200 Trivia Questions for Kids and Families with Answers (Free Printable List)
How much does your kid know? Challenge them to a fun trivia night with questions on food, sports, animals, and more!
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Friendly competition among family members, classmates, and friends makes learning feel like a game, and trivia questions for kids provide a low-pressure way to impress each other with random knowledge! With questions designed for kids ages 4 through 12 and featuring a variety of topics, even adults will want to get in on the fun.
Easy Trivia Questions for Kids (Ages 3–6)
How many sides does a square have?
- Answer: 4
What is the name of our planet?
- Answer: Earth
True or False? Unicorns are real animals.
- Answer: False
True or False? Narwhals are real animals.
- Answer: True
What might appear in the sky if the sun comes out while it’s raining?
- Answer: A rainbow
What do you get if you mix blue and yellow?
- A. Purple
- B. Orange
- C. Green
- D. Pink
How many wheels does a bicycle have?
- Answer: 2
How many wheels does a unicycle have?
- Answer: 1
Where can you go to borrow books?
- Answer: Library
How many arms does an octopus have?
- A. 7
- B. 8
- C. 9
- D. 10
How many seasons are there?
- Answer: 4
True or False? Honey is made by bees.
- Answer: True
Which season of the year is usually the coldest?
- A. Winter
- B. Spring
- C. Summer
- D. Fall
What do we call the tiny points of light we can see in the sky at night?
- Answer: Stars
How many days are in a week?
- Answer: 7
Which of these words does NOT rhyme?
- A. Gain
- B. Lane
- C. Vein
- D. Clean
What animal is called the King of the Jungle?
- A. Lion
- B. Tiger
- C. Elephant
- D. Hippo
What’s the name of the holiday where people dress up in costumes and get candy?
- Answer: Halloween
Who sat on a wall and had a great fall?
- Answer: Humpty Dumpty
True or False? Snow is frozen water.
- Answer: True
What is a baby dog called?
- Answer: A puppy
What color is a stop sign?
- A. Yellow
- B. Green
- C. Blue
- D. Red
Who blew down the Three Little Pigs’ houses?
- Answer: The Big Bad Wolf
What do tadpoles become?
- A. Turtles
- B. Frogs
- C. Birds
- D. Snails
True or False? We use our eyes to hear things.
- Answer: False (We use our ears to hear)
What’s the opposite of open?
- Answer: Close
What grows from seeds?
- Answer: Plants
True or False? Fish live in water.
- Answer: True
Trivia Questions for Elementary Kids (Ages 7–9)
How many colors are in a rainbow?
- Answer: 7 (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
How many sides does a cube have?
- Answer: 6
True or False? Whales are fish.
- Answer: False. Whales are mammals.
Which month is the shortest?
- A. December
- B. May
- C. October
- D. February
Who was the first president of the United States?
- A. Abraham Lincoln
- B. Thomas Jefferson
- C. George Washington
- D. John F. Kennedy
True or False? The moon is a planet.
- Answer: False
Which of these DOESN’T grow on trees?
- A. Apples
- B. Tomatoes
- C. Cherries
- D. Peaches
How many letters are in the alphabet?
- Answer: 26
What is the fifth month of the year?
- Answer: May
True or False? 247 is an odd number.
- Answer: True
What does the skull protect?
- A. The brain
- B. The lungs
- C. The heart
- D. The stomach
How many days are there in a non-Leap year?
- Answer: 365
True or False? Lava comes from volcanos.
- Answer: True
How many ounces are there in a cup?
- Answer: 8
What kind of tree has acorns?
- A. Elm
- B. Maple
- C. Oak
- D. Pine
What part of the body pumps blood?
- Answer: Heart
What’s the 17th letter of the alphabet?
- Answer: Q
True or False? A thermometer measures how much rain has fallen.
- Answer: False. It measures temperature.
Where is The White House located?
- Answer: Washington D.C.
What do you get when you multiply any number by zero?
- Answer: Zero
True or False? The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
- Answer: True
What is the name for a mountain that erupts with lava?
- Answer: Volcano
When you add, you combine numbers to get their:
- A. Product
- B. Factor
- C. Difference
- D. Sum
How many inches are in a yard?
