Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Animals Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which prehistoric snake, living in the steamy forests of South America about 58 million years ago just after the dinosaurs, grew to around 13 metres long and as heavy as a small car, making it the largest snake ever known?

Question 2

Which was for many years thought to be the smallest dinosaur of all, only about the size of a chicken or a turkey, a nimble two-legged hunter of insects and small lizards in the Jurassic of Europe?

Question 3

Which strange plant-eating dinosaur had the longest claws of any known animal, each up to about a metre long, on the ends of its long arms, probably used to pull branches down to its mouth?

Question 4

Which extinct animal of the Ice Age, sometimes called the Irish elk, had the largest antlers of any known creature, spreading up to about 3.6 metres from tip to tip, as wide as a small car is long?

Question 5

Which flying reptile of the dinosaur age had a wingspan of around ten to eleven metres, as wide as a small aeroplane, making it the largest animal ever to fly? On the ground it stood as tall as a giraffe and walked on all fours.

Question 6

Which was one of the first really large dinosaurs, a plant-eater about eight metres long that lived over 210 million years ago, walked mainly on its two back legs, and is known from whole herds of skeletons across Europe?

Question 7

Which 18-metre sea creature of about 40 million years ago looked like a giant sea serpent but was actually an early whale, still carrying a pair of tiny, useless back legs left over from its land-living ancestors?

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About Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Animals

How much do you know about the giants that ruled the Earth long before people? This quiz covers the dinosaurs everyone has heard of, such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus, and the great beasts that came after them in the Ice Age, like the woolly mammoth and the sabre-toothed cat.

Each question asks something directly, such as 'which was the largest meat-eating dinosaur?', and then gives a few clear facts to help you choose from four names. You will pick up how big these animals really were, when and where they lived, what they ate, and how we know, mostly from fossil bones, teeth, footprints and even dung turned to stone.

The answers also clear up some common mix-ups: many film 'raptors' were far larger than the real animal, the flying reptiles of the dinosaur age were not themselves dinosaurs, and today's birds are the dinosaurs that survived.

Every answer comes with a short explanation and a picture of the animal or its fossils, all freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons. The wording is kept simple, and any harder word is explained. Every fact has been checked against what scientists currently agree on.