Middle School Trivia Questions

1. On a standard traffic light, where is the green light located

1. Middle

2. Top

3. Bottom

Answer: Bottom

2. How many states are there?

1. 52

2. 53

3. 49

4. 50

Answer: 50

3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty’s torch?

1. Left

2. Right

3. Middle

4. Feet

Answer: Right

4. What 2 letters don’t appear on the telephone dial?

1. A, D

2. C, Z

3. Q, V

4. Q, Z

Answer: Q, Z

5. When you walk does your left arm swing w/ you right or left leg?

1. Left

2. Right

Answer:Right

6. On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?

1. White

2. Stars

3. Red

4. Blue

Answer: Red

7. Whose face is on a dime?

1. George Washington

2. Thomas Jefferson

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. Eileen Roybal

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. How many sides does a stop sign have?

1. 7

2. 8

3. 9

4. 10

Answer: 8

9. How much is a Baker’s Dozen?

1. 11

2. 12

3. 13

4. 14

Answer: 13

10. Who is the hulk?

1. Steve Rogers

2. Tony Stark

3. Bruce Banner

4. Nick Fury

Answer: Bruce Banner

11. what is Captain America’s name?

1. Steven Rogers

2. Samuel Jones

3. Roger Stevens

4. Steve Rogers

Answer: Steven Rogers

12. Who says “You’re killing me Smalls?

1. Hammy

2. Tom

3. Timmy

4. Benny

Answer: Hammy

3. What did they lose over the fence?

1. A bat

2. A base ball signed by Babe Ruth

3. A base ball glove

4. A toy

Answer: A base ball signed by Babe Ruth

14. Who was the original singer of “Let It Go”?

1. Elsa

2. Indina Menzel

3. Demi Lovato

4. My Little Pony

Answer: Demi Lovato

15. How many Unforgivable Curses are there?

1. 7

2. 2

3. 5

4. 3

Answer: 3

16. Which professor is head of the Hufflepuff house?

1. McGonagall

2. Flitwick

3. Sprout

4. Snape

Answer: Sprout

17. Who was the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a game?

1. Kobe Bryant

2. Michael Jordan

3. Wilt Chamberlain

4. Javalee McGee

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

18. Which number did Michael Jordan wear initially after his return to basketball in 1995?

1. 23

2. 46

3. 45

4. 24

Answer: 45

19. Who invented basketball?

1. John Naismith

2. James Naismith

3. Jack Naismith

4. Ben Naismith

Answer: James Naismith

20. Who is on the $100 bill?

1. Thomas Jefferson

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Benjamin Franklin

4. Teddy Roosevelt

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

21. Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counterclockwise?

1. counterclockwise

2. clockwise

Answer: counterclockwise

22. How many curves are in a standard paper clip?

1. 3

2. 5

3. 7

4. 1

Answer: 3

What city is nicknamed the City of Angels?

Answer: Los Angeles

What city is nicknamed Sin City?

Answer: Las Vegas

What city is nicknamed the Windy City?

Answer: Chicago

What city is nicknamed the Big Apple?

Answer: New York City

What state is nicknamed the Golden State?

Answer: California

What state is nicknamed the Lone Star State?

Answer: Texas

What state is nicknamed Aloha State?

Answer: Hawaii

What color are Mickey Mouse’s shorts?

Answer: Red

What edible substance do bees make?

Answer: Honey

How many innings make up a professional baseball game?

Answer: 9

Which country would you visit if you wanted to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Answer: Italy

Which famous monster was created by a doctor?

Answer: Frankenstein’s monster

According to myth, what is found at the end of the rainbow?

Answer: pot of gold

If you needed braces, what kind of doctor would you visit?

Answer: Orthodontist

Which band produced the hit song “Yellow Submarine”?

Answer: The Beatles

According to the rhyme, who picked a peck of pickled peppers?

Answer: Peter Piper

What body of water separates France and England?

Answer: English Channel

What is the name of the Disney movie about Rapunzel?

Answer: Tangled

What pigment gives leaves their green color and absorbs light that is used in photosynthesis

Answer: Chlorophyll

Which of the planets in our solar system is closest to the sun?

Answer: Mercury

What is the collective noun used to describe a group of lions?

Answer: a pride

What is a baby kangaroo called?

Answer: a joey

What is a baby goat called?

Answer: a kid (or billy)

What is a baby lion called?

Answer: a cub

What is the only mammal that can fly?

Answer: the bat

In Lord of the Rings, what is Frodo and Bilbo’s last name?

Answer: Baggins

What falling fruit supposedly inspired Sir Isaac Newton to discover the law of gravity?

Answer: Apple

Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer: George Washington

How many strings are on a standard guitar?

Answer: 6

What type of grass do pandas eat?

Answer: Bamboo

What is the world’s highest mountain?

Answer: Mt. Everest

What is Superman’s weakness?

Answer: Kryptonite

What is the name for the colored part of an eye?

Answer: the iris

What piece on a chess board moves in an L-shape?

Answer: the knight

What are the three primary colors?

Answer: red, yellow, and blue

What is the square root of 144?

Answer: 12

What is the square root of 81?

Answer: 9

What is 2 cubed, or 2 to the third power?

Answer: 8

In which country would you find the Eiffel Tower?

Answer: France

In which country would you find the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Answer: Egypt

What was Cinderella’s coach made from?

Answer: a pumpkin

What letter represents 5 in Roman numerals?

Answer: V

What is the world’s largest bird

Answer: the ostrich

How many sides does an octagon have?

Answer: 8

What is the shortest month of the year?

Answer: February

How many weeks are in a year?

Answer: 52

Who is the main character in Diary of a Whimpy Kid?

Answer: Gregory “Greg” Heffley

What is the name of the crab in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”?

Answer: Sebastian

What special toy does Andy receive for his birthday in the original “Toy Story” movie?

Answer: Buzz Lightyear

Who is the main character in The Hunger Games

Answer: Katniss Everdeen

Who wrote the Harry Potter series?

Answer: JK Rowling

What are the four sections in an orchestra?

Answer: string, brass, woodwind, and percussion

What country is the Taj Mahal located in?

Answer: India

If you flew from New York City to London, what ocean would you cross?

Answer: the Atlantic Ocean

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong, in 1969

In what war did the United States fight itself?

Answer: the Civil War

In what year did the Titanic sink?

Answer: 1912

What is the northernmost state in the United States?

Alaska

What is the largest ocean in the world?

Answer: the Pacific Ocean

Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Amelia Earheart

Name the three types of rock.

Answer: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

How many teeth does an adult human usually have?

Answer: 32

What does a fire need to keep it going?

Answer: Oxygen

If you’re a “master of the ivory keys,” what instrument do you play?

Answer: the piano

What is Superman’s nickname?

Answer: the Man of Steel

what is Batman’s nickname?

Answer: the Dark Knight

Who is Peter Parker’s secret identity?

Answer: Spider-Man

What superhero owns Stark Industries?

Answer: Iron Man

How many periods are in an ice hockey game?

Answer: 3