- Answer: 36
Tricky Trivia Questions for Older Kids (10–12)
True or False? Olives grow on trees.
- Answer: True
What gas do humans need to breathe?
- A. Carbon dioxide
- B. Helium
- C. Nitrogen
- D. Oxygen
What happens to water when it reaches 32 degrees Fahrenheit?
- Answer: It freezes
What is known as the Red Planet?
- Answer: Mars
What do you get when you multiply a rectangle’s length by its width?
- A. Perimeter
- B. Area
- C. Volume
- D. Circumference
True or False? The speed of sound is faster than the speed of light.
- Answer: False
What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
- Answer: France
What do you call the top number in a fraction?
- A. Denominator
- B. Numerator
- C. Dividend
- D. Factor
True or False? The planet Saturn has rings.
- Answer: True
Who gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech?
- A. Ronald Reagan
- B. Michael Jordan
- C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- D. Abraham Lincoln
What is the word we use to represent the number 3.14?
- Answer: Pi
True or False? Mercury is the hottest planet in our solar system.
- Answer: False. Venus is the hottest planet.
How many years are in a century?
- Answer: 100
True or False? The skin is the largest organ of the human body.
- Answer: True
Which of these is a prime number?
- A. 12
- B. 17
- C. 21
- D. 25
At what temperature does water boil?
- Answer: 212 degrees Fahrenheit (at sea level)
What do we call a color made of a mix of two primary colors?
- Answer: A secondary color
Who led the Continental Army in the American Revolution?
- A. George Washington
- B. John Adams
- C. Thomas Jefferson
- D. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where will you find a uvula?
- Answer: The back of the human throat.
What is the word for the kind of tree that loses its leaves each year?
- Answer: Deciduous
What is the word for the kind of tree that keeps its leaves all year?
- Answer: Evergreen
True or False? Trees take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
- Answer: True
How many faces does a cone have?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
What are the three states of matter?
- Answer: Solid, liquid, gas
General Knowledge Trivia for Kids
True or False? The sun rises in the west.
- Answer: False. It rises in the east.
What are sandals, loafers, pumps, and wedges all examples of?
- Answer: Shoes
How many keys does a piano have?
- A. 55
- B. 66
- C. 77
- D. 88
What colors are the squares on a chess board?
- Answer: Black and white
True or False? A circle has no corners.
- Answer: True
What are the Grimm Brothers famous for?
- A. Writing fairy tales
- B. Discovering America
- C. Climbing Mt. Everest
- D. Landing on the moon
What American coin is worth 10 cents?
- Answer: Dime
How many days are there in a Leap Year?
- Answer: 366
True or False? Some carrots are purple.
- Answer: True
How many bones are in the adult human body?
- A. 86
- B. 206
- C. 148
- D. 314
What is H2O?
- Answer: Water
How many sides does a stop sign have?
- Answer: 8
In what decade were poodle skirts popular?
- Answer: The 1950s
True or False? About 70% of the Earth is covered in water.
- Answer: True
Which of these is not one of the Great Lakes?
- A. Tahoe
- B. Erie
- C. Huron
- D. Michigan
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
- Answer: Neil Armstrong
What was the name of the famous ship that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912?
- Answer: Titanic
Who served the most terms as president of the United States?
- A. Abraham Lincoln
- B. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- C. Teddy Roosevelt
- D. George Washington
True or False? Vincent Van Gogh painted the Mona Lisa.
- Answer: False. It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
Who gets credit for inventing the lightbulb?
- Answer: Thomas Edison
How do you say “thank you” in Spanish?
- A. Merci
- B. Danke
- C. Gracias
- D. Arigato
What color is spinach?
- Answer: Green
What country is also a continent?
- Answer: Australia
True or False? Our galaxy is known as the Milky Way.
Animal Trivia Questions for Kids
What is the tallest animal in the world?
- Answer: Giraffe
Which of these DOES NOT have wings?
- A. Bat
- B. Ladybug
- C. Crow
- D. Flying Squirrel
What is a herbivore?
- Answer: An animal that only eats plants.
