120 Trivia Questions for Kids and Adults Who Need to Learn a Thing or Two

Kids love to ask why. But what kids love even more than asking why is being know-it-alls. When you’re hosting game night or simply hanging out with family, it’s normal to throw in a few jokes and games here and there to lighten up the mood. Trivia questions for kids are a guaranteed hit — kids love to tell you all the random nonsense they know. So, if you want to go toe-to-toe with your kids, you need random facts.

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Trivia questions for kids are an easy way to test the knowledge of children and teach them new things. And by engaging in this activity, they ultimately hone practical skills like quick-thinking and the ability to provide timely responses.

We’ve curated unique trivia questions that span different genres. Though some will crack you up, the rest will fill you with awe. From animals to space, to movies, then American history, here are 120 trivia questions for kids — and adults who need to learn a thing or two.

1. Trivia Question: What is the fastest land animal?
   Answer: The cheetah.
2. Trivia Question: What is the largest planet in the solar system?
   Answer:: Jupiter. 
3. Trivia Question: Who was the first president of the United States?
   Answer: George Washington.
4. Trivia Question: What is the largest organ on the human body?
   Answer: The skin.
5. Trivia Question: What natural phenomenon usually comes after a rainstorm?
   Answer: A rainbow! 
6. Trivia Question: Where is the White House located?
   Answer: Washington, D.C.
7. Trivia Question: Where is the Eiffel Tower located?
   Answer: Paris, France. 
8. Trivia Question: What is the name of the first song heard in The Lion King?
   Answer: “The Circle of Life.”
9. Trivia Question: What country invented the ice cream sundae?
   Answer: The United States.
10. Trivia Question: Who was the first African American president of the United States?
    Answer: Barack Obama. 
11. Trivia Question: What were Jack and Jill going up the hill to fetch?
    Answer: A pale of water.
12. Trivia Question: What is another name for the 4th of July holiday?
    Answer: Independence Day.
13. Trivia Question: Who painted The Mona Lisa?
    Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
14. Trivia Question: “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack _______.” What is the next line?
    Answer: Jack jump over the candlestick.
15. Trivia Question: What country gifted the United States the Statue of Liberty?
    Answer: France. The statue was handed over back in 1885.
16. Trivia Question: Which dwarf from Snow White mixes up his words?
    Answer: Doc. 
17. Trivia Question: What is the name of the pet dinosaur on The Flintstones?
    Answer: Dino. 
18. Trivia Question: What famous ocean liner tragically sank back in 1912?
    Answer: The Titanic.
19. Trivia Question: What color is the fish from The Cat in the Hat?
    Answer: Pink! 
20. Trivia Question: What do you call a baby goat?
    Answer: A kid.
21. Trivia Question: Name a mammal that can’t jump.
    Answer: Elephant, sloth, hippo, or rhino.
22. Trivia Question: What is a group of crows called?
    Answer: A murder.
23. Trivia Question: What is a group of lions called?
    Answer: A pride.
24. Trivia Question: What is the nearest planet to the Sun?
    Answer: Mercury.
25. Trivia Question: How many inches are in a foot?
    Answer: 12.
26. Trivia Question: How many feet are in a yard?
    Answer: Three.
27. Trivia Question: How many sides does a pentagon have?
    Answer: Five.
28. Trivia Question: How many zeros are in a million?
