Theropod Trivia
This animal, described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905, is traditionally seen as the most popular dinosaur to ever live.
This Montana dig site can be considered hell on earth to smaller dinosaur species.
What is the Hell Creek Formation?
These animals are some of the largest land animals to ever exist.
This is the biting strength of Tyrannosaurus rex.
What is 6 tons?
This kids’ show features a dinosaur whose genus name is misspelled in the title.
What is Gigantosaurus?
This number is the amount of species in the genus Allosaurus.
What is six? (Bonus 100 points if you can name every species.)
This site is home to several Jurassic giants, like Allosaurus fragilis and Camarasaurus supremus.
What is the Morrison Formation?
This animal is considered the largest ceratopsian and the mortal enemy of Tyrannosaurus rex.
What is Triceratops horridus?
These animals often used their headgear in intraspecific combat.
What are pachycephalosaurs? (Abelisaurs is also acceptable.)
This film brought about a franchise that is easily the most famous dinosaur film franchise in history.
What is Jurassic Park?
This specialized digit is a defining trait among dromaeosaurids.
What is a sickle claw?
This region of the Gobi is home to many exotic species, including the aptly-named Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis.
What is the Nemegt Formation?
These animals have about 500 to 1000 teeth on average. Famous representatives include Edmontosaurus annectens and Lambeosaurus lambei.
What are hadrosaurs?
Allosaurus used its upper jaw like this handheld weapon in a recently disproven theory.
What is a hatchet?
This dinosaur documentary was recently rebooted and is more scientifcally accurate than ever before.
What is Walking With Dinosaurs?
This Argentine carcharodontosaurid, known from highly fragmentary remains, is estimated to be the largest theropod to ever exist, with the highest estimates reaching 26 tons.
What is Laeviatanus imperator?
The longest theropod known to science can be found in this African formation.
What is the Bahariya Formation? (Kem Kem Beds is also acceptable.)
Stegosauria and Ankylosauria are both found in this clade.
What is Thyreophora?
Stegosaurus’s tail reached speeds this fast when swinging at an attacker.
What is 90 miles per hour?
In this classic based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, instead of T. rex, Allosaurus fragilis is the apex predator.
What is The Lost World?
These two clades are the primary divisions of Theropoda.
What are Ceratosauria and Tetanurae?
This Chinese formation is known for the large amount of feathered species, including Yutyrannus huali.
What is the Yixian Formation?
This herbivorous theropod is most likely the largest ornithomimosaur.
What is Deinocheirus mirificus?
This tactic is used by dromaeosaurids to hold down and attack prey.
What is the raptor prey restraint?
In this film, an evil scientist tries to decrease the human population by designing a pathogen that turns human fetuses into dinosaurs.
What is Carnosaur?