True or False? Sharks were on Earth before dinosaurs.
- Answer: True
What do marsupials have that other animals don’t?
- Answer: A pouch
True or False? A spider is an insect.
- Answer: False. Insects only have six legs; spiders are arachnids.
What do you call a baby goat?
- A. Calf
- B. Kid
- C. Colt
- D. Lamb
What is the largest land animal?
- Answer: Elephant
True or False? The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.
- Answer: True
Where will you find koalas, wallabies, dingoes, and echidnas??
- Answer: Australia
Which of these animals does NOT live in Africa?
- A. Tiger
- B. Lion
- C. Hippopotamus
- D. Cheetah
Where do stingrays live?
- Answer: In the ocean
What do we call the seasonal or long-distance movement of animals from place to another?
- Answer: Migration
What kind of baby animal is a fawn?
- A. Lion
- B. Antelope
- C. Deer
- D. Emu
What is the largest bird on Earth?
- Answer: Ostrich
Where do pearls form?
- Answer: Inside oysters
True or False? The cheetah is the fastest animal living on land.
- Answer: True
What kind of animal is Punxsutawney Phil?
- A. Groundhog
- B. Gopher
- C. Dog
- D. Wolf
Where will you find polar bears?
- Answer: The Arctic
What plant makes up the majority of a panda’s diet?
- Answer: Bamboo
True or False? A squirrel’s teeth never stop growing.
- Answer: True
Where is the only place on Earth where alligators and crocodiles live together?
- Answer: Florida Everglades
What kind of animal can change colors and patterns to blend in with its surroundings?
- A. Zebra
- B. Cobra
- C. Butterfly
- D. Chameleon
True or False? Owls can turn their heads 360 degrees.
- Answer: False. They can turn their heads up to 270 degrees.
True or False? All caterpillars become butterflies.
- Answer: False. Some become moths.
Food Trivia Questions for Kids
What is the main ingredient in guacamole?
- A. Avocado
- B. Banana
- C. Cucumber
- D. Pepper
What do we call dried grapes?
- Answer: Raisins
True or False? Peanuts grow underground.
- Answer: True
What vegetable grows on ears?
- Answer: Corn
What type of nut is used to make Nutella?
- A. Almond
- B. Hazelnut
- C. Cashew
- D. Peanut
True or False? Pizza comes from Italy.
- Answer: True
True or False? Maple syrup is made by boiling tree sap.
- Answer: True
What does the B stand for in a BLT sandwich?
- A. Butter
- B. Beet
- C. Banana
- D. Bacon
What do we call the yellow part in the middle of an egg?
- Answer: Yolk
What creamy treat is made from chickpeas?
- Answer: Hummus
True or False? Pineapples grow on trees.
- Answer: False. They grow on stalks from plants on the ground.
What kind of food is gazpacho?
- A. Sandwich
- B. Cookie
- C. Soup
- D. Casserole
What is the most popular pizza topping?
- Answer: Pepperoni
What are french fries usually made from?
- Answer: Potatoes
What are cheddar, mozzarella, and monterey jack all examples of?
- Answer: Cheese
True or False? Sushi is always made of raw fish.
- Answer: False. The term “sushi” refers to the kind of rice that is used.
Which of these is NOT a citrus fruit?
- A. Peach
- B. Lemon
- C. Grapefruit
- D. Orange
True or False? Eggs that have gone bad sink in water.
- Answer: False. They float!
What type of food is Hershey, Pennsylvania famous for?
- Answer: Chocolate
What type of beverage is made by pouring hot water over leaves?
- Answer: Tea
Where were tortillas invented?
- A. California
- B. Brazil
- C. Spain
- D. Mexico
True or False? Grapes grow on vines.
- Answer: True
What is the most popular ice cream flavor?
- Answer: Vanilla
True or False? Tofu is made from soybeans.
- Answer: True
Geography Trivia for Kids
What are the four cardinal directions on a map?
- Answer: north, south, east, west
What do we call a 3D model of the Earth?
- Answer: Globe
True or False? The Grand Canyon is over a mile deep in some places.
- Answer: True
What is the capital of France?
