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60 free First Grade trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
These 52 free 1st grade trivia questions with answers are written for children aged about six and seven, so the questions are short, the words are simple, and every answer is something a first grader has met at school, at home or in a picture book: what a baby horse is called, how many legs a spider has, what snow is made of, how many days are in a week, who puts out fires, who lives in the White House and what date Christmas falls on. Use it as a classroom warm-up, a rainy-day game, a road-trip quiz or a bedtime challenge. Every question is multiple choice with four answers, so an early reader can play with a little help, and the explanations add one fun fact each. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's article on the subject, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01What is a baby horse called?
A foal
A foal can stand up and run soon after it is born.
Q 02What is a baby sheep called?
A lamb
A grown-up female sheep is a ewe and a male is a ram.
Q 03Which animal are dogs descended from?
Wolves
Dogs were the first animals people ever tamed, more than 14,000 years ago.
Q 04What does a caterpillar turn into?
A butterfly
Butterflies go through four stages: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult.
Q 05How many legs does a spider have?
Eight
Insects have six legs, so spiders are not insects.
Q 06What is the long nose of an elephant called?
A trunk
Elephants use it like a hand to pick up food and squirt water.
Q 07Which is the tallest animal that lives on land?
The giraffe
Its very long neck and legs help it reach leaves at the tops of trees.
Q 08What is a group of lions called?
A pride
Only the grown-up male lions have a big furry mane.
Q 09What do bees make from the nectar of flowers?
Honey
They store it in the hive, and it gets thick and sweet as the water dries out.
Q 10What do all birds have on their bodies that no other animal has?
Feathers
Birds also lay eggs with hard shells and have beaks with no teeth.
Q 11What do we call a female sheep's woolly coat after it is cut off?
Fleece
Wool is the most-used animal fibre in the world.
Q 12What does a pig use its snout for?
Digging in the soil for food
The end of the snout is very sensitive, so it can sniff out food underground.
Q 13What is a turtle's shell mostly made of?
Bone
The shell grows out of the turtle's ribs, so it can never climb out of it.
Q 14Which bird cannot fly but is a great swimmer?
Q 21What is the Moon?
A big rock circling Earth
It takes about a month to go all the way around, and we always see the same side.
Q 22What happens to water if it gets very cold?
It turns into ice
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, which is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Q 23What is snow made of?
Tiny ice crystals
The crystals grow high in the atmosphere and fall when they get heavy enough.
Q 24Where does rain fall from?
The penguin
Its wings work like flippers, and it catches fish and squid while swimming.
Q 15What kind of animal is a frog?
An amphibian
Frogs have no tails; their name comes from a Greek word meaning 'without tail'.
Q 16Which is the only bird with more than 26 billion in the world, more than any other?
The chicken
People keep them for eggs and meat, and some as pets.
Q 17How many stomach compartments does a cow have?
Four
Cows chew their food, swallow it, then bring it back up and chew it again as 'cud'.
Q 18What is the Sun?
A star
It sits at the centre of our Solar System and gives us light and heat.
Q 19Which planet do we live on?
Earth
It is the third planet from the Sun and the only one we know of with life.
Q 20How much of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean?
About 70%
That is why Earth looks blue from space.
Clouds
Clouds are made of tiny drops of water; when the drops get big and heavy, they fall as rain.
Q 25What shape is a rainbow?
An arc
You see one when the Sun is behind you and it is raining in front of you.
Q 26What three things does a fire need to burn?
Fuel, heat and oxygen
Take any one of them away and the fire goes out; that is how firefighters put fires out.
Q 27What is the thick, woody stem of a tree called?
The trunk
Trees grow tall to reach more sunlight than the plants around them.
Q 28What are the colourful parts of a flower called that attract bees?
Petals
Bees carry pollen from flower to flower, which helps plants make seeds.
Q 29Where does milk come from?
Cows and other mammals
Baby mammals drink their mother's milk before they can eat solid food.
Q 30What is bread mostly made from?
Flour and water
Yeast makes tiny gas bubbles that puff the bread up as it bakes.