110 Fun Facts About Trivia for 5 Year Olds

What sound does a duck make?

Only the female mallard makes the loud classic quack; the males make a softer, raspier sound.

What is a baby cat called?

Kittens are born with their eyes closed and open them after about a week.

What is a baby cow called?

A calf does not lie around for long: it is usually standing on its own four feet within an hour or two of being born.

What is a baby horse called?

A boy foal is a colt and a girl foal is a filly, and they can run on the day they are born.

Where does a mother kangaroo carry her baby?

A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean, and it crawls up its mother's fur all by itself to ride in a pouch on her belly.

A zebra's coat is which two colors?

Black and white stripes help keep biting flies away: the flies find it hard to land on a striped coat.

What color are grown-up flamingos?

Baby flamingos are gray, and they turn pink from the tiny shrimp and algae they eat.

Which big cat has a mane of thick hair around its head?

A lion's mane usually grows only on males, and it makes him look bigger and stronger to rival males and to females.

Which animal slithers along without any legs?

A snake has no legs, but a python still has two tiny claws near its tail, left over from back legs long ago.

What do fish use to breathe under the water?

Gills soak up the oxygen mixed into water as it flows over them and pass it into the fish's blood.

What is an elephant's long nose called?

An elephant uses its trunk to drink, to pick things up and even to give itself a shower.

What does a caterpillar grow up to be?

A butterfly forms inside a hard case called a chrysalis, where the caterpillar's body breaks down and rebuilds itself with wings.

Which farm animal gives us wool for warm sweaters?

A farmer gives the sheep a haircut called shearing, and the wool grows right back.

Which farm animal gives us most of the milk we drink?

Cows are usually milked twice a day, and on some farms they walk up to a robot and get milked whenever they like.

Which farm bird lays most of the eggs we eat for breakfast?

Chickens lay eggs even with no rooster around, and those eggs could never hatch into chicks.

Which insects make honey?

Bees collect sweet nectar from flowers and store it in wax honeycomb inside their hive.

Bread is made mostly from which ingredient?

Flour is wheat ground into a fine powder, and yeast puffs the dough up by filling it with tiny bubbles of gas.

Which movie snack begins as hard yellow seeds and puffs up fluffy when heated?

Popcorn pops because a drop of moisture inside each kernel turns to steam and bursts the hard shell open.

Which vegetable is a root that grows under the ground?

Carrots are roots: the plant stores food in them underground so it can grow flowers the following year.

What color is broccoli?

Green broccoli heads are bunches of tiny flower buds, picked before they get the chance to open.

How does a lemon taste?

Lemons are so sour that people add lots of sugar to make lemonade.

What do you call the loud rumble that follows a flash of lightning?

Thunder is the sound of air bursting outward as lightning heats it, and the flash reaches you first because light travels faster than sound.

How does the sea taste?

Salty seas get most of their salt from rocks on land: rain slowly wears the rocks down and rivers wash the salt out to sea.

Snow is made of tiny crystals of what?

Ice crystals grow in a six-sided pattern, which is why so many snowflakes have six sides or six arms.

Which season of the year is the coldest?

In winter the days are short, and some animals curl up and sleep right through it.

In which season of the year do leaves turn red and gold and drop off the trees?

Fall is also called autumn, and it is when squirrels bury nuts to eat in the cold months ahead.

Where does rain fall from?

Clouds are made of tiny floating droplets, and when the droplets bump together and grow heavy enough, they fall as rain.

What do you need along with rain to see a rainbow?

Sunshine splits into colors as it bends through each raindrop, and a rainbow is really a full circle whose bottom half the ground hides.

Most owls do their hunting at what time?

At night an owl can swoop on a mouse without a sound, because comb-like fringes on its wing feathers hush the rushing air.

Which shape has three sides and three corners?

A triangle cannot be squashed out of shape, which is why builders use triangles to hold up bridges and roofs.

Which shape has four equal sides and four matching corners?

A square fits snugly against other squares with no gaps, which is why floor tiles and checkerboards are made of squares.

Which flying machine has spinning blades on top instead of wings?

A helicopter can hover in one spot, fly backwards and land almost anywhere, all thanks to the spinning blades that lift it.

