What is Borealopelta?

An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur

Royal Tyrrell Museum Quiz: Drumheller Dinosaur Fossils

This Royal Tyrrell Museum quiz walks the fossil halls in the Alberta badlands near Drumheller. Play 10 interactive questions on its 1985 opening, Joseph Burr Tyrrell's 1884 find, the Albertosaurus, the royal title, Borealopelta the armored dinosaur, the visible preparation lab, the Burgess Shale, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Drumheller's giant T. rex statue.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Town
Near which town is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?
Province
Which province is it in?
Open
When did the museum open?
Name
Who is the museum named after?
Find
What did Tyrrell find in 1884?
Royal
Who granted the museum its royal title?
Nodosaur
What is Borealopelta?
Lab
What can visitors watch through windows?
Park
Which UNESCO park nearby is rich in dinosaur bones?
Statue
What giant figure stands in Drumheller?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Near which town is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?
Answer: Drumheller
It sits in the badlands.
Q2: Which province is it in?
Answer: Alberta
Its badlands are rich in fossils.
Q3: When did the museum open?
Answer: 1985
It quickly became famous.
Q4: Who is the museum named after?
Answer: Joseph Burr Tyrrell
He was a geologist.
Q5: What did Tyrrell find in 1884?
Answer: An Albertosaurus skull
He was surveying for coal.
Q6: Who granted the museum its royal title?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II
It was added in 1990.
Q7: What is Borealopelta?
Answer: An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur
Miners found it in 2011.
Q8: What can visitors watch through windows?
Answer: Technicians preparing fossils
It is called the preparation lab.
Q9: Which UNESCO park nearby is rich in dinosaur bones?
Answer: Dinosaur Provincial Park
The museum runs a field station there.
Q10: What giant figure stands in Drumheller?
Answer: A huge T. rex statue
Visitors climb inside its mouth.

Dinosaur Fossils in the Alberta Badlands

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology opened in 1985 near Drumheller, in the badlands of Alberta. It is named after geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell, who found an Albertosaurus skull in the area in 1884 while surveying for coal. Queen Elizabeth II granted the royal title in 1990.

Its galleries hold one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur fossils. A star is Borealopelta, an armored nodosaur found by miners in 2011 and so well preserved that it looks like a sleeping statue. Visitors can watch technicians clean bones through the windows of the preparation lab.

Displays also include fossils from the Burgess Shale, showing strange sea creatures from over 500 million years ago. The museum runs a field station at Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO site, and in Drumheller visitors climb a giant T. rex statue for views over the valley.

What This Quiz Teaches

Dinosaur fans will enjoy these questions.

Where the museum is
Who it is named after
Which fossils it displays
How fossils are prepared
What else is nearby

Did You Know?

The museum welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
Summer programs let visitors dig for fossils.
Horseshoe Canyon is a scenic stop nearby.
Hoodoos stand along the valley roads.
New species are still described from Alberta finds.