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Little round (ages 6–8): 🦁 Animals · 🌊 The ocean · 🌳 Plants and trees. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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The ten, for a host reading aloud
- 1.What does a skunk spray to keep other animals away?
- A cold water
- B sticky honey
- C a stinky liquid
- 2.How many hearts does an octopus have?
- A eight
- B one
- C three
- 3.What powdery stuff do bees carry from one flower to the next?
- A sand
- B pollen
- C sugar
- 4.What gives a flamingo its pink color?
- A the food it eats
- B bathing in mud
- C the warm sunshine
- 5.What is the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth?
- A the whale shark
- B the African elephant
- C the blue whale
- 6.The giant saguaro cactus is mostly made of what?
- A sand
- B water
- C wood
- 7.What do we call a grown-up girl chicken?
- A a hen
- B a rooster
- C a chick
- 8.How does a sea star move around?
- A on tiny tube feet
- B by flapping fins
- C by swishing its tail
- 9.A mushroom belongs to which group of living things?
- A fungi
- B animals
- C plants
- 10.I am easy to lift, but hard to throw far. I am light and white and fluffy. What am I?
- A 🪶 A feather
- B 🧱 A brick
- C 🪨 A rock
🔑 Show the answers
- C: a stinky liquid. Before it sprays, a skunk stomps its feet and lifts its tail as a warning. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- C: three. Two of its hearts pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- B: pollen. When pollen moves between flowers, the plant can make seeds. Source: USDA Forest Service
- A: the food it eats. Flamingo chicks hatch with white fluffy feathers and take years to turn pink. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- C: the blue whale. Blue whales eat mostly krill, tiny animals they strain out of the water. Source: NOAA Fisheries
- B: water. All that stored water can make a big saguaro weigh more than 6 tons. Source: National Park Service
- A: a hen. Hens do not crow, but they cluck to talk to their chicks. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- A: on tiny tube feet. A sea star is not a fish at all: it has no gills, scales or fins. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
- A: fungi. Mold and yeast are fungi too. Source: National Park Service
- A: 🪶 A feather. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle
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- Little is for ages 6 to 8 (kindergarten to 2nd grade), Middle for 9 to 11 (grades 3 to 5), Big for 12 and up. A round never mixes ages; at a mixed table, play one round per age on the same themes.
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