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Easy General Knowledge19

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Easy General Knowledge19 game quiz
"25 easy general knowledge questions which progressively increase in difficulty. Good luck and have fun."

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1. Which is the next colour in the order of colours in a spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue ... ?
    Grey
    Indigo
    Violet
    Ivory


2. The South American country of Colombia was named after which explorer?
    Amerigo Vespucci
    Captain James Cook
    Ferdinand Magellan
    Christopher Columbus


3. Which of the following chemical elements was named after a country?
    Polonium
    Neon
    Helium
    Europium


4. Which book features the house 'Toad Hall' and the characters 'Toad', 'Mole', 'Water Rat' and 'Badger'?
    Tarka the Otter
    Watership Down
    The Wind in the Willows
    The Water Babies


5. Which of the following is the INCORRECT statement about komodo dragons?
    They inhabit the island of Madagascar
    They are the world's heaviest living lizards
    They are good climbers and can climb trees
    Like all monitor lizards they are good swimmers


6. How many legs has a lobster got?
    12
    6
    10
    14


7. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the 'elephant bird'?
    It grew up to 4.5metres tall and weighed as much as an ox
    It was a flightless bird
    It laid eggs the size of soccer balls
    It lived on the Galapagos islands


8. Name the acid in the human stomach?
    Sulphuric acid
    Hydrochloric acid
    Acetic acid
    Nitric acid


9. Which French scientist was the first to realize that air is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?
    Louis Pasteur
    Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumiere
    Blaise Pascal
    Antoine Laurent Lavoisier


10. Alfred Butts of New England devised this game, originally called 'Criss-Cross', to amuse himself and it became one of the most successful board-games ever?
    Scrabble
    Monopoly
    Othello
    Backgammon


11. Which of the following creatures does NOT live on the sea bed?
    Stonefish
    Basking shark
    Carpet shark
    Nurse shark


12. Which of the following is the INCORRECT statement about the koala bear?
    They need to drink only about a pint of water a day
    They are a threatened species and are fully protected
    Koalas can sleep for 20 hours and eat the remaining 4 hours of the day
    The male koala has a bellowing call, heard several kilometres away


13. Who was the artist of the monumental (26 foot) mural of 'Guernica' who worked prolifically until his death at the age of 92.
    Pablo Picasso
    Salvador Dali
    Man Ray
    Marcel Duchamp


14. The 'Model T Ford' car earned its nickname 'Tin Lizzie' because of ... ?
    Its hammered by hand body-panels
    Its fragile-looking chassis
    Its 'coach built' appearance meaning individually built by hand
    Its manufacture using an alloy of tin


15. The 'Empire State Building' was completed in 1931, reaching a height of 1250 feet, but how many storeys did it have?
    122
    102
    82
    142


16. What is the biggest living reptile?
    Gharial
    Nile crocodile
    Saltwater crocodile
    Black caiman


17. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the 'roadrunner'?
    It is a member of the weaverbird family
    Its so named because of its habit of racing along roads in front of cars
    It can be found in desert scrub in Mexico and southwestern USA
    It chooses the road as its a source of injured animals


18. Which of the following is NOT a description of the word 'sidewinder'?
    Laughing very hearty and producing great mirth
    A term used in boxing for a heavy swinging blow from the side
    A rattlesnake that moves forwards by a sideways looping motion
    An air-to-air missile using infrared homing aids in seeking its target


19. The word 'dodo' for a tame flightless bird, was derived from the word 'doudo' meaning 'simpleton' in which language?
    Italian
    French
    Portuguese
    English


20. Which of the following is the INCORRECT statement about the duck-billed platypus?
    It catches frogs, fish, worms and insect grubs
    The male platypus has a poison spur hidden in its fur on each hind leg
    Each of its dives can last up to 10 minutes
    The female lays eggs, like a bird or reptile


21. Which famous scientist started work as an apprentice bookbinder but became an assistant to Humphrey Davy after taking brilliant notes at one of Davy's lectures
    Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
    Robert Boyle
    Michael Faraday
    Edmund Halley


22. How many of the following statements are CORRECT about the word garibaldi: (1) type of damselfish, (2) Italian patriot, (3) type of biscuit (4) a woman's loose blouse?
    All
    3
    2
    1


23. Which of the following facts is INCORRECT about Sir Isaac Newton?
    He married twice, both times to sisters
    He discovered that sunlight was a mixture of all colours via a spectrum
    He wrote the book 'The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'
    He invented a new branch of mathematics called calculus


24. Which country was a former Belgian colony and exports copper, cobalt, coffee, petroleum and is one of the world's leading industrial diamond producers?
    Congo
    Vietnam
    South Africa
    India


25. Here is the stinker! (well it is about paint) Who in 1508 was summoned to Rome by the pope to decorate the private Papal rooms of the Sistine Chapel while Michelangelo worked on the chapel ceiling?
    Raphael
    Donatello
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Titian


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