Dinosaur quiz
Checked on 11 November 2026
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During which geological period did Tyrannosaurus rex live?
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The answer is Cretaceous.
Tyrannosaurus rex lived at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, about 68 to 66 million years ago.
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How many horns did Triceratops have on its face?
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The answer is Three.
The name Triceratops means three-horned face, after the three horns on its big frilled skull.
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Which plant-eating dinosaur is famous for the large bony plates along its back and spikes on its tail?
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The answer is Stegosaurus.
Stegosaurus carried upright, kite-shaped plates along its back and a spiked tail for defense.
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Which group of animals alive today are living dinosaurs?
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The answer is Birds.
Birds evolved from small feathered theropod dinosaurs, so scientists count them as living dinosaurs.
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In which country have Velociraptor mongoliensis fossils been found?
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The answer is Mongolia.
Velociraptor fossils come from the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia, and the real animal was much smaller than its movie version.
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In which country was the first fossil of the feathered, bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx discovered in 1861?
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The answer is Germany.
Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now southern Germany, where its first fossil turned up in 1861.
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During which period did Stegosaurus live?
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The answer is Late Jurassic.
Stegosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic, about 152 to 145 million years ago, long before Tyrannosaurus appeared.
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In which year did Richard Owen coin the word "dinosaur"?
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The answer is 1842.
Sir Richard Owen coined the name dinosaur, meaning terrible lizard, in 1842.
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Which dinosaur, named by William Buckland in 1824, was the first non-bird dinosaur ever given a scientific name?
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The answer is Megalosaurus.
Megalosaurus, found in Oxfordshire, England, was named in 1824, nearly twenty years before the word dinosaur existed.
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Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, named by Ernst Stromer in 1915, is mainly known from fossils found in which country?
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The answer is Egypt.
As its species name hints, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus is known mainly from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt.