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Dinosaur quiz for kids

Find out which giants never met, who ate what, and which prehistoric stars were never dinosaurs in the first place. This dinosaur quiz for kids has the answers and a fact for most of them.

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30 questions in 3 groups, every one with its answer. Questions last changed: .

Easier dinosaur questions

  1. What did Ankylosaurus eat?

    • Plants
    • Meat
    • Plants and meat

    Plants. Ankylosaurus was built like a tank, with bony armour across its back and a club on its tail.

  2. Which of these is not a dinosaur?

    • Megalodon
    • Stegosaurus
    • Ankylosaurus
    • T. rex

    Megalodon. Megalodon was a giant shark that lived millions of years after the last giant dinosaurs had gone.

  3. Put these dinosaurs in order of size, smallest first: Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptor.

    Velociraptor → Triceratops → Brachiosaurus. Brachiosaurus weighed as much as several elephants. Velociraptor weighed less than a big dog.

  4. What did Dilophosaurus eat?

    • Plants
    • Meat
    • Plants and meat

    Meat. No fossil shows Dilophosaurus with venom or a neck frill. Both were made up for Jurassic Park.

  5. Which dinosaur had big bony plates along its back and spikes on its tail?

    • Stegosaurus
    • Spinosaurus
    • Triceratops
    • Ankylosaurus

    Stegosaurus. The spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus tail are nicknamed the thagomizer, a word first used in a cartoon.

  6. Put these in order of when they lived, earliest first: Gallimimus, Diplodocus, Coelophysis.

    Coelophysis → Diplodocus → Gallimimus. More than 120 million years separate Coelophysis and Gallimimus.

  7. The woolly mammoth was not a dinosaur. So what was it?

    • A sea reptile
    • A shark
    • A flying reptile
    • A mammal

    A mammal. Woolly mammoths lived in the last Ice Age, more than 60 million years after the giant dinosaurs died out.

  8. A sabre-toothed cat was not a dinosaur. So what was it?

    • A mammal
    • A flying reptile
    • A sea reptile
    • A shark

    A mammal. Sabre-toothed cats were mammals. The famous ones hunted in the last Ice Age, long after the giant dinosaurs.

  9. What does the name Allosaurus mean?

    • Giant southern lizard
    • Deceptive lizard
    • Different lizard
    • Roof lizard

    Different lizard. Its backbones looked different from those of any other dinosaur known at the time.

  10. In which period did Carnotaurus live?

    • Triassic
    • Jurassic
    • Cretaceous

    Cretaceous. The Cretaceous ran from about 145 to 66 million years ago.

Harder dinosaur questions

  1. Which of these lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx?

    • Cryolophosaurus
    • Megalosaurus
    • Compsognathus
    • Maiasaura

    Compsognathus. Archaeopteryx and Compsognathus both lived in the Late Jurassic, on islands in what is now Germany.

  2. Which dinosaur had one big nose horn and long spikes around its frill?

    Styracosaurus. Styracosaurus had one long horn on its nose and a frill edged with long spikes.

  3. Which dinosaur's name means ‘first horned face’?

    Protoceratops. Scientists thought it was an early ancestor of the horned dinosaurs. It had a frill, but no big horns.

  4. Which dinosaur had some of the longest claws of any animal ever?

    • Maiasaura
    • Styracosaurus
    • Therizinosaurus
    • Apatosaurus

    Therizinosaurus. The giant claws of Therizinosaurus were first thought to belong to a huge turtle.

  5. Which dinosaur's name means ‘parrot lizard’?

    Psittacosaurus. It had a short, curved beak like a parrot's.

  6. Where were the first Parasaurolophus fossils found?

    • Canada
    • Argentina
    • Germany
    • England

    Canada. The hollow crest of Parasaurolophus may have worked like a trumpet, for loud, low calls.

  7. Where were the first Apatosaurus fossils found?

    • Germany
    • USA
    • Canada
    • Mongolia

    USA. Apatosaurus was a giant plant-eater, as heavy as several elephants put together.

  8. Which fossil hunter from Lyme Regis found the first complete plesiosaur?

    • Richard Owen
    • Gideon Mantell
    • Mary Anning
    • Charles Darwin

    Mary Anning. Mary Anning found the first complete plesiosaur skeleton on the beach at Lyme Regis in 1823.

  9. Put these in order of when they lived, earliest first: Cryolophosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Iguanodon, Megalosaurus.

    Cryolophosaurus → Megalosaurus → Iguanodon → Edmontosaurus. More than 90 million years separate Cryolophosaurus and Edmontosaurus.

  10. Which dinosaur's name means ‘terrible claw’?

    Deinonychus. It had a big, curved claw on the second toe of each foot.

True or false?

  1. True or false: Baby dinosaurs hatched from eggs.

    True. As far as we know, every dinosaur hatched from an egg, just like birds do today.

  2. True or false: Some dinosaurs had feathers.

    True. Many fossils show feathers, from fluffy down to full wings.

  3. True or false: Dinosaurs were around for more than 150 million years before the asteroid hit.

    True. The first dinosaurs appeared more than 230 million years ago. The giant ones died out 66 million years ago.

  4. True or false: Pteranodon was a dinosaur.

    False. Pteranodon was a pterosaur, a flying reptile. Pterosaurs were close cousins of the dinosaurs, not dinosaurs.

  5. True or false: The name Pachycephalosaurus means ‘thick-headed lizard’.

    True. The top of its skull was a tall dome of solid bone.

  6. True or false: Ichthyosaurus was a dinosaur.

    False. Ichthyosaurs were sea reptiles shaped like dolphins. They gave birth to live young at sea.

  7. True or false: Mosasaurus was a dinosaur.

    False. Mosasaurus was a giant sea lizard, not a dinosaur. Its closest living relatives are lizards and snakes.

  8. True or false: Microraptor ate meat.

    True. Microraptor had four feathered wings, and its feathers were a glossy black.

  9. True or false: Plateosaurus lived in the Jurassic period.

    False. It lived in the Triassic period. The Triassic ran from about 252 to 201 million years ago.

  10. True or false: Baryonyx lived in the Triassic period.

    False. It lived in the Cretaceous period.

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