Number Quiz
All the answers in this quiz are numbers.
1. How many ships came sailing by on Christmas Day? 3
2. Which is the 5th triangular number? 15
3. If x²<140, what is the largest positive integer that x can be? 11
4. How many pints in a gallon? 8
5. How many letters do contestants choose in Countdown? 9
6. …..and how many numbers? 6
7. How many constituencies are represented in the House of Commons? 659
8. How many chambers are there in the human heart? 4
9. How many lives does a cat have? 9
10. How many slices in a Trivial Pursuit “pie”? 6
11. How many of Henry VIII’s children succeeded him to the throne? 3
12. How many counties border Oxfordshire? 6
13. Which even number is a prime? 2
14. How many solutions does a quadratic equation have? 2
15. How many ml in a standard can of coke? 330
16. How many drummers drumming? 12
17. Unity? 1
18. What’s the missing number in this line from Pascal’s Triangle: 1, 4, _, 4, 1? 6
19. How many blackbirds baked in a pie? 24
20. What size font is this? 12
21. What’s the order of rotational symmetry of a Manx cross? 3
22. How many days in April, May and June? 91
23. What’s the 50th term in this sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, .....? 2500
24. How many lb penalty for a Dick Francis novel? 10
25. How many were going to St Ives? 1
26. Which number do you put in an ice cream cone? 99
27. How many different values of British coins are in circulation? 8
28. What's the freezing point of water on the Fahrenheit scale? 32
29. How many Dalmatians did Dodie Smith write about? 101
30. How many pence for Saturday’s Guardian?
31. Which A do I get if I halve a sheet of A4 paper? 5
32. What’s half of three-quarters?
33. How many bits in a byte? 8
34. How many pounds in a hundredweight? 112
35. How many Nobel prizes can be presented each year? 6
36. What’s the next term in this sequence: 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, ....? 216
37. How many turtledoves? 2
38. How many prime numbers are there between 80 and 100? 3
39. How many dominoes in a normal set? 28
40. How many symphonies did Beethoven write? 9
41. How many daughters did King Lear have? 3
42. What’s the next term in this sequence: 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, ....? 30
43. How many faces on a tetrahedron? 4
44. Which King’s Cross platform do you need for the Hogwart’s Express? 9¾
45. How many wheels on a unicycle? 1
46. How many good men and true make up a jury? 12
47. What’s the mean of these numbers: 83, 85, 87, 89, 91? 87
48. If two's company, how many's a crowd? 3
49. What’s the maximum number of golf clubs you may take in a competition? 14
50. How many children and It? 5
51. How many hereditary peers are there still in the House of Lords? 92
52. On cloud what? 9
53. How many French francs is the bank note with Blaise Pascal on it? 500
54. How many degrees in one angle of an equilateral triangle? 60
55. How many feet in the grave? 1
56. What’s the mode of these numbers: 7, 6, 7, 3, 9, 7, 8, 3, 6? 7
57. How many in a brace? 2
58. What’s the square root of a million? 1000
59. How many colours on the tricolore? 3
60. How many inches in a yard? 36
61. How many seasons in Vivaldi's composition? 4
62. How many vertices on a triangular prism? 6
63. In which century BC did Archimedes live? 3
64. How many tails on a Manx cat? 0
65. How many primary colours are there? 3
66. How many pigs did Tom, the piper’s son, steal? 1
67. Which US Interstate runs from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast? 10
68. How many legs on an ant? 6
69. How many cm³ in a litre? 1000
70. How many sides on a 50p piece? 7
71. How many Up is a soft drink? 7
72. How many in a score? 20
73. What is the number of Frasier’s apartment? 1901
74. According to Shakespeare, how many ages of man are there? 7
75. How many legs on a Manx cross? 3
76. How many Arabian nights? 1001
77. What’s the next number in this sequence: 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, ....? 255
78. What is 5^4? 625
79. How many Harry Potter books has J.K.Rowling written? 3
80. How many seconds in a day? 86400
81. Ali Baba and how many thieves? 40
82. How many counters does each player have in Ludo? 4
83. How many gentlemen of Verona? 2
84. How many children does Tony Blair have? 3
85. How many grandchildren does the Queen Mother have? 6
86. What does a T score in Scrabble? 1
87. How many lifelines do contestants have in ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’? 3
88. ....and how many questions must you answer correctly to get the million? 15
89. How many eyes on Cyclops? 1
90. How many vertically challenged friends did Snow White have? 7
91. What's the answer to life, the universe and everything? 42
92. How many stripes on the Stars & Stripes? 13
93. How many minutes for the sun to move through 1 degree of longitude? 4
94. How many Little Women? 4
95. How many did 49 become on 21 August 1959? 50
96. How many ‘Habits of Effective Teens’ by Sean Covey? 7
97. What is 5!? 120
98. Hw many poles are exposed above the Millennium Dome? 11
99. How many questions on the drivers’ theory test? 35
100. Radio what used to be the Light Programme? 2
- How many wings on an RAF navigator’s brevet? 1
- How many legs on a salamander? 0
- How many squares on the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle?
