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100 free Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
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
The cheetah can hit about 100 km/h in short bursts, but only for a few hundred metres before it must 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
Jupiter is so big that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it, and its Great Red Spot is a storm wider than our whole planet.
Q 05Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, circling it once every 88 Earth days, and it has almost no atmosphere to hold on to heat.
Q 06Which planet is nicknamed the Red Planet?
Mars
Mars looks red because its dusty surface is coated in iron oxide, the same rust that forms on an old bike.
Q 07Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon on 20 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
Mount Everest, 8,849 metres high, sits on the border of Nepal and China and keeps growing a few millimetres a year as the plates push together.
Q 09Which is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth?
Pacific
The Pacific covers about a third of the planet's surface, more than all the land on Earth put together, and holds the deepest spot, the Mariana Trench.
Q 10Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
Sahara
The Sahara stretches across northern Africa and is almost as big as the whole United States; only the icy deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic are larger.
Q 11Which continent is, on average, the coldest, driest and windiest?
Antarctica
Antarctica recorded the coldest air temperature ever measured, about minus 89 degrees Celsius at Vostok Station in 1983, and nobody lives there permanently apart from visiting scientists.
Q 12What is a baby kangaroo called?
Joey
A baby kangaroo is called a 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
An octopus has three hearts: one pumps blood around the body while the other two push it through the gills, and its blood is blue rather than red.
Q 21Which are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight?
Bats
Bats flap their wings and truly fly, while flying squirrels and sugar gliders can only glide; many bats find their way in the dark using echoes.
Q 22Which is the largest living land animal?
African elephant
The African elephant is the biggest land animal; a full-grown male can stand over 3 metres at the shoulder and eat more than 100 kilograms of plants in a day.
Q 23A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside what?
A chrysalis
Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar's body almost completely breaks down and rebuilds itself into a butterfly with wings.
Q 14Roughly how many bones does an adult human have?
206
An adult has 206 bones; babies are born with around 270, but many of them fuse together as a child grows.
Q 15How many keys does a modern piano have?
88
A modern piano has 88 keys, 52 white and 36 black, and a full-size piano has more than 200 strings inside it.
Q 16How many squares are on a chessboard?
64
A chessboard has 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, and each player starts with 16 pieces lined up on the two rows nearest them.
Q 17In basketball, how high off the floor is the top of the rim?
10 feet
The rim is 10 feet (about 3 metres) high, unchanged since James Naismith nailed peach baskets to a gym balcony in 1891.
Q 18How many interlocking rings are on the Olympic flag?
Five
The five 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
France gave the statue, dedicated in 1886; its inner metal frame was built by Gustave Eiffel, whose company later built the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Q 20Which Italian city is home to a famous bell tower with a nearly four-degree lean?
Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa started tilting while it was being built in the 1100s, because the soft ground beneath could not hold it straight.
Q 24Which planet has a bright, wide system of rings made mostly of ice?
Saturn
Saturn's 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
Neptune is so far out that it takes about 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and in 2011 it completed only its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.
Q 26What is the name of the process plants use to turn sunlight into food?
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis uses sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make sugar, and as a bonus it 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
Kitty Hawk is on North Carolina's Outer Banks; the first flight on 17 December 1903 lasted just 12 seconds and covered about 37 metres, shorter than a jumbo jet's wingspan.
Q 28The ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in which year?
1912
Titanic went down in the early hours of 15 April 1912, sailing from Southampton in England to New York, after striking an iceberg late at night.
Q 29Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s; it hangs in the Louvre in Paris and is surprisingly small, about 77 by 53 centimetres.
Q 30Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in the 1590s; he also wrote Hamlet and Macbeth, and he coined or popularised hundreds of English words.