Question 1 of 20AnimalsEasy
Quiz for 9-11 year olds
Looking for quiz questions for 9-11 year olds that work at home, on a road trip or in the classroom? This quiz for 10 year olds mixes animals, space, geography, history, science, sport and books, with a surprising fact after every answer.
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Question 2 of 20GeographyEasy
Which US state is made up entirely of islands?
Question 3 of 20SpaceMedium
Which star is closest to Earth?
Question 4 of 20BooksMedium
In E. B. White's book Charlotte's Web, what kind of animal is Wilbur?
Question 5 of 20ScienceEasy
What force pulls things down to the ground when you drop them?
Question 6 of 20ScienceHard
Sound can travel through all of these except which one?
Question 7 of 20ScienceMedium
What is the hardest natural material on Earth?
Question 8 of 20AnimalsEasy
What word describes animals that rest during the day and are active at night?
Question 9 of 20GeographyMedium
What is the smallest country in the world?
Question 10 of 20HistoryHard
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was built as a tomb for which king?
Question 11 of 20AnimalsMedium
Which bird lays the biggest eggs?
Question 12 of 20SportEasy
In which sport could you score a "hole in one"?
Question 13 of 20SpaceMedium
What do we call a group of stars that makes a pattern or picture in the night sky?
Question 14 of 20SpaceHard
What do we call the rocky objects that orbit the Sun, mostly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Question 15 of 20HistoryMedium
The first Olympic Games were held in ancient times at Olympia, in which modern-day country?
Question 16 of 20AnimalsEasy
What is a large group of fish swimming together called?
Question 17 of 20ScienceHard
At what temperature does water freeze on the Fahrenheit scale?
Question 18 of 20BooksMedium
Who wrote the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Question 19 of 20HistoryHard
The Vikings were seafaring people who came from which part of Europe?
Question 20 of 20SportMedium
In bowling, what is it called when you knock down all ten pins with your first ball?
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Show all the answers, with the facts behind them
- How many legs does a spider have? EightSpiders aren't insects, which have six legs. They are arachnids, a group that also includes scorpions, ticks and mites.
- Which US state is made up entirely of islands? HawaiiIts Big Island is still growing. In 2018, lava from the Kilauea volcano added about 875 acres of brand-new land.
- Which star is closest to Earth? The SunIt is so big that about 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it.
- In E. B. White's book Charlotte's Web, what kind of animal is Wilbur? PigWhite got the idea in his barn in Maine, where he watched a real spider spin an egg sac. The book came out in 1952.
- What force pulls things down to the ground when you drop them? GravityThe Moon's pull is much weaker than Earth's. On the Moon, you would weigh only about one-sixth as much as you do at home.
- Sound can travel through all of these except which one? Outer spaceSound needs something to travel through. In water, it moves more than four times faster than it does in air.
- What is the hardest natural material on Earth? DiamondDiamonds are pure carbon, just like the soft graphite in a pencil. The difference is the way the carbon atoms are joined together.
- What word describes animals that rest during the day and are active at night? NocturnalMany desert animals work this way. They hide from the hot sun during the day, often in burrows, then come out at night to find food.
- What is the smallest country in the world? Vatican CityThe whole country sits inside the city of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber River.
- The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was built as a tomb for which king? KhufuBuilt around 2600 BC, it stayed the tallest structure made by people for more than 3,800 years.
- Which bird lays the biggest eggs? OstrichOne of its eggs weighs about 3 pounds, more than 20 times as much as a chicken egg.
- In which sport could you score a "hole in one"? GolfIn 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission.
- What do we call a group of stars that makes a pattern or picture in the night sky? ConstellationAstronomers officially recognize 88 of them. Many are named after animals and characters from old myths.
- What do we call the rocky objects that orbit the Sun, mostly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter? AsteroidsNASA thinks the belt holds over a million of them wider than 1 kilometer (0.6 mile), yet all of them together have less mass than our Moon.
- The first Olympic Games were held in ancient times at Olympia, in which modern-day country? GreeceAncient winners didn't get medals. Each champion was crowned with a wreath made from wild olive branches.
- What is a large group of fish swimming together called? A schoolScientists have found that fish swimming together this way use less energy than fish swimming on their own.
- At what temperature does water freeze on the Fahrenheit scale? 32°FDaniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who made the first reliable mercury thermometers, described his temperature scale to scientists in London in 1724.
- Who wrote the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Roald DahlAs a schoolboy at Repton School in England, the author helped test new chocolate bars that a candy company sent to the pupils.
- The Vikings were seafaring people who came from which part of Europe? ScandinaviaViking explorer Leif Erikson reached North America around the year 1000, about 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
- In bowling, what is it called when you knock down all ten pins with your first ball? A strikeA perfect game in ten-pin bowling is 12 of these in a row, for a score of 300.
