Q 01/05

The Jura Mountains, which gave the Jurassic its name, straddle France's border with which country?

A) Italy

B) Luxembourg

C) Switzerland

D) Belgium

Answer · why

C) Switzerland

Switzerland. Rocks of this age were first studied in the limestone of the Jura range, so the whole period took the mountains' name.

Q 02/05

Which period came immediately before the Jurassic?

A) The Permian

B) The Cretaceous

C) The Triassic

D) The Devonian

Answer · why

C) The Triassic

The Triassic. It ended in a mass extinction about 201 million years ago, which cleared the way for dinosaurs to dominate the Jurassic.

Q 03/05

Which period followed the Jurassic?

A) The Triassic

B) The Cretaceous

C) The Paleogene

D) The Carboniferous

Answer · why

B) The Cretaceous

The Cretaceous. It ended about 66 million years ago, when an asteroid struck near Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and wiped out every dinosaur except the b...

Q 04/05

Which famous dinosaur evolved more than 60 million years after the Jurassic ended?

A) Stegosaurus

B) Diplodocus

C) Allosaurus

D) Tyrannosaurus

Answer · why

D) Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus rex lived 68 to 66 million years ago, so less time separates it from us than from any dinosaur of the Jurassic.

Q 05/05

The Jurassic is the second period of which era?

A) The Mesozoic

B) The Cenozoic

C) The Neoproterozoic

D) The Paleozoic

Answer · why

A) The Mesozoic

The Mesozoic. Its name means 'middle life', because its fossils fall between the ancient forms of the Paleozoic and the modern ones of the Cenozoic.