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?