The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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50 free The Lost World: Jurassic Park trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park had an impossible act to follow. Steven Spielberg's 1997 sequel traded the wonder of the first film for something darker and faster: a second island where the dinosaurs live without fences, two rival expeditions, and a T. rex family that does not take kindly to visitors. This quiz covers the whole film: Ian Malcolm's reluctant return, Sarah Harding and the team's worst night in a research trailer, the hunters led by Roland Tembo, and the famous final act on the mainland. It also goes behind the scenes, with questions on the cast, the animatronic and digital creatures, the changes made to the source novel, the locations, the marketing blitz and the box-office records. Yes, the shouting Japanese businessman is in here too. The early questions are ones any fan of the films can answer; the later ones are for people who know which ideas were dropped from the script. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing more than when you arrived.
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Q 01Which city does the adult T. rex rampage through in The Lost World: Jurassic Park after its ship hits the docks?
San Diego
San Diego was a late change of plan: two months before filming, Steven Spielberg swapped a longer island ending for the city rampage.
Q 02A fleeing Japanese businessman's shouted line in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a joke about which movie monster?
Godzilla
Godzilla is the target: the man yells in Japanese about having fled Tokyo's monster troubles, a gag slipped in by the director and the screenwriter.
Q 03Which dinosaur's baby does Sarah Harding pet in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a species added by popular demand?
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus joined the script after a child's letter to the screenwriter asked for it. Full-size adults were built for the shoot but went unused in favor of digital ones.
Q 04Which 1997 film beat The Lost World: Jurassic Park to both the year's biggest gross and the Visual Effects Oscar?
Titanic
Titanic took both prizes, though The Lost World got in first with a record of its own: a $72.1 million opening weekend, the biggest up to that point.
Q 05Which actor returns as mathematician Ian Malcolm to lead the team in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum steps up to lead the cast, and his character only agrees to go because his girlfriend Sarah Harding is already on the island.
Q 06Which author wrote the 1995 novel behind The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the only sequel of his career?
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton had never written a follow-up and at first refused, until pressure from fans and the first film's success changed his mind.
Q 07In The Lost World: Jurassic Park's city rampage, a bus rammed by the T. rex crashes into which store?
Blockbuster Video
Blockbuster Video was a storefront built as a set, and sending the bus into it took pneumatics, cables, breakaway glass and charges.
Q 08What slips into Dr. Burke's shirt in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, panicking him out from behind a waterfall?
A snake
A snake does it: the milk snake startles him out of the hiding place, straight into the jaws of the dinosaur waiting outside.
Q 09Ian Malcolm's daughter kicks a predator through a window in The Lost World: Jurassic Park using which sport's skills?
Gymnastics
Gymnastics saves her father: she swings on a pipe to launch the kick, a moment that critics of the film often single out.
Q 10In the televised interview that ends The Lost World: Jurassic Park, John Hammond says Isla Sorna has become what?
A nature reserve
A nature reserve is the outcome, declared by the American and Costa Rican governments once the dinosaurs have been shipped home under Navy escort.
Q 11Which actress plays paleontologist Sarah Harding, Ian Malcolm's girlfriend, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore got the part because Steven Spielberg had admired her in The Fugitive and urged the screenwriter to write the role with her in mind.
Q 12Which actor, cast without a screen test, plays documentarian Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn won the role after Steven Spielberg watched an early cut of a low-budget comedy whose makers wanted permission to use music from Jaws.
Q 13Which actor reprises InGen founder John Hammond, ousted from his own company, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Richard Attenborough
Q 21Ian Malcolm, the reluctant hero of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, specializes in which branch of mathematics?
Chaos theory
Chaos theory makes him the story's resident doomsayer, and this time he returns to the dinosaurs only to bring his girlfriend home.
Q 22How do the T. rexes wreck the trailer after reclaiming their baby in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Push it over a cliff
They push it over a cliff with the heroes still inside, one of two ideas in the novel that Steven Spielberg liked and kept.
Q 23Which character stows away in the research trailer bound for Isla Sorna in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Kelly Curtis
Richard Attenborough committed early, saying in November 1994 that he would return, months before the sequel novel was even finished.
Q 14Which composer scored The Lost World: Jurassic Park while avoiding most of the first film's main themes?
John Williams
John Williams went for a more action-driven sound and earned a Grammy nomination, and Steven Spielberg rates the result above the original's music.
Q 15Isla Sorna, where InGen bred its dinosaurs in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, goes by which company code name?
Site B
Site B was the factory floor: the animals were cloned and raised there before being moved to the theme park, until a hurricane forced staff to abandon the island.
Q 16Which small dinosaurs attack a girl on the beach as The Lost World: Jurassic Park opens?
Compsognathus
Compsognathus got the scene from an unused chapter of the first novel, and effects supervisor Dennis Muren called the tiny animals the most complex digital dinosaur.
Q 17Which dinosaurs ambush the InGen team in a field of long grass in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Velociraptor
Velociraptor packs strike unseen, in real grass grown for months on eight acres because any stalks flattened during a take would not stand back up.
Q 18The executive who seizes InGen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is which relative of founder John Hammond?
His nephew
His nephew takes over by using the beach attack on a visiting family to turn the board against the founder, then plans to cash in on the surviving dinosaurs.
Q 19What injury do Sarah Harding and Nick Van Owen treat on the infant T. rex in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
A broken leg
A broken leg is set inside the research trailer, and the rescue backfires at once: both parents follow their baby's scent straight to the vehicle.
Q 20What on Sarah Harding's jacket leads the T. rexes to camp in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
The infant's blood
The infant's blood, left from treating the baby, gives the camp away, and the panic that follows drives the survivors into even worse danger.
Kelly Curtis blends two children from the novel into one, and was rewritten as the hero's daughter after a tutoring subplot was scrapped.
Q 24Which character becomes the infant T. rex's first kill in a ship's hold in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow goes after the baby himself and is caught by its father, a death borrowed from the fate of the novel's villain, Lewis Dodgson.
Q 25What does Nick Van Owen secretly take from hunter Roland Tembo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
His bullets
His bullets vanish so the male T. rex cannot be shot as a trophy, but the hunter simply brings the animal down with tranquilizers instead.
Q 26Which actor plays Roland Tembo, the big-game hunter after a T. rex trophy, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Pete Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite so impressed Steven Spielberg that the director later called him the best actor in the world.
Q 27The title The Lost World was borrowed in homage from a 1912 dinosaur adventure novel by which author?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle also inspired a plot trick: the sequel revives a hero declared dead in the first book, just as Sherlock Holmes was brought back.
Q 28After The Lost World: Jurassic Park opened, hackers swapped the T. rex on its website logo for which animal?
A duck
A duck took over the logo, and the title briefly became The Duck World: Jurassic Pond. The studio denied that the prank was a publicity stunt.
Q 29Which carmaker used a tie-in with The Lost World: Jurassic Park to launch a new sport utility vehicle?
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz put its new ML 320 on screen, copying the product placement that had made the Ford Explorer a star of the first film.
Q 30Which character is killed by both adult T. rexes while towing the trailer in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Eddie Carr
Eddie Carr nearly lived: Steven Spielberg liked him enough to consider sparing him, until the actor playing him argued that the death raised the stakes.