Diwali Quiz Questions With Answers: 60 for Kids and Families

Here are 60 Diwali quiz questions with answers, split into six rounds so you can run a whole quiz night: easy questions for children aged 4 to 7, the Ramayana story, the five days of Diwali, Diwali around the world, a true-or-false round and a harder family final. Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November, so a quiz on the weekend before or on the festival evening itself works well for families, schools and community groups.

Every answer has been checked, and where traditions differ between regions we say so. If you would rather play on a screen, our online Diwali quiz scores teams automatically and can print an answer key.

How to run a quiz night with these Diwali quiz questions

A good family quiz is short, lively and fair to every age. This plan takes about 45 minutes for six rounds.

1. Make teams that mix ages. Put at least one child and one adult in each team of 3 to 5, so nobody sits out a round.
2. Choose your rounds. For children under 8, use rounds 1, 2 and 5. For a mixed family group, play all six in order: they get harder as you go.
3. Give each team an answer sheet. Plain paper numbered 1 to 10 works. Collect sheets after each round and swap them between teams for marking.
4. Read each question twice. Allow 20 to 30 seconds per question, and a little longer for young children.
5. Keep score where everyone can see it. A whiteboard, a large sheet of card or the online quiz on a TV works well.
6. Finish with a prize for everyone. A box of sweets for the winners and a small treat (a diya to paint, a sticker) for every child.

Scoring that keeps it fair

Tie-breaker: ask each team to write down a number: “How many diyas are on this tray?” (count them before the quiz). The closest guess wins.

Diwali quiz for kids: how many questions fit your time slot?

A Diwali quiz for kids goes wrong when it is too long for the youngest player. The table divides each time slot by the seconds a group needs for one question, including reading it twice and writing the answer, so you can pick the right number of Diwali quiz questions before you start:

For a 20-minute Diwali quiz for kids aged 4 to 7, that means about 20 questions, which is two of the six rounds above. For a mixed family of children and adults, plan for the middle row and use the 45-minute column, which gives about 67 questions and is why the full set of 60 fits a whole evening. The seconds are rules of thumb from our own quiz nights, so shorten or lengthen them to suit your group.

60 Diwali quiz questions with answers

Each set below gets a little harder than the one before. Answers are shown under each question. If you are printing this page for the host, fold the answers under or copy the questions onto cards.

Round 1: Easy Diwali questions for young kids (ages 4 to 7)

Start with these easy questions. Read them aloud and accept any sensible answer. Little ones can point, draw or act instead of saying the word.

1. What do we light on Diwali to make our homes bright?
   Answer: Diyas (small clay oil lamps), candles and fairy lights
2. Diwali is called the festival of what?
   Answer: Lights
3. What are the colorful patterns made on the floor near the front door called?
   Answer: Rangoli
4. Name one sweet that families share at Diwali.
   Answer: Any one, such as ladoo, barfi, jalebi or kaju katli
5. Which bright orange and yellow flower is made into Diwali garlands?
   Answer: The marigold
6. What do families do to their homes in the days before Diwali?
   Answer: Clean them and decorate them
7. Are the Diwali lamps lit in the morning or the evening?
   Answer: In the evening, after sunset
8. What do many children wear on Diwali?
   Answer: New clothes
9. Lord Ganesha is often worshipped with Lakshmi at Diwali. Which small animal does he ride?
   Answer: A mouse
10. What do we say to wish someone on Diwali?
    Answer: “Happy Diwali” or “Shubh Deepavali”

Round 2: The Diwali story (ages 7 to 11)

These Diwali quiz questions follow the Ramayana story that many families tell at Diwali.

1. In the Ramayana story told at Diwali, which prince came home after defeating Ravana?
   Answer: Lord Rama
2. Which city did Rama return to?
   Answer: Ayodhya
3. How many years did Rama spend in exile in the forest?
   Answer: 14 years
4. What was the name of Rama’s wife?
   Answer: Sita
5. Which brother went into the forest with Rama and Sita?
   Answer: Lakshmana
6. Which demon king carried Sita away?
   Answer: Ravana
7. Ravana ruled which island kingdom?
   Answer: Lanka
8. Which monkey hero leaped across the sea to find Sita?
   Answer: Hanuman
9. How did the people of Ayodhya welcome Rama home?
   Answer: They lit rows of oil lamps (diyas) along the streets
10. Which festival, about three weeks before Diwali, celebrates Rama’s victory over Ravana?
    Answer: Dussehra (Vijayadashami). In 2026 it falls on Tuesday 20 October, 19 days before Diwali.

Round 3: The five days of Diwali

Good for ages 9 and up. Our five days chart below gives the answers at a glance.

