🦖 Roar into a dinosaur trivia battle! In this prehistoric showdown, kids and parents test their knowledge of famous dinosaurs, time periods, and fascinating facts from millions of years ago. From T-Rex to stegosaurus, Who’ll rule the trivia era and claim the win? 🦕🦣

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Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media

Producer: Steve Koch

Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch

Cover Design: Patrick Hardy

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome to Kids vs Parents

01:09 Kids' Questions

05:41 Parents' Questions

10:31 Bonus / Tiebreaker

11:46 Suggest a Topic

Quick question to start us off. What dinosaur is known as the king of dinosaurs?

Oh, that's got to be the Tyrannosaurus Rex or the T-Rex.

Correct.

Welcome to Kids vs. Parents. I'm Lovella.

And I'm Steve.

This is the family trivia battle where the backseat takes on the front seat.

And today we're playing dinosaur trivia.

Suggested by Krista and Ramona in Seattle, Washington.

Ella and Finley from Virginia

and Pierce from Dublin, Ireland.

Thank you.

Yes.

From all over the world.

Okay, Dad.

So what are we playing for today?

Today's prize is the last slice of pizza left over at the end of Pizza Night.

Ooh, yum.

You know how there's always one piece of pizza left over?

Yeah, I feel that.

Well, the winner of this gets to eat it.

Nice.

Nice.

All right, so next time you have Pizza Night.

All right, who's going to go first in Dinosaur Trivial, Lovella?

How about the kids?

Kids?

You think you know your dinosaurs?

Yeah.

Yeah?

All right.

Well, actually, not me.

But I'm sure all the other kids do.

You think all the other kids know your dinosaurs?

Yeah, I'm sure.

All right.

Kids, you're up first.

Question number one.

What do we call scientists who study dinosaurs?

Oh, boy.

Dinosaur studiers?

Nope.

There's a special name for them.

Do I know this?

I should know.

You will know it when I say it.

I'm pretty sure you will have heard it.

Oh, dang it.

If you don't know it now, though.

Oh, man.

Not that you've ever watched Friends, but Ross from Friends.

This was his occupation.

Oh.

Giving a hint to the adults in case they don't know what the answer is.

I don't know.

I'm not going to get there.

Dinosaur scientist?

Yeah.

I'm not going to get it.

Okay.

It is a paleontologist.

Have you heard of that before?

Probably, but I would have never guessed that.

No, you would have never guessed it.

But I'm wondering if you've heard of it before.

Maybe.

Does it sound familiar?

I'm not that interested in dinosaurs.

Right.

But.

So you'll never be a paleontologist?

No.

Okay.

I'm sure there are a lot of kids who love dinosaurs that are very excited to one day be a paleontologist.

Yes.

And good for you kids.

Yeah.

All right, question number two.

What does the word herbivore mean?

Oh, it means, well, I think a carnivore is a dinosaur that only eats like meats and stuff.

A herbivore is a dinosaur that I think only eats plants because herb, yeah, it's a dinosaur

that only eats plants.

Yeah?

I think so.

You are correct.

Yes.

Carnivore only eats meats.

Herbivore means plant eater.

There you go.

All right.

Question number three.

What small, fast dinosaur is often shown hunting in packs?

cool wait what say it again what small fast dinosaur is often shown hunting in packs

um i want to say it's a flying dinosaur or something no no hunting in packs so it means

on the ground hunting in a group.

Oh my goodness.

Jeez.

We're really seeing that you don't know much about dinosaurs, aren't we?

No, I know nothing.

This is like, I don't know anything, guys.

I'm so sorry.

That's okay.

Everyone in the car is probably yelling at you right now.

Just yelling at the speakers, yelling at the room.

So there's a T-Rex.

Yeah.

It's like a little mini T-Rex almost.

That doesn't make things easy.

It's like a small version of the T-Rex.

I know that there's a stegosaurus or something, but I don't think that's it.

Do you want to have a guess?

No, I'm not going to get there.

I'm not going to get there.

It is a raptor.

Oh, yeah.

You know the raptors?

I've heard of those.

Yeah, you've heard of those.

I thought those were the flying ones.

No, you're thinking of like a pterodactyl.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Last question, Lovella.

What event is believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs?

I think

Like nobody really knows for sure for sure

But all the scientists who have done research

Wasn't it?

They believe that this is what happened to them

Wasn't it like a meteor or something?

Like the rock that comes down from space on fire

and then the rock that comes down from space.

I think it's a meteor, right?

I will give you a meteor.

That is correct.

What is it?

Asteroid impact meteor, same thing.

Okay, cool.

Okay.

So I got it?

They're probably not exactly the same thing,

but someone's going to write in to me and say,

they're not exactly the same thing.

