Numbers Quiz 2

Questions

1. New York City comprises how many boroughs?

   1. 5
   2. 6
   3. 7
   4. 12

2. What is the only number known to be both the sum and product of its factors?

   1. 4
   2. 6
   3. 8
   4. 9 (loose meanings are: factor = divisable part
   5. sum = added together
   6. product = multiplied together)

3. In which year were Concorde planes retired from service?

   1. 1998
   2. 2000
   3. 2003
   4. 2006

4. The core rules of the Muslim faith are known as the "... (how many) Pillars of Islam"?

   1. 5
   2. 7
   3. 9
   4. 23

5. How many fences (not the number of times they are jumped) are on the Aintree Grand National race course?

6. How many rooms are on the Cluedo game board?

   1. 8
   2. 9
   3. 10
   4. 12

7. How many feet are in a furlong?

   1. 440
   2. 550
   3. 660
   4. 770

8. How many goals were scored in the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

   1. 75
   2. 145
   3. 185
   4. 255

9. How many legs (including arms or pincers according to certain definitions) does a crab have?

   1. 6
   2. 8
   3. 10
   4. 12

10. Twain is an old English word for which number?

    1. 2
    2. 3
    3. 12
    4. 20

11. It is now generally accepted that the human tongue can detect how many basic tastes?

    1. 2
    2. 3
    3. 5
    4. 7

12. The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, USA, said to be the highest-occupancy office building in the world accommodates roughly how many staff?

    1. 9,000
    2. 15,000
    3. 19,000
    4. 26,000

13. What is known as the 'Golden Number', the 'Divine Proportion' and other terms referring to its significance in nature and aesthetic balance?

    1. 618
    2. 142
    3. 7
    4. 33⅓

14. What is the atomic number of oxygen?

    1. 1
    2. 8
    3. 35
    4. 86

15. The Earth's Equator is approximately how many millions of metres in length?

    1. 10
    2. 20
    3. 30 or 40

16. How many presidents of France had there been as at 2010?

17. A peculiar frequency of roughly how many years saw US presidents dying in office (either assassinated or otherwise) from the 1840s to the 1960s?

    1. 10
    2. 20
    3. 30
    4. 50

18. What number Pennsylvania Avenue is the Whitehouse?

    1. 501
    2. 1500
    3. 1600
    4. 65000

19. In the Imperial Measurement system how many pounds are in a stone?

    1. 10
    2. 14
    3. 16
    4. 20

20. How many people (as at 2010) have walked on the moon?

    1. 6
    2. 9
    3. 12
    4. 14

21. In the conventional western musical scale there are how many notes including sharps and flats, excluding those which repeat in a different octave?

    1. 7
    2. 8
    3. 12
    4. 13

22. How many players are (on the field) in a men's lacrosse team (one team not both teams)?

    1. 7
    2. 10
    3. 11
    4. 13

23. How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse feature in the Bible's Book of Revelation?

    1. 3
    2. 4
    3. 5
    4. 10,000

24. How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of chess?

    1. 28
    2. 32
    3. 36
    4. 40

25. How many pennies were in a British pre-decimal pound?

26. According to the singer Katie Melua, how many million bicycles are there in Beijing?

27. A salmanazar (typically a big bottle of champagne) equates to how many normal bottles?

28. How British King Georges have there been?

29. What number has the square root (to the nearest four decimal places) of 4142?

30. How many times (as at 2010) has Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men's Singles final?