40 quiz questions for kids

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Round 1: Animals

Which short-legged herding dog from Wales was famously kept by Queen Elizabeth II?
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Pembroke Welsh Corgi
What do fish use to take oxygen from water?
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Gills
What makes up almost all of a giant panda's diet?
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Bamboo
What is the largest living rodent?
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Capybara
Which seabird with a colourful striped beak is nicknamed the 'clown of the sea'?
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Puffin
What name is given to mammals, such as kangaroos, whose young develop in a pouch?
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Marsupials
What is a group of crows called?
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Murder
Which bird of prey, with a white head and yellow beak, is the national bird of the USA?
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Bald eagle
What is the hard-cased pupa of a butterfly called?
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Chrysalis
Which Arctic whale has a long, spiralled tusk?
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Narwhal

Round 2: Books and films

Which vegetable is Bugs Bunny usually seen munching?
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Carrot
In Aesop's fable, which animal wins the race against the hare?
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The tortoise
Which Enid Blyton character lives in Toyland and drives a little red and yellow car?
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Noddy
In Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio, what happens to Pinocchio's nose when he tells a lie?
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It grows
In Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book, which animals raise the boy Mowgli?
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Wolves
What is the name of the elephant king created by the French author Jean de Brunhoff in 1931?
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Babar
In Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, on what does the princess prick her finger?
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A spindle
What is the name of the princess in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty?
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Aurora
Which song opens Disney's 1994 film The Lion King as the animals gather at Pride Rock?
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Circle of Life
What does the mermaid heroine give to Ursula in exchange for legs in Disney's 1989 film The Little Mermaid?
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Her voice

Round 3: Dinosaurs and space

Which period of prehistory came after the Stone Age in Britain and Europe?
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Bronze Age
In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, dinosaur DNA is taken from blood inside which kind of insect preserved in ancient tree resin?
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Mosquito
What name is given to the shaped stone tips that prehistoric hunters fixed to the end of their arrows?
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Arrowheads
The so-called Irish elk, an Ice Age animal with antlers up to about 3.6 metres across, was actually a giant kind of what?
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Deer
In which English county is Lyme Regis, where Mary Anning collected fossils?
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Dorset
Which actress played the fossil hunter Mary Anning in a 2020 film?
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Kate Winslet
The woolly mammoth's closest living relative is which animal?
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Asian elephant
Which British astronaut went to the International Space Station in 2015?
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Tim Peake
Which ball of ice and dust grows a long, glowing tail when it gets close to the Sun?
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A comet
What word describes an animal, such as T. rex, that walks on two legs?
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Bipedal

Round 4: General knowledge for kids

In the 2013 Disney film Frozen, what is the name of the friendly snowman?
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Olaf
Which bear lives in the Hundred Acre Wood?
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Winnie-the-Pooh
In which country is the cartoon Bluey, first shown in 2018, made?
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Australia
What is the plural of 'mouse'?
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Mice
In the 2016 Disney film Moana, which shape-shifting demigod helps Moana?
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Maui
In the cartoon Bluey, first shown in 2018, what is the name of Bluey's little sister?
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Bingo
From which platform at King's Cross does the Hogwarts Express leave?
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Platform 9¾
What are the tiny holes in your skin that sweat comes out of called?
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Pores
How many players does each team have on the court in netball?
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7
What is the name of the BBC news programme for children, first shown in 1972?
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Newsround

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