Which of these rides on exactly two wheels?

A bicycle has two wheels, and the very first ones had no pedals, so riders pushed themselves along with their feet.

How many fingers are on one hand, counting the thumb?

Count 5 on each hand and you get ten, which is probably why people all over the world count in tens.

How many days are in a week?

The 7 days were first named after the seven lights that people long ago saw moving across the sky, which is why Monday means the Moon's day.

Which two days make up the weekend?

Saturday and Sunday are the weekend in most countries, but several Muslim countries rest on Friday and Saturday, because Friday is their main day of prayer.

What shape is a stop sign?

An octagon is a shape no other road sign uses, so drivers can tell it is a stop sign even from behind.

If you mix red paint and blue paint, what color do you get?

Purple was once the color of kings, because the dye was squeezed from sea snails and it took thousands of them to dye one piece of cloth.

Which body part do you hear with?

Your ears also keep you balanced: loops deep inside them are filled with liquid that sloshes when you move and tells your brain how your head is moving.

A dentist takes care of which part of you?

Your teeth come in two sets: 20 baby teeth wiggle out one by one to make room for 32 grown-up teeth.

What do firefighters slide down to reach their truck in a hurry?

A pole beats the stairs every time: the idea began when an American firefighter slid down a wooden pole used for lifting hay and beat his crew to the ground floor.

What do trains run along?

Metal tracks are smooth and hard, so steel wheels roll along them with very little rubbing, which lets one engine pull a long line of heavy wagons.

What does a boat travel on?

Boats float because they push water out of the way, and the water pushes back up.

What kind of animal is Peppa, from the TV show?

Peppa lives with Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig and her little brother George, and she loves jumping in muddy puddles.

What is the name of Bluey's little sister?

Bingo is a Red Heeler like her mum Chilli, while big sister Bluey is a Blue Heeler like their dad Bandit.

Who is the boy who leads the rescue dogs in Paw Patrol?

Ryder is ten years old, and he calls his team of dogs to the Lookout tower whenever someone needs help.

Which Sesame Street character is a furry red monster with a squeaky voice?

Elmo is three and a half years old, and he likes to talk about himself by name.

What color is Cookie Monster?

Blue, furry Cookie Monster gobbles pretend cookies on the show, often rice cakes painted to look real, because greasy real cookies would spoil his fur.

What kind of animal is Winnie-the-Pooh?

Pooh was named after a real bear called Winnie that lived at London Zoo.

What can Queen Elsa of Arendelle make with her magic?

Ice and snow pour from Elsa's hands, and with them she builds a whole palace on a mountain and brings the snowman Olaf to life.

What kind of vehicle is Lightning McQueen?

A race car with a secret in his number: the 95 painted on his side marks 1995, the year Pixar's first film, Toy Story, came out.

What kind of fish is Nemo?

A clownfish like Nemo can snuggle into an anemone's stinging arms without getting hurt, because a slimy coat on its skin protects it.

In The Three Little Pigs, what is the house that stays standing built from?

Bricks made the third pig's house too strong for any huffing and puffing, so his hungry visitor climbed down the chimney instead and landed in a boiling cooking pot.

How many bears live in the house that Goldilocks walks into?

The 3 bears have always been in the story, but Goldilocks has not: in the first printed version the visitor who ate the porridge was a rude old woman.

What does Cinderella leave behind when she runs from the ball?

A glass slipper comes from the French telling of the story; in the German one by the Brothers Grimm, the slipper she loses is made of pure gold.

Which animal does Little Red Riding Hood meet on the way to Grandma's house?

The wolf runs ahead, dresses up in Grandma's nightcap and waits in her bed.

Who lives at the top of the beanstalk in Jack and the Beanstalk?

A giant lives up there, and Jack sneaks off with his hen that lays golden eggs and his golden harp, then chops the beanstalk down.

Humpty Dumpty, who sat on a wall, is usually drawn as what?

The rhyme never actually says he is an egg, but that is how nearly every picture book shows him.

What color are pumpkins usually?

Orange pumpkins took over from turnips: people in Ireland first carved their Halloween lanterns out of turnips, and switched to pumpkins when they moved to America.