But I'll accept both.

Okay, cool.

So I got it?

You got one right.

Okay.

Well done.

Yay.

Okay, so quick score check, Lovella.

What do you want?

Two out of four.

Two out of four.

All right.

That's all right.

That's an average effort.

Yeah.

Well done.

All right.

We're going

parents. All right. Here you go, parents. Question number one. What does the word dinosaur mean in

Greek? Oh, okay. Wait, I think I know this. I didn't know it was Greek, but I

think it's something lizard. It is, is it a scary lizard or terrible lizard? Terrible lizard,

I think it is. You're correct. All right. Nice. Nice. Interesting. I wouldn't think of that being

the Greek word for dinosaur. Yeah. I wonder if the Greeks are the first people who found dinosaurs

and that's why they named it that. I don't know. Who knows? Okay. All right. Next question.

What type of diet did the dinosaur Stegosaurus have?

Okay.

So Stegosaurus is, it's a herbivore.

Correct.

Yes.

Man, I got to give you a hard one.

Yeah.

All right.

You do.

All right. Question number three. What is the name of the three main dinosaur time periods?

Oh, okay. You really wanted to go hard, didn't you?

Oh, yeah.

Okay. Say it again. Three.

What is the name of the three main dinosaur time periods?

Okay. This is a really hard one. Well, kind of. I know one of them is Jurassic, only because of Jurassic Park.

So Jurassic is one.

Something starting with C.

It is like croutons?

Cretaceous?

Cretaceous?

Oh, man.

I don't really know this.

It's been a long time.

Dad, you should.

You were literally born in this time period.

That is harsh.

That is harsh and not true.

Okay, is it the 80s then?

Jurassic in the 80s?

Is that your actual?

No, that's not my answer.

Jurassic, I don't think I'm going to know all three.

Jurassic, I think it's crutaceous or something.

I don't know.

And the third one I don't know at all.

So I'm going to say no, I don't know the three.

So you did get Jurassic, right?

Yeah.

The three were Triassic, Jurassic.

and Cretaceous.

That's what I was trying to say.

So I think I got that one.

I got there.

It's like crouton,

Cretaceous.

You still didn't get it right.

You didn't get them all.

I didn't get it three.

I got two out of three.

You're tied with me

two out of three so far.

Okay.

All right.

Give me another question.

Okay.

Question number four.

What modern group of animals

are considered

the closest living relatives

of dinosaurs?

oh that's a great question um okay i don't think i know the answer to this but i'm gonna have to do

some reasoning here. Well, dinosaurs are reptiles. So could it be snakes? Or could it be crocodiles?

Maybe it's crocodiles. I think I've also heard that birds are another option for, I think people

have said that birds are the closest living relatives. No, I think crocodiles. Only because

I feel like I've heard Steve Irwin say that crocodiles are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs.

They're like modern dinosaurs.

So I'm going to go with crocodiles.

You are incorrect.

Oh, was it birds?

Yeah.

I should have gone with my gut.

Well, you didn't.

I didn't.

I went with Steve Irwin.

Okay.

All right.

So score check.

What are we on?

Two out of four.

Two for you.

I'm on two out of four as well.

So we...

We're going to a bonus tiebreaker.

Excellent.

How this works, if it's a tie in your car, you can use this as a tiebreaker or you can

use it as a bonus question.

It will be worth...

Two points.

That's right.

How it works is first team to buzz in gets the two points.

If you buzz in incorrectly, though, you're out.

Ooh.

Ooh.

You lose the points and they go to the other team.

So, you got to know the answer.

All right.

Bonus or tiebreaker question.

Which dinosaur is known for having a spiky tail?

Oh.

Buzz?

I think I'm going to buzz in.

Okay.

Um, I'm not sure exactly.

I know which one they're talking about.

I just don't know.

You said it earlier.

I'm going to go with the stegosaurus because I think that is right.

I don't know the answer.

Lovella, do you have the answer?

Yep.

What is it?

A stegosaurus.

Yay.

I win.

I understand why you got that right.

I mean, you grew up with them.

I'm sure you had one as a pet, you know?

Like, okay, guys, my dad is so old.

His childhood photos are cave paintings.

Oh, gee, this is harsh.

All right.

That's it.

We're moving on.

Well done to the parents in this car anyway.

Well done to the parents.

We win.

That means I get the last slice of pizza.

Too bad, Dad.

I already ate it.

Oh.

All right.

Well, thank you for playing Kids vs. Parents today.

If you would like to suggest a topic, click the link in the show notes.

We love your suggestions, so leave them in there

and we might get to your episode in the future.

Thank you for joining us.

We hope you learned a little bit about dinosaurs

and also had some fun while doing it.

Yeah.

Thanks for playing.

Bye.

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