85 Dinosaur Trivia Questions for Kids with Answers [2025 Edition]

Looking to challenge your knowledge of dinosaurs? These questions will cover easy questions such as diet and basic knowledge of dinosaurs to more complex and obscure names and dinosaur facts. As always, be sure to keep track of your score and let’s see how you did at the end!

Easy

 

1. What does “Dinosaur” mean?

Answer: Terrible Lizard

 

2. What do herbivore dinosaurs eat?

Answer: Plants

 

3. What do carnivorous dinosaurs eat?

Answer: Meat

 

4. What is the name of a person who studies fossils and prehistoric life such as dinosaurs?

Answer: Paleontologist

 

5. What do you call baby dinosaurs?

Answer: Hatchlings

 

6. Where do most dinosaurs live?

Answer: On land

 

7. Which group of animals became dominant after dinosaurs went extinct?

Answer: Mammals

 

8. Which large marine reptiles went extinct along with the dinosaurs?
Answer: Mosasaurus

 

9. Which continent have the most dinosaur fossils been found?

Answer: North America

 

10. What dinosaur-themed book was turned into a blockbuster movie in 1993?

Answer: Jurassic Park

 

11. Was T-Rex a carnivore or herbivore?

Answer: Carnivore

 

12. Was Triceratops a carnivore or herbivore?

Answer: Herbivore

 

13. Was Brontosaurus a carnivore or herbivore?

Answer: Herbivore

 

14. Was Velociraptor a carnivore or herbivore?

Answer: Carnivore

 

15. What type of diet did Stegosaurus have?

Answer: Herbivore

 

16. What type of diet did an Oviraptor have?

Answer: Omnivore

 

17. What type of diet did Spinosaurs have?

Answer: Carnivore

 

18. What type of diet did Deinocheirus have?

Answer: Omnivore

 

19. What type of diet did Ankylosaurus have?

Answer: Herbivore

 

20. What type of diet did Carnotaurus have?

Answer: Carnivore

 

21. What type of diet did Parasaurolophus have?
Answer: Herbivore

 

22. What type of diet did Dilophosaurus have?

Answer: Carnivore

 

23. What Dinosaur is known for having large egg nests?

Answer: Maiasaura

 

24. How long are the arms of an average T-Rex?

Answer: 1 meter or 3 feet long

 

25. When did dinosaurs become extinct?

Answer: 65 million years ago

 

26. When did dinosaurs first appear? (What is the period called?)

Answer: Triassic period

 

27. How did most dinosaurs reproduce?

Answer: Eggs

 

28. What was the name of the continent that dinosaurs walked?

Answer: Pangea

 

29. How much meat could a Tyrannosaurus Rex eat in one bite?

Answer: 500 pounds

 

30. Did birds evolve from dinosaurs? T/F

Answer: True, birds did evolve from dinosaurs

 

Intermediate/Hard

 

31. What is the nickname of the most complete T-Rex fossil specimen ever discovered?

Answer: Sue

 

32. How are two different groups of dinosaurs differentiated?

Answer: Their hip bones

 

33. How many fossils are necessary to identify a new dinosaur species?

Answer: Only one

 

34. How many wings does a Microraptor have?

Answer: Four

 

35. Which dinosaur name means “roof lizard”?
Answer: Stegosaurus

 

36. What is the first carnivorous dinosaur to be discovered in Antartica?

Answer: Cryolophosaurus

 

37. What is the era called that dinosaurs lived?

Answer: The Mesozoic Era

 

38. Which dinosaur is known as the “king of dinosaurs”?
Answer: Tyrannosaurus rex

 

39. What does “Triceratops” mean?

Answer: Three-horned face

 

40. What does the name “Iguanodon” mean?
Answer: Iguana tooth

 

41. What does the name “Allosaurus” mean?
Answer: Different or strange lizard

 

42. What does “Pterodactyl” mean?
Answer: Winged finger

 

43. What does “Velociraptor” mean?
Answer: Swift Robber or Plunderer

 

44. What does “Diplodocus” mean?
Answer: Double beam

 

45. What does “Ankylosaurus” mean”?
Answer: Fused lizard

 

46. What does the name “Parasaurlopohus” mean?
Answer: Near-crested lizard

 

47. What does “Oviraptor” mean?
Answer: Egg Thief

 

48. What does “Deinonychus” mean?
Answer: Terrible claw

 

49. What does “Canotaurus” mean?
Answer: Meat-eating bull

 

50. What does “Styracosaurus” mean?
Answer: Spiked lizard

 

51. What does “Gallimimus” mean?
Answer: Chicken mimic

 

52. What was the length of a Pachycephalosaurus?
Answer: 18 feet or 5.4 meters

 

53. How long was an average T-rex?
Answer: 14 meters or 45 feet

 

54. How fast was the average running speed of a Deinonychus?
Answer: 60 mph

 

55. What is the state dinosaur of Colorado?
Answer: Stegosaurus

 

56. What is the smallest dinosaur?
Answer: Compsognathus

 

57. The most intact T-Rex skeleton was found in which US state?
Answer: South Dakota

 

58. What is the average length of a Triceratops?
Answer: 26 feet or 8 meters

 

59. Who coined the term “dinosaur”?
Answer: Richard Owen

 

60. The first Velociraptor fossil was discovered in which country?
Answer: Mongolia

 

61. Did dinosaurs have feathers? T/F
Answer: True

 

62. How many teeth did Triceratops have?
Answer: 800

 

63. How many teeth did T-rex have?
Answer: 60

 

64. How many teeth did Velociraptors have?
Answer: between 27-30

 

65. How many teeth did the Trachadon have?
Answer: 2500

 

66. How many teeth does an Ankylosaurus have?
Answer: 72

 

67. How many teeth did an Allosaurus have?
Answer: 32

 

68. How many species of dinosaurs appeared in the film “Jurassic Park”?
Answer: 15

 

69. What dinosaur name means “Hopping foot”?
Answer: Saltopus

 

70. What kind of dinosaur is the Flintstone’s pet, Dino?
Answer: Snorkasaurus

 

71. What is the wingspan of the smallest known pterodactyl?
Answer: 10 inches

 

72. Who discovered the first fossilized dinosaur eggs?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Poech

 

73. In what country were dinosaur fossils mistaken for “dragon” bones?
Answer: China

 

74. Where were the oldest dinosaur fossils in Canada found?
Answer: Nova Scotia

 

75. Who theorized that bezoar stones were fossilized feces?
Answer: Mary Anning

 

76. What is the average life span of a T-Rex?
Answer: 20-30 years

77. The meteor that many scientists believe killed the dinosaurs struck what modern country?
Answer: Mexico, Near the Yucatan Peninsula

 

78. What was the first dinosaur to be discovered?
Answer: Megalosaurus

 

79. Which dinosaur has fifteen horns?
Answer: Kosmoceratops

 

80. What was the first non-carnivorous theropod fossil to be discovered?
Answer: Therizinosaurs

 

81. What do gastroliths do?
Answer: Aid in digestion

 

82. What was the first mounted dinosaur skeleton?
Answer: Hadrosaurus in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

 

83. Which dinosaur was named after a commercial airline?
Answer: Qantassaurus

 

84. Which dinosaur was believed to weigh up to 110 tons?
Answer: Argentinosaurus

 

85. What is the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs?
Answer: Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event

 

How well did you do? As always, be sure to use our questions as a launching point to make your own test, and be sure to play with your kids. And as always, be sure to have fun!