Which of these do people decorate with lights and baubles at Christmas?

A fir tree stays green all winter, just like a spruce or a pine, which is why these evergreens were chosen.

Which animals pull Santa's sleigh?

Reindeer are real deer from the cold far north, where people really do hitch them up to pull sleds.

What color is Rudolph's shiny nose?

Red-nosed Rudolph was invented in 1939 by a man writing a Christmas booklet for a big American store, which handed out more than two million copies.

What is a baby dog called?

A puppy is born completely deaf, and two or three weeks go by before it can pick up a single sound.

A tadpole grows up to become which animal?

A frog begins life as a legless tadpole, then grows back legs, then front legs, while its tail slowly shrinks away as its body soaks it back up.

Which animal is the tallest in the world?

Giraffes live in Africa and use their long necks to munch leaves from the tops of trees.

Which bird uses its wings as flippers to swim?

A penguin cannot fly, but it has a trick for the cold: emperor penguins huddle in a tight crowd and take turns standing in the warm middle.

What does a spider spin to catch bugs?

A web is spun from silk that is stronger than steel of the same weight, yet stretchy enough to stop a speeding insect without snapping.

Which is the biggest animal that has ever lived?

A blue whale can be as long as three school buses and lives in the ocean.

What is the Sun?

A star is what the Sun is, just like the tiny twinkly dots in the dark sky; it looks so big and bright only because it is way, way closer to us than the others.

How many arms does an octopus have?

All 8 arms are lined with suckers that can taste as well as grip, so an octopus can tell what is food just by touching it.

Which slim, spotted big cat, found mostly in Africa, is the fastest animal on land?

Cheetah speed builds in a flash: it can go from standing still to 60 miles an hour in less than three seconds.

Which tall desert animal has one or two humps on its back and can go days without a drink?

A camel's humps are stores of fat that its body can live on when food runs short in the desert.

Which playful sea animal breathes air through a blowhole and chats in clicks and whistles?

A dolphin sleeps with only half of its brain at a time, so the other half can keep it breathing and watching for danger.

Which furry animal sleeps hanging upside down by its feet and is the only mammal that can truly fly?

A bat that hunts insects finds them in the dark by making high squeaks and listening for the echoes that bounce back.

Which furry animal from China's mountain forests eats almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves?

A panda has an extra thumb-like bone on each front paw, which helps it grip bamboo stalks while it eats.

Which plant-eating dinosaur had three horns on its face and a big bony frill behind its head?

Triceratops means three-horned face, and it was one of the very last dinosaurs alive before they all died out.

Which part of your body pumps blood all around you and beats faster whenever you run?

The heart is about the size of your closed fist and sits in your chest between your two lungs.

Which object in the sky seems to change shape each month, from thin sliver to full disc?

The Moon is the only world beyond our own planet where people have set foot: twelve of them walked there by 1972.

In the fairy tale The Gingerbread Man, which hungry animal finally catches the runaway and eats him?

A fox ends the chase in the story, which first appeared in print in an American children's magazine in 1875.

Which fruit is the undersea house of the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants?

A pineapple is not one single fruit: it is lots of small berries that have grown together into one.

Which bushy-tailed animal gathers nuts and hides them in the ground to eat later in the year?

A squirrel can turn its back feet right around to point backward, which lets it climb down head-first.

Which seaside animal with a hard shell and two pinching claws is famous for scuttling sideways?

A crab has ten legs in all, and the front pair are the ones that carry its claws.

Which colorful bird with a curved beak can learn to copy the words that people say?

A parrot named Alex was taught to use words to name objects, describe them and even count them.

Which bendy part of your mouth is covered in tiny taste buds and helps you lick and talk?

The tongue is a bundle of muscles, which is why it can curl, stretch and wiggle in so many directions.

Which kind of weather is air on the move, strong enough to push sailing ships across the ocean?

Wind begins when the Sun warms some parts of the world more than others, and that sets the air moving.

Which fiery opening in the ground can erupt, shooting out hot ash and melted rock called lava?

A volcano takes its name from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, by way of a small Italian island called Vulcano.

