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Trivia Questions For Kids Aged 6-12
Published on August 8, 2025

100 Trivia Questions For Kids Aged 6-12 (With Answers)

Written by Akinwale

Trivia is a great way for kids to learn new things in a fun and playful way.

Whether you’re in the classroom, on a road trip, or just enjoying family game night, these trivia questions for kids cover a wide range of topics to keep children engaged and thinking.

Animals

1. What is the fastest land animal in the world?

  • (Answer: Cheetah)

2. What do you call a baby kangaroo?

  • (Answer: Joey)

3. Which animal is known as the “King of the Jungle”?

  • (Answer: Lion)

4. What do pandas mainly eat?

  • (Answer: Bamboo)

5. What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon?

  • (Answer: Lizard)

6. Which bird is known for mimicking sounds and human speech?

  • (Answer: Parrot)

7. What’s the biggest mammal in the world?

  • (Answer: Blue whale)

8. What do bees make?

  • (Answer: Honey)

9. Which animal is famous for playing dead as a defense trick?

  • (Answer: Opossum)

10. What do you call a group of lions?

  • (Answer: A pride)

Space and planets

11. What planet is known as the Red Planet?

  • (Answer: Mars)

12. What is the name of our galaxy?

  • (Answer: The Milky Way)

13. What planet is closest to the Sun?

  • (Answer: Mercury)

14. What do you call the path a planet takes around the Sun?

  • (Answer: Orbit)

15. Which planet has rings around it?

  • (Answer: Saturn)

16. What planet do we live on?

  • (Answer: Earth)

17. What is the Sun made of?

  • (Answer: Hot gases, mostly hydrogen and helium)

18. How many moons does Earth have?

  • (Answer: One)

19. What is the name of the first man to walk on the Moon?

  • (Answer: Neil Armstrong)

20. Which planet is the largest in our solar system?

  • (Answer: Jupiter)

Food and drink

21. What fruit is yellow and shaped like a smile?

  • (Answer: Banana)

22. What is the main ingredient in guacamole?

  • (Answer: Avocado)

23. Which food is made from flour and usually topped with cheese and tomato?

  • (Answer: Pizza)

24. What kind of food is a carrot?

  • (Answer: Vegetable)

25. What sweet food is made by bees?

  • (Answer: Honey)

26. What dairy product do you get from cows?

  • (Answer: Milk)

27. What color are ripe strawberries?

  • (Answer: Red)

28. What meal do people usually eat in the morning?

  • (Answer: Breakfast)

29. Which fruit is famous for keeping the doctor away?

  • (Answer: Apple)

30. What drink do you get from squeezing oranges?

  • (Answer: Orange juice)

Sports

31. What sport uses a bat and a ball and is popular in England?

  • (Answer: Cricket)

32. How many players are on a soccer team?

  • (Answer: 11)

33. In which sport do you shoot hoops?

  • (Answer: Basketball)

34. What do you hit in a game of badminton?

  • (Answer: Shuttlecock)

35. What color flag means a car must stop in a race?

  • (Answer: Red)

36. What sport is played at Wimbledon?

  • (Answer: Tennis)

37. What kind of race includes swimming, biking, and running?

  • (Answer: Triathlon)

38. What is the object thrown in bowling called?

  • (Answer: Bowling ball)

39. What is the name of the competition where countries compete in many sports every four years?

  • (Answer: Olympics)

40. Which sport is known as “the beautiful game”?

  • (Answer: Football/Soccer)

Movies and TV

41. Who is the cowboy in Toy Story?

  • (Answer: Woody)

42. What kind of fish is Nemo?

  • (Answer: Clownfish)

43. Which movie features a snowman named Olaf?

  • (Answer: Frozen)

44. What is the name of the green ogre in the animated movie series?

  • (Answer: Shrek)

45. What superhero wears a red and blue suit and shoots webs?

  • (Answer: Spider-Man)

46. Which Disney princess has a pet tiger named Rajah?

  • (Answer: Jasmine)

