers
  1. Margaret Wise Brown.
  2. A butterfly.
  3. Max.
  4. Dr. Seuss.
  5. A button.
  6. Eric Carle (Bill Martin Jr. wrote it).
  7. Hares (Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare).
  8. Mr. McGregor's.
  9. The Man with the Yellow Hat.
  10. Boston.
  11. Red.
  12. Robert Munsch.

How to run baby shower trivia without it dragging

On paper

Works for: small groups · anyone who wants a printed keepsake

Print one question sheet per guest, or just number a blank card 1–12 and read the questions aloud. Give 20–30 seconds per question, then read every answer at the end and have guests swap sheets to mark them. Expect the marking to take as long as the questions did.

On phones

Works for: groups of 8 or more · mixed in-person and video-call guests

Each guest answers on their own phone, and the score lands the moment you close the question. There's nothing to mark, so you can play a full round in under ten minutes and show the leaderboard on the TV. BumpBash comes with ten newborn and pregnancy questions ready to go, and you can add your own about the parents-to-be.

Make it personal

Works for: guests who know the couple well

Finish with a five-question bonus round about the parents: where they met, their first date, who's the better cook, the baby name that almost won. It's the round everyone remembers.

Questions hosts ask

How many trivia questions should we play at a baby shower?

Ten to fifteen is the sweet spot. That takes about ten minutes read aloud, which fits between food and gifts without the room drifting off. Save the rest for a tiebreaker round.

How do you score baby shower trivia?

One point per correct answer is enough. If you play on paper, have guests swap sheets and mark each other's while you read the answers. On phones, the score updates the moment the question closes.

Are these questions okay for guests who don't have kids?

Yes. We mixed in nursery rhymes, picture books and baby animal names on purpose, so guests without kids — and the grandparents — have plenty of rounds they can win.

Can we write our own questions about the parents-to-be?

Absolutely, and it's usually the funniest round. Ask the parents for five facts ahead of time — how they met, their first date, the name they almost picked — and turn each one into a multiple-choice question.

Skip the answer sheets — play this trivia on phones

BumpBash loads ten of these questions for you. Guests scan a QR code, tap their answers, and the leaderboard scores itself while you read the next question.

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