Which job means putting on a spacesuit and riding a rocket to work far above the sky?

An astronaut who flies for Russia goes by a different name: a cosmonaut.

In the fairy tale Three Billy Goats Gruff, which hungry creature lives under the bridge?

A troll gets tossed off the bridge by the biggest goat's horns in this tale, which comes from Norway.

In the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, which graceful bird does the teased hero turn out to be?

A swan is what the lonely duckling sees when he finally looks at his own reflection, in a tale Hans Christian Andersen published in 1843.

Which boy who refuses to grow up flies to the island of Neverland with his fairy friend Tinker Bell?

Peter Pan first flew onto a London stage in 1904, and his author later gave the story's rights to a children's hospital.

In the story of Aladdin, which magical being pops out when the old lamp is rubbed?

A genie also lives in a magic ring in the old tale, so Aladdin really has two of them to call on.

In Aesop's famous fable, which slow animal beats the speedy hare that made fun of it?

The tortoise wins because the hare, sure of victory, lies down for a nap halfway through and wakes up too late.

Which Paw Patrol rescue dog is a clumsy Dalmatian who drives the team's fire engine?

Marshall is the team's paramedic as well as its firefighter, and he usually turns up last and tumbles into the others.

In the Australian cartoon Bluey, what is the name of Bluey's dad, who joins in nearly every game?

Bandit works as an archaeologist, a job the show's creator borrowed from his own older sibling.

Which little brother of the cartoon character Peppa is often seen clutching his toy dinosaur?

George calls his favorite toy Mr. Dinosaur, though when he says it the name comes out as Dine-saw.

In the Toy Story films, which pull-string cowboy doll is the favorite toy of a boy named Andy?

Woody leads the toys in the first full-length film ever made entirely with computer animation.

Which grumpy Sesame Street character pops up from the trash can that he calls home?

Oscar keeps a pet worm named Slimey, and his kind of creature really is called a Grouch.

Which vehicle with flashing lights and a siren rushes sick or hurt people to a hospital?

An ambulance often has its name painted backwards on the front, so drivers ahead can read it in their mirrors.

Which musical instrument do you play by hitting its tight skin with sticks or with your hands?

A drum is one of the oldest kinds of instrument in the world, and its basic design has barely changed in thousands of years.

On which spooky holiday at the end of October do children dress up and go trick-or-treating?

Halloween lanterns were once carved out of turnips, with scary faces cut into them to frighten off evil spirits.

Which huge, super-strong Avenger does the scientist Bruce Banner turn into when he gets angry?

Hulk grows stronger the angrier he gets, and the change first began when Banner was caught in a blast of gamma rays.

Which round object does the Avenger Captain America carry on his arm and throw at his enemies?

A shield with a pointed bottom was his first, swapped for the famous round one in only his second comic.

Which heavy weapon named Mjolnir does the Avenger Thor swing, throw and call back to his hand?

A hammer under a magic spell, Mjolnir can be lifted only by someone who is worthy of it.

Which Avenger is the inventor Tony Stark, who flies in a suit of armor he built himself?

Iron Man built his first suit while he was being held prisoner, and used it to break free from his captors.

Which Avenger, a master archer named Clint Barton, fights with a bow and a quiver of trick arrows?

Hawkeye has no superpowers at all: he learned to shoot while growing up in a traveling carnival.

Which sneaky god of mischief is the adopted brother of the Avenger Thor?

Loki tries to take over the world in the first Avengers film, which is the very reason the heroes team up.

Which villain in the Avengers films hunts for six Infinity Stones to fit into his golden glove?

Thanos was dreamed up by a comic book artist while he was sitting in his college psychology classes.

Which Avenger, a dad named Scott Lang, wears a suit that can shrink him to a tiny size?

Ant-Man's suit also lets him send messages to real ants, which is how he gets them to help him.

Which Avenger was Sam Wilson, soaring on mechanical wings, before he became the new Captain America?

Falcon also flies a little robot bird of his own, a drone he has nicknamed Redwing.

Which spy chief with an eyepatch brings the Avengers together as a team in the Marvel films?

Nick Fury lost the sight in his left eye to a scratch from Goose, an alien that looks just like a pet cat.