- A. Rome
- B. London
- C. Paris
- D. Washington
Where would you find the Great Pyramid of Giza?
- Answer: Egypt
What is the longest river in the world?
- A. Mississippi
- B. Amazon
- C. Nile
- D. Danube
How many states are there in the United States of America?
- Answer: 50
True or False? There are eight continents on Earth.
- Answer: False. There are seven.
What is the tallest mountain on Earth?
- Answer: Mount Everest
Where will you find Bolivia?
- A. Europe
- B. North America
- C. South America
- D. Africa
What country has the longest wall in the world?
- Answer: China
What are the colors of the flag of the United States of America?
- Answer: Red, white, and blue
True or False? The North Pole is in Canada.
- Answer: False. It’s located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.
Where will you find the Golden Gate Bridge?
- A. San Francisco
- B. New York City
- C. Chicago
- D. Miami
What state is home to Disneyland?
- Answer: California
Where will you find the largest trees in the world?
- Answer: California
True or False? The Pacific is the largest ocean.
- Answer: True
What country is shaped like a boot?
- A. Canada
- B. Italy
- C. Japan
- D. Peru
What do we call the imaginary line that runs around the middle of the Earth, dividing it into the North and South hemispheres?
- Answer: Equator
Which two states are not directly connected to the other 48?
- Answer: Alaska and Hawaii
True or False? China is the largest country on Earth.
- Answer: False. Russia is the largest country.
Which famous waterfall lies on the border between the United States and Canada?
- Answer: Niagara Falls
Which U.S. state capital is known as the Mile High City?
- A. Denver
- B. Juneau
- C. Albany
- D. Montpelier
On what continent will you find the Sahara Desert?
- Answer: Africa
True or False? Antarctica is the southernmost continent.
- Answer: True
Sports Trivia for Kids
How many bases are on a baseball diamond?
- Answer: 4
What sport uses equipment like sticks, pucks, and ice skates?
- Answer: Ice Hockey
True or False? In American football, a touchdown is worth 7 points.
- Answer: False. A touchdown is 6 points; kicking an extra point may make it 7 points.
Most of the world calls this sport football, but in the United States it’s known as what?
- Answer: Soccer
Where was the game of golf invented?
- A. Greece
- B. China
- C. Scotland
- D. United States
True or False? In tennis, “love” means zero points.
- Answer: True
What is the name of the place or building where martial arts like karate and judo are practiced?
- Answer: Dojo
What is the maximum number of points you can earn with a single shot in basketball?
- Answer: 3
How many gallons of water does it take to fill an average Olympic-sized swimming pool?
- A. 660,000
- B. 5,500
- C. 1 million
- D. 125,000
In what two seasons do the Olympic Games take place?
- Answer: Summer and Winter
True or False? Skiers use the same kind of skis for cross country skiing and downhill skiing.
- Answer: False. The skis actually have a number of differences.
What was the first year that snowboarding events were an official part of the Winter Olympics?
- A. 1924
- B. 1960
- C. 1998
- D. 2006
What are the three colors of medals awarded in the Olympics?
- Answer: Gold, silver, and bronze
How high is the tallest diving platform used in competition?
- Answer: 10 meters (nearly 33 feet!)
In volleyball, how many hits or touches is a team allowed before sending the ball over the net?
- Answer: 3
True or False? Lacrosse was first played by Native Americans before Europeans arrived.
- Answer: True
Which of these is NOT a term used in skateboarding?
- A. Ollie
- B. 50-50 Grind
- C. Goofy
- D. Over-Easy
How many pins are set up in a bowling lane?
- Answer: 10
What is the name of the sport where players use a bow and arrow?
- Answer: Archery
What do competitors ride in the Tour de France race?
- Answer: Bicycles
How long is a marathon?
- Answer: 26.2 miles
True or False? Ping-pong is also called table tennis.
- Answer: True
Which sport includes an area called “the kitchen”?
- A. Badminton
- B. Pickleball
- C. Cricket
- D. Squash
Which of these sports is NOT in the triathlon?
- A. Swimming
- B. Long Jump
- C. Biking
- D. Running
Where were the first modern Olympic Games held?
- Answer: Athens, Greece
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