49 trivia questions for 1st grade with answers

Questions for 6- and 7-year-olds on what 1st graders usually learn: animals, the senses, plants, seasons and the sky, adding within 20, coins, clocks and words. An adult reads each one aloud and most answers are a word or two. Science answers link to their source; printed without the answers, the set makes a review sheet.

49 questions · Trivia questions for 1st grade with answers · answers included

Updated 29 Oct 2026

Animals

1
What is a baby cow called?

easy

Answer
A calf.
A newborn one drinks its mother's milk before it starts to eat grass.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_(animal)?oldid=1371147290
2
What is a baby kangaroo called?

easy

Answer
A joey.
When it is born, it is only about the size of a lima bean.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo?oldid=1380370831
3
What is a baby horse called?

easy

Answer
A foal.
The same word is used for a baby donkey.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foal?oldid=1344455695
4
What is a baby duck called?

easy

Answer
A duckling.
Soon after they hatch, their mother leads them to the water.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck?oldid=1382173698
5
A baby goat has the same name as a child. What is it?

easy

Answer
A kid.
The word comes from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat?oldid=1382095396
6
Which animals are covered in feathers?

easy

Answer
Birds.
Feathers keep them warm and dry and help them fly.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird?oldid=1382050397
7
Snakes and lizards are covered in small, hard plates. What are those plates called?

medium

Answer
Scales.
Butterfly and moth wings are covered in tiny ones too.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile?oldid=1374321170
8
What do we call an animal that eats only plants, like a rabbit or a deer?

medium

Answer
A herbivore.
Cows and horses have wide, flat teeth that are good for grinding grass.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore?oldid=1380579141
9
Owls hunt at night and sleep in the day. What word describes an animal that is awake at night?

hard

Answer
Nocturnal.
Animals that are awake in the daytime, like us, are called diurnal.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_animal?oldid=1381933280

Your senses, light and sound

10
How many senses do people usually say we have?

easy

Answer
5.
Scientists count more, such as your sense of balance.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense?oldid=1380569917
11
Which part of your body do you smell with?

easy

Answer
The nose.
It also warms the air you breathe in.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nose?oldid=1374829196
12
What do your ears let you do?

easy

Answer
Hear.
Deep inside each ear is a tiny curled part shaped like a snail shell.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing?oldid=1369615421
13
Which sense tells you that a lemon is sour?

easy

Answer
Taste.
Cats cannot taste sweet things at all.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste?oldid=1381161758
14
What is the round black dot in the middle of your eye called?

medium

Answer
The pupil.
It is really a hole that lets light into your eye.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupil?oldid=1365855908
15
What do we call the dark shape on the ground when your body blocks the sunlight?

easy

Answer
A shadow.
It is longest early in the morning and late in the day, when the Sun is low.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow?oldid=1374098181
16
You shout in a big cave and hear your voice come back to you. What is that called?

medium

Answer
An echo.
Bats and dolphins find their way by listening for sounds that bounce back.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo?oldid=1353842380

Plants

17
What are the soft, colorful parts of a flower called?

easy

Answer
Petals.
Their bright colors invite bees and butterflies to visit.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petal?oldid=1380090549
18
Which flat, green part of a plant catches sunlight to make food?

easy

Answer
The leaves.
A cactus's spines are a kind of leaf too.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf?oldid=1379374302
19
Which part of a plant holds up its leaves and flowers?

medium

Answer
The stem.
It also carries water up through the plant, like a drinking straw.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_stem?oldid=1374913322
20
When you eat a carrot, which part of the plant are you eating?

medium

Answer
The root.
Old kinds of carrot can be white, yellow, red, purple or black.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot?oldid=1380580500
21
Besides warmth and air, what does a seed need before it can start to grow?

easy

Answer
Water.
A dry seed soaks it up and swells until its coat breaks open.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germination?oldid=1366328442
22
What is a young plant that has just sprouted from a seed called?

medium

Answer
A seedling.
Its first leaves, called seed leaves, often look different from the leaves that grow later.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedling?oldid=1359600608