1. What is the first day of the five-day festival called?
   Answer: Dhanteras
2. What do many families buy on Dhanteras?
   Answer: Gold, silver or new metal utensils
3. The second day is also called Choti Diwali. What is its other name?
   Answer: Naraka Chaturdashi
4. Which demon did Lord Krishna defeat, as remembered on Naraka Chaturdashi?
   Answer: Narakasura
5. Which goddess of wealth and good fortune is worshipped on the main night?
   Answer: Goddess Lakshmi
6. Lakshmi Puja takes place on which kind of moon night?
   Answer: The new moon night (Amavasya)
7. On the fourth day, Govardhan Puja remembers Krishna lifting what?
   Answer: Govardhan Hill, to shelter villagers from heavy rain
8. What is the “mountain of food” offered to Krishna on Govardhan Puja called?
   Answer: Annakut
9. The fifth day, Bhai Dooj, celebrates the bond between whom?
   Answer: Brothers and sisters
10. On which date is the main Diwali day (Lakshmi Puja) in 2026?
    Answer: Sunday 8 November 2026

Round 4: Diwali around India and the world

Diwali is not one single story. This round shows how different communities and countries celebrate.

1. In West Bengal, which goddess is worshipped on Diwali night?
   Answer: Goddess Kali (Kali Puja)
2. What is the Hindu festival of lights called in Nepal?
   Answer: Tihar
3. During Tihar, one day honors which animal with garlands and a red tika?
   Answer: Dogs (Kukur Tihar)
4. What do Sikhs celebrate at the same time as Diwali?
   Answer: Bandi Chhor Divas
5. Bandi Chhor Divas remembers the release of which Sikh Guru from Gwalior Fort?
   Answer: Guru Hargobind
6. In which city is the Golden Temple lit up for Bandi Chhor Divas?
   Answer: Amritsar
7. For Jains, Diwali marks the nirvana of which Tirthankara?
   Answer: Lord Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara
8. The word Deepavali joins two Sanskrit words. What do they mean?
   Answer: “Deepa” means lamp and “avali” means row: a row of lamps
9. Which United Nations organization added Deepavali to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2025?
   Answer: UNESCO
10. Name one country outside India where Diwali is a public holiday.
    Answer: Any one of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname or Trinidad and Tobago

Round 5: Diwali true or false

True-or-false Diwali quiz questions make a fast round. Players hold up a green card for true and a red card for false, or stand up for true and sit for false.

1. Diwali falls on the same date every year.
   Answer: False. It follows the Hindu lunar calendar, so it moves between mid-October and mid-November.
2. Diwali is celebrated on a new moon night.
   Answer: True
3. Rangoli can be made from colored powder, rice flour or flower petals.
   Answer: True
4. Diwali lasts for exactly one day everywhere.
   Answer: False. It is usually a five-day festival.
5. Bhai Dooj comes before Dhanteras.
   Answer: False. Dhanteras is the first day and Bhai Dooj is the last.
6. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth and prosperity.
   Answer: True
7. Only Hindus celebrate Diwali.
   Answer: False. Sikhs, Jains and Newar Buddhists also mark the festival.
8. Dussehra comes after Diwali.
   Answer: False. Dussehra comes about three weeks before.
9. Diyas are traditionally made from clay.
   Answer: True
10. “Green crackers” are made to cause less pollution than ordinary firecrackers.
    Answer: True

Round 6: The family final (harder questions for ages 11 and up)

Save these harder questions for the last round, when teams are close. Parents may need to think too.

1. Diwali always falls between which two months of the Gregorian calendar?
   Answer: October and November
2. According to legend, how many captives did Krishna free when he defeated Narakasura?
   Answer: 16,000 (some tellings say 16,100)
3. Which Mughal emperor held Guru Hargobind in Gwalior Fort?
   Answer: Jahangir
4. Which bird is often shown as the vahana (vehicle) of Goddess Lakshmi?
   Answer: The owl
5. What is a toran?
   Answer: A decorative hanging of leaves, flowers or beads across the top of a doorway
6. In Gujarat, the day after Diwali is celebrated as what?
   Answer: The Gujarati New Year (Bestu Varas)
7. Many traders open new account books at Diwali. What is the Gujarati ceremony called?
   Answer: Chopda Pujan
8. Which city on the Sarayu river holds a huge diya-lighting festival called Deepotsav?
   Answer: Ayodhya
9. Which religion’s followers call the festival Mahavira Nirvana Divas?
   Answer: Jainism
10. Name two animals, besides dogs, that have their own day during Tihar in Nepal.
    Answer: Any two of crows (Kaag Tihar), cows (Gai Tihar) and oxen (Goru Tihar)

Diwali GK questions: the numbers behind the quiz

Diwali GK questions often ask for a number, such as how many years, days or captives. This table collects the numbers used in the rounds above, with the round where each one appears, so that you can revise them before a school quiz or check an answer sheet quickly:

The date difference is easy to check: Dussehra on 20 October 2026 plus 11 days reaches 31 October, and 8 more days reach 8 November, which is 19 days in all. Diwali GK questions with dates are best checked each year, because the festival follows the lunar calendar and moves between mid-October and mid-November.

