The Lost World Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.