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? Black Red Pink White

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

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? Scalene Equilateral Isosceles Unilateral

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

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

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

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

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? Antimony Silver Mercury Gold

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

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

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

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 Vinnie Jones Ozzie Osborne David Beckham

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

19. Which television programme was filmed at Waratah Park near Sydney, Australia? Flipper Skippy The Bush Kangaroo Lassie 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 Geographical features Parts of the human body Plants

22. Who said, "Words are, of course, the most powerful drugs used by mankind"? Rudyard Kipling Dr Samuel Johnson Oscar Wilde 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? Alfred Sax (The Saxophone) Jean Nicotine (Nicotine) Sir Charles Everest (Mount Everest) Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (The Lonsdale Belt)

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

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