Q 01/05

What does the 'rex' in Tyrannosaurus rex mean?

A) King

B) Lizard

C) Tyrant

D) Terrible

Answer · why

A) King

King. The full name means 'tyrant lizard king', and it only just stuck: scrappy bones named Manospondylus gigas, 'giant porous vertebra', back in 1892...

Q 02/05

On which island continent, now part of western North America, did Tyrannosaurus live?

A) Appalachia

B) Gondwana

C) Laramidia

D) Pangaea

Answer · why

C) Laramidia

Laramidia. A shallow inland sea cut North America in two for millions of years, and T. rex roamed the western half, a long strip of land running from ...

Q 03/05

Despite starring in Jurassic Park, T. rex lived at the very end of which geological period?

A) Triassic

B) Cretaceous

C) Permian

D) Devonian

Answer · why

B) Cretaceous

Cretaceous. T. rex turned up only in the period's last couple of million years, so less time separates it from us than separated it from the Jurassic'...

Q 04/05

How many clawed fingers did Tyrannosaurus have on each hand?

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) Four

Answer · why

B) Two

Two. Each tiny arm ended in two clawed fingers, yet the arms were strongly muscled, and some scientists think they helped a fallen T. rex push itself ...

Q 05/05

Which meat-eating dinosaur is thought to have been even longer than T. rex?

A) Allosaurus

B) Spinosaurus

C) Velociraptor

D) Albertosaurus

Answer · why

B) Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus. The sail-backed giant from North Africa stretched to about 14 metres, a little longer than any T. rex, but it mostly ate fish and had die...