🖨️ Printable trivia questions for kids

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Three rounds to print, one per age: question cards, an answer sheet for each team with A, B and C to circle, and the key on its own page to fold back. Dinosaurs, weather and the ocean, three of each and a riddle. Nothing to sign up for, no email.

🐣 Little round: ages 6–8 (grades K–2)

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1.Where did nearly all dinosaurs live?
- A deep in the sea
- B on land
- C high in the clouds
2.After fresh snow falls, how does it sound outside?
- A full of echoes
- B quieter
- C louder
3.What is the biggest fish in the ocean?
- A the swordfish
- B the blue whale
- C the whale shark
4.How many horns did Triceratops have on its face?
- A one
- B five
- C three
5.What are hailstones made of?
- A salt
- B ice
- C tiny rocks
6.What pulls on the ocean to make the tides?
- A the moon and the sun
- B the wind and the rain
- C big whales swimming
7.What do we call bones or footprints from long ago saved in rock?
- A fossils
- B pebbles
- C crystals
8.To see a rainbow, what needs to be behind you?
- A a dark cloud
- B the Moon
- C the Sun
9.Which is the biggest ocean?
- A the Arctic Ocean
- B the Pacific Ocean
- C the Atlantic Ocean
10.I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?
- A 🐕 A dog
- B 🪙 A coin
- C 🐟 A fish

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B: on land. Penguins are birds, so they are dinosaurs that swim in the sea. Source: Natural History Museum, London
B: quieter. Fresh snow soaks up sound waves, so the world goes hushed. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center
C: the whale shark. Even though they are huge, whale sharks are usually calm and gentle. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
C: three. Its name means three-horned face. Source: Natural History Museum, London
B: ice. Hail forms high up inside big thunderstorm clouds where it is very cold. Source: NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
A: the moon and the sun. Tides are so regular that people can predict them far ahead of time. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
A: fossils. Fossils can be the remains of a living thing or marks it left, like footprints. Source: Natural History Museum, London
C: the Sun. Rainbows show up when sunlight shines into drops of water floating in the air. Source: NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks)
B: the Pacific Ocean. All of the world's continents could fit inside the Pacific. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
B: 🪙 A coin. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle

🦊 Middle round: ages 9–11 (grades 3–5)

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1.Fossil footprints and fossil dinosaur poo are what kind of fossils?
- A trace fossils
- B body fossils
- C living fossils
2.Thin, wispy cirrus clouds are made mostly of what?
- A ice crystals
- B raindrops
- C dust
3.Where are the highest tides in the world?
- A the Caribbean Sea
- B the Red Sea
- C the Bay of Fundy in Canada
4.Which scientist made up the name for dinosaurs in 1842?
- A Charles Darwin
- B Earl Douglass
- C Richard Owen
5.Rising water vapor cools and turns into the droplets that make clouds. What is this called?
- A transpiration
- B evaporation
- C condensation
6.Some humpback whales swim about how far between warm and cold waters?
- A about 5,000 miles
- B about 50 miles
- C about 50,000 miles
7.Birds today come from which group of dinosaurs?
- A theropods
- B ceratopsians
- C sauropods
8.Most snowflakes are less than how wide?
- A six inches
- B two inches
- C half an inch
9.What kind of living thing is a coral?
- A a plant
- B an animal
- C a mushroom
10.The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
- A 🪙 Coins
- B 🍪 Cookies
- C 👣 Footsteps

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A: trace fossils. Body fossils are the actual remains, like bones, teeth and shells. Source: Natural History Museum, London
A: ice crystals. Cirrus clouds float very high up, where the air is freezing cold. Source: NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks)
C: the Bay of Fundy in Canada. In the United States, the highest tides are near Anchorage, Alaska. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
C: Richard Owen. He used three British fossils, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, to name the group. Source: Natural History Museum, London
C: condensation. You can see condensation when drops form on the outside of a cold glass. Source: NASA Science for Kids
A: about 5,000 miles. Humpbacks have one of the longest migrations of any mammal. Source: NOAA Fisheries
A: theropods. Theropods walked on two legs, like T. rex and Velociraptor. Source: National Park Service
C: half an inch. Half an inch is about 1.3 centimeters. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center
B: an animal. Corals stay fixed to the sea floor, which is why many people think they are plants. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
C: 👣 Footsteps. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle

🦉 Big round: ages 12 and up (grades 6 and up)

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1.What is the most common way a dinosaur bone turns into a fossil?
- A evaporation
- B petrification
- C erosion
2.Winds blowing in different directions or speeds at different heights are called what?
- A wind shear
- B trade winds
- C the jet stream
3.What is the deepest known part of the ocean called?
- A the Puerto Rico Trench
- B the Java Trench
- C the Challenger Deep
4.Which paleontologist found the Carnegie Quarry in Utah in 1909?
- A Barnum Brown
- B Richard Owen
- C Earl Douglass
5.When water vapor changes straight into ice without becoming liquid, what is it called?
- A condensation
- B sublimation
- C deposition
6.In most sea turtles, what decides whether a hatchling is male or female?
- A the phase of the moon
- B the temperature of the eggs
- C the size of the eggs
7.Birds have bird-like hips, but scientists group them with which dinosaurs?
- A the bird-hipped ornithischians
- B the flying pterosaurs
- C the lizard-hipped saurischians
8.Officially, a blizzard has winds faster than what speed?
- A 15 miles per hour
- B 35 miles per hour
- C 75 miles per hour
9.Stony coral polyps build reefs from skeletons made of what?
- A calcium carbonate
- B keratin
- C silica
10.I have a mane and I roar. What am I?
- A 🐻 A bear
- B 🦁 A lion
- C 🐴 A horse

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B: petrification. Water seeps into buried bone and leaves minerals behind, turning it to stone. Source: Natural History Museum, London
A: wind shear. Wind shear helps set up the spinning air inside storms that can form tornadoes. Source: NOAA NESDIS (SciJinks)
C: the Challenger Deep. It lies at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
C: Earl Douglass. His first find there was eight connected tailbones of an Apatosaurus. Source: National Park Service
C: deposition. Sublimation is the opposite, when ice turns straight into vapor. Source: NASA Science for Kids
B: the temperature of the eggs. Scientists call this temperature-dependent sex determination, or TSD. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
C: the lizard-hipped saurischians. The hip names were chosen before scientists knew birds are dinosaurs. Source: National Park Service
B: 35 miles per hour. The snow must also cut how far you can see to under a quarter mile, for more than 3 hours. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center
A: calcium carbonate. Most stony coral polyps are only one to three millimeters across. Source: NOAA Ocean Service
B: 🦁 A lion. A riddle: every clue fits only one of the three. a Peabody riddle

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