Questions Just for Children Trivia Quiz

Answer: green

Yellow and blue are both primary colors. You can mix them to make green. A primary color is a color that you cannot make by mixing two other colors together. Yellow, red, and blue, are primary colors.

Answer: four

If I had ten and I gave you six, I would have four left. This means that 10 - 6 = 4. You can also say it like this: Ten, take away six leave four. This is subtraction.

Answer: four

When you say Mississippi, your mouth says four different sounds to make one word come out. Those little parts that make up the word are called 'syllables.' Miss---iss---ipp--i. Say it slow and hear each part. How many syllables are in YOUR name?

Answer: a state

Mississippi is a state. In the United States we break our country up into different states. Each state is made up of cities, towns, villages, and counties. Do you live in a state in the United States? What is the name of your state?

Answer: a row boat

If you and I both took a row boat out onto the lake, we could row across the water and meet in the middle. If we tried to do that with a tractor, bus or bicycle they would all go down to the bottom of the lake. Do you know why? Because they can't float! A boat can float on top of the water, but a tractor couldn't.

The boat would stay up on top of the water because it's lighter and made to keep water from coming inside.

Answer: run

Run is the verb. A verb is an ACTION word. She RAN down the road. Anytime you see a word that tells you an action, it's probably a verb.

Answer: computer

The noun is computer. A noun is a word that is a person, place, or thing. If I said, 'The boy tried to save his allowance for a new computer' the computer is a noun, and so is boy and allowance. They are words that tell the person, place or thing in the sentence.

Answer: halves

Anytime you break one whole thing into two things that are the exact same size, you are making halves. There are measurements for everything. Two equal pieces of the cookie are halves, four equals are quarters, three equals are thirds, and the cookie all in one piece uncut is a whole.

Answer: seven

You have three and I have four. If we put them all together and count them we would have seven. This means 3 + 4 = 7 or you could say three and four together make seven. This is adding numbers or addition.

Answer: on a tree

Oranges grow on trees. Grapes grow on vines, carrots grow under the ground and seaweed grows under water. Next time you eat a vegetable or fruit, ask yourself where it grows.

Answer: following a road map

You are following a road map. A road map is a drawing or picture of road and streets that you can use to find your way to a place you don't know the way to. There are maps for other things too. Maps of water, land, stars, and even the sky for airplane pilots to follow.

Answer: Oxygen

Our bodies need oxygen to breathe. We get it from the air around us. If you were a fish you'd have gills and get your oxygen from the water.

Answer: potatoes

A french fry is a deep-fried slice of potato. What other way can you make potatoes, besides fried?

Answer: fifteen cents

A dime is worth ten cents, a nickel is worth five cents. If you put ten cents and five cents together you have fifteen cents. This is addition again. Cents are pennies. One penny is one cent, five pennies is five cents. A nickel is worth the same as five pennies. A dime is worth the same as ten pennies.

Answer: E

E is a vowel. The vowels in our words are the letters A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y. All the other letters are called consonants. How many vowels are in your name? How many consonants?