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THE DINOSAUR QUIZ:
Question 1. What are scientists that study dinosaurs called? [Answer GP]
Question 2. True or False: Brachiosaurus was the longest land animal thought to have ever lived. [Answer DS]
Question 3. How much is the heaviest dinosaur thought to have weighed; 40 tons, 100 tons, or 500 tons? [Answer DS]
Question 4. How many horns did Pentaceratops have? [Answer DS]
Question 5. Who named the first dinosaur? [Answer GP]
Question 6. Which Geologic Timeline era is known as “the Age of the Reptiles”? [Answer GGH]
Question 7. Name two things a scientist can learn about dinosaurs from dinosaur tracks. [Answer GP]
Question 8. True or False: The largest dinosaur egg ever found was about the size of a football. [Answer DG]
Question 9. How many times longer did dinosaurs dominate the earth compared to humans: 8 times; 80 times; 800 times? [Answer GGH]
Question 10. How many species of dinosaurs have been discovered? [Answer GP]
Question 11. True or False: The smallest dinosaur egg ever found is about the size of a tennis ball. [Answer DG]
Question 12. How long ago did the first dinosaurs appear? [Answer GGH]
Question 13. Which dinosaur had a 100-pound club at the end of its tail? [Answer DS]
Question 14. What kind of animal is the closest living relative to dinosaurs today? [Answer DG]
Question 15. True or False: Most dinosaurs became extinct during an event that occurred 65 million years ago. [Answer GGH]
Question 16. True or False: The name “dinosaur” means “beast with scales.” [Answer DG]
Question 17. Name one of the three Geologic Timeline periods in which dinosaurs lived. [Answer GGH]
Question 18. True or False: Dinosaurs became extinct during the Cretaceous period. [Answer GGH]
Question 19. What is the name of the era when the dinosaurs roamed the earth? [Answer GGH]
Question 20. True or False: Some dinosaurs were able to fly. [Answer DG]
Question 21. True or False: Most dinosaurs were omnivores. [Answer DG]
Question 22. True or False: Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, and Triceratops were all herbivores. [Answer DG]
Question 23. Which dinosaur had the biggest head at ten feet long? [Answer DS]
Question 24. What is the nickname of the T. rex dinosaur housed in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois? [Answer DS]
Question 25. Brachiosaurus had these on top of its head, which is thought to have helped it find food at the tops of trees. [Answer DS]
Question 26. True or False: The original dinosaurs were all vegetarian. [Answer GGH]
Question 27. True or False: Some plant eaters had to eat as much as a ton of vegetation every day. [Answer DG]
Question 28. Where was the first dinosaur nest found? [Answer DS]
Question 29. How big are the biggest dinosaur footprints ever found? 1 foot long, 2 feet long, or 4 feet long. [Answer DG]
Question 30. True or False: No mammal lived at the same time as dinosaurs. [Answer GGH]
Question 31. In what three classifications are dinosaurs classified by their diet? [Answer DG]
Question 32. What is the conflict between two paleontologists competing in the late 1800s to discover dinosaur bones referred to as? [Answer GP]
Question 33. True or False: The velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park are smaller than they were in actuality. [Answer DS]
Question 34. This large sauropod’s name means “arm lizard.” [Answer DS]
Question 35. True or False: Scientists classify all dinosaurs into two types: bird-hipped and lizard-hipped. [Answer GP]
Question 36. What are the series of footprints dinosaurs left called? [Answer GP]
Question 37. What insect in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park was trapped in amber that allowed dinosaurs to roam the earth again? [Answer GGH]
Question 38. Was T. rex a bipedal or quadrupedal dinosaur? [Answer DS]
Question 39. True or False: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent except Antarctica. [Answer DG]
Question 40. Who coined the term “dinosaur” in 1842? [Answer GP]
Question 41. The skeleton of what kind of dinosaur was the first on put together and mounted? [Answer DG]
Question 42. In what country were the dinosaur bones discovered in 2014 that might be from the largest herbivores ever discovered (dubbed Titanosaurus)? [Answer DS]
Question 43. True or False: All dinosaurs hatched from eggs. [Answer DG]
