These 100 quiz questions for kids come with answers, split into seven rounds and labelled by age: easy questions for ages 5 to 7, medium ones for 8 to 10 and harder ones for 11 to 13. The rounds cover general knowledge, animals, maths, words, geography, science, and sport and hobbies, so you can run a full quiz night or pick one round for a car journey.
Every one of these questions has one clear right answer, checked against sources such as NASA, NOAA and National Geographic. For more, our free online quizzes for kids mark answers automatically.
How to use these quiz questions for kids by age
Each round mixes three levels. The age labels are a guide: an animal-mad 7-year-old may sail through the hard animal questions.
| Level | Ages | Questions | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 5 to 7 | 34 | Reading aloud, early years classes, younger siblings |
| Medium | 8 to 10 | 33 | Class quizzes, birthday parties, family quiz night |
| Hard | 11 to 13 | 33 | Tie-breakers, older children, mixed-age teams |
| Round | Question numbers | Good follow-up |
|---|---|---|
| General knowledge | 1 to 15 | General knowledge quiz for kids |
| Animals | 16 to 30 | Animal quiz for kids |
| Maths | 31 to 45 | Math riddles for kids |
| Words and spelling | 46 to 60 | Spelling worksheets |
| Geography | 61 to 75 | World capitals quiz |
| Science | 76 to 85 | Science trivia for kids |
| Sport and hobbies | 86 to 100 | Award certificates for the winners |
General knowledge: time, calendars and famous names
Start here. These general knowledge quiz questions for kids cover time, calendars and a few famous names, so every age can score. For question 15, NASA records that Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space on 12 April 1961.
- How many days are there in a week? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Seven - How many months are there in a year? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Twelve - Which month comes straight after March? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: April - Which day comes straight after Friday? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Saturday - How many minutes are there in one hour? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 60 - How many hours are there in one day? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 24 - Which month has the fewest days? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: February - How many years are there in a century? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 100 - How many days are there in a leap year? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 366 - Which is heavier: a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of bricks? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Neither. They both weigh one kilogram - Who painted the Mona Lisa? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci - What do the letters “www” stand for in a website address? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: World Wide Web - How many years are there in a millennium? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 1,000 - What is the currency of Japan called? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The yen - Who was the first person to travel into space? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961
Animal questions, from kittens to octopuses
Animal rounds are usually the favourite. For question 25, National Geographic explains that a camel’s hump stores fat, not water. For question 26, NOAA notes that octopuses have three hearts, and the Australian Museum confirms that the platypus and echidnas, the monotremes, lay eggs.
- What is a baby cat called? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: A kitten - Which insect makes honey? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: The bee (honeybee) - Which big grey animal has a long trunk? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: The elephant - What is a baby dog called? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: A puppy - Which black-and-white bear from China eats mostly bamboo? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: The giant panda - What is the tallest animal in the world? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: The giraffe - What is a baby kangaroo called? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: A joey - What is a group of lions called? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: A pride - Which bird is the tallest and heaviest in the world? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: The ostrich - What does a camel store in its hump: water or fat? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Fat - How many hearts does an octopus have? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Three - Which two kinds of mammal lay eggs? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The platypus and echidnas - What is the largest fish in the world? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The whale shark - Which tiny bird can hover in mid-air and even fly backwards? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The hummingbird - What word describes animals that are active at night and sleep in the day? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Nocturnal
Maths questions from adding to square roots
These maths questions move from adding to percentages and square roots, all checked with Python.
- What is 5 + 5? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 10 - How many sides does a square have? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 4 - Which number comes straight after 99? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 100 - What is 10 − 3? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 7 - Which is bigger, 18 or 81? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 81 - What is 7 × 8? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 56 - How many sides does a hexagon have? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 6 - What is half of 90? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 45 - How many centimetres are there in a metre? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 100 - What is 100 − 37? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 63 - What is 12 × 12? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 144 - How many degrees are there in a right angle? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 90 - What is 25% of 80? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 20 - What is the next prime number after 7? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 11 - What is the square root of 81? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 9
Words and spelling: from the alphabet to homophones
These word quiz questions for kids test letters, plurals and grammar. Write the hard words on a board.
- How many letters are there in the English alphabet? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: 26 - Which letter comes straight after G? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: H - What is the opposite of “hot”? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Cold - Which letter comes last in the alphabet? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Z - Which word rhymes with “cat” and is something you wear on your head? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Hat - What is the plural of “mouse”? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Mice - What do we call a word that names a person, place or thing? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: A noun - What is the past tense of “run”? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Ran - What is the plural of “child”? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Children - How many syllables are there in “elephant”? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Three (el-e-phant) - What do we call a word that reads the same backwards and forwards, like “level”? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: A palindrome - What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings, like “pair” and “pear”? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Homophones - What type of word describes a noun, like “red” or “huge”? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: An adjective - Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Roald Dahl - What do the letters NASA stand for? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Geography: capitals, rivers, oceans and more
Capitals from the UK, the US, India, Pakistan and the UAE make these geography questions fair for families around the world.
