Middle School Trivia Questions
1. On a standard traffic light, where is the green light located
Middle
Top
Bottom
Answer: Bottom
2. How many states are there?
52
53
49
50
Answer: 50
3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty’s torch?
Left
Right
Middle
Feet
Answer: Right
4. What 2 letters don’t appear on the telephone dial?
A, D
C, Z
Q, V
Q, Z
Answer: Q, Z
5. When you walk does your left arm swing w/ you right or left leg?
Left
Right
Answer:Right
6. On our flag, is the top stripe red or white?
White
Stars
Red
Blue
Answer: Red
7. Whose face is on a dime?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eileen Roybal
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. How many sides does a stop sign have?
7
8
9
10
Answer: 8
9. How much is a Baker’s Dozen?
11
12
13
14
Answer: 13
10. Who is the hulk?
Steve Rogers
Tony Stark
Bruce Banner
Nick Fury
Answer: Bruce Banner
11. what is Captain America’s name?
Steven Rogers
Samuel Jones
Roger Stevens
Steve Rogers
Answer: Steven Rogers
12. Who says “You’re killing me Smalls?
Hammy
Tom
Timmy
Benny
Answer: Hammy
3. What did they lose over the fence?
A bat
A base ball signed by Babe Ruth
A base ball glove
A toy
Answer: A base ball signed by Babe Ruth
14. Who was the original singer of “Let It Go”?
Elsa
Indina Menzel
Demi Lovato
My Little Pony
Answer: Demi Lovato
15. How many Unforgivable Curses are there?
7
2
5
3
Answer: 3
16. Which professor is head of the Hufflepuff house?
McGonagall
Flitwick
Sprout
Snape
Answer: Sprout
17. Who was the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a game?
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
Wilt Chamberlain
Javalee McGee
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain
18. Which number did Michael Jordan wear initially after his return to basketball in 1995?
23
46
45
24
Answer: 45
19. Who invented basketball?
John Naismith
James Naismith
Jack Naismith
Ben Naismith
Answer: James Naismith
20. Who is on the $100 bill?
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Teddy Roosevelt
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
21. Does a merry-go-round turn clockwise or counterclockwise?
counterclockwise
clockwise
Answer: counterclockwise
22. How many curves are in a standard paper clip?
3
5
7
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