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Kids Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 1 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Everyday choices: What length of time equals 15 minutes?

    Answer: quarter hour

    A quarter hour is one fourth of 60 minutes, so it equals 15 minutes.

  2. 12 game tokens are shared equally among 3 children. How many tokens does each child receive?

    Answer: 4

    Fair sharing uses division: 12 divided among 3 children gives 4 each.

  3. Reading corner: What text feature usually names a story or article?

    Answer: title

    A title names a work and helps readers predict its subject before they begin.

  4. Everyday choices: Which map feature explains the meaning of symbols?

    Answer: map key

    A map key translates colors and symbols into real features such as roads, parks, or stations.

  5. Everyday choices: If an online message makes a child feel unsafe, what is a good next step?

    Answer: tell a trusted adult

    A trusted adult can help document, block, and report unsafe online contact without making a child handle it alone.

Daily round

  1. Everyday choices: What habit helps reduce the spread of droplets when coughing?

    Answer: cover a cough

    Covering a cough with a tissue or elbow reduces the distance respiratory droplets travel.

  2. Reading corner: Which punctuation can show possession in the phrase “the dog’s bowl”?

    Answer: apostrophe

    An apostrophe marks possession in “the dog’s bowl” and can also mark omitted letters in contractions.

  3. Reading corner: During reading practice, which verb means to watch carefully?

    Answer: observe

    Observe means watch or notice carefully so that useful details can be recorded.

  4. Reading corner: Which type of word usually expresses an action or state?

    Answer: verb

    A verb expresses an action or state, such as “run,” “think,” or “is.”

  5. 30 game tokens are shared equally among 5 children. How many tokens does each child receive?

    Answer: 6

    Fair sharing uses division: 30 divided among 5 children gives 6 each.

Daily round

  1. A craft table has 7 cups with 6 beads in each cup. How many beads are there altogether?

    Answer: 42

    Equal groups call for multiplication: 7 groups of 6 make 42 beads.

  2. Nature explorer: Which plant part usually absorbs water and anchors the plant in soil?

    Answer: root

    Roots anchor a plant and take in water and dissolved minerals from the surrounding soil.

  3. Reading corner: Which type of word names a person, place, thing, or idea?

    Answer: noun

    A noun can name a person, place, object, or idea, such as “teacher,” “park,” or “kindness.”

  4. Nature explorer: What object can attract iron without touching it?

    Answer: magnet

    A magnet produces a magnetic field and can attract iron, nickel, cobalt, or materials containing them.

  5. Nature explorer: What adaptation helps an animal blend into its surroundings?

    Answer: camouflage

    Camouflage can reduce detection by matching colors, patterns, shapes, or movement to the surroundings.

Daily round

  1. Nature explorer: Which tool makes a small object appear larger using a lens?

    Answer: magnifying glass

    A magnifying glass uses a convex lens to bend light and create a larger virtual image.

  2. Reading corner: What short text explains a picture or diagram?

    Answer: caption

    A caption explains or adds context to a photograph, illustration, chart, or diagram.

  3. Eli starts with 24 pencils and gives away 6. How many remain?

    Answer: 18

    In this sharing story, 24 minus 6 leaves 18.

  4. Nature explorer: In a seed jar, what process begins when a seed starts to sprout?

    Answer: germination

    Germination begins when a seed absorbs water and resumes growth under suitable conditions.

  5. Everyday choices: Which tool tells the time of day?

    Answer: clock

    A clock measures and displays time, while a timer measures how long an activity lasts.

Daily round

  1. Reading corner: Which book section explains important or unfamiliar terms?

    Answer: glossary

    A glossary collects important terms with definitions, usually near the end of a book.

  2. Everyday choices: Which tool helps show days, weeks, and months?

    Answer: calendar

    A calendar organizes dates into days, weeks, and months and can show upcoming events.

  3. Reading corner: Which type of word describes a noun?

    Answer: adjective

    An adjective adds information about a noun, such as “blue” in “blue backpack.”

  4. Everyday choices: What action is taught if clothing catches fire?

    Answer: stop, drop, and roll

    Stopping, dropping, and rolling smothers flames by limiting their access to oxygen.

  5. Maya starts with 39 marbles and gives away 5. How many remain?

    Answer: 34

    In this sharing story, 39 minus 5 leaves 34.

Daily round

  1. Reading corner: In a story, what do we call a person or animal taking part in the action?

    Answer: character

    A character takes part in a story’s events and may change as the plot develops.

  2. Reading corner: What do we call a short retelling of the most important ideas?

    Answer: summary

    A summary keeps the central ideas while leaving out most examples and minor details.

  3. 20 game tokens are shared equally among 4 children. How many tokens does each child receive?

    Answer: 5

    Fair sharing uses division: 20 divided among 4 children gives 5 each.

  4. 56 game tokens are shared equally among 7 children. How many tokens does each child receive?

    Answer: 8

    Fair sharing uses division: 56 divided among 7 children gives 8 each.

  5. Reading corner: What term names the connected events that make up a story?

    Answer: plot

    Plot is the sequence of connected events, including the problem and how it is resolved.

Daily round

  1. Reading corner: During reading practice, which verb means to start?

    Answer: begin

    Begin and start are synonyms, as in “begin the experiment” and “start the experiment.”

  2. Reading corner: During reading practice, which verb means to speak very softly?

    Answer: whisper

    A whisper uses a very soft voice, often so only a nearby listener can hear it.

  3. Everyday choices: What kind of voice is appropriate in a quiet reading space?

    Answer: library voice

    A library voice is quiet enough for nearby conversation without disrupting people who are reading.

  4. Everyday choices: What kind of artwork is designed in three dimensions?

    Answer: sculpture

    A sculpture has height, width, and depth, so viewers can often examine it from multiple sides.

  5. Everyday choices: What musical feature describes a pattern of beats over time?

    Answer: rhythm

    Rhythm organizes long and short sounds around a steady or changing beat.