Trivia for 11 Year Olds
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50 free Trivia for 11 Year Olds trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Eleven is a great age for trivia. An 11 year old knows enough from school, books and screens to reason out an answer, and still loves the kind of fact that makes a whole room say "no way". These questions are pitched for that age: trickier than a little kid's quiz, but fair to a fifth or sixth grader. The quiz is general knowledge in the widest sense. It covers planets and storms, record-breaking animals, the human body, famous landmarks and countries, explorers, inventors and brave women from history, favorite children's books, composers and painters, sport, numbers and video games. Every question is multiple choice, and every answer comes with a short explanation worth repeating at dinner. It works for girls and boys alike: at an 11th birthday party, in the classroom, on a long car ride or at family game night. Play on screen for a score, or print the questions with answers and read them aloud.
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Q 01Which dwarf planet, discovered in 1930, was given its name by an eleven-year-old English schoolgirl?
Pluto
Pluto was the idea of Venetia Burney of Oxford, who loved classical mythology. Her grandfather passed it to an astronomy professor, who cabled it to the observatory that had made the discovery.
Q 02Which tiny birds can hover in mid-air, fly backwards and beat their wings dozens of times a second?
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are the only vertebrates capable of sustained hovering. The smallest of them, the bee hummingbird, is about 5 cm long and weighs less than 2 grams.
Q 03Which Paris landmark, built for the 1889 World's Fair, was originally due to be dismantled in 1909?
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was allowed to stay, and it remained the tallest human-made structure in the world for 41 years, until New York's Chrysler Building was finished.
Q 04Which popular snack 'nut' is really a legume whose pods ripen underground rather than on a tree?
Peanut
Peanut plants belong to the pea and bean family, not to the nut trees. Botanist Carl Linnaeus named the species hypogaea, from the Greek for 'under the earth'.
Q 05Which toy brand from Billund, Denmark, takes its name from a Danish phrase meaning 'play well'?
Lego
Lego began in the workshop of carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, who started out making wooden toys in 1932. His company only began producing its interlocking plastic bricks in 1949.
Q 06Which Nintendo mascot was called Jumpman when he first appeared in the arcade game Donkey Kong?
Mario
Mario was a carpenter, not a plumber, in that first game, climbing a New York construction site to rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla.
Q 07Which day of the week bears the name of Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder?
Thursday
Thursday comes from the Old English for 'Thunor's day', Thunor being the Anglo-Saxon form of Thor. In most Romance languages the same day honours the Roman god of sky and thunder instead.
Q 08In which part of the human body is the stapes, the smallest and lightest bone, found?
Ear
Ear bones are tiny: the stapes, shaped like a stirrup, measures only 2 to 3 mm and passes sound vibrations on towards the inner ear.
Q 09Which birds, among the world's most intelligent animals, gather in a group known as a 'murder'?
Crows
Crows are clever enough that some species not only use tools but build them, and their brains are as large for their bodies as those of many primates.
Q 10Which animals, about a fifth of all mammal species, are the only mammals capable of true flight?
Bats
Bats fly on wings of thin skin stretched over long, spread-out finger bones, whereas flying squirrels, colugos and sugar gliders can only glide.
Q 11Which planet, the largest in the Solar System, has a giant storm called the Great Red Spot?
Jupiter
Jupiter has a volume 1,321 times that of Earth, and its famous storm has been recorded since 1831. In 2017 the spot still measured 1.3 times the width of our whole planet.
Q 12The gravity of the Moon and the Sun causes which rise and fall of the sea, usually twice a day?
Tides
Tides follow a cycle, so most coasts get two high waters and two low waters each day, and the two high waters are usually not even the same height.
Q 13What is molten rock called while it is still beneath the Earth's surface, before it erupts as lava?
Magma
Magma that rises through the crust may feed a volcano and pour out as lava, but some of it cools and hardens underground instead, never reaching daylight.
Q 21Which mountain, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha, is the highest on Earth above sea level?
Mount Everest
Mount Everest had its first documented ascent in 1953, by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. Its Nepali name can be translated literally as 'head in the sky'.
Q 22Which river pours more water into the ocean than the next seven largest rivers on Earth combined?
Amazon
The Amazon releases about 215,000 to 230,000 cubic metres of water every second. Whether it is also the world's longest river is a title disputed with the Nile.
Q 23Which European country sits on a peninsula nicknamed 'the Boot' because of its shape on the map?
Italy
Italy stretches from the Alps down into the Mediterranean Sea, and besides its high-heeled peninsula it takes in nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia.
Q 14Which substance, the hardest in the human body, forms the outer coating of every tooth?
Enamel
Enamel is about 96% mineral, which is what makes it so hard. Unlike many other tissues of the body, though, it has no way to regenerate itself once it has worn away.
Q 15Which gas do green plants take in from the air to make their own food using sunlight?
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide and water are the raw materials that plants turn into food with the energy of light. The process, photosynthesis, releases oxygen as a byproduct.
Q 16Which plant-eating dinosaur had a large bony frill behind its head and a long horn above each eye?
Triceratops
Triceratops lived about 69 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America, where it was most likely hunted by Tyrannosaurus rex.
Q 17What kind of animal was Laika, the Moscow stray that became the first creature to orbit the Earth?
A dog
A dog from the streets was picked on purpose: Soviet scientists assumed Moscow strays had already learned to endure extreme cold and hunger. Laika flew aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Q 18Which metal, the main ingredient of steel, is the most common element on Earth by mass?
Iron
Iron forms much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is also one of the few common metals, along with cobalt and nickel, that a magnet will attract.
Q 19Which gas, a form of oxygen, forms a high layer that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet rays?
Ozone
Ozone has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two. The layer it forms soaks up 97 to 99 percent of the Sun's medium-frequency ultraviolet light.
Q 20Which slow giant, a filter feeder that eats mostly plankton, is the largest living species of fish?
Whale shark
Whale shark mouths can hold more than 300 rows of tiny teeth, yet the animal filters its food from the water. The longest one reliably recorded measured 18.8 metres.
Q 24Which country, the second largest in the world by area, has the longest coastline of any nation?
Canada
Canada has about 243,000 km of coastline along the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its red maple leaf flag is younger than it looks, adopted only in 1965.
Q 25Which country, the largest in South America, is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas?
Brazil
Brazil took its language from Portugal after the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral landed there in 1500, and it remained a colony until 1815.
Q 26Which US state, admitted in 1959, is the only one made up entirely of islands?
Hawaii
Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands and is completely surrounded by water. It is also the only US state that does not lie in North America.
Q 27Which monument, oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is the only one largely intact?
Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu. At 146.6 metres when new, it was the tallest structure made by people for more than 3,700 years.
Q 28Which continent contains 54 fully recognised countries, among them Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco?
Africa
Africa is considered by most scientists who study early humans to be the oldest inhabited territory on Earth, the place where the human species began.
Q 29Which country's people gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift, dedicated in 1886?
France
France supplied the statue, whose sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi chose copper over bronze or stone because it was cheaper and lighter. Americans had to pay for the pedestal.
Q 30Mount Fuji, a snow-capped volcano on the island of Honshu, is the highest mountain of which country?
Japan
Japan's highest peak rises 3,776 metres near the Pacific coast, just southwest of Tokyo. Its summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times.