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99 free Jurassic Park trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
35 free Jurassic Park trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true Jurassic Park fan? Put your knowledge to the test with our engaging 99-question trivia quiz covering the classic film franchise. From dinosaur facts to memorable movie moments, this quiz challenges fans of all levels to see how much they really know about the world's most famous theme park.
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Q 01Which phrase does John Hammond keep repeating as he shows off Jurassic Park?
Spared no expense
Spared no expense. The boast turns ironic as the film goes on, because the corners Hammond cut are what bring the park down.
Q 02Which author wrote the original novel 'Jurassic Park'?
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton sold the film rights before the book was even published, then wrote the first draft of the screenplay himself.
Q 03In Jurassic Park, which animal's DNA do the scientists use to fill gaps in the dinosaur genome?
Frog
Frog DNA completes the fragmented genomes, and because some frogs can change sex, the all-female park does not stay that way.
Q 04On which fictional island off Costa Rica does John Hammond build the original Jurassic Park?
Isla Nublar
Isla Nublar's first park never opens to the public, but two decades later the working Jurassic World resort stands on the same island.
Q 05Which character famously states the line 'Life, uh, finds a way' in 'Jurassic Park'?
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Dr. Ian Malcolm says it on hearing that the park's dinosaurs are all female and cannot breed; hatched eggs found in the wild later prove him right.
Q 06Which model of car carries visitors on the automated tour in the 1993 film Jurassic Park?
Ford Explorer
Ford Explorer. In the novel the tour cars are electric Toyota Land Cruisers; the film swapped them for Explorers guided along a track.
Q 07Which dinosaur is first seen attacking a park worker at the beginning of the 1993 'Jurassic Park' film?
Velociraptor
A Velociraptor kills the handler as it is moved into its pen, and the death makes the park's investors demand that outside experts inspect the island.
Q 08What is the bioengineering company, founded by John Hammond, that clones the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park?
InGen
InGen, short for International Genetic Technologies, slips from Hammond's grasp in the sequel, when his own nephew takes over as its boss.
Q 09Which actor played paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in the 1993 Jurassic Park after Harrison Ford turned the role down?
Sam Neill
Sam Neill and his co-stars later lent their surnames to a real dinosaur: the species name of Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima is stitched together from them.
Q 10What is Dr. Ellie Sattler's scientific specialization in the 1993 'Jurassic Park' film?
Paleobotanist
Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler studies fossil plants, so she is the one who spots poisonous West Indian lilac growing where a sick animal grazes.
Q 11The film makes Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant a couple, but what is she to him in the Jurassic Park novel?
His graduate student
His graduate student. The romance the film gave them does not last: by Jurassic Park III they have split up and she has married someone else.
Q 12Which effects house created Jurassic Park's groundbreaking computer-generated dinosaurs?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic won the job with a test: the dinosaurs were to be stop-motion puppets until its computer-animated demo changed Spielberg's mind.
Q 13Which 1997 film ended Jurassic Park's reign as the highest-grossing film ever made?
Titanic
Q 21Jurassic Park became the world's highest-grossing film by overtaking which earlier Steven Spielberg hit?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial lost its worldwide crown but kept its home one: in the US and Canada, Jurassic Park's original run finished second to it.
Q 22Which animal's cry, slowed down, forms the core of Jurassic Park's T. rex roar?
A baby elephant's scream
A baby elephant's scream, slowed down, is the key layer of the roar; Gary Rydstrom, who built it, mixed that over a low growl like a tiger's.
Q 23Which talk-show host appears as himself in the gyrosphere safety video in Jurassic World?
Jimmy Fallon
Titanic took the record, and its director James Cameron had wanted to make Jurassic Park himself, only to find Spielberg already had the rights.
Q 14Which animal is tethered as live bait to tempt the T. rex out during the Jurassic Park tour?
A goat
A goat. The T. rex ignores it while the visitors are watching, and only takes it that night, once the power has failed.
Q 15In which country have Velociraptor fossils been found?
Mongolia
Mongolia's Gobi Desert yielded the famous 'Fighting Dinosaurs' fossil: a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops buried while still locked in combat.
Q 16Jurassic Park's raptors tower over the real Velociraptor, which was roughly the size of which animal?
A turkey
A turkey. A heckler at Alan Grant's dig sneers that the raptor looks like 'a six-foot turkey', which is closer to the truth than he knows, since the man-sized hunters are fiction.
Q 17Which real dinosaur were Jurassic Park's raptors actually modelled on?
Deinonychus
Deinonychus was the novel's raptor 'in almost every detail', its author said; he changed only the name, picking one he thought sounded more dramatic.
Q 18Which giant raptor, named in 1993, proved that raptors even bigger than Jurassic Park's really existed?
Utahraptor
Utahraptor was nearly named after the film's director: its finders planned to call the species spielbergi, but the name was dropped.
Q 19Which US institution chose Jurassic Park for its National Film Registry in 2018?
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress adds 25 films a year to the registry; anyone can nominate a title, but its Librarian makes the final choice.
Q 20A 2013 re-release in which format carried Jurassic Park's box office past $1 billion?
A 3D conversion
A 3D conversion suited it, Spielberg said: he had always pictured Jurassic Park in 3D, and in 2011 he called it the only film of his he would consider converting.
Jimmy Fallon. Soon after his briefing, two boys take their gyrosphere into a restricted area, where the escaped hybrid dinosaur smashes it.
Q 24Which two features of Jurassic Park's Dilophosaurus have no basis in the fossil record?
Its frill and venom
Its frill and venom were made up for drama; the story also shrank the animal, which in life was far bigger than the one on screen.
Q 25In Jurassic Park, a taunting lockout screen scolds the control-room staff for not saying what?
The magic word
The magic word. A cartoon of the saboteur wags its finger and repeats the taunt, and with no way past it the staff must reboot the whole park.
Q 26Which operating system does young Lex recognise on a control-room computer in Jurassic Park?
Unix
Unix. 'It's a UNIX system, I know this!' she says, then uses it to get the door locks working while a raptor pushes at the door.
Q 27Which screenwriter, later of Mission: Impossible and Spider-Man, wrote the final Jurassic Park script?
David Koepp
David Koepp softened the novel: his final draft cut much of its violence and turned its ruthless Hammond into a sympathetic showman.
Q 28Which Jurassic Park character says 'Clever girl' just before the raptors kill him?
Robert Muldoon
Robert Muldoon, the park's expert hunter, is taking aim at one raptor when a second ambushes him from the side.
Q 29Which brand of shaving cream is on the can used to smuggle embryos in the 1993 film Jurassic Park?
Barbasol
Barbasol. The can is lost in the mud when its smuggler is killed, then resurfaces three decades later in Jurassic World Dominion.
Q 30In Jurassic World, the two brothers escape by repairing which vehicle left in the ruins of the original park?
A Jeep Wrangler
A Jeep Wrangler. The pair find it in the wrecked visitor centre, get it running and drive it back to the resort, where they are reunited with their aunt.