Question 44. Which dinosaur appeared in the 1933 classic movie King Kong? [Answer DS]
Question 45. True or False: The Quetzelcoatlus pterosaurs were about the size of small airplanes. [Answer GP]
Question 46. In what country have most dinosaur bones been found? [Answer GGH]
Question 47. How many inches long was a single T. rex tooth? [Answer DS]
Question 48. How many teeth did an adult T. rex have: 50, 100, or 500? [Answer DS]
Question 49. True or False: The crocodile existed at the same time as dinosaurs. [Answer GGH]
Question 50. What is the smallest dinosaur found so far? [Answer DG]
Question 51. What dinosaur’s name means “earth-shaking reptile” and whose root word is the same as an instrument used to measure earthquakes? [Answer DS]
Question 52. How many inches wide was the wingspan of the smallest pterodactyl? [Answer GP]
Question 53. Which dinosaur’s name means “fast thief”? [Answer DS]
Question 54. True or False: Tyrannosaurus rex ran quickly. [Answer DS]
Question 55. What type of dinosaur is featured on the logo of the Toronto-based NBA basketball team? [Answer DG]
Question 56. What did scientists originally think Triceratops was when discovering its bones in 1888? [Answer DS]
Question 57. True or False: Tyrannosaurus rex teeth looked like sharpened razors. [Answer DS]
Question 58. Which dinosaur’s name means “roof lizard”? [Answer DS]
Question 59. True or False: The dinosaur Stegosaurus had a brain about the size of a walnut. [Answer DS]
Question 60. What does “Tyrannosaurs rex” mean? [Answer DS]
Question 61. This dinosaur’s bones have been found in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado; its name means “bird robber.” [Answer DS]
Question 62. Which dinosaur looked like a sheep-sized Triceratops but had no horns. [Answer DS]
Question 63. True or False: Tyrannosaurus rex was the largest of all the meat-eating dinosaurs. [Answer DS]
Question 64. What was the first complete fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur ever found in the United States? [Answer DS]
Question 65. What was the first dinosaur ever named? [Answer DS]
Question 66. Which were longer in the T. rex: the arms or the jaws? [Answer DS]
Question 67. This herbivore dinosaur had a duckbill and hundreds of constantly growing teeth. [Answer DS]
Question 68. Which dinosaur is known for the huge bone-dome on its head that was several inches thick. [Answer DS]
Question 69. This dinosaur’s name means “good mother lizard” because many remnants of egg nests were found with its bones. [Answer DS]
Question 70. True or False: A young boy is credited with discovering the first dinosaur footprints in the United States. [Answer GGH]
Question 71. Which dinosaur had a long, hollow bony crest on its head from which it may have been able to make sounds? [Answer DS]
Question 72. Which dinosaur with a large spiky thumb was names by an English paleontologist in the 1800s? [Answer GGH]
Question 73. Where did the meteorite that is believed by some to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago land? [Answer GGH]
Question 74. How many claws (toes) did each T. rex foot have? [Answer DS]
Question 75. True or False: T. rex had hollow bones. [Answer DS]
Question 76. What is the name of the event that occurred at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs? [Answer GGH]
Question 77. What kind of dinosaur skull was taken on a 1998 space shuttle mission? [Answer GGH]
Question 78. What is the name given to the ridge that surrounded the skulls of dinosaurs such as Triceratops and Centrosaurus? [Answer DG]
Question 79. What is the most widely held theory for how the dinosaurs became extinct? [Answer GGH]
Question 80. A fossilized skin of what type of dinosaur (whose name means “Corinthian helmet lizard”) was forever lost when a ship was sunk during World War I? [Answer GGH]
Question 81. What kind of dinosaur known as “Big Al” was discovered in 1991? [Answer GGH]
Question 82. Which kind of dinosaur was Littlefoot in The Land Before Time? [Answer GGH]
Question 83. About how many tons did a full-grown Apatosaurus dinosaur weigh: 4, 10, or 35? [Answer DS]
Question 84. True or False: Dinosaurs are known to the general public through their scientific species names. [Answer GP]
Question 85. True or False: There are no museums in America that interpret dinosaurs from a biblical creationist perspective. [Answer GGH]