- What is the capital city of the United Kingdom? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: London - Which country is directly north of the USA? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Canada - In which city is the Eiffel Tower? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Paris - What do we call a piece of land with water all around it? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: An island - Which icy continent is home to the South Pole? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Antarctica - What is the capital of India? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: New Delhi - What is the capital of Pakistan? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Islamabad - What is the capital of the United States? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Washington, D.C. - Which ocean lies between Europe and North America? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean - How many states are there in the USA? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 50 - What is the capital of Australia? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Canberra - What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Abu Dhabi - Which river flows through Cairo? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The Nile - What is the smallest country in the world? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Vatican City - What is the largest country in the world by area? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Russia
A short science round
A short round of 10 that doesn’t repeat our 50 science trivia questions for kids.
- What do we call water that falls from the clouds in drops? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Rain - Which part of a plant grows under the ground and takes in water? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: The roots - Which of these is a liquid: a stone, milk or a pencil? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Milk - Which gas do we need to breathe in to stay alive? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Oxygen - At what temperature in degrees Celsius does pure water freeze? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 0 °C - What is the name of our galaxy? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: The Milky Way - About how many days does Earth take to travel once around the Sun? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: About 365 days (one year) - What is the centre of an atom called? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The nucleus - What is the coloured part of your eye called? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: The iris - Which metal is a liquid at room temperature? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Mercury
Sport and hobbies: from badminton to the piano
Finish with these questions on games, music and the Olympics.
- How many wheels does a bicycle have? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Two - Which sport is played with a shuttlecock? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Badminton - What do we call the person who blows the whistle and makes the decisions in a football match? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: The referee - In which sport can a batter hit a “six”? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Cricket - Which sport is played at Wimbledon? (Ages 5 to 7)
Answer: Tennis - How many players does each football (soccer) team have on the pitch? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 11 - How many rings are there on the Olympic flag? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: Five - How many squares are there on a chessboard? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 64 - How many cards are there in a standard pack, without jokers? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 52 - How many keys does a standard piano have? (Ages 8 to 10)
Answer: 88 - In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Athens, Greece - In tennis, what word means a score of zero? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Love - What does a philatelist collect? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Stamps - How many strings does a violin have? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: Four - What do all the dots on a normal six-sided dice add up to? (Ages 11 to 13)
Answer: 21
How to run a quiz for kids in 30 minutes
- Pick three or four rounds of kids quiz questions and answers. For under-8s, use only the easy questions.
- Make mixed-age teams of three or four, with one younger and one older child in each.
- Read each question twice and allow about 20 seconds.
- Mark after each round and add one sentence of explanation. That is where the learning happens.
- Use a tie-breaker. Question 100 (the dots on a dice) or “How many keys does a piano have?” both work.
- Give a prize, such as a printable certificate for the winning team or the best team name.
Common mistakes with quiz questions for kids
- Questions with two right answers. “What is the longest river?” depends on how you measure the Nile and the Amazon, and “What is the largest desert?” could be Antarctica or the Sahara. We left both out.
- Too many hard questions for young players. Keep most questions easy for under-8s so everyone scores.
More quizzes, trivia and riddles on PrintSheetLab
If your children enjoyed these questions, try the online flags quiz, the solar system quiz or the human body quiz. For older children, our Gandhi Jayanti quiz adds a history round, and would you rather questions for kids make a good no-wrong-answer warm-up.
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- US state capitals quiz
- Indian states and capitals quiz
- Birthday party games for kids
Sources
Gagarin and NASA’s full name: NASA. Octopus hearts: NOAA Ocean Service. Egg-laying mammals: Australian Museum. Camel humps: National Geographic. Ostrich: National Geographic Kids.
Frequently asked questions
6 quick answers
What are good quiz questions for kids?
Good ones have one clear answer and suit the child’s age. Try “What is a baby kangaroo called?” (a joey), “What is 7 × 8?” (56) or “What is the capital of Australia?” (Canberra).
What are easy quiz questions for kids aged 5 to 7?
Easy quiz questions for kids aged 5 to 7 include: How many days are in a week? (Seven.) What is a baby dog called? (A puppy.) How many wheels does a bicycle have? (Two.)
What are fun quiz questions for kids aged 10 to 13?
Fun quiz questions for kids this age include: How many hearts does an octopus have? (Three.) What does a philatelist collect? (Stamps.) What is the smallest country in the world? (Vatican City.)
How many questions should a quiz for kids have?
For under-8s, 10 to 15 questions is plenty. Older children can manage 30 to 40 questions in three or four rounds, which takes about 30 minutes.
Where can I find printable kids quiz questions and answers?
Print this page: it has 100 quiz questions for kids with answers under each one. For self-marking practice on a screen, use our free online quizzes for kids.
How do you make a quiz fair for different ages?
Use mixed-age teams, let the youngest player answer the easy questions first, and give older children the hard questions as bonus points.