361 Trivia Questions for Middle Schoolers

Trivia is a great way to make learning fun for middle schoolers.

It turns studying into a game and helps students remember important facts without feeling like they are doing schoolwork.

Trivia also helps improve thinking skills, problem-solving, and memory.

This trivia covers English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Computer Science & Technology.

These subjects are important in school and help students build knowledge they will use daily.

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English Language Arts (ELA) Trivia for Middle Schoolers

Reading Comprehension

1. What is the main idea of a passage?
   Answer: The central point or most important idea in a text.

2. What do we call the people, animals, or creatures in a story?
   Answer: Characters

3. What part of a story tells where and when it takes place?
   Answer: Setting

4. If a story is told from “I” or “we”, what point of view is it written in?
   Answer: First-person point of view

5. What do we call a guess based on clues in the text?
   Answer: An inference

6. What is the theme of a story?
   Answer: The lesson or message the author wants to share.

7. What is a summary of a passage?
   Answer: A short retelling of the main events in a story.

8. What part of the story includes the most exciting moment or turning point?
   Answer: The climax

9. If a text gives facts and real information, is it fiction or nonfiction?
   Answer: Nonfiction

10. What do we call the struggle or problem in a story?
    Answer: Conflict

11. What is the difference between fact and opinion?
    Answer: A fact can be proven true, while an opinion is a belief or feeling.

12. What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?
    Answer: A biography is written about someone by another person, while an autobiography is written by the person themselves.

13. What do we call the reason an author writes a text (to inform, entertain, or persuade)?
    Answer: Author’s purpose

14. If an author compares two things using “like” or “as”, what literary device is being used?
    Answer: Simile

15. What is a conclusion in reading comprehension?
    Answer: A decision or idea based on the information in a text.

Writing & Grammar

16. What is a noun?
    Answer: A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

17. What is the verb in this sentence? She quickly ran to the store.
    Answer: Ran

18. What type of sentence is this? Watch out for the falling rock!
    Answer: Exclamatory sentence

19. What punctuation mark do you use at the end of a question?
    Answer: Question mark (?)

20. What is a run-on sentence?
    Answer: A sentence that has two or more independent clauses joined incorrectly.

21. What is the past tense of the verb “go”?
    Answer: Went

22. What do we call a word that describes a noun?
    Answer: Adjective

23. What do we call words like he, she, they, it that replace nouns?
    Answer: Pronouns

24. What is the plural of “child”?
    Answer: Children

25. What is the subject of this sentence? The big dog barked loudly at the mailman.
    Answer: The big dog

26. What is the predicate of this sentence? My sister loves to read mystery books.
    Answer: Loves to read mystery books

27. What is the difference between “your” and “you’re”?
    Answer: “Your” shows possession, while “you’re” is a contraction for “you are.”

28. What is the correct way to combine these sentences? I love pizza. I eat it every Friday.
    Answer: I love pizza, and I eat it every Friday.

29. What punctuation mark is used to show possession or contractions?
    Answer: Apostrophe (’)

30. What is a conjunction, and what is an example?
    Answer: A word that connects words or sentences; examples: and, but, or, because.

