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Trivia Questions for Kids in Lower Elementary
How many legs does a spider have?
Eight.
What is something you hit with a hammer?
A nail.
If you freeze water, what do you get?
Ice.
What is the color of an emerald?
Green.
What color are the stars on the American flag?
White.
What do caterpillars turn into?
Butterflies.
How many sides does a triangle have?
Three.
How many teeth does an adult human have?
32.
Where does the president of the United States live while in office?
The White House.
Which state is famous for Hollywood?
California.
What is a brontosaurus?
A dinosaur.
How many colors are there in a rainbow?
Seven.
Who does Alice follow into a hole in Wonderland?
The White Rabbit.
How many sides does an octagon have?
Eight.
What color is a ruby?
Red.
Which month has 28 days?
All 12 months have at least 28 days.
Raisins come from which fruit?
Grapes.
How many days are there in a year?
365.
What is another name for the 4th of July holiday?
Independence Day.
What do you call a baby goat?
A kid.
How many arms does an octopus have?
Eight.
How many arms does a starfish have?
Five.
Where do polar bears live?
The Arctic.
What do bees make?
Honey.
What’s a lucky object that you can find in the grass?
A four-leaf clover.
What do you call a house made of snow?
An igloo.
What is the shape of a stop sign?
An octagon.
How many days are in a week?
Seven.
What do you use to write on a blackboard?
Chalk.
What color are the leaves in autumn?
Red, orange, yellow, and brown.
What kind of animal is a penguin?
A bird.
What do we call a baby cow?
A calf.
Trivia Questions for Kids in Upper Elementary
How many planets are in our solar system?
Which ocean is off the California coast?
The Pacific Ocean.
How many zeros are there in a million?
Six.
How many pairs of wings do bees have?
Two.
Where is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
What is a doe?
A female deer.
What is a group of lions called?
A pride.
Which is the fastest land animal?
The cheetah.
In which capital city of Europe would you find the Eiffel Tower?
Paris.
Which planet in our solar system is known for having rings?
Saturn.
Why do things fall when you drop them?
Because of gravity.
What are animals that eat both meat and plants called?
Omnivores.
In what country did the Olympic Games originate?
Greece.
What animal is the symbol of the United States?
The bald eagle.
What does the white dove symbolize?
Peace.
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington.
What is the world’s largest land animal?
The elephant.
Which bird has the largest wingspan?
The albatross.
In which country is the Great Barrier Reef?
What is the aurora borealis commonly known as?
The northern lights.
What is the largest mammal in the world?
The blue whale.
Who was the first man to step on the moon?
Which scientist invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison (but it’s more complicated than that!).
What building is on the back of the $20 bill?
The White House.
What color is a giraffe’s tongue?
Which planet is closest to the sun?
How many continents are there?
Seven.
What is the largest desert in the world?
What is the smallest prime number?
Two.
What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit?
What does a barometer measure?
How many legs does a crab have?
Ten.
What’s the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest, but Mauna Kea is the tallest when measured from under the ocean’s surface.
What class of animal is a dolphin?
How many hours are there in two days?
48 hours.
What is the capital city of Japan?
Tokyo.
Trivia Questions for Kids in Middle School
Who wrote Hamlet?
Where is the Taj Mahal?
What is the world’s largest ocean?
Which was the first country to use paper money?
Who wrote a famous diary while hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam?
In which year did the Titanic sink?
1912.
What are the Wright brothers famous for?
Who discovered gravity?
What holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States?
What is the most widely spoken language in Brazil?
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
What is the first letter of the Greek alphabet?
How many milligrams make a gram?
What color is chlorophyll?
In which city is the Notre Dame cathedral?
What color is the middle stripe of the French flag?
White.
What is the national sport of Japan?
In which galaxy do we live?
Which metal is heavier, silver or gold?
Gold.
How many chambers are there in the human heart?
Four.
What is the tallest building in the United States?
What is the longest bone in the human body?
The femur, aka the thighbone.
True or false: There is gravity on the moon.
True, but it’s one-sixth the gravity we experience on Earth.
What is the largest city in the world by population?
Which classical composer was deaf?
What is the capital of Canada?
Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Mars.
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Au.
How many strings does a standard guitar have?
Six.
What is the powerhouse of a cell?
What’s the main gas in the air we breathe?
What’s the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Diamond, but that is changing. …
Trivia Questions for Kids in High School
How many elements are in the periodic table?
118.
What is the hardest substance in the human body?
Name the smallest country in the world.
What is the chemical symbol for table salt?
NaCl.
Where can you find the Petronas Towers?
What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope?
Which athlete has appeared on Wheaties cereal boxes more than any other?
Which planet has the most gravity?
Who named the Pacific Ocean?
Which volcano destroyed the city of Pompeii in AD 79?
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?
What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
What is the rarest M&M color?
What is the fastest-flying bird in the world?
The peregrine falcon.
In what year did World War II start?
1939.
What is the national sport of the United Kingdom?
Which Dutch painter cut off a part of his ear?
Which is the rarest blood type in humans?
Name the top three causes of death in the United States.
Heart disease, cancer, and accidents.
What is another word for a lexicon?
What is the speed of light?
300,000 km per second / 186,000 miles per second.
Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Which is the tallest building in the world?
How long did it take to build the Great Wall of China?
In which hand is the Statue of Liberty’s torch?
Who wrote The Odyssey?
What is the Pythagorean theorem used for?
Calculating the sides of a right triangle in geometry.
What is the second-largest country in the world by land area?
What gas do plants absorb from the air?
What is the capital city of South Korea?
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