Easy General Knowledge27

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1. Which animal is named because it has a child-like face with large eyes and wails at night similar to a human baby crying? Bushbaby Baboon Howler monkey Orang-utan

2. Which colour is associated with all of the following: carnation, elephants, flamingo, panther, salmon, snooker ball? Pink White Red Black

3. Who was known as Michel de Nostredame? D'Artagnan Quasimodo Nostradamus Alexandre Dumas

4. What word links a spiral-horned antelope with a musical instrument? Impala Cymbal Bongo Dik-dik

5. Which of the following is not a mathematical term? Unilateral Isosceles Scalene Equilateral

6. Which of the following countries is located in Africa? Burundi Bhutan Surinam Vanuatu

7. Which television show features the character Shirley Brahms? Are You Being Served? Coronation Street It Ain't Half Hot, Mum Fawlty Towers

8. In which city would you find Sculptures Park, Gorky Park and Lenin's tomb? London Berlin Dublin Moscow

9. Name the boat in Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick'? The Pequot The Pequod The Pequin The Paquin

10. Which is the CORRECT title of a novel by J.M. Barrie? Dear Brutus Hey Jude Dear Prudence Hail Caesar

11. The fifth book of the Bible is? Acts Deuterium Deuteronomy Numbers

12. Which former President of the United States of America has the same name as a city of England? Washington Lincoln Cleveland Ford

13. Azoth is the alchemical name for which element? Silver Antimony Gold Mercury

14. The title of a William Claude Dukinfield (W.C. Fields) movie featured which bird? Sparrow Chickadee Goose Lyrebird

15. By way of word formation, which of the following is the odd word out: gypsy, gypsum, myth, myrrh, lymph, sylph, sty, why? Myth Sty Lymph Gypsum

16. Name the hybrid produced by crossing only a tangerine tree with a grapefruit tree? Ugli fruit Tangelo Clementine Pomegranate

17. Who has tattoos of an angel on his back, his wife's name in Hindi and a number seven in Roman numerals? Robbie Williams David Beckham Ozzie Osborne Vinnie Jones

18. Name the bird which has distinctive red legs and a red beak which lives in rocky mountainous areas along remote coasts of Europe? Frigate bird Ruff Albatross Chough

19. Which television programme was filmed at Waratah Park near Sydney, Australia? Skippy The Bush Kangaroo Lassie Flipper Champion The Wonder Horse

20. Which number comes next in the sequence: 1,2,5,14,41,122 ? 265 340 365 240

21. Name the connection of all the forenames of the following people: Carson, Graham, Lake, Murdoch, Potter, Savage, Valance? Colours Plants Parts of the human body Geographical features

22. Who said, "Words are, of course, the most powerful drugs used by mankind"? Oscar Wilde Rudyard Kipling Dr Samuel Johnson Charles Dickens

23. These four answers couple a person with a thing or place. Which one of these people gave their name to that which is named afterwards? Jean Nicotine (Nicotine) Alfred Sax (The Saxophone) Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (The Lonsdale Belt) Sir Charles Everest (Mount Everest)

24. What featured on the first British Christmas card? People sleeping People drinking Father Christmas A Nativity Scene

25. Name an everyday used word that ends in the last two letters of -mt? Answer: (6 letters)