First Grade Trivia
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60 free First Grade trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
These 52 free 1st grade trivia questions with answers are written for children aged about six and seven, so the questions are short, the words are simple, and every answer is something a first grader has met at school, at home or in a picture book: what a baby horse is called, how many legs a spider has, what snow is made of, how many days are in a week, who puts out fires, who lives in the White House and what date Christmas falls on. Use it as a classroom warm-up, a rainy-day game, a road-trip quiz or a bedtime challenge. Every question is multiple choice with four answers, so an early reader can play with a little help, and the explanations add one fun fact each. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's article on the subject, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01What is a baby horse called?
A foal
A foal. It can stand within about an hour of being born and soon runs beside its mother, because wild horses stay safe by fleeing and a newborn has to keep up with the herd.
Q 02What is a baby sheep called?
A lamb
A lamb. A healthy one struggles to its feet within about an hour of being born and starts to feed from its mother, because that first feed protects it from illness.
Q 03Which animal are dogs descended from?
Wolves
Wolves. At least 14,000 years ago some of them began living close to people, and over many generations the tamest of them turned into dogs.
Q 04What does a caterpillar turn into?
A butterfly
A butterfly. Inside its chrysalis most of the caterpillar's body is broken down and built again, so the creature that climbs out has wings and a completely new shape.
Q 05How many legs does a spider have?
Eight
Eight. Counting them is the quick way to tell a spider from an insect, which has only six legs, and it is one of several differences that mean spiders are not insects at all.
Q 06What is the long nose of an elephant called?
A trunk
A trunk is an elephant's nose and hand in one: it picks up food, sucks up water to squirt into the mouth, and even works as a snorkel when the elephant wades through deep water.
Q 07Which is the tallest animal that lives on land?
The giraffe
The giraffe is so tall that it cannot just bend down for a drink: it has to spread its front legs wide or bend its knees to get its mouth down to the water.
Q 08What is a group of lions called?
A pride
A pride is a lion family of related mothers and cubs with one or a few males; the lionesses often hunt as a team, each taking her own position to surround the prey.
Q 09What do bees make from the nectar of flowers?
Honey
Honey begins as thin, watery nectar; back in the hive, the bees beat their wings to make a warm breeze that dries it until it turns thick and sticky.
Q 10What do all birds have on their bodies that no other animal has?
Feathers
Feathers grow only on birds, and they are not just for flying: the fluffy ones underneath trap air and stop a bird's body heat from escaping, like a puffy jacket.
Q 11What do we call a sheep's woolly coat after it has been cut off?
Fleece
Fleece is the name for the whole woolly coat once it is shorn; most sheep get this haircut once a year, just before the warm weather, so they are not stuck in a heavy coat.
Q 12Which farm animal digs in the soil with its nose to find food?
The pig
The pig hunts for food by smell and touch: the tip of its leathery snout is very sensitive, so it can sniff out a snack hidden underground and nudge the soil aside to reach it.
Q 13What is a turtle's shell mostly made of?
Bone
Bone makes up most of the shell, which is joined to the turtle's backbone and ribs; that is why a turtle can never crawl out of its shell.
Q 21What is the Moon?
A big ball of rock
A big ball of rock that circles our planet about once a month, the Moon makes no light of its own; it only seems to glow because sunlight bounces off it.
Q 22What happens to water if it gets very cold?
It turns into ice
It turns into ice at 0 degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) and swells a little as it freezes, which is why ice cubes float in a drink and frozen water pipes can burst.
Q 23What is snow made of?
Tiny ice crystals
Tiny ice crystals form high in the sky around a speck of dust; as each crystal falls, more ice builds on it and it grows the six arms of a snowflake.
Q 14Which bird cannot fly but is a great swimmer?
The penguin
The penguin swims instead of flying: over a very long time its wings turned into stiff flippers, useless in the air but perfect for speeding through the sea.
Q 15What kind of animal is a frog?
An amphibian
An amphibian begins life in water and moves onto land: a frog hatches as a tadpole with gills and a tail, then grows legs and lungs as it gets older.
Q 16Which bird is the most common in the world, with more of them alive than there are people?
The chicken
The chicken is the world's most numerous bird, with well over 20 billion alive at any time, because people raise it on farms almost everywhere for its eggs and meat.
Q 17Which farm animal has a four-part stomach and chews its food twice?
Cow
The cow swallows grass barely chewed, brings it back up as 'cud' to chew a second time, and sends it through all four parts of its stomach; that is how it lives on tough grass.
Q 18What is the Sun?
A star
A star, and only a medium-sized one: the Sun looks far bigger and brighter than all the other stars because it is so much closer to us.
Q 19Which planet do we live on?
Earth
Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god; its name comes from an Old English word that simply meant 'the ground'.
Q 20What covers most of our planet's surface?
Oceans
Oceans cover about 70% of the surface, and the biggest of them, the Pacific, is larger than all the land on the planet put together.
Q 24Where does rain fall from?
Clouds
Clouds are made of tiny drops of water that bump into each other and join up; when the drops get big and heavy enough, they fall as rain.
Q 25What shape does a rainbow make when you see it from the ground?
An arc
An arc is all we see from the ground, but a rainbow is really a full circle: the ground hides the lower part, and people in aeroplanes sometimes see the whole ring.
Q 26What three things does a fire need to burn?
Fuel, heat and oxygen
Fuel, heat and oxygen all have to be there: take any one away and the fire goes out, which is why water (it cools) or a thick blanket (it shuts out the air) can stop a blaze.
Q 27What is the rough outer covering of a tree called?
Bark
Bark is a tree's armour, keeping insects out and water in; its inner layer is also the pipeline that carries food down from the leaves, so a tree stripped of it all the way round will die.
Q 28What are the colourful parts of a flower called that attract bees?
Petals
Petals are bright so that bees can spot them; while a bee sips nectar, pollen sticks to its body and rides along to the next flower, which is how the plant gets to make seeds.
Q 29Which group of animals makes milk to feed its babies?
Mammals
Mammals all make milk for their young, from tiny bats to the blue whale; even the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs, feeds its babies on milk once they hatch.
Q 30What is bread mostly made from?
Flour and water
Flour and water are all some flat breads need; most loaves also get yeast, a tiny living fungus that feeds on the dough and gives off gas bubbles that puff it up.