Want to practice remembering some facts you already know? Or help your kiddos to do the same? These 101 trivia questions for kids can help you remember things you already know—and learn some new ideas along the way. We’ve organized them into Easy, Challenging and Difficult categories. Depending on how old your child is and how much they’ve already learned in school and at home, they can have fun playing between these different categories. Some of the trivia questions include fun facts that will help your kiddo learn even more about the world.
Hopefully, these fun trivia questions serve to reinforce important, essential information that your kids already know—and teach them something new, too!
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Easy Trivia Questions for Kids
1) How many sides does a square have?
Four
2) How many sides does a triangle have?
Three
3) How many eggs are in a dozen?
Twelve
4) How many years make up a decade?
Ten
5) How many items make up a couple?
Two
6) How many eggs are in a half dozen?
Six
7) How many days are in a year?
365
8) How many months are in a year?
12
9) How many seasons are in a year?
Four
10) What is the order of the seasons in the year?
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
11) Santa Claus lives at which pole, north or south?
The North Pole
12) How many states make up the United States?
50
13) What are the colors of the rainbow?
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
14) What’s the funny sounding name that helps us remember those colors?
ROY G. BIV
15) How many colors are there in the rainbow?
Seven
16) What are the primary colors?
Red, blue, and yellow
17) If you mix red and blue together, what color do you get?
Purple
18) If you mix red and yellow together, what color do you get?
Orange
19) If you mix blue and yellow together, what color do you get?
Green
20) If you mix all the colors together, what color do you get?
Brown
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
21) What does a caterpillar turn into when it emerges from a cocoon?
A butterfly
22) What does a tadpole turn into?
A frog
23) What is a baby cat called?
A kitten
24) What is a baby dog called?
A puppy
25) What is a baby deer called?
A fawn
26) What is a baby duck called?
A duckling
27) What is a baby goose called?
A gosling
28) What is a female chicken called? This is the type of chicken that lays eggs.
A hen
29) What is a male chicken called?
A rooster
30) What time of day does a rooster crow?
At sunrise
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
31) What do horses wear on their feet?
Horseshoes
32) What colors do we usually see on a cow?
White and black
33) What do birds build to lay their eggs in?
A nest
34) Where does rain fall from?
The clouds
35) What kind of storm is happening when you see thunder and lightning at the same time?
A thunderstorm. Approximately 16 million thunderstorms take place all over the world every year!
36) What kind of natural disaster causes the earth to shake very fast?
Earthquakes. The largest ever recorded happened off the southern coast of Chile in 1960.
37) What kind of storm causes a ton of snow to fall?
A blizzard. The largest blizzard in the United States happened in 1988.
Challenging Trivia Questions for Kids
38) How many degrees make up a circle?
360
39) What’s a shape with five sides called?
Pentagon
40) What’s a shape with eight sides called?
Octagon
41) How many degrees does a right angle have?
90
42) What shape has four sides, two of which are parallel lines, and two of which are not?
Parallelogram
43) What shape is the Earth?
A globe
44) Which months have 31 days in them?
January, March, May, July, August, October, December
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
45) Which months have 30 days in them?
April, June, September, November
46) How many days does February have?
28, unless it’s a leap year, in which February has 29 days
47) How often do leap years happen?
Every four years
48) How many oceans are on the planet Earth?
Five
49) Can you name the five oceans?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans
50) The water of the oceans comes to shore in what kind of way?
In waves. Fun fact: The wind causes waves to form, and the gravitational pull of the moon creates the tide.
Kids Trivia (Continued)
51) Penguins live on a few different continents, but only at one of the poles. Which one?
The south pole
52) What is the capital of the United States of America?
Washington, D.C.
53) Is Washington, D.C. a state?
No
54) Which is the only state in America made up entirely of islands?
Hawaii
55) What is an animal called that has a backbone (or spine)?
Vertebrate
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56) What is an animal called that does not have a backbone (or spine)?
Invertebrate
57) What kinds of animals are vertebrates who have hair or fur, nurse their young with their own milk, and give birth to live babies?
Mammals
58) What kinds of animals give birth to their babies in eggs and have feathers instead of fur?
Birds
59) What kinds of animals live all of their lives in water, give birth to their babies in eggs, and have scales on their skin rather than hair or fur?
Fish
60) Are human beings mammals, birds, or fish?
Mammals
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
61) Are human beings invertebrates or vertebrates?
