Marine Animal Trivia
Board Game
A marine animal themed trivia board
game for 2 to 5 players aged 5+!
You will need:
• Printer
• Laminator (optional)
• Game Board (included
with this resource as A3
or 2 x A4)
• Trivia Cards (included with
this resource)
• Counters (included with
this resource)
• Dice (or dice net, included
with this resource)
Before you play
• This game is for 2 to 5 players.
• Cut out the dice and glue the tabs together
to make a cube.
• Carefully cut out the counters and give one
to each player.
• Cut out the cards and leave them face
down, ready for the start of the game.
How to play
1. Place the counters at the start of the game
at the family dinner table.
2. Take it in turns to roll the dice and move
around the board.
3. If you land on a space with a shell on it, ask
a friend to carefully read the question to
you. If you answer the question correctly,
you can move on one space! If not, you
stay where you are.
4. The first person to get to the finishing
space is the winner.
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 True or False? True or False?
Great White Sharks have
been around for 800 Loggerheads think that
million years. Jellyfish are delicious.
Answer: False. They have been around
for 400 million years! Answer: True.
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True or False? True or False?

Planktons are Clown-Fish eat other
strong swimmers. Clown-Fish, including their
Answer: False. Planktons drift own children.
because they are not strong enough
to swim against ocean currents. Answer: True.
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True or False? True or False?

Sea Anemones are often Spectacled Porpoises tend
attached to hard surfaces to travel alone.
such as rocks.
Answer: False. Spectacled Porpoises
Answer: True. tend to travel in small groups.
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True or False? True or False?

Seahorses prefer to swim
Sea Snakes have special
in pairs with their tails
glands to remove salt water.
linked together.
Answer: True. Answer: True.
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Dumbo Octopus live at Blue Whales are the largest
least 4,000m below the animals ever known to have
ocean surface. lived on Earth.
Answer: True. Answer: True.
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True or False? True or False?

The Pink Dolphin has the Fur Seals have poor
largest bodies and brains of eyesight and hearing.
any dolphin.
Answer: False. Fur Seals have
Answer: True. great eyesight and hearing.
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True or False? True or False?

Elephant Seals can only hold Sea Snails are herbivores
their breath for 1 minute. (they only eat plants).
Answer: False. Elephant Seals can hold their
breath for more than 100 minutes! Answer: True.
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True or False? True or False?

Humpback Whales can
Lobsters taste with their legs.
grow up to 60 feet long.

Answer: True. Answer: True.

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Coconut Crabs like most
An Blue Cod can grow up to
foods except coconuts.
60cm in length.
Answer: False. Coconut
Crabs love to eat coconuts!
Answer: True.
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True or False? True or False?

Dugongs have a short
Cuttlefish have 8 hearts. lifespan of 5 years.
Answer: False.
Answer: False. Cuttlefish have three hearts! Dugongs can live up to 70 years.
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True or False? True or False?

Common Octopus are One Catfish can lay up to
considered very intelligent. 4,000 eggs a year!

Answer: True. Answer: True.

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True or False? True or False?

Crabs mostly walk Dolphin mothers feeds

and run sideways. their children milk.
Answer: True. Answer: True.
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