Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
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40 free Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, or JPOG to its fans, handed players the keys to their own dinosaur park. You dig up fossils, hatch the animals, fence them in and hope the fences hold. Two decades on it still has a devoted following, and its roster of dinosaurs is the part people remember best. This quiz covers the JPOG dinosaurs themselves: which species made the game, how they behave, where their fossils are dug and which animals were cut. It also covers running the park, the missions, and the story of how the game was built. It is for anyone who has lost an afternoon watching a herd graze, and for newer park builders curious about the game that came first. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which dinosaurs spit venom at their prey in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, just as they do in the first film?
Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus spits venom here because the developers followed the films; they later found there is no evidence the real animal could do it.
Q 02Which dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis were given an animation of climbing fences to escape?
Velociraptor
Velociraptor packs scale the fences, and the developers kept them human-sized as in the films; they are also the only small carnivores rated five stars.
Q 03Which live animals are fed to carnivores at the feeding stations of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Cows and goats
Cows and goats keep carnivores fed but not content: the game gives them an innate desire to hunt other dinosaurs, so livestock alone is never enough.
Q 04Besides fossils, what can dig teams unearth that yields dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Amber
Amber and fossils are the only DNA sources, and better specimens yield more; the silver, gold and opal that teams sometimes dig up can only be sold.
Q 05Whose film scores was the composer of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis told to make the game's music resemble?
John Williams
John Williams scored the first two films, and two of his own tracks play in the game beside ten new ones written in his style.
Q 06Which mode of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, with no fences or visitors, unlocks once every mission is completed?
Site B
Site B was added because the developers kept locking the camera on a favourite dinosaur and leaving the game running like a fish tank.
Q 07Which vehicle can players pilot themselves in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis to sedate an escaped dinosaur?
A helicopter
A helicopter can also herd dinosaurs that stray too far from a viewing tower, and players who prefer to manage can leave the flying to an AI ranger.
Q 08Which weather hazard can destroy fences and stress dinosaurs into a rampage in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Tornadoes
Tornadoes were a deliberate design choice: once players research stronger fences, a late-game park would otherwise feel too safe to be Jurassic Park.
Q 09Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is often likened to SimCity and which 2001 management game from Microsoft?
Zoo Tycoon
Zoo Tycoon is the natural comparison: both have you pen animals, feed them and keep visitors happy, though here a broken fence can get guests eaten.
Q 10Which studio, fresh from making a Starship Troopers game, developed Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Blue Tongue Entertainment
Blue Tongue Entertainment, based in Australia, grew from a team of about 20 on its previous game to about 40 by the end of this one.
Q 11Which ensemble performed the ten original music tracks written for Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's recording is credited as the first orchestral video game score to be recorded in Australia.
Q 12A version of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis for which Nintendo console was planned, then cancelled in 2003?
GameCube
GameCube owners were promised a version for later in 2003, but the team dropped it to concentrate on the three versions that did ship.
Q 13Which planned feature of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis was dropped, ending ideas for a petting area?
Baby dinosaurs
Q 21Which relative of Tyrannosaurus is classed among the small carnivores of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Albertosaurus
Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaurid named after the Canadian province of Alberta, earns three stars in the small group while its bigger cousin tops the large one.
Q 22Which Jurassic Park III predator ranks with Tyrannosaurus among the most popular dinosaurs in Operation Genesis?
Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus draw the biggest crowds, but both need large pens with high-security fences and are prone to rampaging when stressed.
Q 23Which spiked relative of Stegosaurus is dug up at the Tendaguru Beds site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Kentrosaurus
Baby dinosaurs were tried by shrinking the adults, which looked wrong; doing them properly needed new models and AI, as much work as adding species.
Q 14Which animals seen in Jurassic Park III were cut from Operation Genesis in development, along with marine reptiles?
Pterosaurs
Pterosaurs and marine reptiles were the losses the team said it missed most when the planned roster shrank to species players knew from the films.
Q 15Which tiny dinosaur familiar to film fans was left out of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis because of its size?
Compsognathus
Compsognathus, the pack-hunting Compy of the second film, would have been very difficult to see from a park builder's camera, the developers decided.
Q 16Which giant herbivore's fossils can be found at more than one dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus turns up at both a Morrison Formation site and the Tendaguru Beds, which helps: it is one of only five dinosaurs with a five-star rating.
Q 17The Flaming Cliffs dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is named after a real fossil region in which country?
Mongolia
Mongolia's Flaming Cliffs got their name from explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in the 1920s; in the game they are the dig for Homalocephale.
Q 18The Tendaguru Beds dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is named after fossil beds in which African country?
Tanzania
Tanzania's Tendaguru Beds came to light in 1906, when a German mining engineer was shown enormous bones there; the game digs up Allosaurus from them.
Q 19Which Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis dig site, named after rocks near Jordan, Montana, yields Edmontosaurus fossils?
Hell Creek
Hell Creek appears twice on the dig map, as groups A and B; the real formation stretches across Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming.
Q 20Which small plant-eater is the only dinosaur with a one-star popularity rating in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Dryosaurus
Dryosaurus is the least popular animal with visitors, and its flocks scatter in all directions when a T. rex approaches, each one putting survival first.
Kentrosaurus really was found in those African beds, and the game makes it a two-star small herbivore beside its famous four-star cousin.
Q 24Which dinosaur from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was cut from Operation Genesis but is still named in its files?
Baryonyx
Baryonyx is one of more than a dozen cut species whose names survive in the game's files, alongside Apatosaurus, Diplodocus and Iguanodon.
Q 25What does a higher percentage of recovered DNA give a dinosaur hatched in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
A longer life
A longer life is the reward: a species can be hatched once half its genome is recovered, but those animals die sooner than ones from a complete set.
Q 26Which real disease, a danger mainly to mammals, can strike the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Rabies
Rabies joins tick infestation, gastric poisoning and the invented Dino Flu, and each needs its own vaccine researched before a sick animal can be treated.
Q 27Which researched attraction in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis carries visitors over the dinosaurs by air?
Balloon Tour
Balloon Tour rides can be taken over by the player for a look around the park, but only while a visitor is using one.
Q 28What is the in-game guide to its dinosaurs called in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Dinopedia
Dinopedia entries give real dinosaur facts; where the films never showed how a species behaved, the developers turned to palaeontology textbooks.
Q 29Which character must players rescue from a visitor shelter in one Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis mission?
John Hammond
John Hammond, the park's founder, has to be collected by road, and the mission ends only when he is delivered safely to the park entrance.
Q 30Which British studio made Jurassic World Evolution, called a spiritual successor to Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?
Frontier Developments
Frontier Developments released it in 2018 with a similar mix of building and managing, and followed it with sequels in 2021 and 2025.