70 Fun Facts About Trivia for 5 Year Olds

What sound does a duck make?

Only the female mallard makes the loud classic quack; the males make a softer, raspier sound.

What is a baby cat called?

Kittens are born with their eyes closed and open them after about a week.

What is a baby cow called?

A calf does not lie around for long: it is usually standing on its own four feet within an hour or two of being born.

What is a baby horse called?

A boy foal is a colt and a girl foal is a filly, and they can run on the day they are born.

Where does a mother kangaroo carry her baby?

A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean, and it crawls up its mother's fur all by itself to ride in a pouch on her belly.

A zebra's coat is which two colors?

Black and white stripes help keep biting flies away: the flies find it hard to land on a striped coat.

What color are grown-up flamingos?

Baby flamingos are gray, and they turn pink from the tiny shrimp and algae they eat.

Which big cat has a mane of thick hair around its head?

A lion's mane usually grows only on males, and it makes him look bigger and stronger to rival males and to females.

Which animal slithers along without any legs?

A snake has no legs, but a python still has two tiny claws near its tail, left over from back legs long ago.

What do fish use to breathe under the water?

Gills soak up the oxygen mixed into water as it flows over them and pass it into the fish's blood.

What is an elephant's long nose called?

An elephant uses its trunk to drink, to pick things up and even to give itself a shower.

What does a caterpillar grow up to be?

A butterfly forms inside a hard case called a chrysalis, where the caterpillar's body breaks down and rebuilds itself with wings.

Which farm animal gives us wool for warm sweaters?

A farmer gives the sheep a haircut called shearing, and the wool grows right back.

Which farm animal gives us most of the milk we drink?

Cows are usually milked twice a day, and on some farms they walk up to a robot and get milked whenever they like.

Which farm bird lays most of the eggs we eat for breakfast?

Chickens lay eggs even with no rooster around, and those eggs could never hatch into chicks.

Which insects make honey?

Bees collect sweet nectar from flowers and store it in wax honeycomb inside their hive.

Bread is made mostly from which ingredient?

Flour is wheat ground into a fine powder, and yeast puffs the dough up by filling it with tiny bubbles of gas.

Which movie snack begins as hard yellow seeds and puffs up fluffy when heated?

Popcorn pops because a drop of moisture inside each kernel turns to steam and bursts the hard shell open.

Which vegetable is a root that grows under the ground?

Carrots are roots: the plant stores food in them underground so it can grow flowers the following year.

What color is broccoli?

Green broccoli heads are bunches of tiny flower buds, picked before they get the chance to open.

How does a lemon taste?

Lemons are so sour that people add lots of sugar to make lemonade.

What do you call the loud rumble that follows a flash of lightning?

Thunder is the sound of air bursting outward as lightning heats it, and the flash reaches you first because light travels faster than sound.

How does the sea taste?

Salty seas get most of their salt from rocks on land: rain slowly wears the rocks down and rivers wash the salt out to sea.

Snow is made of tiny crystals of what?

Ice crystals grow in a six-sided pattern, which is why so many snowflakes have six sides or six arms.

Which season of the year is the coldest?

In winter the days are short, and some animals curl up and sleep right through it.

In which season of the year do leaves turn red and gold and drop off the trees?

Fall is also called autumn, and it is when squirrels bury nuts to eat in the cold months ahead.

Where does rain fall from?

Clouds are made of tiny floating droplets, and when the droplets bump together and grow heavy enough, they fall as rain.

What do you need along with rain to see a rainbow?

Sunshine splits into colors as it bends through each raindrop, and a rainbow is really a full circle whose bottom half the ground hides.

Most owls do their hunting at what time?

At night an owl can swoop on a mouse without a sound, because comb-like fringes on its wing feathers hush the rushing air.

Which shape has three sides and three corners?

A triangle cannot be squashed out of shape, which is why builders use triangles to hold up bridges and roofs.

Which shape has four equal sides and four matching corners?

A square fits snugly against other squares with no gaps, which is why floor tiles and checkerboards are made of squares.

Which flying machine has spinning blades on top instead of wings?

A helicopter can hover in one spot, fly backwards and land almost anywhere, all thanks to the spinning blades that lift it.

Which of these rides on exactly two wheels?

A bicycle has two wheels, and the very first ones had no pedals, so riders pushed themselves along with their feet.

How many fingers are on one hand, counting the thumb?

Count 5 on each hand and you get ten, which is probably why people all over the world count in tens.

How many days are in a week?

The 7 days were first named after the seven lights that people long ago saw moving across the sky, which is why Monday means the Moon's day.

Which two days make up the weekend?

Saturday and Sunday are the weekend in most countries, but several Muslim countries rest on Friday and Saturday, because Friday is their main day of prayer.

What shape is a stop sign?

An octagon is a shape no other road sign uses, so drivers can tell it is a stop sign even from behind.

If you mix red paint and blue paint, what color do you get?

