Fun quiz questions for kids

True. Two hearts pump blood through its gills. The third pumps it round the rest of its body.

True. The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs.

True. Babies have around 300 bones. Some join together as they grow, leaving adults with 206.

False. Spiders are arachnids, with eight legs. Insects have six.

True. Bamboo is the fastest growing grass in the world. Some kinds grow almost a metre in one day.

False. Mushrooms are fungi. They cannot make food from sunlight the way plants do.

False. Sharks are fish. They breathe through gills.

True. Birds evolved from small feathered dinosaurs, so scientists count every bird as a living dinosaur.

False. Most held their tails up off the ground. Fossil trackways almost never show tail marks.

True. The film raptors were based on bigger relatives. The real Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey, with feathers.

False. Crocodiles are not dinosaurs, but they are the dinosaurs' closest living cousins. Birds are closer still, because birds are dinosaurs.

True. In 1998 a Coelophysis skull flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the Mir space station.

False. Scientists once thought so. Footprints and bones show they walked on dry land.

True. Early scientists had only a few bones, so they guessed the spike was a horn, like a rhino's.

True. Saturn is mostly light gases. In a bath big enough to hold it, it would float.

False. Seasons come from Earth's tilt. Earth is actually closest to the Sun in early January.

True. Venus is farther from the Sun, but its thick atmosphere traps the heat. It's hot enough to melt lead.

False. A light year is a distance: how far light travels in a whole year.

True. Pluto is only about two thirds as wide as our Moon.

False. The Sun isn't burning like a fire. It shines because hydrogen is squeezed into helium deep inside it.

True. On Venus, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

False. There is no evidence they did. The idea mostly comes from costumes and paintings made in the 1800s.

True. Orville Wright stayed up for 12 seconds and flew a shorter distance than the length of a jumbo jet.

False. Viking explorers led by Leif Erikson got there about 500 years earlier.

True. The Great Pyramid was already more than 2,000 years old when Cleopatra was born.

False. The internet is the network. The web is the pages and links that travel across it.

True. He was only around nine years old when he came to the throne.

Nepal. Nepal's is the only national flag that doesn't have four sides.

Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's flag shows the stars over Rio de Janeiro on the morning of 15 November 1889.

Jamaica. Jamaica's flag is the only national flag with no red, white or blue in it.

24. The wheel on India's flag has 24 spokes and is called the Ashoka Chakra.

Switzerland and Vatican City. Switzerland is one of only two countries with a square flag. The other is Vatican City.

True. The 50-star US flag has been flown since 1960, longer than any version before it.