The Best Jeopardy Questions for School Age Kids
If you're an educator or parent looking for interesting trivia questions to share with the kids in your life, you're in the right place! We've collected plenty of Jeopardy questions for kids from the show's archive. These questions are a fun way to enhance learning objectives. They cover a variety of topics, from math to literature to science to history and more. They're a fun family activity if your kids love watching Jeopardy and want to try their hand at the game. You can even assign points or a cash value to the questions to make it more like the real game show.
These questions can be a great jumping-off point to create your own themed Jeopardy game. For instance, you can use the structure of these questions to create a game about the book your class is reading, or the scientific subjects you're focusing on, or the period of U.S. history your class is studying. Don't be afraid to get creative with it!
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$200 Questions
What is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5?
15
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president this many times
Four
It's the largest and most massive planet in the solar system
Jupiter
This Paris museum is the most visited art museum in the world
The Louvre
$400 Questions
Presidents' Day honors these two presidents in particular, who were both born in February
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
Finish the Taylor Swift lyric: "This time I'm telling you, I'm telling you, we are never ever ever" doing this.
Getting back together
The giant Pacific species of sea creature has 8 arms, averaging about 16 feet long each
Octopus
In this novel, Clarisse asks Guy Montag, "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
Fahrenheit 451
This word can mean to rise into the air like an airplane or take the throne
Ascend
This man-made waterway chopped nearly 8,000 miles off a ship's trip from New York to San Francisco
The Panama Canal
If you have 2 dozen dolls, and you sell 1/3 of them, you're left with this many
16
This government job requires you to be 35 years old and have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years
President
A national holiday observed each year on the third Monday of January honors this man — his actual birthday was Jan. 15, 1929.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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$600 Question
Most bats are this 9-letter adjective, so they don't mind if you call them at 2 in the morning
Nocturnal
It's the main force that pulls things toward black holes
Gravity
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$800 Questions
Unless you went to the market, "Bring home the bacon" is this kind of phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says
Idiom
In Hawaii this October holiday was replaced with Discoverers' Day, commemorating the Polynesian arrival
Columbus Day
$1000 Questions
After a deadly duel in 1804, this vice president fled to Philadelphia to escape arrest.
Aaron Burr
To reach this rank in Boy Scouts, you must earn a total of 21 merit badges.
Eagle Scout
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$1200 Questions
There are more than 400 different types of salamanders, and all belong to this class of animals, not reptiles but...
Amphibians
$1600 Question
On December 7, 1787, in a 30-0 vote, this state ratified the Constitution, making it the first to do so
Delaware
$2000 Question
Atticus Finch's 6-year-old daughter Jean Louise is better known by this nickname
Scout
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