20 tiebreaker questions with answers
A tiebreaker question settles it when two teams are level on points at a quiz night. The answer is a number, and whoever gets closest wins. Here are 20 tiebreaker questions with answers, a short explanation and a source for each.
Tiebreaker questions for your quiz night
- Read the question out and let each team write down a guess, without hearing the other teams.
- The closest guess to the right answer wins, whether it is too high or too low.
- Tap Show the answer under a question to see the answer, a short explanation and the source.
- The answers were checked against the sources in October 2026.
The questions also work as estimation questions at a party, an office kick-off or around the dinner table. Some can be worked out, others are pure guesswork, and most spark a bit of debate before the answer is shown.
20 tiebreaker questions with answers
How many stars are there on the EU flag?
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Answer: 12 stars
The number has nothing to do with how many countries are members. The circle of twelve stars stands for unity and solidarity.
Source: european-union.europa.eu
How many dots are there in total on a standard six-sided die?
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Answer: 21 dots
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21. Opposite sides always add up to 7.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
How many colored squares are there in total on a standard 3 × 3 × 3 Rubik's Cube?
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How many tiles are there in a standard double-six domino set?
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Answer: 28 tiles
Every combination of zero to six pips on the two halves of a tile appears exactly once.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
How long is Vasaloppet, the Swedish cross-country ski race from Sälen to Mora?
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Answer: 90 km
The race has been held since 1922, on the first Sunday in March.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
Old Tjikko, a spruce on Fulufjället mountain in Sweden, is one of the oldest known trees in the world. Roughly how old is its root system?
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Answer: 9,550 years
Carbon dating of wood remains in the ground around the tree gave about 9,550 years. Each trunk only lives a few hundred years, but new ones grow from the same roots.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org, umu.se
How old was Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, when she died?
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How tall is Avicii Arena, formerly known as the Globe, in Stockholm?
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Answer: 85 meters
The arena is 110 meters across and was the largest spherical building in the world until 2023.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
How many grams does a Swedish one-krona coin weigh, the copper-colored one introduced in 2016?
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Answer: 3.6 grams
The old silver-colored one-krona coin weighed 7 grams, almost twice as much.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
How many rooms does Buckingham Palace in London have?
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Answer: 775 rooms
The garden behind the palace is the largest private garden in London.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
How tall, in meters, are the presidents' faces carved into Mount Rushmore?
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Answer: 18 meters
The faces are 60 feet, about 18 meters, tall and were carved between 1927 and 1941.
Source: en.wikipedia.org, nps.gov
How many eyes does a bee have?
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Answer: 5 eyes
Two large compound eyes and three small simple eyes on top of the head.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
How many frames per second does a standard cinema film run at?
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Answer: 24 frames
Silent films were often shown at 22–26 frames per second, so when sound films arrived the industry chose 24 as a compromise.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
How many characters could a post on Twitter contain before the limit was raised in 2017?
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Answer: 140 characters
The limit was raised to 280 characters in 2017. The service is now called X.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
What percentage of all the water on Earth is fresh water?
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Answer: 2.5 %
The rest is salt water. About 70 percent of the fresh water is ice and snow.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
What is the maximum weight of a golf ball under the rules of golf, in grams?
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Answer: 45.93 grams
The limit is 1.620 ounces, which works out to 45.93 grams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Roughly how many years pass between each return of Halley's Comet?
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Answer: 76 years
The comet was last seen in 1986 and is expected back in 2061. The interval varies between about 74 and 79 years.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
How many letters are there in the Swedish alphabet?
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How many lines does a sonnet have?
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Answer: 14 lines
The name comes from the Italian sonetto, from the Latin sonus, sound. The poem is traditionally split into four stanzas.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org
Big Ben is actually the name of the great bell at the top of the tower in London. How many steps are there from the ground up to it?
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Answer: 334 steps
The tower was called the Clock Tower until 2012, when it was renamed Elizabeth Tower for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Let the game handle the rest
In HowFarOff every question is a tiebreaker. Everyone guesses on their own phone, the game shows the right answer and everyone's guesses, and the closest guess wins the round. The questions in the game are different from these, so you can use the list for your quiz night and the game for your party.
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