| 1/8/00 | Answer to 58 should be 4, not 8 (my error) |
1. ... Graces in mythology ? 3 (Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia)
2. ... handles has an amphora ? 2
3. ... planets of our solar system have no moon ? 2 (Mercury and Venus)
4. ... Punic Wars ? 3
5. ... volumes of nitric acid contains Aqua regia (hydrochloric
acid = 3 volumes) ? 1
6. ... lines per column has the Gutenberg Bible ? 42
7. ... atoms in each molecule has ozone ? 3
8. ... symphonies did Brahms compose ? 4
9. ... balls, including the cue ball, at the beginning of a
snooker game ? 22
10. ... legs had Odin's horse Sleipnir ? 8
11. ... raised dots in the Braille System to indicate the letter
Y ? 5
12. ... months have 31 days ? 7
13. ... states (=Bundesländer) has Germany ? 16
14. ... locks has the Suez Canal ? 0
15. ... Secretaries-General of the UN from 1946 through 1998 ? 7
16. ... toes has the foot of an ostrich ? 2
17. ... colors in the Libyan flag ? 1 (green)
18. ... karat has pure gold ? 24
19. ... (main) periods belonged to the Mesozoic Era ? 3 (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous)
20. ... inches is the diameter of an ice hockey puck ? 3
21. ... persons are to be seen in Edouard Manet's famous 1863-painting
,,Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass) ? 4
22. ... laws concerning planetary motion did Kepler state? 3
23. ... edges has an icosahedron ? 30
24. ... humps has the Bactrian camel ? 2
25. ... Characters in search of an author in Pirandello's play ? 6
26. ... prime numbers between 1 and 100 ? 25
27. ... yards in a furlong ? 220
28. ... Labors of Hercules ? 12
29. ... people on Noah's Ark (according to Genesis) ? 8
30. ... °Fahrenheit equal 10° Celsius ? 50
31. ... suras has the Koran ? 114
32. ... vertebrae in the neck of a giraffe ? 7
33. ... parts has a great gross ? 1,728
34. ... syllables in a haiku ? 17
35. ... sides has a hendecagon ? 11
36. ... bytes are there exactly in a megabyte ? 1,048,576
37. ... theses did Martin Luthor publish in 1517 ? 95
38. ... players has a volleyball team ? 6
39. ... letters in the Greek alphabet ? 24
40. ... sheets of paper has a printer's ream ? 516
41. ... years in a lustrum ? 5
42. ... countries border on Bolivia ? 5
43. ... human deciduous teeth ? 20
44. ... pieces has a tangram game ? 7
45. ... dashes represent the numeral 0 in International Morse
Code ? 5
46. ... rays has the Japanese chrysanthemum badge (kikumon) ? 16
47. ... inert gases ? 6
48. ... spikes on the crown of New York's Statute of Liberty ? 7
49. ... dollars or pounds is a grand ? 1,000
50. ... popes were of English birth ? 1 (Adrian
IV.)
51. ... counters altogether in backgammon ? 30
52. ... strokes under par is an Eagle at golf ? 2
53. ... cases has the Russian language ? 6
(in addition it has the instumental and prepositional)
54. ... masts has a brig ? 2
55. ... operas did Beethoven compose ? 1 (Fidelio)
56. ... successful manned landings were made to the surface of
the moon during the Apollo missions ? 6 (Apollo
11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17)
57. ... lines has a triolet ? 8
58. ... Presidents' heads are carved into Mount Rushmore/South
Dakota ? 4
59. ... daughters has Shakespeare's King Lear ? 3 (Goneril, Regan, Cordelia)
60 ... factors (including 1 and the number itself) has 234 ? 12
Note from DTM: A score of 40 would be great from my point of view: I scored 14 correct on this quiz.
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