Grade 2General knowledgequiz16 questions

Patterns and puzzles

Grade 2: what comes next in a pattern, odd one out, simple riddles, sorting by a rule.

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Questions

  1. What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ...

    • 10
    • 11
    • 12
    • 9
    Show answer10

  2. What comes next? 20, 18, 16, 14, ...

    • 10
    • 12
    • 13
    • 15
    Show answer12

  3. What comes next? 5, 10, 15, 20, ...

    • 21
    • 22
    • 25
    • 30
    Show answer25

  4. What comes next? 100, 90, 80, 70, ...

    • 50
    • 60
    • 65
    • 75
    Show answer60

  5. In the pattern 10, 9, 8, 7, the next number is 6. (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  6. Apple, banana and pear are fruits. Which one of these is not a fruit?

    • a carrot
    • a grape
    • a plum
    • an orange
    Show answera carrot

  7. Which of these is NOT an even number?

    • 10
    • 12
    • 8
    • 9
    Show answer9

  8. Which does not belong with a pencil, a pen and a crayon?

    • a banana
    • a marker
    • a paintbrush
    • a piece of chalk
    Show answera banana

  9. I am big and grey, with a long trunk and big ears. What am I?

    • a dolphin
    • a horse
    • a rabbit
    • an elephant
    Show answeran elephant

  10. I am white and cold and fall from the sky in winter. Children build me into a man. What am I? (Answer out loud)

    Show answersnow

  11. What has four legs and a flat top, and you eat your dinner on it? (Answer out loud)

    Show answera table

  12. The numbers 3, 6, 9, 12 are all in the same pattern of counting in threes. (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  13. Sort by a rule: which group do 3, 5, 9, 11 belong to?

    • even numbers
    • numbers over 20
    • odd numbers
    • tens numbers
    Show answerodd numbers

  14. Which rule sorts these? shirt, socks, shoes, hat

    • things that fly
    • things we eat
    • things we wear
    • things with wheels
    Show answerthings we wear

  15. A whale belongs in the group with a sparrow, an eagle and a parrot because they all fly. (True or false?)

    Show answerFalse

  16. What comes next? 50, 45, 40, 35, ... (Answer out loud)

    Show answer30

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