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"25 general knowledge questions which progressively increase in difficulty. Good luck and have fun."


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?
    Nostradamus
    Alexandre Dumas
    Quasimodo
    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?
    Equilateral
    Scalene
    Unilateral
    Isosceles


6. Which of the following countries is located in Africa?
    Surinam
    Burundi
    Bhutan
    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
    Moscow
    Dublin
    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?
    Deuteronomy
    Numbers
    Deuterium
    Acts


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


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?
    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?
    Sty
    Myth
    Gypsum
    Lymph


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


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


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 ?
    365
    240
    340
    265


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


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?
    Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (The Lonsdale Belt)
    Sir Charles Everest (Mount Everest)
    Alfred Sax (The Saxophone)
    Jean Nicotine (Nicotine)


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)


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