Many frogs are which color?Answer: Green. Source: Wikipedia: Green
What color are lemons and bananas?Answer: Yellow. Source: Wikipedia: Yellow
What color are snow and milk?Answer: White. Source: Wikipedia: White
What color are soil and wood most of the time?Answer: Brown. Source: Wikipedia: Brown
What color are strawberries and cherries?Answer: Red. Source: Wikipedia: Red
What color does the deep sea look?Answer: Blue. Source: Wikipedia: Blue
What color is a grown-up flamingo?Answer: Pink. Source: Wikipedia: Flamingo
What color is a storm cloud?Answer: Gray. Source: Wikipedia: Grey
Which color is the opposite of white?Answer: Black. Source: Wikipedia: White
You mix black paint and white paint. What color do you get?Answer: Gray. Source: Wikipedia: Grey
You mix red paint and blue paint. What color do you get?Answer: Purple. Source: Wikipedia: Purple
You mix red paint and yellow paint. What color do you get?Answer: Orange. Source: Wikipedia: Orange (colour)
You mix yellow paint and blue paint. What color do you get?Answer: Green. Source: Wikipedia: Green
Shapes and where things are 12
A bird flies over a tree. Is the bird above the tree or below it?Answer: Above it. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.G.1
The full moon looks like which shape?Answer: A circle. Source: Wikipedia: Circle
How many sides does a square have?Answer: 4. Source: Wikipedia: Square
Is a circle a flat shape or a solid shape?Answer: Flat. Source: Wikipedia: Circle
What does a heart shape stand for?Answer: Love. Source: Wikipedia: Heart symbol
What is the round, solid shape of a ball called?Answer: A sphere. Source: Wikipedia: Sphere
What shape is a wheel?Answer: A circle. Source: Wikipedia: Circle
What solid shape is a die that you roll in a board game?Answer: A cube. Source: Wikipedia: Dice
Which shape looks like the outline of an egg?Answer: An oval. Source: Wikipedia: Oval
You push two triangles together along one side. Which shape can you make?Answer: A rectangle. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.G.6
You stand in line. Ana is right in front of you. Are you behind Ana or beside her?Answer: Behind her. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.G.1
Your cup is right next to your plate. Is the cup beside the plate or above it?Answer: Beside it. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.G.1
Animal sounds 14
What sound does a cat make?Answer: Meow. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
What sound does a duck make?Answer: Quack. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
What sound does a happy cat often make when you pet it?Answer: Purr. Source: Wikipedia: Purr
What sound does a sheep make?Answer: Baa. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
What sound does a turkey make?Answer: Gobble. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal makes a loud trumpet sound?Answer: An elephant. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal roars?Answer: A lion. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal says hee-haw?Answer: A donkey. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal says moo?Answer: A cow. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal says neigh?Answer: A horse. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal says oink?Answer: A pig. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which animal says ribbit?Answer: A frog. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which bird says cock-a-doodle-doo?Answer: A rooster. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Which bird says hoot?Answer: An owl. Source: Wikipedia: List of animal sounds
Counting to 20 18
3 frogs sit on a log. 4 more hop on. How many frogs are on the log now?Answer: 7. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.OA.2
7 and how many more make 10?Answer: 3. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.OA.4
10 and 3 more make what number?Answer: 13. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.NBT.1
How many wheels does a tricycle have?Answer: 3. Source: Wikipedia: Tricycle
Lena is taller than Max. Who is shorter?Answer: Max. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.MD.2
Sam has 5 grapes. Pat has 5 grapes. Do they have the same number of grapes?Answer: Yes. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.6
What is 2 + 3?Answer: 5. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.OA.3
What is 5 − 1?Answer: 4. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.OA.5
What number comes right after 7?Answer: 8. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.2
What number comes right after 19?Answer: 20. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.2
What number comes right before 10?Answer: 9. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.4c
Which is more, 6 ducks or 4 ducks?Answer: 6 ducks. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.6
Which number is bigger, 8 or 5?Answer: 8. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.7
Which number is smaller, 3 or 9?Answer: 3. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.7
Which number means none at all?Answer: 0. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.3
You count by tens: 10, 20, 30. What comes next?Answer: 40. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.1
You count toy cars: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How many cars are there?Answer: 5. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.CC.4b
You have 4 crackers and you eat 1. How many crackers are left?Answer: 3. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, kindergarten, standard K.OA.2
Days, months and time of day 11
In most of the world, which two days make the weekend?Answer: Saturday and Sunday. Source: Wikipedia: Workweek and weekend
