Kindergarten Trivia
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129 free Kindergarten trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
These 45 kindergarten and preschool trivia questions are written for four-, five- and six-year-olds: short questions, simple words, and answers a child meets every day. The set covers animals and their babies (what a baby cat is called, which animal has a pouch, which bird cannot fly), colors and what happens when you mix them, shapes with three or four sides, the seasons and the weather, the days of the week, and a little counting from legs on a spider to wheels on a tricycle. Read the questions aloud and let children pick from the four choices, or let an early reader tap through on a tablet with a little help. There is no timer to worry about, and a short, friendly explanation follows each answer with one extra fact to talk about. Teachers can use it for circle time or a brain break; parents can use it in the car or at the dinner table. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's article on the animal, shape or season involved, and each question shows the sentence that backs it up once you have answered.
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Q 01How many legs does a spider have?
Eight
Eight legs show that a spider is not an insect: every insect has six legs, and spiders also lack the feelers that insects carry on their heads.
Q 02Which month comes first in the year?
January
January opens the year; it is named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways and beginnings, who was pictured with two faces looking in opposite directions.
Q 03What is a baby cat called?
A kitten
A kitten cannot keep itself warm for its first few weeks, so newborn kittens huddle against their mother and each other.
Q 04What is a baby dog called?
A puppy
A puppy needs a great deal of sleep, because sleep helps its fast-growing body and brain to develop.
Q 05Which shape has three sides?
A triangle
A triangle has three sides and three corners, and it cannot be pushed out of shape the way a four-sided frame can, which is why bridges and roof beams are built from triangles.
Q 06Which shape has four sides that are all the same length?
A square
A square has four equal sides and four right-angle corners, which makes it a special kind of rectangle: one whose length and width are the same.
Q 07What is frozen water called?
Ice
Ice is water frozen solid, and it is a little lighter than the liquid it came from, which is why ice cubes bob in a drink and icebergs float in the sea.
Q 08What do we call a small pool of water left on the ground after rain?
A puddle
A puddle does not have to drain away to vanish: its water slowly turns into an invisible gas and drifts off into the air, which is called evaporation.
Q 09Which part of a plant grows down into the soil and takes in water?
The roots
The roots also hold the plant firmly in the ground, which is how even a tall tree manages to stay standing in the wind.
Q 10At what time of year do lots of trees drop their leaves?
Autumn
Autumn is when leaves change colour and fall, and some people call the season fall for exactly that reason.
Q 11What does a caterpillar turn into?
A butterfly
A butterfly is what a caterpillar becomes: it hangs from a twig, sheds its skin to reveal a hard case called a chrysalis, and later climbs out with wings.
Q 12Which animal has a very long neck and eats leaves from tall trees?
A giraffe
A giraffe is the tallest animal on land, yet its long neck has no more bones than yours does; each one is simply far longer.
Q 13Which animal has a long trunk?
An elephant
An elephant does not drink through its trunk like a straw: it sucks water part of the way up, then curls the trunk round and pours the water into its mouth.
Q 21What colour do you get when you mix red paint with blue paint?
Purple
Purple is what red and blue make; in ancient times purple dye came from thousands of crushed shellfish, so costly that it became the colour of emperors.
Q 22What colour is a ripe banana?
Yellow
Yellow shows a banana is ripe: while it ripens, the starch inside turns into sugar, so a yellow banana tastes far sweeter than an unripe one.
Q 23Which ride-on toy has three wheels?
A tricycle
A tricycle has three wheels, so it stands up by itself and a small child can pedal along without having to balance.
How many wheels does a bicycle have?
Q 14Which farm animal gives us milk to drink?
A cow
A cow makes milk only after she has had a calf, because the milk is really food for her baby.
Q 15Which animal hops and carries its baby in a pouch?
A kangaroo
A kangaroo's thick, muscular tail balances it in mid-hop and props it up like an extra leg when it stands still.
Q 16What do gardeners plant in the soil to grow a new sunflower?
A seed
A seed holds a tiny baby plant together with a store of food, which keeps it growing until its first leaves reach the light.
Q 17The Sun, which lights up our daytime sky, is which kind of space object?
A star
A star is a huge ball of hot, glowing gas, and the Sun is the only one in our solar system; the stars we see at night are other suns, much farther away.
Q 18Which planet do we live on?
Earth
Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god; its name comes from an Old English word that simply means the ground.
Q 19How many colours are in a rainbow the way we usually count them, starting with red and ending with violet?
Seven
Seven is the number Isaac Newton settled on: a rainbow really fades smoothly from red to violet, but he split it into seven colours to match the seven notes of a musical scale.
Q 20Mix red paint with the colour of a lemon and what do you get?
Orange
Red and yellow paint mix to make orange; the colour orange is named after the fruit, not the other way round.
Two
Two wheels were all the first bicycles had: they came without pedals, so riders pushed themselves along with their feet on the ground.
Q 25How many fingers are on one hand, counting the thumb?
Five
Five fingers on each hand make ten, and counting on them is probably why we count in tens; even 'digit', our word for a numeral, is Latin for finger.
Q 26Which number comes right after 9?
10
10 comes next: the single digits run out at 9, so we start a new tens column and write one ten and no ones.
Q 27Which day of the week comes right after Monday?
Tuesday
Tuesday means Tiw's day, named after a god of the early English, in the same way that Thursday is Thor's day.
Q 28Which meal do most people eat in the morning?
Breakfast
Breakfast is the morning meal; the word means breaking the fast, the long night of not eating.
Q 29What do bees make?
Honey
Honey is the bees' own food store: they pack it into the hive in the warm months and live on it through winter, when no flowers bloom.
Q 30Which bird cannot fly but dives and swims underwater to catch fish?
A penguin
A penguin's wings are stiff flippers, useless in the air but so good underwater that a penguin seems to fly through the sea.