Literary Analysis

31. What is the main character in a story called?
    Answer: Protagonist

32. What do we call the character or force that opposes the main character?
    Answer: Antagonist

33. What literary device is used when a story hints at something that will happen later?
    Answer: Foreshadowing

34. What is it called when a non-human object is given human-like qualities?
    Answer: Personification

35. What type of figurative language compares two things using “like” or “as”?
    Answer: Simile

36. What is the moral or message of a story called?
    Answer: Theme

37. What type of figurative language directly compares two things without using “like” or “as”?
    Answer: Metaphor

38. What is the turning point or most intense moment in a story called?
    Answer: Climax

39. What do we call a struggle between characters or forces in a story?
    Answer: Conflict

40. What is the overall feeling or atmosphere of a story called?
    Answer: Mood

41. What do we call a story that teaches a lesson, often using animals as characters?
    Answer: Fable

42. What literary device is used when an object represents a deeper meaning?
    Answer: Symbolism

43. What is the opposite of a protagonist, often causing problems in the story?
    Answer: Antagonist

44. What type of conflict is a character vs. themselves, such as making a tough decision?
    Answer: Internal conflict

45. What is it called when an author refers to another book, historical event, or famous person?
    Answer: Allusion

Famous Books & Authors

46. Who wrote The Giver, a novel about a futuristic society with no pain or emotions?
    Answer: Lois Lowry

47. What is the name of the wizarding school in Harry Potter?
    Answer: Hogwarts

48. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about racism and justice in the American South?
    Answer: Harper Lee

49. What book series features a demigod named Percy Jackson?
    Answer: Percy Jackson & The Olympians

50. Who wrote The Hunger Games, a novel about a dystopian competition for survival?
    Answer: Suzanne Collins

51. In Charlotte’s Web, what kind of animal is Wilbur?
    Answer: A pig

52. Who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia series?
    Answer: C.S. Lewis

53. What classic novel begins with the line, “Call me Ishmael.”?
    Answer: Moby-Dick

54. In The Outsiders, what are the names of the two rival groups?
    Answer: The Greasers and the Socs

55. Who wrote Little Women, a novel about four sisters growing up?
    Answer: Louisa May Alcott

56. In Anne of Green Gables, what is the name of Anne’s best friend?
    Answer: Diana Barry

57. Who wrote Wonder, a novel about a boy with a facial difference starting middle school?
    Answer: R.J. Palacio

58. What is the title of the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
    Answer: The Fellowship of the Ring

59. Who wrote Frankenstein, one of the first science fiction novels?
    Answer: Mary Shelley

60. What is the name of the spider in Charlotte’s Web?
    Answer: Charlotte

Vocabulary & Spelling

61. What is the correct spelling?
    a) Definitely
    b) Definately
    Answer: a) Definitely

62. What does the word “predict” mean?
    Answer: To guess what will happen in the future based on clues.

63. What is a synonym for “happy”?
    Answer: Joyful, cheerful, delighted

64. What is the opposite of “generous”?
    Answer: Selfish or stingy

65. Which word is spelled correctly?
    a) Recieve
    b) Receive
    Answer: b) Receive

66. What is the meaning of the word “enormous”?
    Answer: Very large or huge

67. What is a homophone for “pair”?
    Answer: Pear

68. What do we call a word that has the same meaning as another word?
    Answer: Synonym

69. What do we call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?
    Answer: Antonym

70. Which sentence uses “their” correctly?
    a) They forgot their lunch at home.
    b) I will go over their soon.
    Answer: a) They forgot their lunch at home.

71. What is the prefix in the word “unhappy”?
    Answer: “Un-“

72. What is the plural form of “mouse”?
    Answer: Mice

73. What is the root word in “helpful”?
    Answer: Help

74. Which word means “a large group of people watching an event”?
    Answer: Audience

75. What does the suffix “-less” mean in the word “fearless”?
    Answer: Without

Mathematics Trivia for Middle Schoolers

Pre-Algebra & Algebra

76. What is the value of x in the equation x + 7 = 12?
    Answer: x = 5

77. What do we call a letter used to represent an unknown number in math?
    Answer: A variable

78. What is 5x if x = 3?
    Answer: 15

79. If y = 4, what is the value of 2y + 6?
    Answer: 14

80. What is the first step in solving the equation 3x = 18?
    Answer: Divide both sides by 3

81. If a triangle has sides measuring x, x, and 10, and the perimeter is 24, what is x?
    Answer: x = 7

82. What is the commutative property of addition?
    Answer: Changing the order of numbers does not change the sum (e.g., a + b = b + a).

