Baby shower trivia: 30 questions and answers
Baby shower trivia works best as a short team quiz of 15 to 30 questions mixing real facts with a few easy wins. The fact answers below are checked against published sources, such as the ABS count of 292,318 births registered in Australia in 2024. Tap each question to reveal the answer.
How to run the quiz
- Pick your questions. Choose 15 to 20 for an in-person shower or the full 30 for a longer one. Mix the groups so no team is stuck on numbers all afternoon.
- Make teams. Teams of three or four, mixing people who do not know each other. It doubles as an icebreaker.
- Print or share the sheet. Give each team a numbered answer sheet. On a video call, share your screen with one question at a time.
- Read each question twice. Allow about 30 seconds per question, and longer for the number questions.
- Swap and mark. Teams swap sheets and mark as you read the answers out. For number questions, give the point to the closest team.
- Add a parents round. Finish with five questions about the parents-to-be, answered by the parents themselves, so the quiz feels personal.
- Have a prize ready. A small prize for the winning team and one for last place keeps it light. See prize ideas in baby shower games.
Round 1: Australian babies by the numbers
All figures are from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Births, Australia, 2024 (released October 2025).
About how many births were registered in Australia in 2024?
292,318, an increase of 1.9% on 2023.
Which state registered the most births in 2024?
New South Wales, with 86,978 births.
Which state or territory registered the fewest births in 2024?
The Northern Territory, with 3,484 births.
What was the median age of mothers of babies born in 2024?
32.1 years. For fathers it was 33.9 years.
For every 100 girls born in Australia in 2024, about how many boys were born?
About 106: the ABS gives a sex ratio at birth of 105.8 male births per 100 female births.
What was Australia's total fertility rate in 2024?
1.481 babies per woman, down from 1.499 in 2023 and 1.795 in 2014.
Which state or territory had the highest fertility rate in 2024?
The Northern Territory, at 1.629 babies per woman. The Australian Capital Territory had the lowest, at 1.273.
How many sets of twins were born in Australia in 2024?
4,129, plus 62 sets of triplets or more. About 1.5% of pregnancies resulted in multiple births.
Round 2: Australian baby animals
Facts from the Australian Museum, plus the Australian Reptile Park for the echidna's baby name.
What is a baby koala called?
A joey. Koalas usually have one joey a year.
About how long does a koala joey spend in the pouch before it is gradually weaned from milk?
About six months.
An eastern grey kangaroo joey is born about how many days after mating?
About 36 days.
True or false: a newborn eastern grey kangaroo weighs less than one gram.
True. It weighs less than one gram at birth.
What is a baby echidna called?
A puggle.
An echidna egg hatches after about how many days?
About 10 days. The young emerge blind and hairless, and suckle in the mother's pouch for two or three months.
The echidna is an egg-laying mammal, or monotreme. Which other Australian animal is one too?
The platypus. A female usually lays two eggs, and anywhere from one to three.
What is a baby black swan called, and what can it do as soon as it hatches?
A cygnet. Black swan cygnets can swim and feed themselves as soon as they hatch.
Round 3: Baby showers and Aussie baby words
The survey questions use a 2018 Finder survey of 2,005 Australian parents, the most recent national figures we found.
In a 2018 Finder survey of Australian parents, what share had a baby shower?
53%.
In the same 2018 survey, what was the average cost of a baby shower, not counting gifts?
$672.
Which state had the most expensive baby showers in that survey?
New South Wales, at $795 on average. South Australia was next at $761.
About how much did Australians spend on baby showers each year, according to that survey?
About $107 million.
Of parents who had a shower in that survey, what share paid for it themselves?
27%. Another 45% split the cost with family, and 28% had family and friends pay for all of it.
What do Americans call a nappy?
A diaper.
What do Americans call a dummy?
A pacifier.
What do Americans usually call a pram?
A stroller.
Round 4: Teeth, growing up and pregnancy
Facts from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel.
By age 3, how many baby teeth does the average child have?
20.
True or false: a baby's first teeth are already in the jaw at birth.
True. They are present in the jaws at birth, just not visible yet.
Which teeth usually come through first?
The bottom front teeth (lower incisors), then the top front teeth, then the first baby molars.
When does a baby's first tooth come through?
It varies a lot. Some babies get a first tooth at only a few months old, and others not until around their first birthday or later.
How many permanent teeth does the average adult have by about age 21?
32, including wisdom teeth. Some people only have 28.
Pregnancy is divided into how many stages, and what are they called?
Three, called trimesters: the first, second and third trimester.
Writing your own questions
- Ask the parents for five facts about themselves as babies: birth weight, first word, where they were born. These make the best final round.
- Keep number questions to "closest wins" so no one has to know the exact figure.
- Check any fact you add against a published source, such as the ABS or a government health site, rather than a quiz site.
- Avoid questions about birth stories, weight gain or anything the parent-to-be might find personal, unless they wrote the question.
More for the shower
Trivia is one game; for the rest of the afternoon see baby shower games, and for planning, how to plan a baby shower. Running it online? Virtual baby shower ideas covers screen sharing and timing. All of it sits under the baby shower ideas hub.
Guests asking what to bring can see the parents' registry for the baby shower or baby shower gift ideas.
Make the prize the parents' big gift
Instead of every guest bringing a small present, the room can pool into one gift from the parents' list, like a cot or a pram, and announce it after the quiz.
- Create a free registry for the occasion.
- Add a wishing well.
- Share one link with everyone who wants to chip in.
- Buy the gift once you know the total.
Setting up a registry with a wishing well is free. Guests can chip in by bank transfer, in cash or in store with no EasyRegistry fee. Card and PayPal contributions are a Premium feature ($39 one time), and card funds are released when the registry closes.
How a group gift wishing well works, and how much to ask each person for
Baby shower trivia FAQ
15 to 20 questions suits most showers and takes about half an hour with marking. Use all 30 here for a longer shower or a virtual one where trivia is the main game.
Each answer is checked against the source named for its round: the ABS for births, the Australian Museum and the Australian Reptile Park for animals, the Better Health Channel for teeth and pregnancy, and Finder's 2018 survey for showers. The word questions are everyday Australian and American usage. Statistics change each year, so check the ABS page if you are using these in a later year.
Teams of three or four work best. It mixes up guests who do not know each other and takes the pressure off anyone who does not know the answers.
Yes. Share your screen with one question at a time, ask each team to keep answers in a chat message or on paper, and read the answers out at the end of each round.
The quiz is sorted, now the gift list
Create a free registry for the baby with a wishing well for the big items, and share one link with every guest.