Q 01/05
A) King
B) Lizard
C) Tyrant
D) Terrible
Answer · why
'Tyrannos' is Greek for tyrant and 'sauros' for lizard, so the whole name reads 'tyrant lizard the king'.
Q 02/05
A) Appalachia
B) Gondwana
C) Laramidia
D) Pangaea
Answer · why
A shallow sea split North America in two at the time; T. rex had a wider range than any other tyrannosaurid.
Q 03/05
A) 169 to 166
B) 96 to 90
C) 250 to 230
D) 69 to 66
Answer · why
That puts it in the very last age of the Cretaceous, among the final non-avian dinosaurs before the asteroid.
Q 04/05
A) Three
B) Four
C) One
D) Two
Answer · why
A splint-like third metacarpal survived as a remnant; the 1915 museum mount wrongly gave it three-fingered Allosaurus arms.
Q 05/05
A) 3 tonnes
B) 20 tonnes
C) 8.8 tonnes
D) 50 tonnes
Answer · why
That is with a length past 13 metres and hips 3.7 to 4 metres off the ground.
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