The five days of Diwali at a glance

Round 3 of the Diwali quiz questions is easier to mark with this summary in front of you. The main Diwali day, Lakshmi Puja, is on Sunday 8 November 2026. The other days usually fall on the days either side, but exact dates can differ by a day between local calendars, so check your family’s panchang.

Diwali trivia to read between rounds

Short Diwali trivia keeps a quiz night lively while the answer sheets are being marked. Read one fact aloud after each round and ask who knew it:

• A world record of lamps. In October 2025, a Diwali celebration in Ayodhya broke the Guinness World Record for the largest display of oil lamps, with 2,617,615 lamps lit on the eve of Diwali.
• Time to light them. If one person lit a lamp every 10 seconds, lighting 2,617,615 lamps would take about 7,271 hours, or roughly 303 days without a break. With 1,000 volunteers the same job takes about 7.3 hours.
• A row of lamps. The name Deepavali means exactly that: deepa is a lamp and avali is a row.
• Not only Hindus. Sikhs mark Bandi Chhor Divas, Jains remember Mahavira’s nirvana and Newar Buddhists in Nepal worship Lakshmi at the same time of year.
• An official holiday in many countries. Wikipedia lists Fiji, Guyana, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

These facts come from the Wikipedia article on Diwali listed in the sources. Use the Diwali trivia as a bonus point if the room is quiet, or as a tie-breaker: ask the teams to guess the number of lamps, and the closest team wins.

Turning the quiz into a school lesson

Teachers can turn the same questions into a lesson or assembly without much preparation.

• Assembly quiz: choose 10 questions from rounds 1, 2 and 5, and have two classes answer with green and red cards. Ask a student who celebrates Diwali whether they would like to share how their family marks it.
• Research round: give older students the round 4 questions as a homework hunt. Ask them to note where they found each answer.
• Write your own Diwali quiz questions: each student writes one question and answer about Diwali on a card. Check them, then use the best ones for a class quiz.
• Quiet follow-up: print a Diwali word search, word scramble or bingo from the Diwali activity pack maker for early finishers.

Be sensitive to the mix of families in your class. Diwali is a religious festival for many children, so present the stories as “Hindus believe…” or “Sikhs remember…” rather than as history.

Five extra rounds to add to your quiz night

• Sweet taste test: blindfolded players name the sweet: barfi, ladoo, peda or soan papdi.
• Rangoli in 60 seconds: each team draws a rangoli pattern on paper; the host picks the best design.
• Diwali songs: play the first few seconds of well-known festive songs and ask for the title. Our Bollywood songs quiz has ready-made questions for film fans.
• Tambola break: halfway through, play a quick round of Diwali tambola with festive calls.
• General knowledge bonus: older players can try our India GK quiz as a bonus round.

Play or print the Diwali quiz

If you do not want to read the Diwali quiz questions aloud, use a ready-made version:

• Diwali quiz online: 24 multiple-choice Diwali quiz questions with a timer, scores and a “challenge a friend” link. It also prints with an answer key.
• Diwali worksheets and activity pack: word search, scramble, bingo and a writing prompt, ready to print.
• More Diwali ideas: read our guides to Diwali party games and Diwali activities for kids.

Sources

Dates in this guide come from India’s 2026 public holiday list (Diwali on 8 November, Dussehra on 20 October). Facts about Bandi Chhor Divas, Tihar and the five days follow the Diwali article on Wikipedia and its cited sources. The UNESCO listing is from UNESCO’s announcement of 10 December 2025.

Frequently asked questions

6 quick answers

How many Diwali quiz questions should a kids’ quiz have?

For children under 8, 10 to 15 questions is plenty, with pictures or actions to help. For a family quiz night, 40 to 60 questions in five or six rounds fills about 45 minutes.

What are some easy Diwali quiz questions for kids?

Try: What lamps do we light on Diwali? (diyas). What is the floor pattern at the door called? (rangoli). Diwali is the festival of what? (lights). Which goddess is worshipped on Diwali night? (Lakshmi). All of them are in Round 1 above.

When is Diwali in 2026?

The main day of Diwali (Lakshmi Puja) is on Sunday 8 November 2026. Dussehra comes 19 days earlier, on Tuesday 20 October 2026.

Is there a Diwali quiz I can play online?

Yes. The PrintSheetLab online Diwali quiz has 24 multiple-choice questions, a timer, scores and a share link, and you can print it with an answer key.

What is a good Diwali quiz for kids?

A good Diwali quiz for kids is short, has pictures or actions, and starts with easy Diwali quiz questions such as the festival’s name, the lamps, the rangoli and the sweets. Round 1 above has ten of them for ages 4 to 7.

Where can I find Diwali GK questions with answers?

Rounds 2, 3 and 4 above are Diwali GK questions on the story, the five days and the festival around the world, with answers under each one. The table of numbers lists the key figures to revise.