Cousin Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Your grandparent's first cousin is what relation to you?
Second cousin once removed
Second cousin twice removed
First cousin twice removed
First cousin three times removed
2. In standard genealogy, which ancestors do first cousins usually share?
A parent
One or more great-great-grandparents, but no closer ancestors
One or more great-grandparents, but no grandparents
One or more grandparents
3. Two people are in the same generation, and their nearest shared ancestors are their three-times-great-grandparents. What are they to each other?
Third cousins
Fourth cousins
Fifth cousins
Fourth cousins once removed
4. Priya and Daniel are in the same generation, and their nearest shared ancestors are their great-great-grandparents. What is their relationship?
Third cousins
Second cousins once removed
Fourth cousins
Second cousins
5. A family-tree chart shows that one relative is four generations from their nearest shared ancestors and the other is five generations from those ancestors. What is their relationship?
Third cousins once removed
Fourth cousins once removed
Third cousins twice removed
Fourth cousins
6. Identical twin sisters each have a child. Under standard family-tree terminology, how are their children related?
Half-siblings
First cousins
Second cousins
Double first cousins
7. Nora's father and Elise are first cousins. What is Elise's relationship to Nora?
Second cousin
First cousin once removed
Second cousin once removed
First cousin
8. Two children's parents are half-siblings and have no other family relationship. How many grandparents do the children typically share?
Two great-grandparents
Two grandparents
One grandparent
No common ancestors
9. You and Jordan are first cousins. What is the relationship between your child and Jordan's child?
First cousins once removed
Second cousins
Third cousins
Second cousins once removed
10. Your first cousin has a child. How is that child related to you?
First cousin once removed
Second cousin
First cousin twice removed
Second cousin once removed
11. Which ancestors do third cousins usually share as their nearest common ancestors?
Grandparents
Great-grandparents
Three-times-great-grandparents
Great-great-grandparents
12. Two sisters from one family have children with two brothers from another family. What are those children called in relation to one another?
Half first cousins
First cousins once removed
Second cousins
Double first cousins
13. Which shared ancestors usually make two people second cousins?
Great-grandparents
Great-great-grandparents
Grandparents
Parents
14. In a relationship such as “second cousin once removed,” what does “once removed” indicate?
A relationship through a half-sibling
Only one shared ancestor
One marriage between the relatives
A difference of one generation
15. Ava and Ben are siblings. Ava has a son, and Ben has a daughter. How are the two children related?
First cousins once removed
Second cousins
First cousins
Half first cousins
16. Your first cousin has a grandchild. What is that grandchild's relationship to you?
Second cousin once removed
Second cousin twice removed
First cousin twice removed
Third cousin