Dino knowledge test

Test your knowledge about dinosaurs with this challenging and difficult quiz which gets progressively harder. Are you up for the challenge?

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1. Which diet did the triceratops have?

Herbivorous ✓

Carnivorous ✓

Omnivorous ✓

Piscivorous ✓

2. What was the largest dinosaur to walk the earth?

Tyrannosaurus ✓

Brachiosaurus ✓

Argentinosaurus ✓

Titanosaurus ✓

3. What was the largest carnivorous dinosaur?

Giganotosaurus ✓

Spinosaurus ✓

Tyrannosaurus ✓

Carcharodontosaurus ✓

4. Which dinosaur had the smallest body to brain ratio?

Stegosaurus ✓

Tyrannosaurus ✓

Compsognathus ✓

Pachycephalosaurus ✓

5. Which dinosaur had the largest body to brain ratio?

Velociraptor ✓

Apatosaurus ✓

Utahraptor ✓

Troodon ✓

6. True or false: Pterodactyl was a dinosaur.

True ✓

False ✓

7. Which dinosaur could not be found in the UK?

Baryonyx ✓

Proceratosaurus ✓

Corythosaurus ✓

Iguanodon ✓

8. Which dinosaur could not be found in Africa?

Pachyrhinosaurus ✓

Spinosaurus ✓

Suchomimus ✓

Kentrosaurus ✓

9. Which time period could the herrerasaurus be found in?

Triassic ✓

Jurassic ✓

Cretaceous ✓

10. Which time period could the Tyrannosaurus be found in?

Triassic ✓

Jurassic ✓

Cretaceous ✓

11. What are the spikes on the stegosauruses tail called?

Scutes ✓

Thagomizers ✓

Osteoderms ✓

Gastralias ✓

12. Tyrannosaurus bataar is now considered its own separate species. What is this species called?

Zhuchengtyrannus ✓

Tyrannotitan ✓

Tarbosaurus ✓

Yangchuanosaurus ✓

13. How many teeth did the nigersaurus have?

100 ✓

200 ✓

500 ✓

1000 ✓

14. Which palaeontologist discovered the velociraptor?

Barnum Brown ✓

Peter Kaisen ✓

Elmer Riggs ✓

John Bell Hatcher ✓

15. What family did the acrocanthosaurus belong to?

Tyrannosauridae ✓

Carcharodontosauridae ✓

Abelisauridae ✓

Megalosauridae ✓

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