50 Funny Trivia Questions for Teens

1. Australia's Fitzroy River turtle can take in oxygen underwater through which surprising body part?

2. Which tree-hugging animal has fingerprints that look almost exactly like human ones?

3. Why does a snake keep flicking its forked tongue?

4. What color is the front part of a giraffe's long tongue?

5. Butterflies can taste things using which body parts?

6. Goldfish are famous for having a 3-second memory. How long can they really remember things?

7. When a hagfish is attacked, what does it release to escape?

8. What is a group of giraffes called?

9. What happens when a shark loses a tooth?

10. Cockroaches do not use noses like ours to breathe. What do they take air in through?

11. In the 1830s, pills made from which food were sold in the US as a cure-all medicine?

12. In ancient Rome, what was a vomitorium actually for?

13. Machine-spun cotton candy was co-invented in 1897 by someone with which job?

14. According to Frank Epperson's account, how old was he when he accidentally froze a drink with a stick in it in 1905?

15. The world's first traffic light, set up in London in 1868, was built to control what?

16. Teaching at the University of Oxford began before which of these was founded?

17. Which of these has been around on Earth longer than trees?

18. Before rubber erasers, what did people use to rub out pencil mistakes?

19. Levi Hutchins built a personal alarm clock in 1787 that rang at just one time. What time?

20. What is a 'nibling'?

21. What is the medical name for earwax?

22. The word sarcasm comes from a Greek word meaning what?

23. The word muscle comes from a Latin word meaning what?

24. If your teacher says you are lollygagging, what are you doing?

25. What is a kerfuffle?

26. What does sesquipedalian describe?

27. What is the official word for the rumbling sound your stomach makes?

28. Fortune cookies, served at many Chinese restaurants in the US, most likely trace back to which country?

29. The tangerine is named after which city?

30. Which sweet food made by bees resists spoilage when kept dry and sealed?

31. Why does chocolate melt so nicely in your mouth?

32. The jalapeño pepper is named after which place?

33. Cheddar cheese is named after a village in which country?

34. In 1995, scientists grew small tubers of which vegetable aboard the space shuttle Columbia?

35. Rhubarb is nicknamed the 'pie plant.' Which part of it is safe to eat?

36. What is the scientific name for brain freeze?

37. What is the groove between your nose and your upper lip called?

38. When you bang your funny bone, what are you actually hitting?

39. Which grow faster: your fingernails or your toenails?

40. At what time of day are most people a tiny bit taller?

41. Which U-shaped neck bone is suspended by muscles and ligaments rather than directly articulating with another bone?

42. What is the formal medical word for sneezing?

43. What is the medical term for that pins-and-needles feeling when your foot falls asleep?

44. What is the official national animal of Scotland?

45. The town of Boring in Oregon has a friendly partnership with a village in Scotland. What is that village called?

46. Which U.S. state is the northernmost, the westernmost and, technically, the easternmost?

47. A village with a 58-letter name, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll for short, is in which country?

48. By the scientific definition, what is the largest desert on Earth?

49. Which country covers less area than New York City's Central Park?

50. Pluto was discovered in 1930. How many full trips around the Sun has it finished since then?