Q 01/05

What does the name Velociraptor mean?

A) Swift thief

B) Terrible claw

C) Fast lizard

D) Sharp hunter

Answer · why

A) Swift thief

Swift thief, from the Latin velox, swift, and raptor, robber. Its namer chose it in 1924 for what he called an alert, swift-moving carnivorous dinosau...

Q 02/05

Despite its Jurassic Park fame, Velociraptor lived in which geological period?

A) Triassic

B) Permian

C) Cretaceous

D) Paleogene

Answer · why

C) Cretaceous

Cretaceous. Velociraptor lived about 75 million years ago, some 70 million years after the Jurassic ended, and the film's biggest star, T. rex, came l...

Q 03/05

Roughly how big was a real Velociraptor?

A) About the size of a horse

B) About the size of a pigeon

C) About the size of an ostrich

D) About the size of a turkey

Answer · why

D) About the size of a turkey

About the size of a turkey: about two metres at most from nose to tail tip and only half a metre tall at the hip. The man-sized hunters of the films w...

Q 04/05

How many Velociraptor species were recognised by palaeontologists in 2025?

A) One

B) Four

C) Seven

D) Two

Answer · why

D) Two

V. mongoliensis from 1924 and V. osmolskae from 2008, though the 2008 one may not really belong in the genus at all.

Q 05/05

Which fossil formation in Mongolia has produced most Velociraptor specimens?

A) Nemegt

B) Djadochta

C) Hell Creek

D) Morrison

Answer · why

B) Djadochta

Djadochta. American Museum of Natural History expeditions first explored it in the 1920s and pulled Velociraptor and several other new dinosaurs out o...