History & Myths quiz
10 Prehistoric Life Questions Only 1% Get Right!
Mammoths, giant sloths, saber-tooth cats and creatures so weird scientists drew them upside down. These 10 prehistoric questions start hard and get brutal. Play along, keep score and drop your result in the comments!
- 10 questions
- 2 min
- 4 Easy
- 3 Medium
- 3 Hard
10 Prehistoric Life Questions Only 1% Get Right!: questions and answers
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The giant ground sloth Megatherium was about the size of an... Horse · Elephant · Dog
Elephant – It could stand on its hind legs to reach tree tops.
Hundreds of saber-tooth cat fossils were found in tar pits in which city? Mexico City · Madrid · Los Angeles
Los Angeles – The La Brea Tar Pits are still being dug today.
The 375-million-year-old fossil Tiktaalik shows animals moving from... Water to land · Land to the sky · Rivers to the sea
Water to land
How much Neanderthal DNA do most people outside Africa carry? About 20% · About 1 to 2% · About 50%
About 1 to 2%
Paraceratherium, one of the largest land mammals ever, was a type of... Elephant · Giraffe · Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros – It was hornless and stood about 5 metres tall.
Meganeura, a giant prehistoric dragonfly relative, had a wingspan of up to... 70 cm · 7 cm · 7 metres
70 cm – Higher oxygen levels may have helped insects grow big.
The oldest known stone tools, found in Kenya, are about how old? 33,000 years · 330,000 years · 3.3 million years
3.3 million years
Woolly mammoths still lived on which island when the pyramids were built? Wrangel Island · Iceland · Madagascar
Wrangel Island – The last ones died out about 4,000 years ago.
The sail-backed Dimetrodon was more closely related to... Dinosaurs · Mammals · Crocodiles
Mammals
When scientists first drew the fossil Hallucigenia, what did they get wrong? Its colour · Its size · It was upside down
It was upside down – Its legs were drawn as spines and its spines as legs.