83. What is 10²?
    Answer: 100

84. Solve for x: 4x – 8 = 12
    Answer: x = 5

85. What does the distributive property state?
    Answer: a(b + c) = ab + ac

86. If the equation is y = 2x + 3, what is y when x = 5?
    Answer: y = 13

87. What is the coefficient in the expression 7x + 4?
    Answer: 7

88. What is 3(2x + 4) = 24 when solved for x?
    Answer: x = 4

89. What is the reciprocal of 2/3?
    Answer: 3/2

90. What is the formula for the area of a rectangle?
    Answer: Area = length × width

Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

91. What is 1/2 as a decimal?
    Answer: 0.5

92. Convert 0.75 into a fraction in simplest form.
    Answer: 3/4

93. What is 25% as a decimal?
    Answer: 0.25

94. What is 3/5 as a percentage?
    Answer: 60%

95. Convert 0.2 into a fraction in simplest form.
    Answer: 1/5

96. Which fraction is equal to 0.125?
    Answer: 1/8

97. What is 5/10 in simplest form?
    Answer: 1/2

98. If a pizza is cut into 8 equal slices and you eat 3, what fraction of the pizza is left?
    Answer: 5/8

99. What is 0.9 as a fraction in simplest form?
    Answer: 9/10

100. If a shirt costs $40 and is on sale for 25% off, how much will it cost after the discount?
     Answer: $30

101. What is 2/3 + 1/6?
     Answer: 5/6

102. Convert 40% into a fraction in simplest form.
     Answer: 2/5

103. What is 7/8 – 1/4?
     Answer: 5/8

104. A book costs $20, and there is an 8% sales tax. How much is the total cost?
     Answer: $21.60

105. What is 1/4 as a percentage?
     Answer: 25%

Geometry

106. What do we call an angle that is exactly 90 degrees?
     Answer: Right angle

107. What do we call an angle that is less than 90 degrees?
     Answer: Acute angle

108. What do we call an angle that is greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
     Answer: Obtuse angle

109. What is the formula for the area of a rectangle?
     Answer: Area = length × width

110. If a square has sides of 5 cm, what is its perimeter?
     Answer: 20 cm (Perimeter = 4 × side)

111. What is the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle?
     Answer: Perimeter = 2 × (length + width)

112. What is the total sum of the interior angles in a triangle?
     Answer: 180 degrees

113. What is the formula for the area of a triangle?
     Answer: Area = (base × height) ÷ 2

114. A circle has a diameter of 10 cm. What is the radius?
     Answer: 5 cm (Radius = diameter ÷ 2)

115. What is the formula for the circumference of a circle?
     Answer: Circumference = 2πr (or πd)

116. What do we call a three-sided polygon?
     Answer: Triangle

117. What is the name of a four-sided polygon?
     Answer: Quadrilateral

118. A cube has sides of 3 cm. What is its volume?
     Answer: Volume = side³ = 3³ = 27 cm³

119. What is the formula for the area of a circle?
     Answer: Area = πr²

120. How many sides does a hexagon have?
     Answer: Six

Word Problems & Probability

121. If a recipe calls for 2 cups of flour to make 10 cookies, how much flour is needed to make 20 cookies?
     Answer: 4 cups

122. A store is having a 30% off sale on a $50 jacket. How much will the jacket cost after the discount?
     Answer: $35

123. There are 4 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 3 green marbles in a bag. What is the probability of picking a red marble?
     Answer: 4/10 or 2/5

124. A car travels 60 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 3 hours?
     Answer: 180 miles

125. A class has 12 boys and 18 girls. What is the ratio of boys to girls?
     Answer: 12:18 or 2:3

126. A soccer team won 8 games out of 10. What fraction represents the games they won?
     Answer: 8/10 or 4/5

127. If a die is rolled once, what is the probability of landing on a 4?
     Answer: 1/6

128. There are 6 total marbles in a bag (2 red, 2 blue, and 2 yellow). What is the probability of pulling a blue marble?
     Answer: 2/6 or 1/3

129. A train takes 2 hours to travel 120 miles. What is its speed in miles per hour?
     Answer: 60 mph

130. If 3 out of 5 students in a class wear glasses, what percentage of the class wears glasses?
     Answer: 60%

131. A store is selling apples for $1.50 each. How much do 4 apples cost?
     Answer: $6.00

132. A water tank holds 50 gallons. If it is currently half full, how many gallons are inside?
     Answer: 25 gallons

133. If a student correctly answers 18 out of 20 test questions, what percentage did they get right?
     Answer: 90%

134. A spinner has 5 equal sections numbered 1-5. What is the probability of spinning a number greater than 3?
     Answer: 2/5

135. The pattern is 2, 4, 8, 16, __, 64. What number is missing?
     Answer: 32

Exponents & Order of Operations

136. What does the acronym PEMDAS stand for?
     Answer: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

137. Solve: (3 + 5) × 2
     Answer: 16

138. What is 2³?
     Answer: 8 (2 × 2 × 2)

139. Solve: 5²
     Answer: 25 (5 × 5)

140. What is the value of 10⁰?
     Answer: 1

141. Solve: 4 × (6 + 2) ÷ 2
     Answer: 16

142. What do we call a number raised to the power of 2?
     Answer: Squared

143. What is the exponent in the expression 7⁴?
     Answer: 4

144. Solve: (12 ÷ 4) + 2³
     Answer: 11

145. What is the base in the expression 3⁵?
     Answer: 3

146. Solve: 9² – 5 × 4
     Answer: 61

147. What is 3⁰?
     Answer: 1

148. Solve: (2 + 3)² – 4 × 3
     Answer: 13

149. If x = 4, what is x³?
     Answer: 64

150. What do we call a number raised to the power of 3?
     Answer: Cubed

Science Trivia for Middle Schoolers

Life Science

151. What organ in the human body pumps blood?
     Answer: Heart

152. What system in the body is responsible for breathing?
     Answer: Respiratory system

153. What do we call the smallest unit of life in the human body?
     Answer: Cell

154. Which organ helps digest food by producing stomach acid?
     Answer: Stomach

155. What is the main function of the skeletal system?
     Answer: To provide structure and support for the body

156. What part of a plant absorbs water and nutrients from the soil?
     Answer: Roots

157. What is the process by which plants make their own food?
     Answer: Photosynthesis

158. What gas do plants take in from the atmosphere to help them make food?
     Answer: Carbon dioxide

159. What do we call an animal that only eats meat?
     Answer: Carnivore

160. What is a consumer in a food chain?
     Answer: An organism that eats plants or other animals for energy

161. What do we call an animal that eats both plants and meat?
     Answer: Omnivore

162. What is the top predator in a food chain called?
     Answer: Apex predator

163. What is an adaptation in animals?
     Answer: A trait that helps an animal survive in its environment

164. What do we call animals that sleep during the day and are active at night?
     Answer: Nocturnal

165. What is the main purpose of a food chain?
     Answer: To show how energy moves through an ecosystem

Earth Science

166. What are the four main layers of the Earth?
     Answer: Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core

167. What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
     Answer: Crust

168. What is the process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces?
     Answer: Weathering

169. What type of rock forms from cooling lava or magma?
     Answer: Igneous rock

170. What is the process that moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another?
     Answer: Erosion

171. What is the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago?
     Answer: Pangaea

172. What do we call the large sections of the Earth’s crust that move and cause earthquakes?
     Answer: Tectonic plates

173. What instrument is used to measure earthquakes?
     Answer: Seismometer

174. What type of natural disaster occurs when warm ocean water fuels strong winds and heavy rain?
     Answer: Hurricane

175. What do we call a violent rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground?
     Answer: Tornado

176. What is the rock cycle?
     Answer: The continuous process of rock formation and change from one type to another

177. What is the hottest layer of the Earth?
     Answer: Inner Core

178. What causes volcanoes to erupt?
     Answer: The movement of magma from beneath the Earth’s surface

179. What type of scientist studies weather and climate?
     Answer: Meteorologist

180. What is the difference between weather and climate?
     Answer: Weather describes short-term atmospheric conditions, while climate refers to long-term patterns

Physical Science

181. What is the first law of motion stated by Isaac Newton?
     Answer: An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force (Inertia).

182. What type of energy is stored in an object due to its position or height?
     Answer: Potential energy

183. What type of energy is in motion, like a rolling ball?
     Answer: Kinetic energy

184. What simple machine is a flat, slanted surface used to move objects more easily?
     Answer: Inclined plane

185. What is Newton’s second law of motion?
     Answer: Force = Mass × Acceleration (F = ma)

186. What is an example of Newton’s third law of motion (for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction)?
     Answer: A rocket launching into space or a person jumping off a boat and the boat moving backward.

187. What type of energy is stored in food and fuel?
     Answer: Chemical energy

188. What is the force that pulls objects toward the center of the Earth?
     Answer: Gravity

189. What is an example of a wedge, a type of simple machine?
     Answer: A knife, an axe, or a doorstop

190. What type of simple machine consists of a wheel with a rope wrapped around it?
     Answer: Pulley

191. What is an example of a lever, a type of simple machine?
     Answer: A seesaw, crowbar, or scissors

192. What type of energy is produced by vibrating objects like a guitar string?
     Answer: Sound energy

193. What is the type of energy that comes from the Sun?
     Answer: Solar energy

194. What do we call the force that slows down moving objects when they rub against a surface?
     Answer: Friction

195. What type of energy is used when you plug in and turn on a light bulb?
     Answer: Electrical energy

Chemistry Basics

196. What are the three main states of matter?
     Answer: Solid, liquid, gas

197. What is the fourth state of matter, found in lightning and the Sun?
     Answer: Plasma

198. What is the smallest unit of an element?
     Answer: Atom

199. What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
     Answer: O

200. What do we call a substance made of two or more elements chemically combined?
     Answer: Compound

201. What is the most abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere?
     Answer: Nitrogen (N)

202. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
     Answer: Au

203. What is the basic unit of all matter?
     Answer: Atom

204. What is the center of an atom called?
     Answer: Nucleus

205. What are the positively charged particles in an atom?
     Answer: Protons

206. What are the negatively charged particles in an atom?
     Answer: Electrons

207. What type of change does not create a new substance, such as melting ice?
     Answer: Physical change

208. What type of change creates a new substance, such as burning wood?
     Answer: Chemical change

209. What is the pH scale used to measure?
     Answer: Acidity or alkalinity of a substance

210. What is the chemical formula for water?
     Answer: H₂O

Scientific Inquiry & Experiments

211. What is the first step in the scientific method?
     Answer: Ask a question

212. What do we call a testable explanation for an observation?
     Answer: Hypothesis

213. What is the final step in the scientific method where a scientist explains what they learned?
     Answer: Conclusion

214. What is the variable in an experiment that is changed on purpose?
     Answer: Independent variable

215. What is the variable in an experiment that is measured or observed?
     Answer: Dependent variable

216. What is an experiment where only one variable is changed at a time?
     Answer: Controlled experiment

217. What tool is used to magnify small objects, such as cells?
     Answer: Microscope

218. What do we call information collected during an experiment?
     Answer: Data

219. If the results of an experiment do not support the hypothesis, what should a scientist do?
     Answer: Modify the hypothesis and test again

220. What unit of measurement is used for length in the metric system?
     Answer: Meter

221. What tool is used to measure mass?
     Answer: Balance or scale

222. What tool is used to measure liquid volume?
     Answer: Graduated cylinder

223. What is the term for a detailed, step-by-step plan for conducting an experiment?
     Answer: Procedure

224. What do we call a statement based on observations and past knowledge?
     Answer: Inference

225. What is the difference between a qualitative and quantitative observation?
     Answer: Qualitative describes qualities (color, texture); quantitative includes numbers (5 cm, 20 grams).

