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101 Dinosaur Trivia Questions To Prove You’re Ready For A Fossil Dig

What do the words deinos and sauros have in common? How long was the average Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth? Why did paleontologists discard the name Brontosaurus until about 2015? Who were the founders of English paleontology and fossil digging? What is remarkable about Therizinosaurus? Why is Oviraptor a misnomer for the small, dainty theropod? 

If you knew the answer to even one of these questions, this may be the perfect quiz for you.

Maybe your interest in these predecessors to today’s birds began recently. Maybe it was even sparked by Hollywood’s (often fanciful) depiction of these beasts. Or perhaps you’ve been attached to these marvelous creatures since childhood when you found a fossil in your backyard. 

Whenever your dino didactics started, all dinosaur fans and scholars are welcome to challenge themselves with our dinosaur trivia questions and answers. 

Let’s test your knowledge of the world of these enchanting animals! Or you’re feeling even more dangerous than a T-rex, try our nature quiz and trivia about animals.

In what year was the film The Dinosaur Project released?

2012

1992

2002

1982

How many horns did Triceratops have?

2

3

1

0

What was the weight in pounds of a Pachycephalosaurus?

4000

2000

8000

6000

For three-quarters of its length, the tail of Deinonychus was stiff. What did this stiff tail help with?

Speed, body temperature, balance

Energy preservation, swatting insects, body temperature

Balance, agility, energy preservation

balance, agility, swatting insects

What did Parasaurolophus have on its head?

Feathers

Bony spikes

Hollow crests

Horns

Which of these is the name of a dinosaur?

Miniraptor

Tinyraptor

Microraptor

Smallraptor

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘Bird Robber’?

Ornitholestes

Orinosaurus

Sarcolestes

Janenschia

The Hadrosaurus lived during which period?

Cretaceous

Permian

Eocene

Jurassic

What was the weight in pounds of a Corythosaurus?

17720

13290

8860

4430

What was the length in feet of a Claosaurus?

12

24

6

18

What does ‘dinosaur’ actually mean?

Terrible Lizard

Scaly Lizard

Ancient Lizard

Toothed Lizard

Which London park contains models of dinosaurs created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the last century?

Crystal Palace Park

Hyde Park

Regent’s Park

Battersea Park

Who plays the lead role of Trent Walker in Cowboys vs Dinosaurs?

Steve Austin

Keaton Simons

Eric Roberts

Mickey Rourke

What type of dinosaur features on the logo of the Toronto based NBA basketball team?

Allosaurus

Tyrannosaurus rex

Deinonychus

Velociraptor

What dinosaur themed book was turned into a blockbuster movie in 1993?

State of Fear

Sphere

Jurassic Park

The Andromeda Strain

Who composed the music for the film Jurassic Park?

John Williams

Hans Zimmer

James Horner

Danny Elfman

Which of these actresses stars in the film The Last Dinosaur?

Michele Lee

Constance McCashin

Donna Mills

Joan Van Ark

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘deceptive lizard’?

Triceratops

Acrocanthosaurus

Allosaurus

Apatosaurus

Who played the role of Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park?

Donald Faison

Wayne Knight

Jerry Stiller

David Alan Basche

What is the shortest known armored dinosaur?

Emausaurus ernsti

Tatisaurus oehleri

Scutellosaurus lawleri

Scelidosaurus harrisonii

Which video game character is occampanied by a green dinosaur called Yoshi?

Super Mario

Sonic the Hedgehog

Guybrush Threepwood

Lara Croft

Which of these dinosaurs is the heaviest?

Acrocanthosaurus

Albertosaurus

Allosaurus

Apatosaurus

In what year was the first film adaptation of The Lost World released?

1935

1955

1925

1945

The Camptosaurus lived during which period?

Cretaceous

Jurassic

Triassic

Oligocene

Which of these is not a real dinosaur name?

Dipterosaurus

Abelisaurus

Vulcanodon

Atlascopcosaurus

The mokele-mbembe is a dinosaur like created purported to exist in which continent?

Antarctica

South America

Australasia

Africa

What does Dilophosaurus mean?

Double armed lizard

Double crested lizard

Two loaves lizard

Double horned lizard

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘Tyrant Lizard’?

Anatosaurus

Tyrannosaurus

Dyoplosaurus

Calamosaurus

Which of these actors stars in Jurassic World?

Chris Pratt

Vin Diesel

Lee Pace

Dave Bautista

The dinosaur sequence in Disney’s Fantasia features which piece of monk?

