Sample pickWhat is 349 rounded to the nearest hundred?
Trivia Questions for 3rd Graders, From Times Tables to Planets: how it works
The first question is on the card now. Read it aloud, tap the answer your third graders settle on, then press Check answer for the right one and a sentence on why. These 150 trivia questions for 3rd graders cover eight topics a third grade class meets, from times tables and planets to habitats and magnets.
Choose the topic that fits the week
Press Topic and pick one of eight, from multiplication and division facts to life cycles, fossils and wild weather. The math follows the grade 3 Common Core standards, and the habitat, force, life cycle and weather questions follow the Next Generation Science Standards. Planets, continents and states of matter are here because most third grade classes teach them; those documents do not list them for this grade.
A warm-up, a scored round or a worksheet
For a warm-up stay in Practice mode: the answer and its reason appear when you press Check answer, and wrong answers wait under Missed for another go. For a scored round press Exam mode, then Start the exam: 20 questions, scored topic by topic. For paper, Print question sheet gives 20 questions with lettered choices and a name and score line, and Print answer key repeats each reason.
Tips
Untick Shuffle questions and choices and every topic runs from easiest to hardest. Multiplication then opens on 6 × 7.
Trivia questions for third graders suit teams of three: one reads, one writes the answer and one speaks for the team.
For the measuring topic, give each pair a ruler and a clock face to point at.
Questions and answers
What do these third grade questions cover?
Eight topics: multiplication and division facts (21 questions), shapes, fractions and measuring (19), planets (17), habitats and adaptations (20), continents and oceans (23), states of matter (16), forces and magnets (17) and life cycles, fossils and wild weather (17). As trivia questions for 3rd grade they use words a class has met, such as product, perimeter, habitat, hemisphere and germination.
Are they too hard for an eight-year-old?
About a third are review, such as which force pulls everything toward the ground. Nearly half are grade level, and 31 are a stretch, such as what scientists call one day on Mars. Read them aloud for children still building reading speed; the choices are short enough for a show of hands.
How were the answers checked?
Each fact was checked in September 2026 against the Wikipedia article linked under its answer, by reading the sentence that states it. The arithmetic was checked by a script. Moon counts, populations, records and living people are left out because they change, and a few questions were dropped when the article did not state the fact plainly.
24 cookies are shared equally among 6 children. How many cookies does each child get?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Division (mathematics)
The answer to a division problem is called what?Wikipedia: Division (mathematics)
The answer to a multiplication problem is called what?Wikipedia: Multiplication
Chairs are set out in 5 rows with 6 chairs in each row. How many chairs are there?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication
Knowing that 3 × 4 gives the same answer as 4 × 3 is using which property?Wikipedia: Multiplication
Multiplication is a quick way of doing which operation over and over?Wikipedia: Multiplication
The numbers that are multiplied together are called what?Wikipedia: Multiplication
What do you get when you multiply a number by 1?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication
What do you get when you multiply any number by 0?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication
What is 10 × 10?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is 4 × 30?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication
What is 5 × 9?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is 56 ÷ 7?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Division (mathematics)
What is 6 × 7?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is 7 × 8?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is 8 × 9?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is 81 ÷ 9?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Division (mathematics)
What is 9 × 3?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
What is left over when 17 is divided by 5?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Remainder
Which number is missing: 7 × ? = 63Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
Which of these has the same answer as 4 × 6?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Multiplication table
Shapes, fractions and measuring 19
A rectangle is 5 squares long and 3 squares wide. How many squares cover it?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Area
A square tile has sides 3 inches long. What is its perimeter?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Perimeter
How many grams are in 1 kilogram?Wikipedia: Gram
How many milliliters are in 1 liter?Wikipedia: Litre
How many minutes are in a quarter of an hour?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Hour
How many right angles does a rectangle have?Wikipedia: Rectangle
How many sides does a hexagon have?Wikipedia: Hexagon
How many sides does a pentagon have?Wikipedia: Pentagon
How many sides does a quadrilateral have?Wikipedia: Quadrilateral
The minute hand of a clock points straight down at the 6. How many minutes past the hour is it?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Clock face
On a number line from 0 to 1, which fraction sits exactly halfway?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Fraction
What do we call a chart that uses small pictures to show how many?Wikipedia: Pictogram
What is 349 rounded to the nearest hundred?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Rounding
What is 67 rounded to the nearest ten?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Rounding
What is special about a square, compared with other rectangles?Wikipedia: Square
