First and Second Grade Trivia
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79 free First and Second Grade trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
75 free First and Second Grade trivia questions with answers. This is trivia for first graders and second graders, which means every question is about something a six- to eight-year-old has met at school, at home or in a picture book: how many legs a spider has, which planet is the Red Planet, what a caterpillar turns into, why the Three Little Pigs' brick house survived, and what colour a school bus is. Nothing needs reading skills beyond an early chapter book, and a grown-up can read the questions aloud for the youngest players. The set works as a rainy-day family game, a classroom warm-up, a car-ride quiz or a birthday party round. Questions get gently harder as you go, so early ones are for the first grader and the last few will make second graders (and a few parents) think. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, and each question shows a short explanation after you answer so kids learn a little something even when they miss.
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Q 01How many legs does a spider have?
Eight
Eight legs mark a spider out as an arachnid rather than an insect; scorpions, ticks and mites belong to the same eight-legged group.
Q 02How many legs does an insect such as an ant or a beetle have?
Six
An insect such as an ant or a beetle has six legs, all attached to the thorax, the middle section of its body.
Q 03What does a caterpillar turn into?
A butterfly
A butterfly climbs out of the chrysalis the caterpillar turns into, the last step of a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult.
Q 04A tadpole grows up to become what animal?
A frog
A tadpole grows into a frog: it starts with a tail and gills like a fish, then grows legs and lungs and loses the tail.
Q 05What is the tallest animal in the world?
Giraffe
The giraffe is the tallest animal: adult males can stand over 5 metres tall, and they fight by swinging their long necks, called necking.
Q 06What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
The cheetah is the fastest land animal, sprinting at over 90 kilometres per hour thanks to long legs and a very flexible spine.
Q 07What is the biggest animal that has ever lived?
The blue whale
The blue whale is the biggest animal known to have lived, up to about 30 metres long, yet it feeds almost entirely on krill, tiny shrimp-like animals.
Q 08What is the largest animal that lives on land?
Elephant
The elephant is the largest land animal: an adult African elephant weighs several tonnes, as much as a large truck, and its trunk carries food and water to its mouth.
Q 09A baby kangaroo, called a joey, grows up inside its mother's what?
Pouch
Pouch: a newborn joey is only about as big as a grape, and it crawls up through its mother's fur to the pouch, where it keeps growing.
Q 10Which bird cannot fly but is a great swimmer?
Penguin
Its wings have become flippers, and almost all penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.
Q 11Which of these animals is a mammal that can truly fly?
Bat
A bat's wing is really a hand with very long fingers covered by thin skin.
Q 12What do giant pandas mostly eat?
Bamboo
Giant pandas eat mostly bamboo, around 99 percent of their diet, and an extra thumb-like wrist bone helps them grip the stalks.
Q 13A polar bear's fur looks white, but what colour is the skin underneath?
Black
Black skin lies under the coat, and the fur is not truly white either: each hair is clear and hollow and only looks white as it scatters light.
Q 14Which sea creature has three hearts?
Q 21Which planet has big, bright rings around it?
Saturn
Saturn: its rings are countless chunks of ice, and when Galileo first spotted them through his telescope he mistook them for two smaller planets beside it.
Q 22What is the largest planet in our Solar System?
Jupiter
Jupiter: although it is the biggest planet, it also has the shortest day, spinning all the way round in about 10 hours.
Q 23Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun; it is also the smallest planet, and with almost no air its days are scorching and its nights freezing.
The Sun is actually a giant what?
Octopus
The octopus is the sea creature with the extra hearts: two serve its gills and the third serves its organs, and its blood is blue from a copper-based pigment.
Q 15A group of lions is called a what?
Pride
Pride is the name for a lion family of related females, their cubs and a few males, and the lionesses do most of the hunting, often as a team.
Q 16What is a baby horse called?
Foal
A foal can stand up and run within hours of being born.
Q 17What is a baby sheep called?
Lamb
Lamb: a mother ewe knows her own lamb by its smell, which is how she picks it out from all the others in the flock.
Q 18Which animal is known for being very slow and hanging upside down in trees?
Sloth
The sloth hangs upside down in the rainforests of Central and South America and moves so slowly that algae can grow on its fur.
Q 19What does a camel store in its hump?
Fat
Fat, not water: the camel burns it for energy when food is scarce, so a hungry camel's hump shrinks, leans over and droops.
Q 20Which planet is called the Red Planet?
Mars
Mars earned that nickname because iron in its dusty soil has rusted, giving the whole surface a rusty orange colour.
Star
Star: the Sun is the closest star to Earth, but far from the biggest, since some stars are hundreds of times wider.
Q 25Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong was first onto the Moon, in July 1969 on Apollo 11; Buzz Aldrin followed him while Michael Collins circled overhead in the command ship.
Q 26How many sides does a triangle have?
Three
Three: a triangle holds its shape when pushed, while a square frame can be squashed flat, which is why bridges are braced with triangles.
Q 27A shape with six sides is called a what?
Hexagon
Hexagon: honeybees build their combs from these six-sided cells, which fit together with no gaps and need less wax than squares or triangles would.
Q 28How many things are in a dozen?
Twelve
Twelve: a dozen is handy for sharing because it splits evenly into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths, which ten cannot do.
Q 29How many letters are in the English alphabet?
26
26: schoolchildren in the 1800s ended the alphabet with '&' as a 27th character, saying 'and per se and', which slurred into the word ampersand.
Q 30How many colours are usually listed in a rainbow?
Seven
A rainbow is usually said to have seven colours; Isaac Newton picked that number, and the made-up name Roy G. Biv gives their order.