50 questions for elementary school children (with their answers)

It is clear that the education of children is a fundamental factor for our society, since through it we can train and prepare the little ones to face life.

One of the pillars of such education is the family. Another of the most relevant is that of the institution that is in charge of training them and providing them with sufficient knowledge to promote their development: the school.

And already at the most basic levels, during primary school, children receive a large amount of information and very useful learning.

But even outside of school from time to time it is good to do a little review of what you have learned, and it is even possible to do it as a small game of questions to make it more enjoyable. That is why throughout this article we are going to see a selection of questions for elementary school children, with which we can make them reflect and promote their mental activity.

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Several questions for elementary school children

Then we leave you with a total of fifty questions that can be asked to elementary school children that can be more or less challenging depending on the level at which they are and that allow to promote reflection and subsequent learning relatively quickly and simple.

It must be taken into account that during primary school there are a great variety of levels of development and capacities, with which many of the following can only be resolved from certain courses.

1. How many minutes does an hour have? And one day?

The first is a simple question that should be able to be answered without looking at a watch, with the possible exception of the little ones. The second can be somewhat more complicated and requires knowing how to multiply two-digit numbers. The correct answers are 60 and in the second case from the 60x24 calculation we obtain 1440.

2. How many legs does a spider have?

An appropriate question for elementary school children that can help differentiate between arachnids and insects. The correct answer is eight.

3. What is the largest river in the world?

A question of general culture, in this case linked to geography. The correct answer would be the Amazon.

4. How many years do we have a leap year?

This question makes us think at least about how we organize our schedule, and also tells us about the general culture of the minor. The correct answer would be every four years.

5. How many months have 28 days?

We are facing a question asked in a somewhat malicious way, since it will easily make us think of February as the only month that usually has 28 days. However, every month of the year they reach that amount, so the correct answer would be twelve.

6. What is a century?

Concepts such as century will be constant in matters such as history, so knowing what this concept means is necessary. We would consider it valid to say that it is a hundred years, although it is interesting to encourage them to categorize it as a unit or period of time.

7. Who was Cleopatra?

This question can be answered in multiple ways, but we will consider it valid to be told that she was the last pharaoh of Egypt.

8. Which planet is closest to the Sun?

The correct answer is Mercury.

9. What is the highest mountain today?

Geography question, the correct answer would be Everest.

10. What is the name of the sound a sheep makes?

Ask about animals a bit less common than asking about what makes a dog, a cat or a cow, in addition to having to use a noun and not a verb. In this case the answer would be bleat.

11. In which city and in which country is the Eiffel Tower located?

Again a geography question. In this case the correct answers are Paris and France.

12. What are arteries and veins for?

Anatomy is a topic that is already covered throughout primary education. A simple answer to this question would be that the arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body while the veins carry blood with oxygen dioxide. carbon and residues from cellular function back to the heart so that it can be re-oxygenated (with the exception of the lungs, which carry oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart).

13. What is a delta?

Know that it is a geographical accident that occurs at the mouth of a river and in which deposit the sediments that go down this is something that at least the last years of primary school should begin to to know.

14. If someone from Spain speaks Spanish, someone from Portugal Portuguese and someone from France French. What is someone talking about Brazil?

This question tries to get the children to reflect a little and not just follow the examples given. The correct answer would be Portuguese.

15. What bones do we find in the forearm?

Ulna and Radius are the answer to this question, corresponding to basic anatomy and that children of a certain age see in Natural Sciences.

16. What kind of word is "here"?

During primary school they also begin to identify the types of words, with which many children at this stage will be able to say that here is an adverb of place.

17. What does it mean for a triangle to be isosceles?

The answer to this question is that we understand by isosceles triangle to anyone who has two sides of equal length, whose vertices will have the same degrees of inclination respectively.

18. If we say that we are in the XIX / XI / MMXVIII, what date are we talking about?

Roman numerals and how to write with them are also something that is also learned during primary school. In this case, making the relevant transformation we would obtain the date of 11/19/2018

19. What is a mammal?

A simple answer to this question is that we consider all vertebrate animals that give birth to their mammals. young (with the exception of monotremes) and have mammary glands with which they produce milk to feed them.

20. What are the five continents?

Traditionally it has been taught that there are a total of five continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, America and Oceania. In addition to this, we can consider Antarctica as one more, with what we would actually have six.

21. When does the Ancient Age end?

The different ages of history begin to be studied throughout primary school. In the present case, the Ancient Age would give way to the Middle Ages with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. C. (to be more precise, at 476).

22. What are the states of matter?

Solid, liquid and gaseous are the three basic states that are usually taught throughout primary school, to which plasma should also be added.

23. At what temperature does water freeze? Which one does it boil and evaporate?

Water goes from a liquid to a solid state and vice versa at 0ºC, while its boiling point is at 100ºC.

24. Who is your cousin?

Learning vocabulary and the meaning of words is fundamental in primary school., especially the most basic. In this case, it would be a question of knowing that the cousin is the son / daughter of the brother / sister of one of our parents.

25. What is the best known character of Miguel de Cervantes?

The classics of literature can also begin to meet in elementary school. And being Don Quixote de la Mancha one of the best known universal classics, knowing the answer to this question may not be something unusual among the oldest.

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26. What is an adjective for?