What is the distance all the way around the outside of a flat shape called?Wikipedia: Perimeter
Which fraction is the same as one whole?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Fraction
Which measurement tells you how much flat space a shape covers?Wikipedia: Area
Which of these fractions is the smallest?Worked out by calculation; method: Wikipedia: Fraction
Planets 17
About how long does Earth take to spin around once?Wikipedia: Earth's rotation
Jupiter spins faster than any other planet. About how long is one day there?Wikipedia: Jupiter
What do scientists call one day on Mars?Wikipedia: Mars
What sits at the center of the solar system?Wikipedia: Solar System
Which is the only planet known to have living things on it?Wikipedia: Earth
Which planet has a year that lasts only 88 Earth days?Wikipedia: Mercury (planet)
Which planet is famous for its bright, wide rings?Wikipedia: Saturn
Which planet is fourth from the Sun?Wikipedia: Mars
Which planet is named after the king of the Roman gods?Wikipedia: Jupiter
Which planet is named after the Roman god of the sea?Wikipedia: Neptune
Which planet is named after the Roman god of war?Wikipedia: Mars
Which planet is second from the Sun?Wikipedia: Venus
Which planet is sometimes called Earth's twin or sister because it is so close to Earth in size?Wikipedia: Venus
Which planet spins in the opposite direction to most of the other planets, including Earth?Wikipedia: Venus
Which planet takes the longest to go around the Sun, about 165 Earth years?Wikipedia: Neptune
Which planet was found with mathematics before anyone had seen it through a telescope?Wikipedia: Neptune
Which was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope?Wikipedia: Uranus
Habitats and adaptations 20
A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive where it lives is called what?Wikipedia: Adaptation
A newly hatched sea turtle heads for the ocean without being taught. What is a built-in behavior like this called?Wikipedia: Instinct
A trait passed from parents to their young, such as eye color, is said to be what?Wikipedia: Heredity
Ducks have skin stretched between their toes. What are these webbed feet good for?Wikipedia: Webbed foot
Some harmless animals look like dangerous ones so that hunters leave them alone. What is this called?Wikipedia: Mimicry
The taiga is a huge northern forest made up mostly of which kind of tree?Wikipedia: Taiga
What do we call a species that is at serious risk of dying out?Wikipedia: Endangered species
What do we call land that is covered by shallow water for much or all of the year, such as a marsh or swamp?Wikipedia: Wetland
What do we call the place where a river meets the sea and fresh water mixes with salt water?Wikipedia: Estuary
What is a green spot in a desert where water is found called?Wikipedia: Oasis
What is a warm grassland dotted with trees, like the ones where zebras and giraffes live, called?Wikipedia: Savanna
What is ground that stays frozen all year round called?Wikipedia: Permafrost
What is the leafy roof of a forest, formed by the crowns of the trees, called?Wikipedia: Canopy (botany)
What word describes a kind of animal or plant that has died out completely?Wikipedia: Extinction
Where does a cactus store water?Wikipedia: Cactus
Which cold, treeless habitat has ground that stays frozen just below the surface?Wikipedia: Tundra
Which habitat gets very little rain?Wikipedia: Desert
Which trees grow along warm coasts with their roots standing in salty water?Wikipedia: Mangrove
Why does the Arctic fox have a white coat in winter?Wikipedia: Arctic fox
The wide grasslands in the middle of North America are called what?Wikipedia: Prairie
Continents and oceans 23
The Amazon River flows across which continent?Wikipedia: Amazon River
The Equator divides Earth into two halves. What is each half called?Wikipedia: Hemispheres of Earth
Europe and Asia are joined together. What is the combined landmass called?Wikipedia: Eurasia
Greenland is counted as part of which continent?Wikipedia: Greenland
How many continents are there, by the count most often used?Wikipedia: Continent
The large island of Madagascar lies off the coast of which continent?Wikipedia: Madagascar
The Nile River flows north through Africa into which sea?Wikipedia: Nile
On which continent are China and India?Wikipedia: India
On which continent is Brazil?Wikipedia: Brazil
On which continent is the United States?Wikipedia: United States
What do we call a model of Earth shaped like a ball?Wikipedia: Globe
What do we call land that sticks out from the mainland and is mostly surrounded by water, like Florida?Wikipedia: Peninsula
What is the narrow strip of land that joins North America to South America called?Wikipedia: Isthmus of Panama
Which continent is mostly covered by a thick sheet of ice?Wikipedia: Antarctica
Which continent is the coldest, driest and windiest?Wikipedia: Antarctica
Which is the second-largest continent?Wikipedia: Africa
Which is the second-largest ocean?Wikipedia: Atlantic Ocean
Which mountain range is part of the usual dividing line between Europe and Asia?Wikipedia: Ural Mountains
Which ocean is off the east coast of the United States?Wikipedia: East Coast of the United States
Which ocean lies around the North Pole?Wikipedia: North Pole
Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?Wikipedia: Indian Ocean
Which ocean surrounds Antarctica?Wikipedia: Southern Ocean
Which two continents lie entirely in the Southern Hemisphere?Wikipedia: Southern Hemisphere
States of matter 16
Anything that has mass and takes up space is called what?Wikipedia: Matter
Solid, liquid and gas are three states of what?Wikipedia: State of matter
Syrup pours more slowly than water. Which word describes how thick and slow-flowing a liquid is?Wikipedia: Viscosity
What are the big bubbles in a pot of boiling water made of?Wikipedia: Boiling
What do we call the amount of space that something takes up?Wikipedia: Volume
What do we call the temperature at which a solid turns into a liquid?Wikipedia: Melting point
