Dinosaur Top 50 Trivia Questions

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easy Level

15 Questions

What does 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' mean?

Answer:Tyrant Lizard King

Which period did the T-Rex live in?

Answer:Cretaceous

What dinosaur has three horns on its face?

Answer:Triceratops

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

Answer:Stegosaurus

What was the largest carnivorous dinosaur?

Answer:Spinosaurus

Which dinosaur name means 'swift thief'?

Answer:Velociraptor

What caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs?

Answer:Asteroid impact

Which dinosaur had a club-like tail?

Answer:Ankylosaurus

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

15 Questions

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

Answer:Spinosaurus

Which dinosaur is nicknamed the 'good mother lizard'?

Answer:Maiasaura

What dinosaur had the strongest bite force?

Answer:Tyrannosaurus Rex

Which herbivore used its tail as a whip?

Answer:Diplodocus

What dinosaur’s name means 'thunder lizard'?

Answer:Brontosaurus

Which dinosaur had hollow bones like modern birds?

Answer:Coelophysis

What dinosaur was discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1923?

Answer:Protoceratops

Which dinosaur is the state fossil of Colorado?

Answer:Stegosaurus

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

15 Questions

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

Answer:Mamenchisaurus

What dinosaur’s name means 'helmet lizard'?

Answer:Corythosaurus

Which dinosaur was discovered with fossilized feathers?

Answer:Archaeopteryx

What dinosaur is the largest known ornithischian?

Answer:Shantungosaurus

Which dinosaur had a thumb spike for defense?

Answer:Iguanodon

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

Answer:Megalosaurus

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

Answer:Torosaurus

What dinosaur is known from a nearly complete 'mummy' fossil found in 1912?

Answer:Edmontosaurus

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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