Animal Quiz for Kids

From the blue whale to the firefly: 45 animal questions for curious kids, about babies, groups, homes, food and record breakers. Play online, print a quiz, or read all the answers below. This animal quiz for kids also has the quiz in a printable form, and tables of baby animals, group names and record holders.

Animal quiz for kids to print (PDF)

These four pages show the printable animal quiz for kids: a multiple-choice sheet, a write-in sheet, the answer key and a black-and-white sheet that saves ink. Click any picture for the PDF, or use the quiz maker below to choose the number of questions and the paper size.

How to play the animal quiz for kids

• Pick the options above the quiz (questions, timer) and answer each question by tapping an answer, or press 1 to 4 on a keyboard.
• A correct answer moves on by itself; a wrong one shows the right answer so you learn it.
• At the end you get your score, stars and your best score so far, plus a list of the answers to learn.
• Press Challenge a friend to send a link with exactly the same questions, or Practice the ones I missed to go again.

All 45 questions and answers

1. What is the largest animal that has ever lived? Blue whale
2. What is the tallest animal in the world? Giraffe
3. Which is the fastest land animal? Cheetah
4. Which bird cannot fly but is the fastest runner among birds? Ostrich
5. How many hearts does an octopus have? 3
6. What do pandas mostly eat? Bamboo
7. Which animal is the national animal of India? Tiger
8. Which is the national bird of India? Peacock
9. What is a group of lions called? Pride
10. What is a group of wolves called? Pack
11. What is a group of fish called? School
12. Which mammal can truly fly? Bat
13. What do frogs start life as? Tadpoles
14. Which animal has black and white stripes? Zebra
15. How many legs does a crab have? 10
16. Which animal carries its baby in a pouch? Kangaroo
17. What is the biggest cat in the world? Tiger
18. What is a baby kangaroo called? Joey
19. Where does a bee live? Hive
20. Which animal is known for changing its skin color? Chameleon
21. Which reptile has a hard shell? Tortoise
22. Which bird is known for copying human speech? Parrot
23. Which bird is awake at night and hunts in the dark? Owl
24. What do we call animals that eat only plants? Herbivores
25. What do we call animals that eat only meat? Carnivores
26. Which sea animal has eight arms? Octopus
27. How many arms does a common starfish have? 5
28. Which animal is the largest living bird? Ostrich
29. Which animal is known as the king of the jungle? Lion
30. What is the name of a young horse? Foal
31. What does a caterpillar make before becoming a butterfly? Chrysalis
32. Which animal sleeps hanging upside down? Bat
33. What do cows have four of? Stomach chambers
34. Which is the largest land animal? African elephant
35. Which animal uses echolocation to find food at sea? Dolphin
36. Which animal has the longest neck? Giraffe
37. What is a female sheep called? Ewe
38. What is a male chicken called? Rooster
39. Which insect glows at night? Firefly
40. Which animal lives in a burrow called a warren? Rabbit
41. Which ocean animal is the largest fish? Whale shark
42. Which bird lays the largest eggs? Ostrich
43. Which big cat has spots and can climb trees easily? Leopard
44. How many humps does a dromedary camel have? 1
45. Which animal is famous for building dams? Beaver

Animal quiz for kids: 45 questions by topic

The animal quiz for kids has 45 questions, and this table sorts them into eight topics. Records and mammals have the most questions, so they are the best topics to start with:

Animal quiz: baby animals, males and females

An animal quiz often asks for the name of a baby animal, or for the male or female of a species. Children learn these names best in pairs, so the table below puts them side by side, and the quiz asks about a puppy, a joey, a foal and a calf, among others:

The quiz also asks for the male chicken (a rooster) and the female sheep (a ewe), so here are the male and female names of nine animals:

Some of the words are used for more than one animal. A calf is a young cow, but it is also the name for a baby elephant, a whale or a giraffe. A cub is a young lion, tiger, bear or fox.

Animal trivia: the names of groups

Animal trivia loves groups, because their names are funny and easy to remember. These are the group names that children meet most often, and three of them (pride, pack and school) are in the quiz:

Wikipedia’s list of animal names has hundreds more, including many of the groups and babies in the tables on this page.

Animal facts quiz: the record holders

An animal facts quiz usually includes the biggest, tallest and fastest animals. This table gives the animals from the quiz, with the facts that go with each one. The sizes are the largest ever measured, and most animals are smaller:

Animal questions for kids: plant eaters and meat eaters

Many animal questions for kids ask what an animal eats. There are three groups, and children should be able to name an example of each:

A five-day plan for the animal quiz

Children aged 6 to 10 can learn the answers to all 45 questions in a week with this plan. It takes about 10 minutes a day:

Playing all 45 questions takes 9 minutes at 12 seconds each, and the maker below can print 10 to 30 questions with an answer key.

Print this animal quiz for kids

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