Kids quiz questions for a fun family quiz night
Why a kids' quiz round works so well
Kids love quizzes for the same reason adults do: getting an answer right feels great. The trick with a family or classroom quiz is pitching every question at a level where most kids in the room have a genuine shot at getting it, without it feeling babyish. That's what this list is for.
Below are 30 questions split into four easy, friendly rounds: animals, geography, science, and general knowledge. There's no "hard" section here on purpose. Every question is aimed at roughly ages 7 to 12, so you can run the whole thing without splitting the room into winners and losers. If you want a printable quiz builder to run a bigger family event, our quiz creator lets you put a round together in minutes.
Animals and Nature
1What do you call a baby dog?
Answer:A puppy(click to reveal)
2How many legs does a spider have?
Answer:Eight(click to reveal)
3What is the fastest land animal in the world?
Answer:The cheetah(click to reveal)
4What do bees collect from flowers to make honey?
Answer:Nectar(click to reveal)
5Which big cat is the largest of them all, even bigger than a lion?
Answer:The tiger. The Siberian tiger is the biggest of all the big cats.(click to reveal)
6What do you call a baby kangaroo?
Answer:A joey(click to reveal)
7What is the largest fish in the world?
Answer:The whale shark. Don't let the name fool you, it's a shark, not a whale, and it can grow to over 12 metres long.(click to reveal)
8What do you call a group of lions?
Answer:A pride(click to reveal)
If your quizzers enjoyed this round, our dog quiz questions and cat quiz questions posts have plenty more animal trivia to borrow from.
Geography for Kids
9What is the capital city of France?
Answer:Paris(click to reveal)
10What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer:The Pacific Ocean(click to reveal)
11How many continents are there on Earth?
Answer:Seven(click to reveal)
12Which country is famously shaped like a boot?
Answer:Italy(click to reveal)
13What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer:Mount Everest(click to reveal)
14What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer:Vatican City. It sits inside the city of Rome and is smaller than most football stadiums.(click to reveal)
15How many countries make up the United Kingdom?
Answer:Four. (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.)(click to reveal)
Science Fun Facts
16Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer:Mars(click to reveal)
17Which planet is closest to the sun?
Answer:Mercury(click to reveal)
18How many planets are there in our solar system?
Answer:Eight(click to reveal)
19What gas do plants take in from the air to help them grow?
Answer:Carbon dioxide(click to reveal)
20How many bones are there in an adult human body?
Answer:206(click to reveal)
21What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer:The skin(click to reveal)
22What colour is a polar bear's skin under its fur?
Answer:Black. Their fur only looks white because it's actually clear and see-through, and it scatters light the same way snow does.(click to reveal)
General Knowledge
23How many minutes are there in an hour?
Answer:Sixty(click to reveal)
24What do we call a shape with three sides?
Answer:A triangle(click to reveal)
25How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer:Six(click to reveal)
26What colour do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint together?
Answer:Green(click to reveal)
27How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer:366(click to reveal)
28How many players from each team are on the pitch in a game of football?
Answer:Eleven(click to reveal)
29What is the first month of the year?
Answer:January(click to reveal)
30How many colours are there in a rainbow?
Answer:Seven(click to reveal)
Tips for running a kids' quiz round
Keep rounds short. Five to eight questions per round is plenty. Kids lose focus fast, and a short round that ends on a high is better than a long one that drags.
Read each question twice. Adults can usually keep up first time, but kids often need the question repeated before they've had a chance to think.
Let them work in small teams. Pairing a confident reader with a shy one means every child gets to contribute an answer, not just the loudest voice in the room.
Skip the buzzers for very young kids. A show of hands or a shout works better for under-8s than a proper buzzer system, which can turn into a fight over who pressed first.
Mix in a picture or sound round. Even one round where kids guess an animal noise or a cartoon character from a picture breaks up all the verbal questions and keeps energy up.
Prize everyone, not just the winners. A small sticker or sweet for taking part goes a long way toward keeping a kids' quiz fun rather than competitive in the wrong way.
Once the kids have had their round, you can always build out the rest of the night with our general knowledge questions or geography quiz questions for the grown-ups.
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