Trivia Questions for Kids

Animal trivia questions for kids

Baby animals, prickly porcupines and what fish breathe with.

1. 1.What is a baby horse called?Answer: A foal. Foals can usually stand up within an hour or two of being born.
2. 2.How many arms does an octopus have?Answer: Eight. Its arms are covered in suckers that can taste what they touch.
3. 3.Which slow animal carries a spiral shell on its back?Answer: The snail. Snails glide along on a layer of slime that they make themselves.
4. 4.Which lizard is famous for changing its color?Answer: The chameleon. Chameleons change color to show their mood and to warm up or cool down, not only to hide.
5. 5.What do giant pandas mostly eat?Answer: Bamboo. Pandas spend about half of each day eating.
6. 6.What is a baby cow called?Answer: A calf. Baby whales and baby elephants are called calves too.
7. 7.What do you call an animal that hunts other animals for food?Answer: A predator. The animals a predator hunts are called its prey.
8. 8.Which bird cannot fly but uses its wings to swim?Answer: The penguin. A penguin's black back and white belly help it hide in the water from animals above and below.
9. 9.What is a group of fish swimming together called?Answer: A school. Swimming in a big group helps fish stay safe from hungry hunters.
10. 10.Which animal uses its trunk to drink, smell and pick things up?Answer: The elephant. An elephant's trunk has no bones. It is made mostly of muscle.
11. 11.Which animal protects itself with sharp quills?Answer: The porcupine. Porcupines cannot shoot their quills, but the quills come out easily when something touches them.
12. 12.Which colorful bird can learn to copy human words?Answer: The parrot. Some parrots can learn more than 100 words.
13. 13.Which wild animal is the closest relative of pet dogs?Answer: The gray wolf. Dogs come from wolves that began living alongside people many thousands of years ago.
14. 14.Which body parts do fish use to breathe underwater?Answer: Gills. Gills take oxygen out of the water as it flows past.
15. 15.What kind of animal is a whale?Answer: A mammal. Whales breathe air, so they have to come up to the surface to breathe.
16. 16.What do you call animals that are awake at night and sleep during the day?Answer: Nocturnal. Bats, raccoons and most owls are nocturnal.
17. 17.What do frogs use to catch insects?Answer: A long, sticky tongue. Frogs often blink when they swallow, because their eyes help push the food down.

Space trivia questions for kids

Planets, moons, comets and shooting stars.

1. 18.What is the big ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter called?Answer: The asteroid belt. Most asteroids are much, much smaller than our Moon.
2. 19.About how long does it take the Moon to go around Earth?Answer: About a month. The word "month" comes from the word "moon."
3. 20.How many moons does Earth have?Answer: One. Mars has two small moons, called Phobos and Deimos.
4. 21.What do we call the Moon when we can see its whole bright face?Answer: A full moon. There is a full moon about once a month.
5. 22.What are the round holes on the Moon's surface called?Answer: Craters. Most of the Moon's craters were made by space rocks crashing into it.
6. 23.What do we call a person who travels into space?Answer: An astronaut. Space travelers from Russia are called cosmonauts.
7. 24.Which planet is often called Earth's twin because it is about the same size?Answer: Venus. Venus spins the opposite way to most planets, so the Sun rises in the west there.
8. 25.What tool do astronomers use to see faraway stars and planets?Answer: A telescope. A microscope is for looking at very tiny things up close.
9. 26.What is a shooting star, really?Answer: A space rock burning up. Most shooting stars are made by bits of space dust or rock smaller than a pebble.
10. 27.About how many Moons could fit inside Earth?Answer: About 50. The Moon is only about a quarter as wide as Earth.
11. 28.Which planet is farthest from the Sun?Answer: Neptune. It takes Neptune about 165 Earth years to go around the Sun once.
12. 29.What is a comet mostly made of?Answer: Ice and dust. When a comet gets close to the Sun, some of its ice turns to gas and makes a glowing tail.
13. 30.What do astronauts wear to stay safe when they go outside their spacecraft?Answer: A spacesuit. A spacesuit gives astronauts air to breathe and keeps them from getting too hot or too cold.
14. 31.Why does the Moon shine at night?Answer: It reflects sunlight. The Moon has no light of its own. Moonlight is really sunlight bouncing off the Moon.
15. 32.What is it called when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun and blocks the sunlight?Answer: A solar eclipse. Never look straight at the Sun during an eclipse without special eclipse glasses.
16. 33.What is at the center of our solar system?Answer: The Sun. Everything in the solar system, from planets to comets, travels around the Sun.
17. 34.What is the path a planet takes around the Sun called?Answer: An orbit. Earth travels about 940 million kilometers in one trip around the Sun.

Human body trivia for kids

Bones, teeth, taste buds and the funny bone that is not a bone.

