🦖 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!

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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