47. What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?

  • (Answer: Tinker Bell)

48. Which animated movie features talking cars?

  • (Answer: Cars)

49. Who is the king of the Pride Lands in The Lion King?

  • (Answer: Simba)

50. What is the name of the girl who falls down a rabbit hole?

  • (Answer: Alice)

Geography

51. What is the largest continent?

  • (Answer: Asia)

52. What is the capital city of France?

  • (Answer: Paris)

53. Which ocean is the biggest?

  • (Answer: Pacific Ocean)

54. What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?

  • (Answer: Mount Everest)

55. Which country is shaped like a boot?

  • (Answer: Italy)

56. What river runs through Egypt?

  • (Answer: The Nile)

57. What is the coldest continent?

  • (Answer: Antarctica)

58. What is the capital of Nigeria?

  • (Answer: Abuja)

59. In which country can you find the Great Wall?

  • (Answer: China)

60. Which continent is home to the Amazon rainforest?

  • (Answer: South America)

History

61. Who was the first president of the United States?

  • (Answer: George Washington)

62. In which year did the Titanic sink?

  • (Answer: 1912)

63. Who was known as the ‘Mother of Civil Rights’?

  • (Answer: Rosa Parks)

64. What ancient civilization built the pyramids?

  • (Answer: The Egyptians)

65. Who was the famous leader of the civil rights movement in America?

  • (Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.)

66. What wall divided Berlin until 1989?

  • (Answer: The Berlin Wall)

67. Which explorer discovered America in 1492?

  • (Answer: Christopher Columbus)

68. Who was the first man on the moon?

  • (Answer: Neil Armstrong)

69. Which war ended in 1945?

  • (Answer: World War II)

70. What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?

  • (Answer: The Mayflower)

Science

71. What do plants need to make food?

  • (Answer: Sunlight)

72. What part of the body helps you think?

  • (Answer: Brain)

73. What force keeps us on the ground?

  • (Answer: Gravity)

74. Which organ pumps blood?

  • (Answer: Heart)

75. What is H2O more commonly known as?

  • (Answer: Water)

76. What gas do humans need to breathe?

  • (Answer: Oxygen)

77. What is the name of the process where caterpillars become butterflies?

  • (Answer: Metamorphosis)

78. What is the hardest substance in the human body?

  • (Answer: Tooth enamel)

79. What planet is known for its rings?

  • (Answer: Saturn)

80. What do you call a scientist who studies stars and planets?

  • (Answer: Astronomer)

Math

81. What is 10 + 5?

  • (Answer: 15)

82. What shape has three sides?

  • (Answer: Triangle)

83. What is half of 100?

  • (Answer: 50)

84. What is 9 x 2?

  • (Answer: 18)

85. What do you call a number that is not a fraction?

  • (Answer: Whole number)

86. How many sides does a square have?

  • (Answer: 4)

87. What is the value of a dime in cents?

  • (Answer: 10)

88. What is 25 minus 5?

  • (Answer: 20)

89. What comes after a million?

  • (Answer: Billion)

90. What is the square of 4?

  • (Answer: 16)

Fairy tales

91. Who wore a glass slipper?

  • (Answer: Cinderella)

92. What did the Big Bad Wolf blow down?

  • (Answer: The three little pigs’ houses)

93. Who lived in a house made of candy?

  • (Answer: Hansel and Gretel)

94. What grew from Jack’s magic beans?

  • (Answer: A beanstalk)

95. What was Sleeping Beauty’s real name?

  • (Answer: Aurora)

96. Who climbed up a tower using long hair?

  • (Answer: Rapunzel)

97. What did Snow White eat that made her sleep?

  • (Answer: A poisoned apple)

98. Who said, ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down’?

  • (Answer: The Big Bad Wolf)

99. What animal did the ugly duckling grow up to be?

  • (Answer: A swan)

100. Who turned into a pumpkin at midnight?

  • (Answer: Cinderella’s carriage)
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