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70 free Trivia for 5 Year Olds trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
62 free trivia questions for 5 year olds with answers, written to be read aloud to a preschooler or kindergartner. Everything here is something a little kid has met at home, at nursery or in a picture book: what sound a duck makes, what a baby cat is called, where a kangaroo keeps her baby, what colour carrots and flamingos are, how many sides a triangle has, what Cookie Monster looks like and who Bluey's little sister is. There is a fairy-tale round (the three pigs' brick house, Goldilocks, Cinderella's slipper, Little Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty), a favourite-characters round (Peppa, Paw Patrol, Elmo, Winnie-the-Pooh, Elsa, Nemo, Lightning McQueen), and simple questions about weather, seasons, farm animals, food, holidays and the body. The easiest ones work for a 3 or 4 year old with a grown-up reading; the trickier ones, like the shape of a stop sign, give a 5 or 6 year old something to think about. Every question has four picture-free answers, so a child can guess between them, and a one-line explanation adds a fun fact to say afterwards. It works at the dinner table, in the car or as a rainy-day game. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01What sound does a duck make?
Quack
Only the female mallard makes the loud classic quack; the males make a softer, raspier sound.
Q 02What is a baby cat called?
A kitten
Kittens are born with their eyes closed and open them after about a week.
Q 03What is a baby cow called?
A calf
A calf can stand up and walk within about an hour of being born.
Q 04What is a baby horse called?
A foal
A boy foal is a colt and a girl foal is a filly, and they can run on the day they are born.
Q 05Where does a mother kangaroo carry her baby?
In a pouch
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean and crawls into the pouch all by itself.
Q 06A zebra's coat is which two colors?
Black and white
No two zebras have exactly the same pattern, a bit like fingerprints.
Q 07What color are grown-up flamingos?
Pink
Baby flamingos are gray, and they turn pink from the tiny shrimp and algae they eat.
Q 08Which big cat has a mane of thick hair around its head?
A lion
Only the daddy lions grow a mane; the mummies do not have one.
Q 09How many legs does a snake have?
0
Snakes have no legs at all, so they wiggle their whole body to move along.
Q 10What do fish use to breathe under the water?
Gills
The gills are the slits on the sides of a fish's head, and they take air out of the water.
Q 11What is an elephant's long nose called?
A trunk
An elephant uses its trunk to drink, to pick things up and even to give itself a shower.
Q 12What does a caterpillar grow up to be?
A butterfly
First it wraps itself up in a hard case, and when it comes out it has wings.
Q 13Which farm animal gives us wool for warm sweaters?
Sheep
A farmer gives the sheep a haircut called shearing, and the wool grows right back.
Q 14Which farm animal gives us the milk we drink?
Q 21How does a lemon taste?
Sour
Lemons are so sour that people add lots of sugar to make lemonade.
Q 22What color is the inside of a watermelon?
Red
The black seeds inside are ripe, and the white ones are not.
Q 23How does sea water taste?
Salty
There is so much salt in the sea that if you took it all out it would cover the land in a thick layer.
Q 24Snow is made of tiny crystals of what?
Cows
A dairy cow can make more than 20 litres of milk in a single day.
Q 15Which farm bird lays the eggs we eat for breakfast?
Chickens
One hen can lay about 300 eggs a year, almost one every day.
Q 16Which insects make honey?
Bees
Bees collect sweet nectar from flowers and store it in wax honeycomb inside their hive.
Q 17Bread is made mostly from which ingredient?
Flour
Flour is made by grinding up wheat grains, and yeast makes the bread puff up in the oven.
Q 18What color are strawberries when they are ripe?
Red
Strawberries are the only fruit that wears its seeds on the outside.
Q 19What color are carrots usually?
Orange
Long ago carrots were purple and white; the orange ones were grown by Dutch farmers.
Q 20What color is broccoli?
Green
The part you eat is actually a bunch of tiny flower buds that have not opened yet.
Ice
Every snowflake has six sides, and no two look exactly the same.
Q 25Which season is the coldest?
Winter
In winter the days are short and the nights are long, and some animals sleep right through it.
Q 26In which season do leaves turn red and gold and drop off the trees?
Fall
Fall is also called autumn, and it is when squirrels hide nuts for the winter.
Q 27Where does rain fall from?
Clouds
Clouds are made of tiny drops of water; when the drops get big and heavy, they fall as rain.
Q 28A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through what?
Raindrops
Rainbows are really full circles, but the ground hides the bottom half.
Q 29Owls do most of their hunting at what time?
At night
Owls fly almost silently, so the mice they hunt cannot hear them coming.
Q 30How many sides does a triangle have?
3
A slice of pizza and a rooftop are both shaped like triangles.