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Quiz questions for 5 year olds

Counting on and back, sums that make 10, flags of famous countries, which animals are birds, and which dinosaur ate plants. These quiz questions for 5 year olds all have answers to pick from, so a grown-up can read them out or a child can tap.

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39 questions in 5 short rounds, every one with its answer. Pitched at Reception and Year 1. Questions last changed: .

Round 1: numbers, animals and a flag

  1. What is one more than 7?

    • 6
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9

    8. Count on one from 7: 8.

  2. True or false: One less than 7 is 7.

    False. One less than 7 is 6. Count back one from 7: 6.

  3. True or false: Fish have fur.

    False. Most fish are covered in scales.

  4. What is the big, thick middle part of a tree called?

    • Petal
    • Twig
    • Root
    • Trunk

    Trunk. A trunk gets a little thicker every year the tree is alive.

  5. Which country's flag is this?

    A red band at each side and a wide white band in the middle with a red maple leaf.
    • Brazil
    • Canada
    • Germany
    • Ireland

    Canada. Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.

  6. Which dinosaur had tiny arms with just two fingers on each hand?

    • T. rex
    • Triceratops
    • Stegosaurus
    • Velociraptor

    T. rex. T. rex had one of the strongest bites of any land animal ever, strong enough to crunch through bone.

  7. True or false: The Sun is a star.

    True. The Sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy. It only looks special because it is so close.

  8. What is 9 − 4?

    • 4
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7

    5. Count back 4 from 9: 5.

Round 2: numbers, animals and a flag

  1. What is 2 − 1?

    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0

    1. Count back 1 from 2: 1.

  2. Fill in the missing number: 5 + ? = 10

    • 5
    • 4
    • 6
    • 7

    5. 5 and 5 are number bonds to 10: together they make 10.

  3. What kind of animal is an ant?

    • Mammal
    • Reptile
    • Insect
    • Bird

    Insect. Some ants farm tiny insects called aphids for their sweet juice.

  4. Which of these does every plant need to grow?

    • Water
    • Salt
    • Milk
    • Sand

    Water. Plants need light, water, air and warmth to grow well.

  5. Which country's flag is this?

    A red field with one large yellow star and four small yellow stars in the top left corner.
    • Australia
    • Jamaica
    • France
    • China

    China. China uses just one time zone, even though it is wide enough for five.

  6. True or false: People lived at the same time as dinosaurs like T. rex.

    False. The last giant dinosaurs died out more than 60 million years before the first humans appeared.

  7. True or false: Earth travels round the Sun.

    True. Earth zooms round the Sun at about 30 kilometres every second.

  8. Fill in the missing number: 6 + ? = 10

    • 2
    • 3
    • 5
    • 4

    4. 6 and 4 are number bonds to 10: together they make 10.

Round 3: numbers, animals and a flag

  1. True or false: One more than 4 is 5.

    True. Count on one from 4: 5.

  2. What is 9 − 1?

    • 8
    • 9
    • 10
    • 7

    8. Count back 1 from 9: 8.

  3. True or false: Birds have feathers.

    True. Every bird has feathers, and no other animal alive today has them.

  4. Which part of your body do you think with?

    • Lungs
    • Stomach
    • Brain
    • Skin

    Brain. A grown-up's brain uses about a fifth of the body's energy. A child's brain uses even more.

  5. Which country's flag is this?

    Three horizontal stripes: saffron, white and green, with a navy blue wheel in the middle.
    • Jamaica
    • Canada
    • India
    • France

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

  6. True or false: Triceratops ate meat.

    False. It ate plants. Triceratops snipped tough plants with a sharp beak, a bit like a giant parrot's.

  7. Which of these is the biggest?

    • Earth
    • The Sun
    • Saturn
    • Jupiter

    The Sun. The Sun is so wide that about 109 Earths could sit side by side across it.

  8. What is 5 + 3?

    • 7
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8

    8. Count on 3 from 5: 8.

Round 4: numbers, animals and a flag

  1. True or false: 7, 6, 5. The next number is 3.

    False. 7, 6, 5. The next number is 4. The numbers go down by 1 each time, so the next number is 4.

  2. How many days are there in a week?

    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 10

    7. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 7 days.

  3. True or false: A baby sheep is called a lamb.

    True. Most lambs are born in spring, and they can stand up within an hour.

  4. Which part of your body pumps blood all the way round you?

    • Lungs
    • Brain
    • Skin
    • Heart

    Heart. Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day.

  5. Which country's flag is this?

    A blue field with a small red, white and blue flag in the top left, a large white star below it, and five white stars on the right.
    • China
    • Ireland
    • Australia
    • Canada

    Australia. Australia has more than 10,000 beaches. Visiting one a day would take over 27 years.

  6. True or false: A sabre-toothed cat was a dinosaur.

    False. Sabre-toothed cats were mammals. The famous ones hunted in the last Ice Age, long after the giant dinosaurs.

  7. Which planet is famous for its big, bright rings?

    • Mars
    • Mercury
    • Saturn
    • Earth

    Saturn. Saturn's rings are made of countless chunks of ice and rock, some as big as a house.

  8. 3, 4, 5. Which number comes next?

    • 5
    • 7
    • 8
    • 6

    6. The numbers go up by 1 each time, so the next number is 6.

Round 5: numbers, animals and a flag

  1. True or false: 2 + 1 = 2.

    False. 2 + 1 = 3. Count on 1 from 2: 3.

  2. What is 4 + 2?

    • 7
    • 5
    • 8
    • 6

    6. Count on 2 from 4: 6.

  3. What kind of animal is a kangaroo?

    • Insect
    • Mammal
    • Reptile
    • Bird

    Mammal. A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jelly bean.

  4. Which country's flag is this?

    Three vertical stripes: green, white and red.
    • Italy
    • Jamaica
    • China
    • Australia

    Italy. Italy completely surrounds two other countries: San Marino and Vatican City.

  5. True or false: Stegosaurus ate plants.

    True. The spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus tail are nicknamed the thagomizer, a word first used in a cartoon.

  6. Which is the biggest planet in our Solar System?

    • Jupiter
    • Mars
    • Earth
    • Venus

    Jupiter. Jupiter is about 11 times as wide as Earth.

  7. 8, 7, 6. Which number comes next?

    • 6
    • 4
    • 7
    • 5

    5. The numbers go down by 1 each time, so the next number is 5.

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Each short round mixes numbers, animals, a flag, a dinosaur and the sky, so nobody waits long for a question they like. Read each question and its choices out loud, show the picture when it is a flag, then tap Show answer together. Most answers come with one line that says why. To see every answer at once, switch on Show all answers at the top of the list. The page also prints on A4 paper from your browser's own Print command: the questions come first and the answers follow on a separate sheet.

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