The answer to this question would be to complement the name and give us more information about it.

27. In music, how many times is a white equivalent?

Musical and artistic education is also important and in this sense, throughout the first one, you begin to learn about the meaning of the notes and their times on the staff. In this case, the blank equals two times.

28. What is the country with the largest population in the world?

This question can be answered by elementary school students and is also part of the general culture. The correct answer is China.

29. What are the main economic sectors?

During the third cycle of primary school it is common for children to learn the different economic sectors that exist. Traditionally three have been considered: primary sector (production and obtaining of resources), secondary (industry or transformation of resources) or tertiary (services). They may also mention a quaternary sector, that of information and communications.

30. How many syllables does the word alphabet have?

It is during primary school that we learn to distinguish the syllables of a word, separating the spellings by blows of the voice, as well as to distinguish diphthongs and hiatuses. In the word alphabet we have a total of five syllables.

31. What does it mean for two words to be synonymous?

That two words are synonymous means that they have the same meaning, weight to have a different form.

32. What kind of instrument is a piano?

The types of musical instrument are also one of the knowledge that begins to be worked on during primary education. In the case of the piano, we are dealing with a percussion instrument.

33. What is the stressed syllable of the word dawn?

Locating stressed syllables may seem easy to an adult, but this is because throughout childhood they have been trained to do so. In the present case, the tonic syllable of dawn would be in the last syllable, -cer.

34. What are the Ural Mountains?

It is one of the best known mountain ranges in the world, being considered the border between Europe and Asia. They are found for the most part in Russia.

35. What were the three caravels that went to America with Christopher Columbus called?

The Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Girl They are the three great caravels with which Christopher Columbus left Cádiz on the journey in which he met America.

36. How much are the angles of a triangle? And those of a square?

Throughout elementary school, they also begin to do some geometry. Regarding the sum of the interior angles, in the case of the triangle they add up to 180º independently of the type of triangle that is, and with regard to squares and quadrilaterals in general the degrees add up to a total of 360º.

37. If I have 25 apples and I give my best friend 25% of them. How many apples have I given him?

The percentages also begin to work in the last years of primary school, in which they learn what they imply and how to calculate them. In the present case, the answer to the question is that we would have given a total of five apples to our friend.

38. What are the planets of the solar system?

There are a total of eight planets that are currently considered as such within the solar system and which are taught in school: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

However, it must be borne in mind that the answer to this question has varied throughout history, with situations such as Pluto ceasing to be considered a planet of the solar system as of 2006 or the discovery of dwarf planets such as Eris, Ceres, Makemake and Haumea. However, the latter are little known by the general population and are not usually discussed in primary school.

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39. In what kingdoms do we classify living beings?

The kingdom of animals, the kingdom of vegetables, the kingdom of fungi, the kingdom of protoctists and the kingdom of moners (bacteria) are considered five great kingdoms of living beings, and they are the ones that will be known by the kids.

At an informative level and although this will probably not be treated in primary school, other beings such as viruses (and prions, but the latter concept it will hardly be known even by most adults), strange as it may seem, they are not considered living beings as such but replicants.

40. What does it mean that a word is esdrújula?

Distinguishing between sharp, flat and esdrújulas words is another of the knowledge that is obtained during primary school. That a word is esdrújula implies that its stressed syllable is the third to last of the word, and they are always stressed.

41. If in a race I overtake the one who is second… what position was I in before and where am I now?

A question that not only tries to identify the position at the ordinal level but also to reflect on the situation itself in a hypothetical case. The correct answer is that he was the third and now that he has surpassed the second he is also in the same position: second.

42. What are the three verb modes?

In the third cycle of primary school, children learn the existence of verbal tenses and modes. Regarding the latter, they must know the existence of the indicative mode (in which there is direct communication by way of information), the subjunctive mood (which tells us about suggestions or wishes) or the imperative mood (in which orders or prohibitions).

43. What is a prime number?

Prime numbers are understood as those that are only divisible by one or by themselves, not being able to be obtained from the division or multiplication of other integers.

44. How many kilos are a ton?

One ton equals one thousand kilos.

45. What are the ossicles of the ear called in which the sound bounces until it reaches the cochlea?

The three ossicles of the inner ear that we can find behind the eardrum and that allow the transmission of the sound wave to the cochlea are the hammer, the anvil and the stapes.

46. Which it is the capital of Italy?

Learning some of the most well-known capitals of the world, such as Spain, France, Germany or the aforementioned Italy, can be something that is worked at the level of geography. In the present case, the correct answer is Rome. This is one of the easiest questions for elementary school children.

47. Every how many lustrums does a century go by?

This question is somewhat complex and requires not only calculation but also understanding of concepts like lustrum or century. The answer is 20.

48. What is the indirect object?

Typical of sixth grade, other knowledge that is obtained at this time is related to the bases of syntax. In this sense, the meaning of terms is also learned as an indirect object, which tells us about a part of the predicate that refers to and provides information regarding the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb.

49. In a narrative text, what is the main character called? And to the one who opposes him?

In primary school they begin to work with different texts, roles and roles. In this case, the main character is the protagonist and his opposite the antagonist.

50. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

This question has as an answer the name of one of the inventors and of the considered geniuses of humanity, Leonardo da Vinci.

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