50 free easy trivia questions for kids with answers. Looking for a trivia for kids game that is genuinely fair for children? This set of 50 multiple-choice questions covers the things kids actually learn about and love: the fastest animal, the biggest planet, how many hearts an octopus has, who walked on the Moon first, and what school Harry Potter went to. Every question has four answers to choose from and a short explanation with one extra fact worth remembering. It works as a quick online quiz on a phone or tablet, or as a read-aloud easy kids trivia game for the car, the classroom, a rainy afternoon or a family game night. Younger players will breeze through the easy ones about pandas and planets; older kids and grown-ups will have to think about owls, baby teeth and the year Mickey Mouse was created. Teachers who need junior trivia questions for a Friday afternoon can read it straight from the screen. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference source, so nobody has to argue about whether the answer key is right. If you want more, BrainPickle also has kids quizzes on animals, science, history, sports, movies and music.
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Q 01Which is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
It can hit 100 km/h in short bursts, but only for a few hundred metres before it has to stop and cool down.
Q 02Which is the largest animal known to have ever lived?
Blue whale
Some blue whales reach around 30 metres long, and even the biggest dinosaurs were lighter than a full-grown one.
Q 03Which is the tallest land animal on Earth?
Giraffe
A giraffe's neck alone can be about 2 metres long, yet it has only seven neck bones, the same number as a human.
Q 04Which is the largest planet in the Solar System?
Jupiter
More than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it, and its Great Red Spot is a storm bigger than our whole planet.
Q 05Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mercury
Even though it is closest to the Sun, it is not the hottest planet, because it has almost no atmosphere to trap the heat.
Q 06Which planet is nicknamed the Red Planet?
Mars
The rusty colour comes from iron oxide, the same stuff that makes an old bike go rusty, covering its dusty surface.
Q 07Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
He stepped onto the surface in July 1969, and his footprints are probably still there because the Moon has no wind or rain to wipe them away.
Q 08Which is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level?
Everest
It sits on the border of Nepal and China and is still growing a few millimetres every year as the plates push together.
Q 09Which is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth?
Pacific
It covers about a third of the planet's surface, more than all the land on Earth put together.
Q 10Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
Sahara
It stretches across northern Africa and is almost as big as the whole United States, though only the icy deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic are larger.
Q 11Which continent is, on average, the coldest, driest and windiest?
Antarctica
Temperatures there have dropped as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius, and almost nobody lives there apart from visiting scientists.
Q 12What is a baby kangaroo called?
Joey
A newborn is only about the size of a jelly bean when it climbs into its mother's pouch to finish growing.
Q 13How many hearts does an octopus have?
Three
One heart pumps blood around the body while the other two push it through the gills, and its blood is blue rather than red.
Q 14Roughly how many bones does an adult human have?
Q 21Which are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight?
Bats
Flying squirrels and sugar gliders can only glide, but a bat flaps its wings and flies for real, and many find their way in the dark using echoes.
Q 22Which is the largest living land animal?
African elephant
A full-grown male can stand over 3 metres tall at the shoulder and eat more than 100 kilograms of plants in a single day.
Q 23A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside what?
A chrysalis
Inside, the caterpillar's body almost completely breaks down and rebuilds itself into a butterfly with wings.
206
Babies are actually born with around 270 bones, but many of them fuse together as a child grows.
Q 15How many keys does a modern piano have?
88
Fifty-two of the keys are white and 36 are black, and a full-size piano has more than 200 strings inside it.
Q 16How many squares are on a chessboard?
64
The board is 8 squares by 8 squares, and each player starts with 16 pieces lined up on the two rows nearest to them.
Q 17In basketball, how high off the floor is the top of the rim?
10 feet
That height, about 3 metres, has stayed the same since the game was invented in 1891 using peach baskets nailed to a balcony.
Q 18How many interlocking rings are on the Olympic flag?
Five
The rings are blue, yellow, black, green and red, and they stand for the inhabited continents of the world joined together.
Q 19The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of which country?
France
Its inner metal frame was built by Gustave Eiffel, the same engineer whose company later built the famous tower in Paris.
Q 20Which Italian city is home to a famous bell tower with a nearly four-degree lean?
Pisa
The tower started tilting while it was still being built in the 1100s, because the ground underneath was too soft to hold it up straight.
Q 24Which planet has a bright, wide system of rings made mostly of ice?
Saturn
The rings look solid from Earth but are made of countless chunks of ice and rock, some as small as dust and some as big as houses.
Q 25Which is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun?
Neptune
It is so far away that it takes about 165 Earth years to travel once around the Sun, and it has only completed one full orbit since it was discovered in 1846.
Q 26What is the name of the process plants use to turn sunlight into food?
Photosynthesis
As a bonus, the process releases the oxygen that people and animals breathe.
Q 27Kitty Hawk, site of the Wright brothers' 1903 flight, is in which US state?
North Carolina
Their very first flight lasted just 12 seconds and covered about 37 metres, shorter than the wingspan of a modern jumbo jet.
Q 28The ocean liner Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in April of which year?
1912
The ship was sailing from Southampton in England to New York when it struck an iceberg late at night.
Q 29Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
The painting hangs in the Louvre museum in Paris and is surprisingly small, not much bigger than a large poster.
Q 30Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
The same playwright also wrote Hamlet and Macbeth, and he invented or popularised hundreds of English words still used today.