🧭 Trivia directory
Where good trivia comes from, and where a quiz-loving kid can go next. The free places that check their facts, the quiz competitions children can enter, and the tools that make a host's night easier.
Grown-ups: these places are on other websites. Hold the button for two seconds to turn the names into links.
Free places to check a fact
Where Peabody's own questions are checked: each is run by a public body or a museum, and each writes for children.
- NASA Space Placespaceplace.nasa.govFree
NASA's site for kids: the planets, the Sun, the Moon and how space travel works.
- SciJinks (NOAA and NASA)scijinks.govFree
Weather and climate for kids: rainbows, lightning, hurricanes and the seasons.
- NOAA Ocean Service: Ocean Factsoceanservice.noaa.govFree
Short answers to ocean questions from the US government's ocean agency.
- USGS Water Science Schoolusgs.govFree
The US Geological Survey on water: rivers, the water cycle and how much water there is.
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Historynaturalhistory.si.eduFree
Animals, dinosaurs, rocks and human origins from the national museum.
- Library of Congress: Everyday Mysteriesloc.govFree
The Library of Congress answers everyday science questions, like why the sky is blue.
- National Geographic Kidskids.nationalgeographic.com
Animals, countries and science for kids, with photos.
Quiz competitions for students
For the child who loves trivia and wants a team: these run real tournaments. Most go through a school, so ask a teacher.
- NAQT (quiz bowl)naqt.com
The organization behind school quiz bowl in the US, with leagues and tournaments for middle and high school.
- National Science Bowl (US Department of Energy)science.osti.gov
A science and math quiz competition for middle and high school teams, run by the Department of Energy.
- National History Bee and Bowliacompetitions.com
History quiz competitions for elementary, middle and high school students.
- Peabody's Spelling Beepeabody.kidsFree
Word lists by grade and practice that reads aloud, for the speller in the family.
Peabody's trivia tools
- Round makerpeabody.kidsFree
Ten questions for ages 6–8, 9–11 or 12 and up, from up to three themes.
- Buzzerpeabody.kidsFree
One big button for each of two to eight teams; the first press rings.
- Scoreboardpeabody.kidsFree
Points for two to eight teams, kept on the device.