Vertebrates
62) A bolt of lightning is also a bolt of what?
Electricity
63) What is a large storm cloud called that spins in the shape of a funnel? They can often be seen on flat ground and can pick up objects from the ground.
Tornadoes. The deadliest was the Tri-State Tornado, which traveled across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in 1925.
64) What are the three stages of the water cycle?
Precipitation, evaporation, condensation
Hard Trivia Questions for Kids
65) What’s an angle called that has less than 90 degrees?
Acute
66) What’s an angle called that has more than 90 degrees?
Obtuse
67) During Daylight Savings, we move the clock forward and backward in the spring and fall. How many hours do we move the clocks during Daylight Savings?
1 hour. Benjamin Franklin is often credited with the original idea to change the clocks. While living in Paris, he said he was wasting his mornings in bed.
68) Are the oceans made up of freshwater or saltwater?
Saltwater
69) Lakes, by contrast, are typically made up of what kind of water?
Freshwater
70) Are there any lakes that have saltwater?
Yes. Some lakes that have saltwater are The Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, Soda Lake, and Lake Urmia.
Questions (Continued)
71) America has a series of lakes called the Great Lakes. How many Great Lakes are there?
Five
72) How many of the Great Lakes can you name?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
73) How many continents are there on Earth?
Seven
74) How many of the seven continents can you name?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
75) Which continent is the largest?
Asia
76) Which continent is the smallest?
Australia
77) Which continent contains the United States of America?
North America
78) Which continent contains countries like Ethiopia, Morocco, and Uganda?
Africa
79) Which continent contains countries like Italy, Spain, and France?
Europe
80) Which continent contains countries like Japan, India, and China?
Asia
Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
81) Which continent contains countries like Argentina, Peru, and Brazil?
South America
82) We say that the earth spins on an imaginary line that runs through the center of the planet. What is that line called?
The earth’s axis
83) The earth’s axis runs from which pole to which pole?
The north pole to the south pole
84) The shape of the state of Florida has a specific geographical shape. What’s it called?
A peninsula
85) Frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are all part of which category of animals?
Amphibians
86) Do amphibians live all of their lives in the water, all of their lives on land, or do they split their lives between the water and the land?
They split their lives between the water and the land
87) Lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodiles are all part of which other category of animals?
Reptiles
88) Are reptiles warm blooded or cold blooded?
Cold blooded
89) What is a giant wave (or series of waves) in the ocean called? This kind of storm is usually caused by a volcanic eruption or earthquake under the ocean floor.
Tsunami. The largest tsunami wave ever recorded struck Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958. The largest wave was over 1,700-feet tall!
90) What kind of storm drops balls of ice on the ground instead of rain? These balls of ice can be quite large, the largest was even bigger than a baseball!
Questions (Continued)
Hail storm. The largest hail stone ever recorded fell in Bangladesh in 1986 and weighed 2.25 pounds.
91) What is it called when the moon passes in front of the sun, and temporarily blocks it for a moment?
A total solar eclipse. Remember: you can never look directly at a solar eclipse, because you can see the sun’s corona, which typically isn’t visible. You need special glasses—not regular sunglasses—to view a solar eclipse.
92) What kind of dinosaur had three horns on its head?
Triceratops
93) What kind of dinosaur had a very long neck and flat teeth, because it only ate leaves from trees?
Brontosaurus
94) What kind of dinosaur had very sharp teeth for eating meat but very small arms that were close to its body?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
95) What kind of dinosaur flew in the sky like a bird?
Pterodactyl
List (Continued)
96) What’s the fastest animal on land?
The cheetah—it can run up to 70 miles per hour!
97) What’s the fastest fish in the ocean?
The black marlin—it can swim up to 80 miles per hour!
98) Who swims faster, dolphins or whales?
Dolphins. They’re some of the fastest marine mammals in the world, and swim faster than the fastest whale, the orca. Dolphins can swim up to 37 miles per hour.
99) What’s the largest bird in the world?
The ostrich. They can weigh up to 346 pounds and stand 9 feet tall.
100) What’s the largest mammal on Earth?
The blue whale. It can grow to be more than 100 feet long!
101) What bird is often thought of as the symbol of the United States of America?
The bald eagle. William Barton, one of the designers of the American seal, chose the bald eagle because it was a symbol of “supreme power and authority” and should signify the United States Congress. In the American seal, the eagle is holding an olive branch and arrows in its talons, symbolizing “peace and war.”
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