Social Studies Trivia for Middle Schoolers

U.S. History

226. Who was the first President of the United States?
     Answer: George Washington

227. What year did the United States declare independence from Britain?
     Answer: 1776

228. What document begins with the words “We the People”?
     Answer: The U.S. Constitution

229. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
     Answer: Thomas Jefferson

230. What war was fought between the North and South in the United States?
     Answer: The Civil War

231. Who was President during the Civil War?
     Answer: Abraham Lincoln

232. What was the name of the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
     Answer: The Underground Railroad

233. What was the Louisiana Purchase, and which President was responsible for it?
     Answer: It was the land deal that doubled the size of the U.S.; President Thomas Jefferson

234. What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
     Answer: The Mayflower

235. What event on December 7, 1941, led the U.S. into World War II?
     Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor

236. Who gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the Civil Rights Movement?
     Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

237. What U.S. President was responsible for the New Deal during the Great Depression?
     Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

238. What was the name of the period in the 1960s when African Americans fought for equal rights?
     Answer: The Civil Rights Movement

239. What was the Boston Tea Party?
     Answer: A protest against British taxes where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

240. Who was the first African American President of the United States?
     Answer: Barack Obama

World History

241. What ancient civilization built the Great Pyramids of Giza?
     Answer: Ancient Egypt

242. What was the capital city of the Roman Empire?
     Answer: Rome

243. What famous structure in China was built to protect against invaders?
     Answer: The Great Wall of China

244. Who was the leader of the Mongol Empire who conquered much of Asia?
     Answer: Genghis Khan

245. What form of government did Ancient Athens develop, where citizens could vote?
     Answer: Democracy

246. What two ancient civilizations fought in the Trojan War?
     Answer: Greece and Troy

247. What was the Renaissance, and where did it begin?
     Answer: A period of art, culture, and learning that began in Italy

248. Who was the Egyptian queen famous for her intelligence and alliances with Rome?
     Answer: Cleopatra

249. What document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king?
     Answer: Magna Carta

250. Who was the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II?
     Answer: Adolf Hitler

251. What event began World War I in 1914?
     Answer: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

252. What country was led by Julius Caesar before becoming an empire?
     Answer: Rome

253. What movement in the 1700s encouraged people to think using reason and science instead of tradition?
     Answer: The Enlightenment

254. Who was the famous military leader of France who became emperor in the early 1800s?
     Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

255. What was the Cold War, and which two superpowers were involved?
     Answer: A political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

Geography

256. How many continents are there in the world?
     Answer: Seven

257. What is the largest continent in the world?
     Answer: Asia

258. What is the capital of the United States?
     Answer: Washington, D.C.

259. What is the largest ocean in the world?
     Answer: Pacific Ocean

260. What is the capital of France?
     Answer: Paris

261. What are the four cardinal directions on a compass?
     Answer: North, South, East, West

262. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
     Answer: Equator

263. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
     Answer: Prime Meridian

264. What continent is home to the Amazon Rainforest?
     Answer: South America

265. What is the smallest continent in the world?
     Answer: Australia

266. Which country has the most people?
     Answer: China

267. What is the longest river in the world?
     Answer: Nile River

268. What do we call the study of maps and places?
     Answer: Geography

269. What is the name of the desert that covers most of northern Africa?
     Answer: Sahara Desert

270. What is the largest country by land area?
     Answer: Russia

Civics & Government

271. How many branches of government does the United States have?
     Answer: Three

272. What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
     Answer: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