Pulcinella

The Rite of Spring

Petrushka

The Firebird

Which of these is not a close relative of T-Rex?

Tarbosaurus

Alioramus

Herrerasaurus

Albertosaurus

The name of which predator means ‘New Hunter’?

Neoraptor

Seismosaurus

Neoceratops

Neovenator

What did most dinosaurs snack on?

Plants

Other dinosaurs

Animals

Anything

What is the officially designated state dinosaur of Colorado?

Triceratops

Acrocanthosaurus atokensis

Paluxysaurus jonesi

Stegosaurus armatus

Which of these actresses stars in the film Theodore Rex?

Sherri Shepherd

Rosie Perez

Whoopi Goldberg

Rosie O’Donnell

Who played the role of Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park?

Charles Kay

Joe Don Baker

Bob Peck

Desmond Llewelyn

What does the name Thyreophora mean?

Giant dinosaur

Tiny dinosaur

Winged dinosaur

Armoured dinosaur

Which TV show features a curious young Tyrannosaurus Rex named Buddy?

Extreme Dinosaurs

Martha Speaks

Dinosaur Train

Sid the Science Kid

The jaws of Deinonychus were lined with lots of small serrated teeth, why were they curved backwards?

To make chewing easier

To stop the escape of struggling prey

To prevent tooth decay

To create room in the jaws for more teeth

In what year was the film Adventures in Dinosaur City released?

1991

2001

1981

1971

What was the weight in pounds of a Euoplocephalus?

10500

3500

14000

7000

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘black mountain lizard’?

Seismosaurus

Melanorosaurus

Megalosaurus

Saltasaurus

What was the weight in pounds of a Dravidosaurus?

2000

4000

1000

3000

Which of these actors stars in the time-travelling dinosaur film A Sound of Thunder?

Edward Burns

Tom Sizemore

Barry Pepper

Adam Goldberg

How did dinosaurs reproduce?

They laid eggs

They split in two like cells

They gave birth to live babies

Two dinosaurs merged and became a new dinosaur

What’s the most amount of money dinosaur fossils have sold for at auction?

54000

$2.1 million

$8.3 million

630000

Which of these actors starred in the 1960 film The Lost World?

Michael Curtiz

Peter Lorre

Claude Rains

Paul Henreid

The name of which dinosaur means, ‘shark-toothed lizard’?

Allosaurus

Epidendrosaurus

Megalodon

Carcharodontosaurus

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘Bird Mimic’?

Ornithomimus

Orinosaurus

Ornithopsis

Ornithodesmus

Which of these is the name of a World Heritage Site in southern England?

Jurassic Coast

Cretaceous Coast

Triassic Coast

Paleogene Coast

During what period did Velociraptors live?

Devonian

Cretaceous

Permian

Triassic

How many known species of Velociraptor were there?

2

1

4

3

The Late Jurassic herbivore Camarasaurus’ feet resembles the present day what?

Horse

Giraffe

Dog

Elephant

The hadrosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur, was the first full skeleton of a dinosaur found in which continent?

Australasia

Asia

North America

Africa

Which animal’s ancestors did not live during the time of dinosaurs?

Crocodile

Shark

Jellyfish

Bear

The name Pachycephalosaurus means what?

Fast Running Lizard

Thick-Headed Lizard

Meat Eating Lizard

Tall Lizard

Who played a Velociraptor private investigator in the film Anonymous Rex?

Sam Trammell

Stephen Moyer

Nelsan Ellis

Willem Dafoe

What was the weight in pounds of a Hadrosaurus?

12000

6000

9000

3000

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘heavy claws’?

Archaeopteryx

Baryonyx

Apatosaurus

Allosaurus

Which of the following prehistoric creatures is a dinosaur?

Yangchuanosaurus

Shonisaurus

Deinosuchus

Archelon

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘Arm Lizard’?

Plateosaurus

Cathetosaurus

Hadrosaurus

Brachiosaurus

What is the heaviest known stegosaur?

Tuojiangosaurus multispinus

Dacentrurus armatus

Hesperosaurus mjosi

Stegosaurus stenops

Who wrote the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, which features various dinosaurs?

Edgar Allen Poe

Alexandre Dumas

Jules Verne

H. G. Wells

Which was the slowest of the dinosaurs?

Stegosaurus

Diplodocus

Brachiosaurus

Europlocephalus

Who wrote the 1912 dinosaur themed novel ‘The Lost World’?

Agatha Christie

Robert Louis Stevenson

Arthur Conan Doyle

Edgar Allen Poe

What was the length in feet of a Pachycephalosaurus?