    Answer: Six.
29. Trivia Question: What degree is a right angle?
    Answer: 90 degrees.
30. Trivia Question: What is the top number of a fraction called?
    Answer: A numerator.
31. Trivia Question: What is the bottom number of a fraction called?
    Answer: A denominator.
32. Trivia Question: If a car is traveling at 65 mph, how many miles would it travel in six hours?
    Answer: 390.
33. Trivia Question: What bird lives in Antarctica and cannot fly?
    Answer: Penguin.
34. Trivia Question: How many arms does an octopus have?
    Answer: Eight.
35. Trivia Question: How many arms does a starfish have?
    Answer: Five.
36. Trivia Question: What is the longest bone in the human body?
    Answer: Femur.
37. Trivia Question: True or false, there is gravity on the Moon?
    Answer: False.
38. Trivia Question: What is the name for the holes on the Moon’s surface?
    Answer: Craters.
39. Trivia Question: Which bird can learn to mimic human speech?
    Answer: Parrots.
40. Trivia Question: What allows birds to fly?
    Answer: Their wings.
41. Trivia Question: How many edges does a cube have?
    Answer: 12.
42. Trivia Question: What is a female elephant called?
    Answer: A cow.
43. Trivia Question: A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the moon and what else?
    Answer: The sun.
44. Trivia Question: What is the largest bird in the world?
    Answer: The ostrich.
45. Trivia Question: What is the most common species of bird found in the world?
    Answer: Chicken.
46. Trivia Question: Hummingbirds can fly backwards. True or False?
    Answer: True.
47. Trivia Question: Which body parts continue to grow throughout your entire life?
    Answer: Your ears and nose.
48. Trivia Question: What is the most common training command taught to dogs?
    Answer: “Sit”
49. Trivia Question: True or false, dalmatians are born with spots?
    Answer: False, dalmatian puppies are born white, and their spots come later in life.
50. Trivia Question: What do snakes smell with?
    Answer: Their tongue.
51. Trivia Question: Which fruit does SpongeBob live in?
    Answer: Pineapple.
52. Trivia Question: Which princess lived with seven dwarfs?
    Answer: Snow White.
53. Trivia Question: What is Winnie the Pooh’s favorite treat?
    Answer: Honey.
54. Trivia Question: Who is the villain in The Little Mermaid?
    Answer: Ursula
55. Trivia Question: What television series cartoon dog says, “Ruh Roh!”?
    Answer: Scooby-Doo.
56. Trivia Question: What color is the sky?
    Answer: Blue.
57. Trivia Question: What is Shrek’s wife’s name?
    Answer: Fiona.
58. Trivia Question: What was the baby lion’s name in The Lion King?
    Answer: Simba.
59. Trivia Question: Where did Harry Potter go to school?
    Answer: Hogwarts.
60. Trivia Question: What does Mario jump on after completing a level?
    Answer: A flagpole.
61. Trivia Question: What weakens Superman?
    Answer: Kryptonite.
62. Trivia Question: What is the name of Barbie’s male companion?
    Answer: Ken.
63. Trivia Question: What planet is home to Chewbacca and the Wookiees in Star Wars?
    Answer: Kashyyyk.
64. Trivia Question: What is Batman’s real name?
    Answer: Bruce Wayne.
65. Trivia Question: Who is Spider-Man’s crush?
    Answer: Mary Jane Watson.
66. Trivia Question: Who is Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend?
    Answer: Minnie Mouse.
67. Trivia Question: Where does Santa Claus live?
    Answer: The North Pole.
68. Trivia Question: What’s a lucky object that you can find in the grass?
    Answer: A four-leaf clover.
69. Trivia Question: Which color means “GO” on a stoplight?
    Answer: Green.
    