- How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse? 4
- Queen Victoria reigned for how many years? 63
- How high, in feet, is the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt? 481
- For how many years did the War of the Roses last? 30
- What is the maximum number of pillion passengers allowed on a motorbike? 1
- How many platinum albums did The Beatles have? 90
- The Joshua Tree by U what? 2
- How many men in a boat in the Jerome K Jerome novel? 3
- How many acres in a square mile? 640
- To the nearest mile, how long is the Channel Tunnel? 31
- How many submarines does the Royal Navy have? 15
- What is the gestation period in days of the African elephant? 660
- What is the total number of spots on a die? 21
- What is the total drop in metres of the Angel Falls? 979
- How old was John Glenn when he re-entered space in 1998? 77
- What's the answer to life, the universe and everything? 42
- What is Π to the nearest integer? 3
- How many people in each boat in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race? 9
- How many swallows don’t make a summer? 1
- How many ‘Ways to Tie a Tie’ by Fink & Mao? 85
- How many ounces in ¼lb of sweets? 4
- How many lines in a limerick? 5
- Field of how many for Dick Francis’s short stories? 13
- How many little girls sat in the back seat kissing & hugging with Fred? 7
- How many sides on a 20p piece? 7
- What’s a score plus a dozen? 32
- How many “spikes” on the Statue of Liberty’s head? 7
- How many clocks did John Harrison make? 4
- If 7x – 8 = 48, what is x? 8
- She was too young to fall in love, but how old was she? 16
- How many mm in a km? 1mill
- How many wheels on a tandem? 2
- Which number lies between a square and a cube? 26
- If x² + 8 < 150, what is the biggest integer that x can be? 11
- How many vertices on a tetrahedron? 4
- What is ½ of a gross? 72
- How many symphonies did Beethoven write? 9
- How many lines in a sonnet? 14
- Rainbow what by Tom Clancy? 6
- What is √169? 13
- How many kilometers in 50 miles? 80
- How many plays did Shakespeare write? 39
- How many faces on a dodecahedron? 12
- How many dominoes in a normal set? 28
- From how feet away must a driver be able to read a car number plate? 67
- What time is it (a.m.) in Nairobi when it’s midnight in London? 3
- What is 45% of 500? 225
- How many in a baker's dozen? 13
- Around the world in how many days? 80
- How many US states have a Pacific coastline? 5
- How many inches in a yard? 36
- How many wheels on a Reliant Robin? 3
- How many edges on a cube? 12
- How many toes does a pobble have? 0
- What’s 1 + 2 + 3 + ……… + 50?
- How many inhabited countries lie on the 40° longitude line? 2
- What’s the sum of all the interior angles of a hexagon? 720
- Cat-o’ how many tails? 9
- Which nervous breakdown got the Rolling Stones into the charts in 1966? 19
- What is 2^5? 32
- How many different types of sword are available to a fencer? 3
- How many lives is a cat supposed to have? 9
- What did the Romans mean by L? 50
- How many shillings in a guinea? 21
- How many capsules on The London Eye? 32
- What is the boiling point of water in ºF? 212
- A stitch in time saves how many? 9
- What’s the minimum age to be a centenarian? 100
- Approximately how many miles is it from London to New York? 3000
- How many degrees in Π radians? 180
- How many players in a netball team? 7
- If 7 is drbrm, what is gpit? 4
- What’s the maximum you can score with 3 darts? 180
- If x² - 10x + 25 = 0, what is x? 5
Thanks to Jill Jackson for providing these questions.