Numbers Quiz #1

Numbers Quiz #1

Questions

1. 'The curse of Scotland' diamonds playing card?
2. Diez, Tio, Zehn, and Zece (in Spanish, Swedish, German and Romanian)?
3. British orbital motorway featuring the Dartford Crossing is the M-what?
4. Basic parts of the Chinese Taijitu symbol (related to Taoism philosphy and popular interpretations of yin and yang)?
5. The Boeing Superfortress B-'what'-type of American aircraft that dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
6. The dog Timmy made how many in Enid Blyton's 'Famous...' series of children's adventure books?
7. Yards in a chain?
8. Red balls on a snooker table at the start of a frame (traditional full game version)?
9. Considered unlucky in Italy, probably because its Roman numerals are an anagram of a Latin word which can mean loosely 'I have lived', implying 'I am dead' ?
10. Legs of the largest group of species on earth?
11. Traditionally (UK/US) the years of a pearl wedding anniversay?
12. The average age of a US combat soldier in the Vietnam war (also a 1985 Paul Hardcastle No1 hit song)?
13. A Nebuchadnezzar wine/champagne bottle equates to how many normal bottles?
14. A bronze desk (anagram)?
15. The age that Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Kobain all died?
16. Holes in a standard round of golf?
17. Old Chinese method of counting on one hand, up to this number, using the thumb to touch the tip and three joints of each finger?
18. American Presidents assassinated in office?
19. "The Lord is My Shepherd..." psalm number?
20. The first Apollo moon landing?
21. The number followed by .14159, fully known as pi, used to calculate the circumference and area of a circle?
22. Whole miles in a marathon running event?
23. Lines traditionally in a sonnet?
24. Days of the average human menstrual cycle?
25. Total of the sides on a pentagon and a heptagon?
26. Square root of 576?
27. Total dots on a die?
28. Greek 'monos'?
29. The MS Windows computer operating system version that succeeded Vista?

1. 'The curse of Scotland' diamonds playing card?

   9 (9 of diamonds is linked with various Scottish stories of kings and battles, etc)
2. Diez, Tio, Zehn, and Zece (in Spanish, Swedish, German and Romanian)?

   10
3. British orbital motorway featuring the Dartford Crossing is the M-what?

   25 (M25)
4. Basic parts of the Chinese Taijitu symbol (related to Taoism philosphy and popular interpretations of yin and yang)?

   2
5. The Boeing Superfortress B-'what'-type of American aircraft that dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?

   29 (B-29)
6. The dog Timmy made how many in Enid Blyton's 'Famous...' series of children's adventure books?

   5 (Timmy plus Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina, or 'George')
7. Yards in a chain?

   22
8. Red balls on a snooker table at the start of a frame (traditional full game version)?

   15
9. Considered unlucky in Italy, probably because its Roman numerals are an anagram of a Latin word which can mean loosely 'I have lived', implying 'I am dead' ?

   17 (Roman numerals XVII are an anagram of Vixi, which while the strict Latin translation is 'to live', it can be interpreted to mean 'I have lived', and therefore implies a meaning of 'I am dead' - some Italian hotels have no floor 17 and room number 17, and Italian airlines do not always have plane seats numbered 17)
10. Legs of the largest group of species on earth?

    6 (insects)
11. Traditionally (UK/US) the years of a pearl wedding anniversay?

    30
12. The average age of a US combat soldier in the Vietnam war (also a 1985 Paul Hardcastle No1 hit song)?

    19
13. A Nebuchadnezzar wine/champagne bottle equates to how many normal bottles?

    20
14. A bronze desk (anagram)?

    13 (bakers dozen)
15. The age that Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Kobain all died?

    27
16. Holes in a standard round of golf?

    18
17. Old Chinese method of counting on one hand, up to this number, using the thumb to touch the tip and three joints of each finger?

    16 (two hands enables counting to 32, for which western methods would require removal of shoes and socks..)
18. American Presidents assassinated in office?

    4 (Abraham Lincoln (killed by John Wilkes Booth in 1865); James Garfield (by Charles J Guiteau, 1881); William McKinley (by Leon Czolgosz, 1901); and John F Kennedy (by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963)
19. "The Lord is My Shepherd..." psalm number?

    23
20. The first Apollo moon landing?

    11 (Apollo 11)
21. The number followed by .14159, fully known as pi, used to calculate the circumference and area of a circle?

    3 (14159, rounded to five decimal places - pi is an abbreviation of the Greek word for perimeter, which begins with the Greek letter p, equating to p)
22. Whole miles in a marathon running event?

    26 (26 miles and 385 yards)
23. Lines traditionally in a sonnet?

    14
24. Days of the average human menstrual cycle?

    28
25. Total of the sides on a pentagon and a heptagon?

    12 (pentagon 5, heptagon 7, also called a septagon)
26. Square root of 576?

    24
27. Total dots on a die?

    21 (die is the singular of dice)
28. Greek 'monos'?

    1 (from which we have the word/prefix mono, meaning one)
29. The MS Windows computer operating system version that succeeded Vista?

    7(Windows 7)