Today is Thursday. What day is tomorrow?Answer: Friday. Source: Wikipedia: Friday
What do you look at to find today's date?Answer: A calendar. Source: Wikipedia: Calendar
What does a clock tell you?Answer: The time. Source: Wikipedia: Clock
Which comes first in the day, morning or afternoon?Answer: Morning. Source: Wikipedia: Morning
Which day comes right after Saturday?Answer: Sunday. Source: Wikipedia: Sunday
Which month comes first in the year?Answer: January. Source: Wikipedia: January
Which month comes right after January?Answer: February. Source: Wikipedia: February
Which month is the last month of the year?Answer: December. Source: Wikipedia: December
Which part of the day begins when the afternoon ends?Answer: Evening. Source: Wikipedia: Evening
Yesterday was Monday. What day is today?Answer: Tuesday. Source: Wikipedia: Tuesday
Letters and words 11
Clap the beats in the word dog. How many beats do you hear?Answer: 1. Source: Wikipedia: Syllable
What is the first letter of the alphabet?Answer: A. Source: Wikipedia: A
What is the last letter of the alphabet?Answer: Z. Source: Wikipedia: Z
Which kind of letter starts a sentence?Answer: A capital letter. Source: Wikipedia: Letter case
Which letter comes right after A?Answer: B. Source: Wikipedia: B
Which mark goes at the end of a telling sentence?Answer: A period. Source: Wikipedia: Full stop
Which mark goes at the end of an asking sentence?Answer: A question mark. Source: Wikipedia: Question mark
Which of these two letters is a vowel?Answer: E. Source: Wikipedia: English alphabet
Which word rhymes with love?Answer: Dove. Source: Wikipedia: Rhyme
Who draws the pictures in a book?Answer: The illustrator. Source: Wikipedia: Illustrator
Who writes the words of a book?Answer: The author. Source: Wikipedia: Author
My body and senses 10
A baby tooth falls out. What grows in its place?Answer: A grown-up tooth. Source: Wikipedia: Deciduous teeth
Count the fingers on both of your hands, thumbs too. How many are there?Answer: 10. Source: Wikipedia: Hand
How many toes are on one foot?Answer: 5. Source: Wikipedia: Toe
What do your lungs take in when you breathe?Answer: Air. Source: Wikipedia: Lung
What does your heart pump around your body?Answer: Blood. Source: Wikipedia: Heart
Which finger can bend across to touch each of your other fingers?Answer: Your thumb. Source: Wikipedia: Thumb
Which part lets your leg bend in the middle?Answer: Your knee. Source: Wikipedia: Knee
Which part of your body do you hear with?Answer: Your ears. Source: Wikipedia: Ear
Which part of your body do you see with?Answer: Your eyes. Source: Wikipedia: Eye
Which part of your body do you smell with?Answer: Your nose. Source: Wikipedia: Nose
Weather 11
What do sunglasses protect from bright sunlight?Answer: Your eyes. Source: Wikipedia: Sunglasses
What do you hold over your head to stay dry in the rain?Answer: An umbrella. Source: Wikipedia: Umbrella
What is a hanging spike of ice called?Answer: An icicle. Source: Wikipedia: Icicle
What is a small pool of water on the ground called?Answer: A puddle. Source: Wikipedia: Puddle
What is a tornado?Answer: A fast spinning column of air. Source: Wikipedia: Tornado
What is rain made of?Answer: Drops of water. Source: Wikipedia: Rain
What is snow made of?Answer: Tiny ice crystals. Source: Wikipedia: Snow
What is wind?Answer: Moving air. Source: Wikipedia: Wind
What lifts a kite into the sky?Answer: The wind. Source: Wikipedia: Kite
Where do you wear a winter scarf?Answer: Around your neck. Source: Wikipedia: Scarf
Which vegetable is the usual nose for a snowman?Answer: A carrot. Source: Wikipedia: Snowman
How it works
Your five-year-old cannot read the question, so you read it. These 100 trivia questions for kindergarten have two choices each, short enough to say in one breath. They cover colors, shapes, animal sounds, counting to 20, days and months, letters, the body and weather.
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A round with a child who cannot read yet
With only two choices, a child can answer by pointing, shouting or hopping to one side of the rug. Tap the choice they pick. The reason that shows is short enough to say aloud. For animal sounds, ask for the sound before you tap. Five to ten questions is plenty for one sitting.
Eight topics, with math that follows the standards
Counting to 20 is the largest topic at 18 questions. Each one names the Common Core kindergarten standard it practices, such as counting on from a number or finding what makes 10. Animal sounds has 14 and needs no reading at all. The other six topics hold 10 to 13 questions each.
Put out blocks for counting questions. The kindergarten standards name objects, fingers, drawings and claps as ways to show adding.
Under Start from, below the question, choose Animal sounds, play it, then press Print. Your child circles 1 or 2 as you read all 14.
Play Shapes and where things are standing up. Above, behind and beside are easier to show with a toy and a chair than to say.
Questions and answers
Are these trivia questions for 5 year olds or for older children?
Ages five and six. By our estimate Weather and Animal sounds are gentlest, and Counting to 20 holds two of the three stretch questions, such as what 10 and 3 more make. A child who finds them easy is ready for the 1st grade pack.
Why does every question have only two choices?
The questions are made to be heard, not read, and a child can answer by holding up one finger or two. No wrong choice is a trick: the wrong sound offered for a cat is never a sound that cats make.
Who decides which sound an animal makes?
For this pack, Wikipedia's list of animal sounds. Every other fact comes from the Wikipedia article under its answer, read on September 19, 2026, and the counting answers were recomputed. The week's first day is out, since countries disagree.