What happens to most materials when they are heated?Wikipedia: Thermal expansion
What happens to the tiny particles in a substance when it is heated?Wikipedia: Temperature
What happens to water when it freezes?Wikipedia: Ice
What is it called when a liquid turns into a solid?Wikipedia: Freezing
Which common substance is found on Earth as a solid, a liquid and a gas?Wikipedia: Water
Which state of matter can be squeezed into a much smaller space?Wikipedia: Gas
Which state of matter keeps its own shape?Wikipedia: State of matter
Which state of matter takes the shape of its container but keeps the same volume?Wikipedia: State of matter
Which tool compares the mass of two objects by placing them in two pans?Wikipedia: Weighing scale
Why does ice float on water?Wikipedia: Ice
Forces and magnets 17
A balloon rubbed on your hair can stick to a wall. What causes this?Wikipedia: Static electricity
A ramp is an example of which simple machine?Wikipedia: Inclined plane
A weight swinging back and forth on a string, like the one in a tall clock, is called what?Wikipedia: Pendulum
Can a magnet pull on a steel paper clip without touching it?Wikipedia: Magnet
In science, what is a push or a pull called?Wikipedia: Force
The north pole of one magnet is pulled toward which part of another magnet?Wikipedia: Magnetism
The planet Earth itself acts like a giant what?Wikipedia: Earth's magnetic field
Two teams pull on a rope with exactly the same strength. What happens to the rope?Wikipedia: Force
The unit used to measure force is named after which scientist?Wikipedia: Newton (unit)
What are the two ends of a magnet called?Wikipedia: Magnetism
What is a naturally magnetic rock called?Wikipedia: Lodestone
What is the needle of a compass made of?Wikipedia: Compass
What is the tendency of a moving object to keep moving, and a still object to stay still, called?Wikipedia: Inertia
What kind of magnet works only while electricity flows through its coil of wire?Wikipedia: Electromagnet
What slows a parachute as it falls?Wikipedia: Parachute
Which force pulls everything down toward the ground?Wikipedia: Gravity
Which simple machine is a wheel with a rope or cable running over it, used to lift a load?Wikipedia: Pulley
Life cycles, fossils and wild weather 17
A young grasshopper looks like a small adult without wings. What is it called?Wikipedia: Nymph (biology)
Birds and mammals keep their bodies at a steady temperature, warmer than the air around them. What is this called?Wikipedia: Warm-blooded
Salmon swim from the ocean back up rivers for which reason?Wikipedia: Salmon
What are the four stages in the life of a butterfly, in order?Wikipedia: Butterfly
What do we call the way green plants turn sunlight into the energy they live on?Wikipedia: Photosynthesis
What is a snowstorm with strong winds and very poor visibility called?Wikipedia: Blizzard
What is a very young plant that has just grown from a seed called?Wikipedia: Seedling
What is it called when a seed starts to grow?Wikipedia: Germination
What is it called when pollen is carried from one flower to another, often by bees?Wikipedia: Pollination
What is it called when water overflows onto land that is usually dry?Wikipedia: Flood
What is the usual pattern of weather in a place over many years called?Wikipedia: Climate
Where do hurricanes form?Wikipedia: Tropical cyclone
Where do sea turtles lay their eggs?Wikipedia: Sea turtle
Which living animals do scientists count as the only surviving dinosaurs?Wikipedia: Dinosaur
Which of these does a seed need before it can start to grow?Wikipedia: Germination
Which parts of an animal are most likely to be kept as fossils?Wikipedia: Fossil
The woolly mammoth, known from fossils and frozen remains, was a relative of which living animal?Wikipedia: Woolly mammoth
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another list. Every question, wrong choice and explanation is our own wording. Topics were chosen by reading the grade 3 standards on 2026-09-19: the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics as published by CCSSO (https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ADA-Compliant-Math-Standards.pdf) for multiplication and division within 100, unit fractions, area and perimeter, rounding, telling time, mass and liquid volume, and picture graphs, and the Next Generation Science Standards third grade list (https://www.nextgenscience.org/search-standards?keys=&tid%5B%5D=103) for forces and magnets, life cycles, inherited traits, habitats and adaptations, fossils, and weather, climate and weather hazards. Planets, continents and oceans, and states of matter are common third grade classroom topics that those two documents do not list for grade 3. Each fact was checked on 2026-09-19 against the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org) named and linked beside the question: the article text was fetched on 2026-09-18 or 2026-09-19, and the sentence that states the fact was read before the question was kept. Every extra claim in an explanation was checked the same way. Arithmetic answers (times tables, division, missing numbers, area, perimeter, rounding, elapsed time) were worked out by calculation and checked by a script; the linked article explains the method. Questions were dropped or changed when the article did not state the fact plainly: that like magnetic poles push apart (the question now asks which pole a north pole is pulled toward, as the Magnetism article states), that the mist over a kettle is a gas, what a meat-eating dinosaur's teeth show, and what sea fossils near the top of Mount Everest tell scientists. The date Pangaea began to break apart follows the article (about 175 million years ago). Left out on purpose: moon counts, populations, records that change, living people, and film, TV, brand and league names. Questions that repeated a fact already asked in the site's kids, first grade, fourth grade or science packs were cut. Levels are an editor's judgment for a third grade class: easy is review, medium is grade level, hard is a stretch. Licence: own work