February Trivia for Kids
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
50 free February Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
20 free February Trivia for Kids questions with answers. Twenty easy February questions written for kids aged about 8 to 12. They cover why February is the shortest month, what a leap day is, how it got its name, and the fun days packed into it: Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil, Valentine's Day and Cupid, Presidents' Day and the Super Bowl, plus Black History Month. There are questions on famous people born in February, including Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Galileo, and a look at holidays around the world like Japan's bean-throwing Setsubun and New Zealand's Waitangi Day. Kids can also learn about the amethyst birthstone, penguins and Mount Rushmore. Everything is kid-friendly, with a short, clear explanation for each answer. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia, and the sentence that proves it is shown under each explanation, so teachers and parents can trust it.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01How many days does February have in most years?
28
28 days is exactly 4 weeks, so in most years every day of the week comes round exactly 4 times in February, the shortest month.
Q 02What is the name of February 29, the extra day added in some years?
Leap day
Leap day, February 29, exists because a year is really about 365 and a quarter days long, so adding one day every fourth year keeps the calendar in step with the seasons.
Q 03February is named after 'Februa', a Roman festival of what?
Purification
Februa was a Roman purification festival held in mid-February, a time of ritual cleansing before the Roman new year, which once began in March.
Q 04On Groundhog Day, February 2, what is the groundhog said to look for?
Its own shadow
Folklore says that if the groundhog sees its own shadow on February 2, winter will drag on; if it does not, an early spring is on the way.
Q 05The most famous Groundhog Day groundhog is named Punxsutawney Phil, from which US state?
Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney Phil lives in western Pennsylvania, where legend insists there has only ever been one Phil, kept alive since the 1880s by sips of a magical punch.
Q 06Valentine's Day, a day for cards and hearts, falls on which date?
February 14
February 14 is the feast of Saint Valentine; the poet Chaucer is thought to be the first to tie it to romance, in a 1380s poem where birds choose their mates on that day.
Q 07Which figure from Roman myth is a famous symbol of Valentine's Day?
Cupid
Cupid, the Roman god of love, usually called the son of Venus, is shown as a winged boy whose arrows make people fall in love.
Q 08Presidents' Day, on the third Monday of February, officially celebrates the birthday of which president?
George Washington
George Washington was born on February 22, yet the holiday, officially still Washington's Birthday, can never fall on that date: the third Monday always lands between the 15th and the 21st.
Q 09February's birthstone is the amethyst, which is usually what colour?
Purple
Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz; the ancient Greeks believed wearing it could keep them from getting drunk, which is what its name means.
Q 10February is a big month for which American football championship game?
The Super Bowl
The Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game, began as a January fixture, first played on January 15, 1967; it has been held in February every year since 2004.
Q 11Abraham Lincoln, born in February 1809, is pictured on which US money?
The penny and the $5 bill
Abraham Lincoln's face is on the penny and the $5 bill; the 16th president grew his famous beard after a letter from a young girl, Grace Bedell.
Q 12Charles Darwin, born in February 1809, is famous for his ideas about how living things do what over time?
Change and evolve
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution says living things change and evolve over many generations; he gathered his evidence on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
Q 13Galileo Galilei, born in February 1564, used an improved version of which instrument to study the sky?
A telescope
Q 21Thomas Edison, born February 11, 1847, is most famous for improving which invention?
The light bulb
The light bulb: Edison did not invent it, but in 1879 his team found a carbon filament that glowed for more than 13 hours, a big step towards making electric light practical for the home.
Q 22Michael Jordan, born February 17, 1963, won six NBA championships with which team?
Chicago Bulls
Michael Jordan won all six of his NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls, in 1991-93 and 1996-98; he was born in Brooklyn and spent 1994 playing minor-league baseball.
Q 23At Chinese New Year, often in February, kids get gift money in envelopes of what colour?
Red
Galileo improved the newly invented telescope in 1609 and used it to spot Jupiter's largest moons and the craters of our own Moon.
Q 14What are the small Valentine sweets stamped with messages such as 'BE MINE' called?
Conversation hearts
Conversation hearts started out as lozenges, and the first sayings printed on them ran far longer than 'BE MINE'.
Q 15Civil rights hero Rosa Parks is remembered for refusing to give up her seat on what?
A bus
Her brave act in 1955 helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott.
Q 16In Japan's February Setsubun custom, people throw what to chase away bad luck?
Beans
Beans: at Setsubun people scatter roasted soybeans while shouting 'Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi', meaning 'Demons out, good luck in'.
Q 17Waitangi Day, on February 6, is the national day of which country?
New Zealand
Waitangi Day is New Zealand's national day, marking the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Māori chiefs.
Q 18Charles Dickens, born February 7, 1812, wrote which of these classic stories?
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol follows the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future and wakes up a changed man.
Q 19Mount Rushmore shows the giant carved faces of how many US presidents?
Four
Four presidents look out from Mount Rushmore, roughed out with dynamite: workers blasted the granite into shape, then drilled it into a honeycomb and smoothed the 60-foot faces.
Q 20South of the equator, February is the last month of which season?
Summer
South of the equator the seasons are reversed, so February is the last month of summer there; March brings autumn to places like Australia and South Africa.
Red envelopes, called hongbao, hold the gift money because red stands for luck and joy in Chinese culture; families also clean house before the holiday to sweep away bad luck.
Q 24The faraway world found on February 18, 1930, and now called a dwarf planet, is which one?
Pluto
Pluto was spotted by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in 1930 and reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006; New Horizons flew past it in 2015.
Q 25Susan B. Anthony, born February 15, 1820, fought for women's right to do what?
Vote
Susan B. Anthony fought for women's right to vote; she was arrested for voting in 1872, and the 19th Amendment, nicknamed the Anthony Amendment, granted suffrage in 1920.
Q 26Laura Ingalls Wilder, born February 7, 1867, wrote which series of children's books?
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books were based on her own pioneer childhood, moving from one frontier home to the next with her family.
Q 27Jules Verne, born February 8, 1828, wrote Around the World in how many days?
Eighty
Around the World in Eighty Days follows Phileas Fogg's race to win a wager; Verne also imagined a trip to the Moon and a journey to the centre of the Earth.
Q 28In the famous 1925 serum run, sled dogs rushed medicine to Nome, a town in which state?
Alaska
Nome sits on Alaska's western coast; twenty mushers and about 150 dogs relayed the serum 674 miles in five and a half days, with Togo covering the longest, most dangerous stretch.
Q 29The 2026 Winter Olympics, held in February, took place in which country?
Italy
Italy hosted the 2026 Winter Olympics, shared between Milan and the mountain resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, so for the first time two Olympic cauldrons were lit, one in each city.
Q 30Nicolaus Copernicus, born February 19, 1473, said what sits at the centre of everything?
The Sun
Copernicus put the Sun at the centre, with Earth and the other planets circling it; he held his book back for years and is said to have been handed a printed copy on the day he died in 1543.