18

36

9

27

Dinosaur fossils are found in greatest abundance in which of these deserts?

Mojave Desert

Negev Desert

Gobi Desert

Sahara Desert

What was the name of the longest dinosaur?

Seismosaurus

Thecodontosaurus

Dromiceiomimus

Utahraptor

Who was the cinematographer for the film Jurassic Park?

Tommy Lee Wallace

Dean Cundey

Bob Gale

Charles Cyphers

What is the heaviest known sauropod?

Antarctosaurus’ giganteus

Amphicoelias fragillimus

Apatosaurus sp.

Argentinosaurus huinculensis

Which of these is a film featuring dinosaurs?

300 Million BC

400 Million BC

100 Million BC

200 Million BC

What is the officially designated state dinosaur of New Jersey?

Hadrosaurus foulkii

Hypsibema missouriensis

Astrodon johnstoni

Capitalsaurus

Adult Velociraptors are closest in height to which of the following?

An elephant

A horse

A turkey

A bluebird

The first Velociraptor fossil was discovered in what year?

1913

1933

1923

1903

Which of these is the name of a Disney film that features a dinosaur?

Meet the Griffins

Meet the Robinsons

Meet the Smiths

Meet the Richardsons

What was the weight in pounds of a Tenontosaurus?

8000

4000

6000

2000

Where have dinosaur remains not been found?

USA

China

Argentina

None of the above

Who played the role of Gerry Harding in Jurassic Park?

Gerald R. Molen

Max Pirkis

Scott Bryce

Alan Committie

Dinosaur fossils have been found on how many of the world’s continents?

4

7

5

6

Who played the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park?

Shailene Woodley

Diane Ladd

Emily Peachey

Laura Dern

What does ‘dinosaur’ actually mean?

Ancient Lizard

Toothed Lizard

Terrible Lizard

Scaly Lizard

Which TV show features Corythosaurus released from a preserved egg in 1988 California?

Dinosaucers

Dink, the Little Dinosaur

Denver, the Last Dinosaur

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

Who plays the lead in the film Three Ages, which features dinosaurs?

Harold Lloyd

Buster Keaton

Roscoe Arbuckle

Charlie Chaplin

Which museum features in the film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing?

Victoria and Albert Museum

Natural History Museum

Science Museum

British Museum

Which of the following is a stage of a dinosaur fossil in taphonomy?

Fossilization

Biodextrousity

Dyaplantae

Necrology

What species of dinosaur is Dino from The Flintstones?

Apatosaurus

Corythosaurus

Triceratops

Europasaurus

Where were the first T-Rex fossils found?

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Which film features the first depiction of a Stegosaurus using its tail for defence?

Jurassic Park

Fantasia

Dinosaur

King Kong

Who plays the role of Rex, a cowardly green Tyrannosaurus rex in Toy Story?

John Ratzenberger

Wallace Shawn

Justin Walker

Andre Gregory

Which of these is one of the twentieth century’s main dinosaur experts?

Paul Sereno

Charles Marsh

Gideon Mantell

Richard Owen

The oldest multi-celled fossils were found on which continent?

Africa

Asia

Australasia

Antarctica

Who played the role of Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park?

William H. Macy

Sam Neill

Cillian Murphy

Willem Dafoe

The TV show Walking with Dinosaurs was first shown on which channel?

ITV

Sky

Channel 4

BBC

Who wrote the screenplay for Jurassic Park?

Robin Cook

Richard Preston

John Grisham

Michael Crichton

What was the smallest dinosaur?

Tinysaurus

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dipthorsaurus

Compsognathus

Who was the first person to suggest that T-rex was a scavenger rather than a hunter?

Lawrence Lamb

Henry Fairfield Osborne

Charles Sternberg

Barney Newman

Who created the film The Animal World, which featured stop motion animated sequence about dinosaurs?

David Hedison

Irwin Allen

Mark Goddard

Jonathan Harris

What is the shortest known ceratopsian?

Aquilops americanus

Archaeoceratops yujingziensis

Microceratus gobiensis

Yamaceratops dorngobiensis

During the Triassic period, the continents were joined together in one giant landmass called what?

Laurentia

Pangaea

Gondwana

Columbia

Which dinosaur’s name means ’emu mimic’?

Deinonychus

Dromiceiomimus

Diplodocus

Compsognathus

Which dinosaur’s name means ‘horned lizard’?

Baryonyx

Ceratosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Archaeopteryx

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