Dinosaurs
Dinosaur quiz for kids
Twenty dinosaur questions for children of about 6 to 11, in four rounds, from long necks and tail clubs to fossil poo.
A shortened quiz, to play solo
20 questions to play on your own, online. Type your answers and get your score at the end. No PDFs and no group play.
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- 60 questions, none of them on this page
- Question and answer PDFs, with answer sheets and tie-breakers
- Host it live: a private game room, everyone answers on their phones
- Questions
- 20
- Rounds
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy to hard
Round 01
Famous dinosaurs
- Difficulty: easy
Which of these dinosaurs had a very long neck and a very long tail?
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Diplodocus
- Difficulty: easy
Which small, fast hunters chase the children through the kitchen in "Jurassic Park"?
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Velociraptors
Also accept: Velociraptor, Raptors, Raptor
- Difficulty: medium
Which dinosaur had a heavy club on the end of its tail?
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Ankylosaurus
- Difficulty: hard
Which meat-eating dinosaur had a tall sail on its back and may have been even longer than T. rex?
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Spinosaurus
- Difficulty: medium
What do we call the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs?
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Pterosaurs
Also accept: Pterodactyls, Pterodactyl, Pterosaur, Pteranodon, Pteranodons
Round 02
Dinosaur facts
- Difficulty: easy
What did Tyrannosaurus rex eat?
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Meat
Also accept: Other dinosaurs, Animals, Other animals
- Difficulty: easy
How many legs did T. rex walk on?
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Two
Also accept: 2
- Difficulty: easy
How were baby dinosaurs born?
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They hatched from eggs
Also accept: From eggs, Eggs, Hatched from eggs, In eggs
- Difficulty: medium
What does the word "dinosaur" mean?
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Terrible lizard
- Difficulty: easy
What were the arms of T. rex famous for being?
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Very short
Also accept: Short, Tiny, Small, Very small, Little
Round 03
The dinosaur world
- Difficulty: medium
Which animals alive today are descended from dinosaurs?
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Birds
Also accept: Bird
- Difficulty: medium
What do most scientists think wiped out the dinosaurs?
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An asteroid hitting the Earth
Also accept: An asteroid, Asteroid, A meteor, A meteorite, Meteor, A comet, A giant space rock
- Difficulty: hard
About how long ago did the dinosaurs die out?
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66 million years ago
Also accept: 66 million years, 65 million years ago, 65 million years, 66 million
- Difficulty: hard
Which of these lived at the same time as T. rex?
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Triceratops
Stegosaurus had died out about 80 million years before T. rex appeared.
- Difficulty: hard
Dinosaurs lived in three periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic and which other?
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The Cretaceous
Also accept: Cretaceous
Round 04
Dinosaur detectives
- Difficulty: medium
In which London museum can you see famous dinosaur skeletons?
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The Natural History Museum
Also accept: Natural History Museum
- Difficulty: medium
On which stretch of the English coast, named after a dinosaur period, did Mary Anning hunt for fossils?
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The Jurassic Coast
Also accept: Jurassic Coast
- Difficulty: hard
What is fossilised dinosaur poo called?
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Coprolite
Also accept: Coprolites
- Difficulty: medium
What is the golden tree resin that can trap insects for millions of years?
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Amber
- Difficulty: medium
Which is heavier: a blue whale or the biggest dinosaur ever found?
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A blue whale
Also accept: Blue whale, The blue whale, The whale
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A shortened quiz, solo only
20 questions to play on your own, online
- 20 questions, marked for you
- Your score, answers and explanations at the end
- No PDFs: nothing to print or hand round
- No group hosting or live game room
- No team answer sheets or tie-breakers
- Anyone can look these questions up
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- A longer quiz: 60 questions (this page has 20), none of them on this site
- Host pack with questions and answers (PDF)
- Written for ages 6 to 11: animals, science, the world, stories, numbers and sport
- Team answer sheets and scoresheet
- Two tie-breakers
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How to run it
- Let the dinosaur expert in the family be quizmaster. They'll enjoy correcting everyone.
- Give a bonus point for the best T. rex impression.
- Good before a trip to the museum, or on the way home from one.