1. 35.Which bones form a cage that protects your heart and lungs?Answer: The ribs. Most people have 12 pairs of ribs.
2. 36.How many baby teeth do most children have?Answer: 20. Most adults end up with 32 teeth, including wisdom teeth.
3. 37.Which organ beats about 100,000 times every day?Answer: The heart. Your heart is a muscle about the size of your fist.
4. 38.Which organ do you use to think, learn and remember?Answer: The brain. Your brain uses about a fifth of all the energy your body makes.
5. 39.What is the hardest part of the human body?Answer: Tooth enamel. Enamel, the outer layer of your teeth, is even harder than bone.
6. 40.Which gas from the air does your body need to stay alive?Answer: Oxygen. You breathe out carbon dioxide, which plants use to make their food.
7. 41.Which organs help you breathe?Answer: The lungs. Your left lung is a little smaller than your right, to make room for your heart.
8. 42.Which parts of your body hold more than half of all your bones?Answer: Your hands and feet. Each hand has 27 bones, and each foot has 26.
9. 43.Sight, hearing, smell and taste are four of the five classic senses. What is the fifth?Answer: Touch. Scientists say we have even more senses, like balance.
10. 44.What is the colored part of your eye called?Answer: The iris. The pupil, the black dot in the middle, is an opening that lets light in.
11. 45.What are the tiny parts of your tongue that sense flavors called?Answer: Taste buds. The bumps you can see on your tongue are called papillae. Most taste buds are tucked inside them, too small to see.
12. 46.Where on your body is your "funny bone"?Answer: Your elbow. It is not a bone at all. It is a nerve, which is why bumping it tingles.
13. 47.What is another name for your backbone?Answer: The spine. Your spine is a stack of small bones called vertebrae.
14. 48.Which bones protect your brain?Answer: The skull. A baby's skull has soft spots that close up as the baby grows.
15. 49.What marks on your fingertips are different for every person, even identical twins?Answer: Fingerprints. Your fingerprints start to form months before you are born.
16. 50.Which organ mixes your food with strong acid after you swallow it?Answer: The stomach. A layer of slimy mucus protects your stomach from its own acid.

Geography trivia questions for kids

Famous places, flags, capitals and rivers.

1. 51.What is the capital of the United Kingdom?Answer: London. London was founded by the Romans, who called it Londinium.
2. 52.Which country is home to the Great Wall?Answer: China. Despite the famous myth, you cannot see the Great Wall from the Moon with your eyes alone.
3. 53.What is the capital of Italy?Answer: Rome. Rome is home to the Colosseum, an arena that is nearly 2,000 years old.
4. 54.The Galápagos Islands belong to which country?Answer: Ecuador. Giant tortoises on the islands can live for more than 100 years.
5. 55.In which country would you find the Taj Mahal?Answer: India. It was built in the 1600s by an emperor in memory of his wife.
6. 56.Which country is famous for its windmills and tulip fields?Answer: The Netherlands. Tulips first came to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey, in the 1500s.
7. 57.What is the capital of Mexico?Answer: Mexico City. Mexico City is more than 2,200 meters (about 7,300 feet) above sea level.
8. 58.Which country has a red maple leaf on its flag?Answer: Canada. Canada started using this flag in 1965.
9. 59.On which continent is Egypt?Answer: Africa. Egypt sits in the northeast corner of Africa, and its Sinai Peninsula reaches into Asia.
10. 60.What is the capital of Germany?Answer: Berlin. Berlin's famous Brandenburg Gate is more than 200 years old.
11. 61.The island of Bali is part of which country?Answer: Indonesia. Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands.
12. 62.Which country has a flag with a red circle on a white background?Answer: Japan. The red circle stands for the sun.
13. 63.Which sea lies between Europe and Africa?Answer: The Mediterranean Sea. Its name comes from Latin words meaning "in the middle of the land."
14. 64.Which city is nicknamed the Big Apple?Answer: New York City. New York City is made up of five parts called boroughs.
15. 65.What is the capital of Peru?Answer: Lima. Lima was founded by the Spanish in 1535, near the Pacific coast.
16. 66.Which ocean lies between the Americas and Europe?Answer: The Atlantic. The Atlantic is the second-largest ocean on Earth.
17. 67.What is the capital of Argentina?Answer: Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires means "good airs" or "fair winds" in Spanish.

Food trivia questions for kids

Where breakfast, lunch and dinner really come from.