273. Who is the head of the Executive Branch?
     Answer: The President of the United States

274. What is the main job of the Legislative Branch?
     Answer: To make laws

275. How many U.S. Senators are there in total?
     Answer: 100 (2 per state)

276. How many U.S. Representatives are in Congress?
     Answer: 435

277. What is the highest court in the United States?
     Answer: The Supreme Court

278. How long is a U.S. President’s term?
     Answer: 4 years

279. What do we call the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?
     Answer: The Bill of Rights

280. What is the minimum age to vote in a U.S. election?
     Answer: 18

281. What is the process of approving a law called?
     Answer: Ratification

282. Who has the power to veto a bill?
     Answer: The President

283. What is the Supreme Court’s job?
     Answer: To interpret laws and determine if they are constitutional

284. What do we call a change or addition to the U.S. Constitution?
     Answer: Amendment

285. What are the two main political parties in the United States?
     Answer: Democratic and Republican

Computer Science & Technology Trivia for Middle Schoolers

Basic Coding Concepts

286. What is a set of step-by-step instructions that a computer follows to complete a task?
     Answer: Algorithm

287. What is a loop in coding?
     Answer: A sequence of instructions that repeats until a certain condition is met

288. What coding structure allows a program to make decisions?
     Answer: Conditional statement (if-else statement)

289. What symbol is used to represent a block of code in Python?
     Answer: Indentation

290. In JavaScript, what symbol is used to end a statement?
     Answer: Semicolon (;)

291. What does a variable store in a computer program?
     Answer: Data (such as numbers, text, or Boolean values)

292. What is the purpose of an “if” statement in coding?
     Answer: To execute a block of code only if a certain condition is true

293. What type of loop runs a specific number of times?
     Answer: For loop

294. In Scratch, what is the name of the characters that move and interact?
     Answer: Sprites

295. What do we call an error in a computer program?
     Answer: Bug

296. What is the process of finding and fixing errors in code called?
     Answer: Debugging

297. What does “AI” stand for in computer science?
     Answer: Artificial Intelligence

298. What does HTML stand for?
     Answer: HyperText Markup Language

299. What does CSS stand for in web development?
     Answer: Cascading Style Sheets

300. What is an example of a block-based coding language used for beginners?
     Answer: Scratch

Internet & Cyber Safety

301. What is a strong password made of?
     Answer: A mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters

302. What should you never share online with strangers?
     Answer: Personal information (name, address, phone number, passwords)

303. What does “HTTPS” mean at the beginning of a website URL?
     Answer: The website is secure and uses encryption

304. What is cyberbullying?
     Answer: Bullying that happens online through messages, social media, or emails

305. What should you do if you receive a suspicious email asking for personal information?
     Answer: Do not open or reply; report it as a scam

306. What is phishing?
     Answer: A scam where someone tries to steal personal information by pretending to be a trusted company

307. What is malware?
     Answer: Harmful software like viruses and spyware that can damage your computer

308. What is two-factor authentication (2FA)?
     Answer: A security step that requires a password plus a second verification (like a code sent to your phone)

309. What is the best way to keep your computer safe from viruses?
     Answer: Install and update antivirus software

310. What is the purpose of a firewall?
     Answer: To protect your computer from unauthorized access or attacks

311. Why should you log out of an account after using a public computer?
     Answer: To prevent others from accessing your account

312. What do we call the trail of information you leave behind when using the internet?
     Answer: Digital footprint

313. Why is it important to ask an adult before chatting online with someone new?
     Answer: To stay safe from online predators and scams

314. What is the best way to know if an online source is reliable?
     Answer: Check if it’s from a trusted organization, look for author credentials, and verify facts with other sources

315. What should you do if you accidentally click on a suspicious link?
     Answer: Close the page immediately, run a virus scan, and avoid entering any personal information

