50 Silly Trivia Questions for Kids

1. A potato is really a swollen part of which piece of the plant?

2. Almonds come from a tree that is a close cousin of which fruit tree?

3. Which familiar fruit is botanically a true berry?

4. Which spiky tropical fruit is famous for its super strong smell?

5. Which bright pink fruit grows on a kind of cactus?

6. Which two kitchen spices come from the very same fruit?

7. The artichoke we cook and eat is actually which part of the plant?

8. Why can astronauts living on the space station temporarily become a little taller?

9. Besides hearing, your inner ear helps you with what?

10. What usually causes a brain freeze?

11. Why could you jump much higher on the Moon than on Earth?

12. Why would two astronauts outside a spacecraft need radios rather than hear each other directly through space?

13. On Mars, what color can the sky look around the setting Sun?

14. About how many Earths could fit inside the Sun?

15. What are 'shooting stars' really?

16. What do people call a second full moon in one calendar month?

17. The dark patches you see on the Moon are flat plains made of what?

18. Earthquakes happen on Earth. What are shaking quakes on the Moon called?

19. How can the small Moon cover the whole giant Sun during an eclipse?

20. If you could see it from space, what color would the Sun really be?

21. Which day of the week is named after the Moon?

22. The word 'hangry' mixes which two words together?

23. Hundreds of years ago, the English word 'nice' meant what?

24. What is the little dangly thing at the back of your throat called?

25. Which of these words has no a, e, i, o or u in it?

26. What do you call the three dots ... in writing?

27. Mixing up first sounds, like saying 'lack of pies' instead of 'pack of lies', is called what?

28. The word 'scuba' started as a short way to say what?

29. Why is the ocean salty?

30. The Statue of Liberty was once shiny brown. What turned it green?

31. What is a rainbow made by moonlight called?

32. What is fog, really?

33. Larger falling raindrops, before they break apart, are shaped most like what?

34. What sticky stuff do honeybees make from tree sap to seal cracks in their hive?

35. Why are a beaver's big front teeth orange?

36. Which chunky seabird with a colorful beak was long nicknamed the 'sea parrot'?

37. Which of these sea animals has no brain at all?

38. People sometimes say 'koala bear', but a koala is really what kind of animal?

39. Horses can doze while doing what?

40. Dolphins need to stay ready to breathe. How do they sleep?

41. A sea star eats by pushing what out of its body?

42. What is a big group of kangaroos called?

43. Katydids have their ears in a very weird place. Where?

44. Which mammal has a coat made mainly of hard, overlapping keratin scales?

45. Which month of the year is named after Julius Caesar?

46. Long ago, a costly purple dye for royal clothes was made from what?

47. Long ago, the Aztecs used which beans like money?

48. Before alarm clocks were common, which workers tapped on windows to wake people up?

49. Did real Vikings wear helmets with horns on them?

50. What was the name of a board game played in ancient Egypt?