1. 68.Which tropical fruit has a hairy brown shell with water inside?Answer: The coconut. A coconut is not really a nut. It is a kind of fruit called a drupe.
2. 69.What is butter made from?Answer: Cream. Shake or churn cream long enough and it turns into butter.
3. 70.In science, what part of a plant is a tomato?Answer: The fruit. Cucumbers and peppers count as fruits in science too.
4. 71.Spaghetti, penne and macaroni are all types of what?Answer: Pasta. Pasta is made mostly from wheat flour mixed with water or eggs.
5. 72.What is the main ingredient in most bread?Answer: Flour. Flour is usually made by grinding wheat into powder.
6. 73.Which fruit grows in big bunches called hands?Answer: The banana. Each single banana in a hand is called a finger.
7. 74.Which big summer fruit is green outside, red inside and mostly water?Answer: The watermelon. You can eat every part of a watermelon, even the rind, which can be pickled.
8. 75.What is the yellow part of an egg called?Answer: The yolk. The color of a yolk depends on what the hen eats.
9. 76.What do you call the hard part in the middle of a peach?Answer: The pit. Fruits with one big pit, like peaches, cherries and plums, are called stone fruits.
10. 77.What are most pickles made from?Answer: Cucumbers. Cucumbers become pickles by soaking in salty water or vinegar.
11. 78.Gala, Fuji and Granny Smith are all kinds of which fruit?Answer: Apple. Thousands of different kinds of apples are grown around the world.
12. 79.What is cheese made from?Answer: Milk. Swiss cheese gets its holes from bubbles of gas made while it ages.
13. 80.Tacos come from which country?Answer: Mexico. People in Mexico have been making corn tortillas for thousands of years.
14. 81.Which grain often grows in flooded fields called paddies?Answer: Rice. Flooding the fields helps the rice grow and keeps weeds away.
15. 82.Which green vegetable looks like a little tree?Answer: Broccoli. Broccoli is in the same plant family as cabbage.
16. 83.Which is the biggest citrus fruit?Answer: The pomelo. The grapefruit came from a cross between a pomelo and an orange.

Math and word trivia questions for kids

Times tables, shapes, fractions and word puzzles.

1. 84.What is the distance around a circle called?Answer: The circumference. The diameter is a straight line across the middle of the circle.
2. 85.What is 12 times 12?Answer: 144. A dozen dozen, or 144, is called a gross.
3. 86.How many corners does a cube have?Answer: Eight. A cube also has 6 flat faces and 12 edges.
4. 87.What is 100 divided by 4?Answer: 25. That is why a quarter is worth 25 cents.
5. 88.What do you call a triangle with three equal sides?Answer: Equilateral. Each corner of an equilateral triangle measures 60 degrees.
6. 89.What is the number on the bottom of a fraction called?Answer: The denominator. The number on the top is called the numerator.
7. 90.What is the past tense of "run"?Answer: Ran. Verbs like "run" that do not just add -ed are called irregular verbs.
8. 91.How many feet are in a yard?Answer: Three. A yard is 36 inches long.
9. 92.How many things are in a dozen?Answer: Twelve. A "baker's dozen" means thirteen.
10. 93.What do you call a short form like "can't," made by joining two words with an apostrophe?Answer: A contraction. "Can't" is short for "cannot."
11. 94.What does "bi" mean in the word "bicycle"?Answer: Two. A tricycle has three wheels, and a unicycle has one.
12. 95.How many minutes are in an hour and a half?Answer: 90. An hour has 60 minutes, and half an hour has 30.
13. 96.What is 7 times 8?Answer: 56. An easy way to remember it: 5, 6, 7, 8, because 56 = 7 x 8.
14. 97.How many centimeters are in one meter?Answer: 100. "Centi" means one hundredth.
15. 98.What do you call a number that can be divided evenly by 2?Answer: An even number. Every even number ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8.
16. 99.How many years are in a century?Answer: 100. A thousand years is called a millennium.
17. 100.What number comes next: 2, 4, 8, 16?Answer: 32. Each number is double the one before it.

How to play trivia with kids

Make two or more teams and use the player at the top of this page. The phone tells each team when it is their turn. A grown-up or an older kid reads the question out loud, the team talks it over, and then someone taps to see the answer and the fun fact. For team names and the full setup, open the Trivia game.

For kids, multiple choice is usually the best way to start. Four options turn a hard question into a good guess, and nobody gets stuck. Older kids who know a lot can switch to "No options" for a real challenge.

• Mix ages on each team, so younger kids can answer the questions they know and older kids can help with the rest.
• Let the team whisper together for ten seconds before answering. Talking it out is part of the fun.
• Always read the fun fact. Kids remember the fact long after they forget the score.
• Let the reader change every round, so every kid gets a turn holding the phone.

Tips for the classroom

Put the page on the projector and split the class into four teams. Play one group at a time, like Space on Monday and The human body on Tuesday, so the questions match what you are teaching. Every question has one clear answer, which keeps arguments short.

Kids trivia makes a calm end to the day, a reward after a test or a filler before lunch. For more ideas, see our classroom games. If your class wants to buzz in, the Game Show Buzzer works on any phone or laptop.

Trivia for family game night

Kids love beating grown-ups, and trivia gives them a fair chance. Put the kids on one team and the adults on another, and let the adults play with "No options" while the kids get multiple choice.

When the kids are ready for harder questions, try the fun trivia questions for the whole family. In the fall, there is a Halloween trivia list too, which is always a hit at class parties.

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