Technology History

316. Who is known as the “Father of Computers”?
     Answer: Charles Babbage

317. What company created the first iPhone?
     Answer: Apple

318. What year was the first email sent?
     Answer: 1971

319. Who founded Microsoft?
     Answer: Bill Gates and Paul Allen

320. What was the name of the first widely used web browser?
     Answer: Netscape Navigator

321. What does “WWW” stand for in a web address?
     Answer: World Wide Web

322. What company created the first personal computer (PC)?
     Answer: IBM

323. Who co-founded Apple along with Steve Jobs?
     Answer: Steve Wozniak

324. What was the first search engine ever created?
     Answer: Archie

325. What is the name of the first programmable computer?
     Answer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

326. What social media platform was created by Mark Zuckerberg?
     Answer: Facebook

327. What was the first video game ever made?
     Answer: Pong

328. What does USB stand for?
     Answer: Universal Serial Bus

329. What is the name of the famous artificial intelligence that defeated a chess grandmaster in 1997?
     Answer: Deep Blue

330. What is the most widely used operating system in the world?
     Answer: Windows

Hardware & Software

331. What part of a computer is called the “brain”?
     Answer: CPU (Central Processing Unit)

332. What does RAM stand for?
     Answer: Random Access Memory

333. What is the main storage device in a computer called?
     Answer: Hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive)

334. What is the name of the physical parts of a computer, like the keyboard and mouse?
     Answer: Hardware

335. What is an example of software?
     Answer: Operating systems (Windows, macOS), applications, or games

336. What do we call a small, portable computer like a MacBook or Chromebook?
     Answer: Laptop

337. What type of software protects your computer from viruses?
     Answer: Antivirus software

338. What does GPU stand for?
     Answer: Graphics Processing Unit

339. What device do you use to input letters and numbers into a computer?
     Answer: Keyboard

340. What is the main circuit board inside a computer called?
     Answer: Motherboard

341. What type of device is a printer—input or output?
     Answer: Output device

342. What type of device is a scanner—input or output?
     Answer: Input device

343. What do we call the software that runs a computer, like Windows or macOS?
     Answer: Operating System

344. What is an example of cloud storage?
     Answer: Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox

345. What does Wi-Fi allow a computer to do?
     Answer: Connect to the internet wirelessly

Typing & Digital Literacy

346. What is the home row on a keyboard?
     Answer: The row where your fingers rest—ASDF and JKL;

347. What key do you press to make a letter uppercase?
     Answer: Shift key

348. What is the space bar used for?
     Answer: To create spaces between words

349. What is the function of the Caps Lock key?
     Answer: It makes all letters uppercase until turned off

350. What are the arrow keys used for?
     Answer: Moving the cursor in different directions

351. What shortcut copies text on a computer?
     Answer: Ctrl + C (Windows) / Command + C (Mac)

352. What shortcut pastes text?
     Answer: Ctrl + V (Windows) / Command + V (Mac)

353. What shortcut undoes the last action?
     Answer: Ctrl + Z (Windows) / Command + Z (Mac)

354. What is a cursor on a computer screen?
     Answer: The blinking line that shows where you are typing

355. What do we call a file that contains text, images, or other information on a computer?
     Answer: A document

356. What does a search engine help you do?
     Answer: Find information on the internet

357. What is an example of a search engine?
     Answer: Google, Bing, Yahoo

358. What do we call a web address that takes you to a website?
     Answer: URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

359. What does a web browser do?
     Answer: It allows you to visit websites (e.g., Chrome, Safari, Firefox)

360. What is the best way to know if a website is reliable?
     Answer: Check if it’s from a trusted organization, look for author credentials, and verify facts with other sources

361. Why is it important to take breaks when typing for a long time?
     Answer: To prevent eye strain and hand fatigue, and to maintain good posture

Conclusion

Trivia is not just a game—it helps students learn in a fun way.

It can make lessons more interesting and help students remember what they learned in school.

These trivia questions can be used in class, study groups, or at home with family and friends.

Playing trivia can help kids feel more confident in what they know and make learning something they look forward to.

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