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Quiz about The Lost World
Quiz about The Lost World

The Lost World Trivia Quiz


Years before "Jurassic Park", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote an adventure of the discovery of the lost world that featured dinosaurs. This is a quiz about the adventures of Challenger and his team. Contains spoilers !

A multiple-choice quiz by deepakmr. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
deepakmr
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
279,410
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
500
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 193 (9/15), Guest 24 (9/15), blackandgreen (7/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. What happens when Malone goes to interview Professor Challenger? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Who among the following was NOT a part of the expedition to the Lost World? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. What is the hero Malone's full name? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Why does Challenger believe that dinosaurs still exist in a Lost World? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Professor Challenger gives an envelope to be opened at Manaos on 15th July at 12 o'clock. What does the envelope contain? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Which is the first dinosaur seen by the adventurers? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Why does Gomez destroy the tree bridge after the adventurers cross over to the Lost World? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Which dinosaur looked like a monstrous kangaroo and had skin like a black crocodile? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. What happens to the two professors by the time Malone returns from his adventure? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. How do the explorers finally escape from the Lost World? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What does John Roxton carry back with him from the Lost World? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Michael Crichton also wrote a book titled 'The Lost World' that featured dinosaurs. Which among the following is the only dinosaur common to both Crichton's and Doyle's book? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Who is the scientist who refuses to believe the explorers' story of the lost world? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. At the end of the story, Malone wins the affections of Gladys and marries her.


Question 15 of 15
15. Lord Roxton informs the rest of the explorers that each of them will get fifty thousand pounds as he (Roxton) made a profit of 200,000 pounds from the adventure. How did Roxton earn this money? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What happens when Malone goes to interview Professor Challenger?

Answer: They end up on the streets after a fight

Professor Challenger, the nemesis of many a journalist, realises that he has been tricked by Malone and assaults him and both do a Catherine wheel of somersaults ending up on the streets. Malone refuses to press charges after which the Professor invites him back.
2. Who among the following was NOT a part of the expedition to the Lost World?

Answer: Waldron

Waldron was the speaker whose talk is interrupted by Challenger, who then informs the audience of the Lost World. A team is then constituted to test the veracity of Challenger's claims. The team comprises Professor Summerlee, Malone and Lord John Roxton.
3. What is the hero Malone's full name?

Answer: Edward Malone

Edward Dunn Malone is a journalist at the 'Daily Gazette' and joins the expedition to participate in an adventure so that he can win the affections of fair Gladys.
4. Why does Challenger believe that dinosaurs still exist in a Lost World?

Answer: Because the lost world is in an isolated area where the laws of nature don't apply

Professor Challenger believed that an area the size of Sussex was lifted by a volcanic upheaval and cut off by perpendicular precipices of a hardness that defies erosion from the rest of the continent. This, he believed was an isolated area where the laws of nature were suspended.
5. Professor Challenger gives an envelope to be opened at Manaos on 15th July at 12 o'clock. What does the envelope contain?

Answer: A blank sheet

Challenger had given an envelope with a blank sheet of paper with nothing printed on it. It was his intention to reach them before the envelope is opened, so that he can personally take them to the Lost World.
6. Which is the first dinosaur seen by the adventurers?

Answer: Pterodactyl

Challenger spots a pterodactyl, which is the first dinosaur to be seen by the adventurers. However Summerlee refuses to accept Challenger's claim and says that it must be a stork! Later they see another pterodactyl at close view and Summerlee apologises to Challenger.
7. Why does Gomez destroy the tree bridge after the adventurers cross over to the Lost World?

Answer: Because Lord Roxton had killed his brother

Gomez brings down the tree bridge, trapping the explorers in the lost world. This was because Lord John Roxton had killed his brother Lopez. For doing this, Gomez pays with his life as he is shot dead by Roxton.
8. Which dinosaur looked like a monstrous kangaroo and had skin like a black crocodile?

Answer: Iguanodon

The explorers come across a herd of iguanodons - huge dinosaurs twenty feet in height which looked like monstrous kangaroos and had skins like black crocodiles.
9. What happens to the two professors by the time Malone returns from his adventure?

Answer: They are kidnapped by ape men

When Malone returns to Fort Challenger, he finds the camp in a mess and meets Lord Roxton, who informs him that a horde of apes attacked the camp and took away the two professors.
10. How do the explorers finally escape from the Lost World?

Answer: They find a cave with an opening to the outside world

The explorers find a map of the cave openings and realise that there is an opening to the outside world and escape through the caves.
11. What does John Roxton carry back with him from the Lost World?

Answer: A pterodactyl

Lord Roxton realises that to convince the outside world, a living sample needs to be taken back to civilization. He traps a pterodactyl and carries it in a box back to civilization.
12. Michael Crichton also wrote a book titled 'The Lost World' that featured dinosaurs. Which among the following is the only dinosaur common to both Crichton's and Doyle's book?

Answer: Stegosaurus

The Stegosaurus is the only dinosaur which is featured in both Doyle's and Crichton's 'Lost World'. The Pterodactyl and Iguanodon are found only in Doyle's book and the Tyrannosaurus features in Crichton's book. The pterodactyl is present in Crichton's 'Jurassic Park' but not in the 'Lost World'.

In Crichton's 'Lost World', there is a trailer named 'Challenger trailer', this is probably Crichton's way of paying a tribute to Doyle's 'Lost World'. Also, in the movie version of 'Lost World', there is a scene of a dinosaur escaping in a city.

This scene was not present in the novel. This again is probably Spielberg and Crichton's tribute to Doyle, as Doyle's 'Lost World' features a pterodactyl that escaped in London.
13. Who is the scientist who refuses to believe the explorers' story of the lost world?

Answer: Dr. Illingworth

It is Dr. Illingworth (who is disliked by both Professor Summerlee and Professor Challenger), who refuses to believe the explorers' story. When Challenger brings out the captured Pterodactyl, the entire audience is stunned.
14. At the end of the story, Malone wins the affections of Gladys and marries her.

Answer: False

False, Gladys is already married to a humble solicitor's clerk by the time Malone returns! (In a later Challenger adventure, Malone marries Challenger's daughter).
15. Lord Roxton informs the rest of the explorers that each of them will get fifty thousand pounds as he (Roxton) made a profit of 200,000 pounds from the adventure. How did Roxton earn this money?

Answer: By selling diamonds that he found in the Lost World

Lord Roxton finds volcanic vent of blue clay in the pterodactyl swamp. He finds stones which he realises to be diamonds. He brings back the diamonds and they are valued at two hundred thousand pounds, which he says would be equally split among all the team members.
Source: Author deepakmr

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