70. Trivia Question: Give a name for a two-wheeled vehicle with no motor.
    Answer: Bicycle.
71. Trivia Question: How many continents are there?
    Answer: Seven (bonus points for naming them!)
72. Trivia Question: How many oceans are there?
    Answer: Four (bonus points for naming them!)
73. Trivia Question: What kind of trees have cones?
    Answer: Connifers.
74. Trivia Question: Where do polar bears live?
    Answer: Arctic.
75. Trivia Question: Who was the first Disney Princess?
    Answer: Snow White.
76. Trivia Question: What animal was Walt Disney’s first cartoon?
    Answer: A rabbit.
77. Trivia Question: What was Pixar’s first movie?
    Answer: Toy Story.
78. Trivia Question: How many seasons are there in a year?
    Answer: Four (bonus points for naming them!)
79. Trivia Question: Why kind of water vehicles dive underwater?
    Answer: Submarines.
80. Trivia Question: What do you call an area that receives 10 inches or less of rainfall each year?
    Answer: A desert.
81. Trivia Question: What is the largest city in the U.S. by population?
    Answer: New York City.
82. Trivia Question: What is the largest city in Europe by population?
    Answer: Istanbul, Turkey.
83. Trivia Question: What is the largest city in the world by population?
    Answer: Tokyo, Japan.
84. Trivia Question: What is the only mammal that lays eggs?
    Answer: The duck-billed platypus. 
85. Trivia Question: What is the largest animal in the world?
    Answer: The blue whale.
86. Trivia Question: What is the largest living organism in the world?
    Answer: Honey mushroom in Oregon.
87. Trivia Question: How many stars are there on the American flag?
    Answer: 50.
88. Trivia Question: How many stripes are there on the American flag?
    Answer: 13.
89. Trivia Question: How many states are there in the U.S.?
    Answer: 50.
90. Trivia Question: What are preserved bones of extinct animals called?
    Answer: Fossils.
91. Trivia Question: What movie made the most money of all time?
    Answer: Avatar.
92. Trivia Question: What year was Minecraft released?
    Answer: 2011.
93. Trivia Question: What is the largest theme park in the world?
    Answer: Walt Disney World Resorts, Orlando, FL.
94. Trivia Question: In the U.S., do people have more cats or dogs?
    Answer: The majority of pet-owning homes have dogs, but there are nearly twice as many cats kept as pets.
95. Trivia Question: What is the largest state in the U.S.?
    Answer: Alaska.
96. Trivia Question: What is the smallest state in the U.S.?
    Answer: Rhode Island.
97. Trivia Question: What is the largest zoo in the U.S.?
    Answer: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C.
98. Trivia Question: What is the most popular holiday in the U.S.?
    Answer: Christmas.
99. Trivia Question: How many Great Lakes are there?
    Answer: Five (bonus points for naming them!)
100. Trivia Question: How many members of the Beatles were there?
     Answer: Four.
101. Trivia Question: How many wheels does a semi-truck have?
     Answer: 18.
102. Trivia Question: How many states did the U.S. start with?
     Answer: 13.
103. Trivia Question: When was the U.S. established?
     Answer: 1776.
104. Trivia Question: What is the smallest country in the world?
     Answer: Vatican City.
105. Trivia Question: What is the largest country in the world?
     Answer: Russia.
106. Trivia Question: Where does K-Pop come from?
     Answer: South Korea.
107. Trivia Question: Who is the current U.S. president?
     Answer: Joe Biden.
108. Trivia Question: What is the only U.S. state that’s an island?
     Answer: Hawaii.
109. Trivia Question: What do biologists study?
     Answer: Life.
110. Trivia Question: What does a barometer measure?
     Answer: Pressure.
111. Trivia Question: What does a thermometer measure?
     Answer: Temperature.
112. Trivia Question: What was the name of John F. Kennedy’s wife?
     Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy.
113. Trivia Question: Before the laws were changed in 2000, how long was a French president’s term?
     Answer: Seven years.
114. Trivia Question: The American designer born in 1939 as Ralph Lifshitz is better known as what?
     Answer: Ralph Lauren.
115. Trivia Question: Who invented the bidet?
     Answer: Christophe Des Rosiers.
116. Trivia Question: Who invented the LBD (little black dress)?
     Answer: Coco Chanel.
117. Trivia Question: Where can you find the Petronas Towers?
     Answer: Kuala Lumpur.
118. Trivia Question: What is the smallest size bed available in the United States?
     Answer: Twin.
119. Trivia Question: Stripes, chevron, floral, and plaid are examples of what?
     Answer: Patterns.
120. Trivia Question: According to the commercial, “What is the fabric of our lives”?
     Answer: Cotton.