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1. This is the BONUS ROUND!
Read the Green Cross Code, which is written below, and try your best to remember it. At the end of the quiz, your grown-up will test you. For every correct answer, you will score 10 points!
Maximum score: 60 points
- Stop somewhere safe where you can see
- Look for traffic
- Listen for traffic
- Look left, then right, then left again
- Wait for traffic going in both directions to stop
- Keep looking and listening and only cross when it is safe
2. Where is it safe to play outdoors? (Clue: there are two CORRECT answers, each one wins 10 points!).
Maximum score: 20 points
a) In your garden
b) At the park
c) On a cycle path
d) On a road
Answer: Brake recommends that children under 10 should only ride on safe cycle paths away from traffic, so the first three would be safe the last would not.
3. If you’re inside a car, are you allowed to…
a) Undo your seatbelt?
b) Make lots of noise to make the driver talk to you?
c) Play with the door handle
[Pssst… this is a TRICK question! Of course you can’t do ANY of these!]
Maximum score: 10 points if you said NO to all of these!
4. Stop! You’ve reached the traffic lights!
a) What do you do when you see a green Man lit up? (10 points)
b) What do you do when you see a red man lit up? (10 points)
c) Why do traffic lights make a beeping sound when it’s time to cross? (10 points)
Answer: a) A ‘red man’ tells you it is not safe to cross, b) a ‘green man’ means it is safe to cross but you should keep checking for traffic too. c) Some crossings also make a ‘beeping’ sound to tell blind and partially sighted people when it is safe to cross. There is also a small, rotating button underneath the push button. This spins when the ‘green man’ shows.
5. This year, during Road Safety Week, a charity called Brake have a special slogan to teach people why the speed of traffic matters for safety. Which one of them is correct (score 10 points if you get this one right).
a) No Need to Speed
b) May the force be with you
c) Drive with your windscreen wipers on
Maximum score: 10 points
Answer: a)
6. Which of these is NOT a type of road crossing? (HINT: There are four real crossings and three that are made up). Score 10 points for each correct answer.
- Zebra
- Zombie
- Pegasus
- Donkey
- Toucan
- Turkey
- Pelican
Maximum score: 40
Answer: The four correct answers are: Zebra, Pegasus, Toucan, Pelican
7. Which of these is an acceptable reason to speed?
- Everyone else was driving that fast
- I didn’t know how fast I was going
- I was only going a little over the speed limit
- None of these
Maximum score: 10 points
Answer: d) None of these are correct – there are no excuses for speeding.
8. Remember that bonus round in question 1? Now test your adult! If they can remember all of the Green Cross Code you win an extra 10 points!
- Stop somewhere safe where you can see
- Look for traffic
- Listen for traffic
- Look left, then right, then left again
- Wait for traffic going in both directions to stop
- Keep looking and listening and only cross when it is safe
Resources for carers and educators
BRAKE.ORG.UK – the road safety charity has lots of resources for schools and families on its website, including a guide to teaching road safety
THINK.GOV.UK – all about road safety campaigns
ROSPA.COM has a guide to teaching road safety:
https://www.rospa.com/media/documents/road-safety/teaching-road-safety-a-guide-for-parents.pdf
