🐣 Easy trivia questions for 6-year-olds

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One round made for ages 6 to 8: three animal questions, three about the ocean, three about plants and a riddle to finish. The questions are short, the three answers are short, and Peabody can read each one aloud, so a child who is not reading yet can still play.

🐣 Little round: ages 6–8 (grades K–2)

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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

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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

For the host

Let a 6-year-old point instead of saying the answer. Pointing counts.

Read each question and its three answers aloud, or press ▶ Play and Peabody reads them; a tap shows the answer, a line about it and where it comes from.
On a phone, pass it round: one question per team, a star for each right answer. On a laptop or a TV, press 📺 Big screen.
On paper, print the cards, one answer sheet per team and the key on its own page.

Where these questions come from

Each question was written by Peabody in its own words and checked against one page, named under its answer. The pages we used for these rounds:

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