Dinosaur quiz
Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, Velociraptor: a quiz for dinosaur buffs. The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, famous fossils, great paleontologists, the extinction and feathered dinosaurs.
- 416 questions
- 51 answers given
- 33% correct answers
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What does the name Camarasaurus, a sauropod described by Edward Cope in 1877, mean?
- Vaulted lizard
- Chameleon lizard
- Comrade lizard
- Chambered lizard
Where does the famous fossil "Sue" get its nickname?
- From a Johnny Cash song
- From the woman who found it
- From the landowner's daughter
- From a 1990 hurricane
Fossils show that grasses already existed in the time of the dinosaurs.
- True
- False
About how long did the Mesozoic last?
- 20 million years
- 186 million years
- 65 million years
- 500 million years
How did sauropods process their food?
- They ground it at length
- They swallowed it unchewed
- They stored it in their cheeks
- They chewed the cud
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