Animals 1. What is the largest land animal? (Answer: Elephant) 2. What bird cannot fly but is the fastest runner? (Answer: Ostrich) 3. What is a group of fish called? (Answer: School) 4. How many legs does a spider have? (Answer: Eight) 5. What is the tallest animal in the world? (Answer: Giraffe) 6. Which sea creature has eight legs? (Answer: Octopus) 7. What is the fastest bird in the world? (Answer: Peregrine Falcon) 8. What do pandas mostly eat? (Answer: Bamboo) 9. What is the only mammal that can fly? (Answer: Bat) 10. What is the largest cat species? (Answer: Tiger) Science 1. What planet is known as the "Red Planet"? (Answer: Mars) 2. What do plants need to make food? (Answer: Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide) 3. How many bones does a human adult have? (Answer: 206) 4. What is the process of plants making food called? (Answer: Photosynthesis) 5. Which part of the plant is responsible for photosynthesis? (Answer: Leaves) 6. What gas do humans need to breathe? (Answer: Oxygen) 7. What is the freezing point of water in Celsius? (Answer: 0°C) 8. What is a baby frog called? (Answer: Tadpole) 9. What force keeps us on the ground? (Answer: Gravity) 10. Which planet is closest to the sun? (Answer: Mercury) History 1. Who was the first President of the United States? (Answer: George Washington) 2. What ship carried the Pilgrims to America? (Answer: The Mayflower) 3. Who was the 16th President of the United States? (Answer: Abraham Lincoln) 4. Who invented the lightning rod? (Answer: Benjamin Franklin) 5. What ancient civilization built the pyramids? (Answer: Egyptians) 6. Who is known as the "Father of the Telephone"? (Answer: Alexander Graham Bell) 7. Who discovered America in 1492? (Answer: Christopher Columbus) 8. What famous wall was built in China to keep invaders out? (Answer: The Great Wall of China) 9. What famous ship sank in 1912? (Answer: Titanic) 10. Who was the first person to walk on the moon? (Answer: Neil Armstrong) Geography What is the largest continent in the world? (Answer: Asia) What is the capital of the United States? (Answer: Washington, D.C.) Which ocean is the largest? (Answer: Pacific Ocean) What is the tallest mountain in the world? (Answer: Mount Everest) What is the longest river in the world? (Answer: Nile or Amazon, depending on definition) 6. Which country is famous for the Eiffel Tower? (Answer: France) 7. What is the capital of England? (Answer: London) 8. What continent is Australia located on? (Answer: Australia) 9. What is the smallest country in the world? (Answer: Vatican City) 10. What country has a maple leaf on its flag? (Answer: Canada) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Math 1. What is 5 x 5? (Answer: 25) 2. What is 12 ÷ 4? (Answer: 3) 3. How many sides does a hexagon have? (Answer: Six) 4. What is 7 x 8? (Answer: 56) 5. What is the term for a shape with four equal sides? (Answer: Square) 6. What is 100 - 25? (Answer: 75) 7. How many quarters make a dollar? (Answer: Four) 8. What is the name of the result in addition? (Answer: Sum) 9. What is 15 ÷ 3? (Answer: 5) 10. How many days are in a leap year? (Answer: 366) Sports What is the national sport of the United States? (Answer: Baseball) How many players are on a basketball team? (Answer: Five) In what sport do you score a touchdown? (Answer: Football) What is the name of the famous tennis tournament in England? (Answer: Wimbledon) 5. What is the object hit in badminton called? (Answer: Shuttlecock) 6. How many rings are there in the Olympic logo? (Answer: Five) 7. What sport is played at Wimbledon? (Answer: Tennis) 1. 2. 3. 4. 8. What sport uses a bat and ball and is played on a diamond? (Answer: Baseball) 9. In what sport would you do a slam dunk? (Answer: Basketball) 10. What sport is known as "ping pong"? (Answer: Table Tennis) Literature Who wrote "Charlotte's Web"? (Answer: E.B. White) Who wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia"? (Answer: C. S. Lewis) What is the name of the bear in "The Jungle Book"? (Answer: Baloo) Who wrote "The Cat in the Hat"? (Answer: Dr. Seuss) What is the name of Dorothy’s dog in "The Wizard of Oz"? (Answer: Toto) 6. What kind of animal is Stuart Little? (Answer: Mouse) 7. What type of animal is Wilbur in "Charlotte’s Web"? (Answer: Pig) 8. Who is Winnie-the-Pooh’s best friend? (Answer: Piglet) 9. Who wrote "Matilda"? (Answer: Roald Dahl) 10. What is the name of the girl in "Alice in Wonderland"? (Answer: Alice) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Nature What is the largest rainforest in the world? (Answer: Amazon Rainforest) What do you call a scientist who studies plants? (Answer: Botanist) What is the tallest tree species in the world? (Answer: Redwood) What is the center of a flower called? (Answer: Pistil) What type of rock is made from cooled lava? (Answer: Igneous rock) What do camels store in their humps? (Answer: Fat) What is the name of Earth’s largest animal? (Answer: Blue whale) What do butterflies start out as? (Answer: Caterpillars) What are small streams that flow into larger rivers called? (Answer: Tributaries) 10. What is another name for a tidal wave? (Answer: Tsunami) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Random Fun 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What is the most popular color of a car? (Answer: White) What is the most popular flavor of ice cream? (Answer: Vanilla) What is the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog? (Answer: Pluto) How many planets are in the solar system? (Answer: Eight) What do you call a baby kangaroo? (Answer: Joey) What color is an emerald? (Answer: Green) 7. How many hours are in a day? (Answer: 24) 8. What do you call a group of stars that form a pattern? (Answer: Constellation) 9. What is the fastest way to travel? (Answer: By plane) 10. What is the most widely spoken language in the world? (Answer: Mandarin Chinese) Music 1. How many strings does a violin have? (Answer: Four) 2. What is the name of a group of singers? (Answer: Choir) 3. What musical family does the trumpet belong to? (Answer: Brass) 4. What is the largest instrument in an orchestra? (Answer: Double bass) 5. What is the term for the speed of music? (Answer: Tempo) 6. What is the name of the notes written on a music sheet? (Answer: Staff) 7. How many black keys are on a piano? (Answer: 36) 8. What instrument has pedals and strings? (Answer: Harp) 9. Who composed "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"? (Answer: Mozart) 10. What is a song sung without instruments called? (Answer: A cappella)