Q 01/05

The Isle arms its Dilophosaurus with venom, a fictional trait made famous by which film franchise?

A) The Land Before Time

B) Jurassic Park

C) Ice Age

D) King Kong

Answer · why

B) Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park gave Dilophosaurus its venom and neck frill, and the film's own making-of book called the animal its only serious departure from science...

Q 02/05

Gallimimus, the flocking sprinter of The Isle, has a scientific name meaning the mimic of which bird?

A) Ostrich

B) Pigeon

C) Chicken

D) Heron

Answer · why

C) Chicken

Chicken is the bird in the name, chosen because its neck vertebrae resembled those of fowl, although Gallimimus belongs to the so-called ostrich dinos...

Q 03/05

Which mode of The Isle lets players start as a fully grown dinosaur, with no major penalty for dying?

A) Sandbox

B) Survival

C) Creative

D) Arcade

Answer · why

A) Sandbox

Sandbox mode skips the growing-up struggle and offers a bigger roster, while the core Survival mode makes every dinosaur start small and vulnerable.

Q 04/05

Stegosaurus, playable in The Isle, has tail spikes nicknamed the thagomizer after a joke in which comic strip?

A) Bloom County

B) Doonesbury

C) Calvin and Hobbes

D) The Far Side

Answer · why

D) The Far Side

The Far Side ran the joke in 1982, when Gary Larson drew a caveman lecturer naming the spikes after the late Thag Simmons, and scientists later adopte...

Q 05/05

Maiasaura, a duck-billed herbivore that players can raise in The Isle, has a name meaning which kind of lizard?

A) Gentle giant

B) Good mother

C) Swift runner

D) Loud caller

Answer · why

B) Good mother

Good mother is the meaning, chosen after fossil nests showed that Maiasaura fed its young while they were still in the nest.