{"id":97,"date":"2026-09-16T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/tie-breaker-quiz-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:37:32","slug":"tie-breaker-quiz-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/tie-breaker-quiz-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie-Breaker Questions: 18 That Settle a Quiz Cleanly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good tie-breaker has a numeric answer nobody knows exactly and everybody can estimate. That way the closest guess wins and there is nothing to dispute. Never use a knowledge question as a tie-breaker \u2014 you will just create a second tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distances and sizes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. How tall is the Eiffel Tower in metres, to its tip?<\/strong> \u2014 330 metres<\/li>\n\n
  2. How long is the Great Wall of China in kilometres?<\/strong> \u2014 About 21,000 km<\/li>\n\n
  3. How deep is the Mariana Trench in metres?<\/strong> \u2014 About 10,935 metres<\/li>\n\n
  4. How long is the River Nile in kilometres?<\/strong> \u2014 About 6,650 km<\/li>\n\n
  5. How tall is Mount Everest in metres?<\/strong> \u2014 8,849 metres<\/li>\n\n
  6. How wide is the English Channel at its narrowest, in kilometres?<\/strong> \u2014 About 33 km<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Numbers and quantities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. How many bones does a newborn baby have?<\/strong> \u2014 About 300<\/li>\n\n
    2. How many languages are spoken in the world today?<\/strong> \u2014 Roughly 7,000<\/li>\n\n
    3. How many keys are on a standard piano?<\/strong> \u2014 88<\/li>\n\n
    4. How many countries are members of the United Nations?<\/strong> \u2014 193<\/li>\n\n
    5. How many muscles are in the human body?<\/strong> \u2014 About 600<\/li>\n\n
    6. How many islands make up Indonesia?<\/strong> \u2014 More than 17,000<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Time and speed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. How many seconds are in a 24-hour day?<\/strong> \u2014 86,400<\/li>\n\n
      2. How fast does light travel in kilometres per second?<\/strong> \u2014 About 300,000<\/li>\n\n
      3. How long does the Moon take to orbit Earth, in days?<\/strong> \u2014 About 27.3 days<\/li>\n\n
      4. How many heartbeats does an average adult have per day?<\/strong> \u2014 About 100,000<\/li>\n\n
      5. How long is a marathon in metres?<\/strong> \u2014 42,195 metres<\/li>\n\n
      6. How many days does it take Mars to orbit the Sun?<\/strong> \u2014 687 days<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Play on the Millionaire Trivia app<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Announce the tie-breaker rule before the quiz starts: closest guess wins, no conferring. Deciding the rule after a tie is how quiz nights turn sour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Eighteen closest-guess tie-breakers with answers, for ending a quiz without an argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}