Purple was once the color of kings, because the dye was squeezed from sea snails and it took thousands of them to dye one piece of cloth.

Which body part do you hear with?

Your ears also keep you balanced: loops deep inside them are filled with liquid that sloshes when you move and tells your brain how your head is moving.

A dentist takes care of which part of you?

Your teeth come in two sets: 20 baby teeth wiggle out one by one to make room for 32 grown-up teeth.

What do firefighters slide down to reach their truck in a hurry?

A pole beats the stairs every time: the idea began when an American firefighter slid down a wooden pole used for lifting hay and beat his crew to the ground floor.

What do trains run along?

Metal tracks are smooth and hard, so steel wheels roll along them with very little rubbing, which lets one engine pull a long line of heavy wagons.

What does a boat travel on?

Boats float because they push water out of the way, and the water pushes back up.

What kind of animal is Peppa, from the TV show?

Peppa lives with Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and her little brother George, and she loves jumping in muddy puddles.

What is the name of Bluey's little sister?

Bingo is a Red Heeler like her mum Chilli, while big sister Bluey is a Blue Heeler like their dad Bandit.

Who is the boy who leads the rescue dogs in Paw Patrol?

Ryder is ten years old, and he calls his team of dogs to the Lookout tower whenever someone needs help.

Which Sesame Street character is a furry red monster with a squeaky voice?

Elmo is three and a half years old, and he likes to talk about himself by name.

What color is Cookie Monster?

Blue, furry Cookie Monster gobbles pretend cookies on the show, often rice cakes painted to look real, because greasy real cookies would spoil his fur.

What kind of animal is Winnie-the-Pooh?

Pooh was named after a real bear called Winnie that lived at London Zoo.

What can Queen Elsa of Arendelle make with her magic?

Ice and snow pour from Elsa's hands, and with them she builds a whole palace on a mountain and brings the snowman Olaf to life.

What kind of vehicle is Lightning McQueen?

A race car with a secret in his number: the 95 painted on his side marks 1995, the year Pixar's first film, Toy Story, came out.

What kind of fish is Nemo?

A clownfish like Nemo can snuggle into an anemone's stinging arms without getting hurt, because a slimy coat on its skin protects it.

In The Three Little Pigs, what is the house that stays standing built from?

Bricks made the third pig's house too strong for any huffing and puffing, so his hungry visitor climbed down the chimney instead and landed in a boiling cooking pot.

How many bears live in the house that Goldilocks walks into?

The 3 bears have always been in the story, but Goldilocks has not: in the first printed version the visitor who ate the porridge was a rude old woman.

What does Cinderella leave behind when she runs from the ball?

A glass slipper comes from the French telling of the story; in the German one by the Brothers Grimm, the slipper she loses is made of pure gold.

Which animal does Little Red Riding Hood meet on the way to Grandma's house?

The wolf runs ahead, dresses up in Grandma's nightcap and waits in her bed.

Who lives at the top of the beanstalk in Jack and the Beanstalk?

A giant lives up there, and Jack sneaks off with his hen that lays golden eggs and his golden harp, then chops the beanstalk down.

Humpty Dumpty, who sat on a wall, is usually drawn as what?

The rhyme never actually says he is an egg, but that is how nearly every picture book shows him.

What color are pumpkins usually?

Orange pumpkins took over from turnips: people in Ireland first carved their Halloween lanterns out of turnips, and switched to pumpkins when they moved to America.

Which of these do people decorate with lights and baubles at Christmas?

A fir tree stays green all winter, just like a spruce or a pine, which is why these evergreens were chosen.

Which animals pull Santa's sleigh?

Reindeer are real deer from the cold far north, where people really do hitch them up to pull sleds.

What color is Rudolph's shiny nose?

Red-nosed Rudolph was invented in 1939 by a man writing a Christmas booklet for a big American store, which handed out more than two million copies.

What is a baby dog called?

A puppy is born completely deaf, and two or three weeks go by before it can pick up a single sound.

A tadpole grows up to become which animal?

A frog begins life as a legless tadpole, then grows back legs, then front legs, while its tail slowly shrinks away as its body soaks it back up.

Which animal is the tallest in the world?

Giraffes live in Africa and use their long necks to munch leaves from the tops of trees.

Which bird uses its wings as flippers to swim?

A penguin cannot fly, but it has a trick for the cold: emperor penguins huddle in a tight crowd and take turns standing in the warm middle.

What does a spider spin to catch bugs?

A web is spun from silk that is stronger than steel of the same weight, yet stretchy enough to stop a speeding insect without snapping.

Which is the biggest animal that has ever lived?

A blue whale can be as long as three school buses and lives in the ocean.

What is the Sun?

A star is what the Sun is, just like the tiny twinkly dots in the dark sky; it looks so big and bright only because it is way, way closer to us than the others.

How many arms does an octopus have?

All 8 arms are lined with suckers that can taste as well as grip, so an octopus can tell what is food just by touching it.