TREES
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
NOUNS THAT ARE ALSO COLOURS
TYPES OF FISH
LITERATURE
100

This tree produces acorns.

What is an oak?

100

This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.

What is a bat?

100

 This color is also the name of a fruit.

What is orange?

100

This fish can generate electricity to stun prey, although it isn't technically a true eel.

What is an electric eel?

100

Who wrote The Master and Margarita?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Mikhail Bulgakov
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky

B) Mikhail Bulgakov

200

This tree is famous for its white, peeling bark.

What is a birch?

200

In music, the term "forte" means this.

What is loud?

200

This color is also a precious metal.

What is gold?

200

This fish is known for its distinctive long, pointed snout and rows of teeth, and is related to the gar family.

What is a needlefish?

200

Who created Hercule Poirot?
A) Dorothy L. Sayers
B) Agatha Christie
C) Patricia Highsmith
D) Ngaio Marsh

B) Agatha Christie

300

Maple trees are famous for producing this sweet product.

What is maple syrup?

300

This blood type is commonly known as the universal red-cell donor type.

What is O negative?

300

This color is also a precious stone.

What is amber?

300

This Arctic fish is famous for its long, spiral tusk-like tooth.

What is a narwhal?

300

Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Émile Zola
D) Jules Verne

B) Alexandre Dumas

400

This tree is famous for its beautiful pink or white blossoms in spring.

What is a cherry tree?

400

This branch of mathematics deals with shapes, sizes and properties of space.

What is geometry?

400

This color is also a flower.

What is rose?

400

This flat-bodied fish is related to sharks and has wing-like pectoral fins.

What is a ray?

400

Which Shakespeare play features the character Prospero?
A) Macbeth
B) The Tempest
C) King Lea
D) Twelfth Night

B) The Tempest

500

This very tall tree is famous for growing in California and can live for thousands of years.

What is a redwood?

500

This ancient Greek physician is often called the "Father of Medicine."

Who is Hippocrates?

500

This color is also a type of berry.

What is raspberry?

500

This fish is famous for its enormous size and is one of the largest bony fish in the ocean.

What is the ocean sunfish?

500

Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) William Faulkner
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Ernest Hemingway