Seasons, weather and the sky

23
Most of the United States has how many seasons in a year?

easy

Answer
4.
Places near the equator often have just a wet season and a dry season.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season?oldid=1381455498
24
Which season has the longest and warmest days of the year?

easy

Answer
Summer.
In Australia it comes in December, January and February.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer?oldid=1382322837
25
In which season do many trees drop their leaves?

easy

Answer
Fall, also called autumn.
Trees that lose all their leaves grow new ones in the spring.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn?oldid=1381121151
26
In which direction does the Sun rise in the morning?

easy

Answer
East.
In the evening it sets in the west.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East?oldid=1379663624
27
How many colors do people usually count in a rainbow?

medium

Answer
7.
In the main bow, red is on the outside and violet on the inside.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow?oldid=1382250490
28
What are clouds made of?

medium

Answer
Water, in tiny drops.
High up, where the air is very cold, the drops freeze into bits of ice.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud?oldid=1382135843
29
When the Moon looks like a thin curved slice, like a banana, what is that shape called?

medium

Answer
A crescent.
Over about a month, the lit part grows to a whole circle and then shrinks again.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase?oldid=1372467789
30
The Big Dipper is a group of 7 bright stars. It is part of a bigger star picture named after which animal?

hard

Answer
A bear.
In Britain and Ireland, people call the same 7 stars the Plough.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper?oldid=1382245900

Math

31
What is 7 + 5?

easy

Answer
12.
Make a ten first: 7 + 3 = 10, and 2 more makes 12.
32
What is 16 − 7?

medium

Answer
9.
16 − 6 = 10, and taking away 1 more leaves 9.
33
Count by 2s: 2, 4, 6, 8. What number comes next?

easy

Answer
10.
Each number is 2 more than the one before: 8 + 2 = 10.
34
Count by 5s: 5, 10, 15, 20. What number comes next?

easy

Answer
25.
Each number is 5 more than the one before: 20 + 5 = 25.
35
How many tens and how many ones make the number 17?

medium

Answer
1 ten and 7 ones.
17 is 10 + 7.
36
How many cents is a nickel worth?

easy

Answer
5 cents.
5 pennies make the same amount as 1 nickel.
37
You have 1 dime and 3 pennies. How many cents do you have?

medium

Answer
13 cents.
A dime is worth 10 cents and each penny 1 cent: 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 13.
38
The short hand of a clock points to 3 and the long hand points to 12. What time is it?

easy

Answer
3 o'clock.
When the long hand is on the 12, the time is exactly on the hour, and the short hand tells which hour.
39
The long hand of a clock points to 6 and the short hand is halfway between 7 and 8. What time is it?

medium

Answer
7:30, or half past 7.
The long hand on the 6 means 30 minutes, half an hour, after the 7.
40
How many sides and how many corners does a triangle have?

easy

Answer
3 sides and 3 corners.
Tri means three, as in tricycle, which has 3 wheels.
41
How many days are in a week?

easy

Answer
7.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
42
Which month comes right after March?

easy

Answer
April.
The year starts with January, so March is the 3rd month and the next one is the 4th.
43
Sam has 8 stickers. He gets 5 more, then gives 2 to a friend. How many stickers does he have now?

hard

Answer
11 stickers.
8 + 5 = 13, and 13 − 2 = 11.

Words

44
Which word rhymes with "cat": "hat" or "cup"?

easy

Answer
Hat.
Rhyming words end with the same sound, like bat, mat and sat.
45
What is the opposite of "big"?

easy

Answer
Small, or little.
Other opposites are fast and slow, and wet and dry.
46
What kind of letter does every sentence start with?

easy

Answer
A capital letter.
The word "I" is always written with one too.
47
Which mark goes at the end of a sentence that asks something?

easy

Answer
A question mark.
A sentence that tells something ends with a period.
48
Is the "a" in "cap" a short vowel or a long vowel?

medium

Answer
A short vowel.
Add an e to make "cape", and the a says its own name: that is a long a.
49
Name the 5 vowels.

easy

Answer
A, E, I, O and U.
Y sometimes works as a vowel too, as in "my" and "happy".

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