Dinosaurs: Giants of the Past!

#35 Week 8

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
February 18, 2025

Uncover names, facts and history behind the mighty creatures of the prehistoric world!

  1. What does dinosaur mean literally?

  2. What do we call the three eras in which the dinosaurs lived?

  3. What is the name of the dinosaur with plates on its back and spikes on its tail?

  4. Which dinosaur's name means ”tyrant lizard king"?

  5. What is the name of the largest carnivorous dinosaur?

  6. What do you call a scientist who studies dinosaurs?

  7. Which dinosaur’s name means "fast thief"?

  8. Diplodocus was a genus of sauropod ("long-necked") dinosaurs. Diplodocus are some of the longest dinosaurs of which traces have been found. But approximately, how long could they become?

  9. We often think of this creature as a flying dinosaur, though it is a reptile. Which creature is this?

  10. How many million years ago did the last dinosaurs die out?

The Wonder Wall

  • The longest dinosaur was Argentinosaurus, which measured over 40 metres, as long as four fire engines. It was part of the titanosaur group of dinosaurs. Its remains have been found in Argentina, South America.

  • Dinosaur eggs come in all shapes and sizes. They tend to be ovoid or spherical in shape and up to 30cm in length - about the size of a rugby ball. The smallest dinosaur egg so far found is only 3cm long. Once the egg has been fossilised it will become hard like rock, but it will retain a structure of its own.

  • At present over 700 different species of dinosaurs have been identified and named. However scientists (in question 6) believe that there are many more new and different dinosaur species still to be discovered.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. “Veni, vidi, vici”, or in English: “I came, I saw, I conquered”, is popularly attributed to whom?

    Julius Caesar who, according to Appian, used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate around 47 BC after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela (modern-day Zile, Turkey).

  2. Who said this famous line: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”?

    John F. Kennedy. JFK delivered this line during his inaugural address as the 35th U.S. president. Although he had won the 1960 presidential election by one of the slimmest margins in history, 72 percent of Americans expressed approval of Kennedy after the speech.

  3. Who said this hitting line: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”?

    Muhammad Ali’s outspoken cornerman Drew (“Bundini”) Brown came up with this iconic line, which the boxer (then Cassius Clay) used before besting the reigning heavyweight champ, Sonny Liston.

  4. “In politics; if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman”, are the words of whom?

    Margaret Thatcher in People (New York) 15 September 1975.

  5. What was said was: “The report of my death was an exaggeration”, though it´s often misstated as “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. But who said it?

    Mark Twain made this quip in response to an 1897 newspaper report that mistook him for a seriously ill and similarly named cousin.

  6. The Bhagavadgita is one of the most widely read and respected sacred scriptures in Hinduism. From this text, we find the sentence that is commonly translated as “I am Time, the mighty destroyer of the worlds.” Who said a similar line with Bhagavadgita in mind “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”?

    Seeing the first atomic bomb detonated, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had overseen its development, recalled this line.

  7. Many people have said the sentence: “What does not kill me makes me stronger”, but who came up with it, in 1888?

    Friedrich Nietzsche came up with this aphorism for his 1888 book Twilight of the Idols.

  8. Who said these words: “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right”?

    Those were the words of Rosa Parks.

  9. Who said this line: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?

    Standing on the Capitol steps of the United States of America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered these words on March 4, 1933, during his inaugural speech.

  10. “Cogito, ergo sum” in Latin, “je pense, donc je suis” in French or "I think, therefore I am" in English, who´s words are these?

    These words are the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy.