How many questions are in this quiz?

This quiz has 101 questions focused on famous dinosaurs, their teeth, and what those teeth suggest about diet.

What’s the format of the quiz?

Each question is multiple-choice with 4 options, and there is no timer so you can think through the tooth and diet clues.

Is the difficulty beginner-friendly?

It’s mixed difficulty, combining well-known dinosaurs with tougher comparisons where similar tooth shapes can mislead.

Can I choose the number of questions and difficulty?

Yes. You can pick your question count before starting and adjust the difficulty to make the run easier or more challenging.

What skills does this quiz help me practice?

You’ll practice linking tooth shape and jaw function to feeding style, helping you infer whether a dinosaur was likely a carnivore, herbivore, or something in between.

Online Quiz: Famous dinos by diet & teeth

About this quiz

What you’ll practice

Teeth are some of the best diet clues fossils preserve, and this quiz turns those clues into quick identifications. You’ll connect tooth shape, jaw mechanics, and feeding style to well-known dinosaur names.

Each question uses 4 options and there’s no timer, so you can slow down and reason it out rather than rush.

Difficulty and choosing your setup

Difficulty is mixed on purpose: familiar icons appear alongside less obvious cases where teeth don’t match the “movie version” of a dinosaur. Before you start, choose how many questions you want to play and select an easier or harder difficulty to fit your mood.

Common pitfalls to avoid

Many players over-rely on size or fame instead of dental features, which leads to confident wrong picks. Watch for convergent tooth shapes—different groups can evolve similar tools for similar foods.

Mixing up serrated slicing teeth (flesh) with peg-like teeth (grabbing) and grinding batteries (plants)
Assuming every big theropod had the same bite style
Forgetting that some herbivores had sharp beaks and shearing edges, not “flat cow teeth”
Ignoring jaw depth and muscle attachment clues that hint at bite force
Falling for name recognition when the tooth description points elsewhere