Jurassic Challenge! Test Your Dinosaur Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia!

From towering predators to armored herbivores, prove you’re a dino-expert with this prehistoric quiz!

Easy Level

  1. What does "Tyrannosaurus Rex" mean?

    Answer: Tyrant Lizard King

  2. Which period did the T-Rex live in?

    Answer: Cretaceous

  3. What dinosaur has three horns on its face?

    Answer: Triceratops

  4. Which dinosaur is known for its bony plates and spiked tail?

    Answer: Stegosaurus

  5. What was the largest carnivorous dinosaur?

    Answer: Spinosaurus

  6. Which dinosaur name means "swift thief"?

    Answer: Velociraptor

  7. What caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs?

    Answer: Asteroid impact

  8. Which dinosaur had a club-like tail?

    Answer: Ankylosaurus

  9. What herbivore had a long neck and small head?

    Answer: Brachiosaurus

  10. Which dinosaur is featured on the Jurassic Park logo?

    Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex

  11. What flying reptile lived alongside dinosaurs?

    Answer: Pterodactyl (Pterosaur)

  12. Which dinosaur had a crest on its head and could run on two legs?

    Answer: Parasaurolophus

  13. What dinosaur is known for its "duck-billed" snout?

    Answer: Hadrosaurus

  14. Which period came first: Jurassic or Triassic?

    Answer: Triassic

  15. What dinosaur fossil was first discovered in 1824?

    Answer: Megalosaurus

Medium Level

  1. What dinosaur had a sail-like structure on its back?

    Answer: Spinosaurus

  2. Which dinosaur is nicknamed the "good mother lizard"?

    Answer: Maiasaura

  3. What dinosaur had the strongest bite force?

    Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex

  4. Which herbivore used its tail as a whip?

    Answer: Diplodocus

  5. What dinosaur’s name means "thunder lizard"?

    Answer: Brontosaurus

  6. Which dinosaur had hollow bones like modern birds?

    Answer: Coelophysis

  7. What dinosaur was discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1923?

    Answer: Protoceratops

  8. Which dinosaur is the state fossil of Colorado?

    Answer: Stegosaurus

  9. What dinosaur had a brain the size of a walnut?

    Answer: Stegosaurus

  10. Which carnivore had a distinctive crest on its skull?

    Answer: Dilophosaurus

  11. What dinosaur is known for its "terrible claw"?

    Answer: Deinonychus

  12. Which dinosaur’s name means "different lizard"?

    Answer: Allosaurus

  13. What dinosaur lived in what is now Patagonia and was as long as a basketball court?

    Answer: Argentinosaurus

  14. Which dinosaur had teeth shaped like pencils?

    Answer: Nigersaurus

  15. What dinosaur is considered the "chicken from hell" due to its bird-like features?

    Answer: Anzu wyliei

Hard Level

  1. Which dinosaur had a neck making up half its body length?

    Answer: Mamenchisaurus

  2. What dinosaur’s name means "helmet lizard"?

    Answer: Corythosaurus

  3. Which dinosaur was discovered with fossilized feathers?

    Answer: Archaeopteryx

  4. What dinosaur is the largest known ornithischian?

    Answer: Shantungosaurus

  5. Which dinosaur had a thumb spike for defense?

    Answer: Iguanodon

  6. What dinosaur’s fossils were mistakenly identified as human giants in 1677?

    Answer: Megalosaurus

  7. Which dinosaur had a neck frill with holes to reduce weight?

    Answer: Torosaurus

  8. What dinosaur is known from a nearly complete "mummy" fossil found in 1912?

    Answer: Edmontosaurus

  9. Which dinosaur’s name means "fused lizard"?

    Answer: Ankylosaurus

  10. What dinosaur had a distinctive bony knob on its snout?

    Answer: Carnotaurus

  11. Which dinosaur was the apex predator of Late Cretaceous South America?

    Answer: Giganotosaurus

  12. What dinosaur had a brain shaped like a crocodile’s?

    Answer: Baryonyx

  13. Which dinosaur’s fossils were found with gastroliths (stomach stones)?

    Answer: Psittacosaurus

  14. What dinosaur is named after a Greek titan?

    Answer: Titanosaurus

  15. Which dinosaur had a wingspan of up to 33 feet?

    Answer: Quetzalcoatlus

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