🎯 Trivia questions for kids

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Ready rounds

Three ways to play

• One phone, passed round. Peabody reads the question and the three answers aloud. The team whose turn it is taps a box, sees the answer and a line about it, and gets a star if it was right. Then pass the phone.
• A big screen. Open the round on a laptop plugged into a TV or a projector and press 📺 Big screen: the question and the boxes fill the room.
• Paper. Every round prints as question cards, an answer sheet per team with A, B and C to circle, and the key on its own page. No email, no sign-up.

Reading your own questions? The buzzer gives each team a big button and rings a bell for the first press, and the scoreboard keeps two to eight teams’ points on this device. A Peabody round has the buzzers built into 📺 Big screen, and its stars can go on the scoreboard at the end.

Where the questions come from

Every science, nature and Thanksgiving question was written by Peabody in its own words against one page from a public body or a museum, and the sentence on that page holding the answer was found by a script on 31 October 2026. That is 240 checked questions so far, from: KidsHealth (Nemours), Library of Congress, NASA, NASA Science, NASA Science for Kids, NASA Space Place, NIH National Eye Institute, NIH National Heart, NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NOAA, NOAA Fisheries, NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks), NOAA National Ocean Service, NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA Ocean Exploration, NOAA Ocean Service, National Archives, National Park Service, National Snow and Ice Data Center, National Weather Service, Natural History Museum, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian's National Zoo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USDA Forest Service, USDA Risk Management Agency, White House Historical Association. State capitals were checked against each state’s page on USA.gov and regions against the Census Bureau’s map; word meanings come from Peabody’s word bank; sums are worked out on the key.

Nothing is made up when you press a button: no AI writes a question, so a round never says anything that was not checked first. Nothing you tap leaves this device, and there is nothing to sign up for.