Numbers Answers May 2012

Number Answer
1 Wheel on a Unicycle
2 Sides to an argument
3 Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carerras and Placido Domingo)
4 Goons (Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine)
5 Vowels in the alphabet
6 States in Australia
7 Colours of the Rainbow
8 Bits in a Byte
9 Lives of a Cat
10 Downing Street, Prime Ministers Residence
11 Victoria Crosses awarded after the Battle of Rorke's Drift
12 Episodes of Fawlty Towers starring John Cleese
13 Players in a Rugby League Team
14 Pounds in One Stone
15 Questions to be answered correctly to win Who Want's To Be A Millionaire
16 Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
17 Atomic number of Chlorine
18 Number of ends in a Triples match in Bowls
19 Number One Hit Song for Paul Hardcastle
20 Shillings in One Pound
21 Maximum Number possible in Blackjack
22 Two Little Ducks in Bingo
23 Number of Species of Wild Birds Native to New Zealand
24 Windows on an Advent Calendar
25 Stations on the Bakerloo Line
26 Miles in a Marathon
27 Three Times Nine
28 Days in a Lunar Month
29 Year of the first University Boat Race
30 Years, Length of the Thirty Years War
31 Days in January, March, May, July, August, October and December
32 Degrees Fahrenheit, freezing point of water
33 Three times eleven
34 British Prime Minister. Arthur James Balfour
35 Miles, length of the line that can be drawn by the average lead pencil
36 Number of inches in a yard
37 Number of stations on the Picadilly line
38 Number of plays written by William Shakespeare
39 Ninety three backwards
40 Per cent, Higher Tax Rate
41 New York Mining Disaster, the Bee Gees
42 Inches, Length of a coathanger if straightened
43 Number of books in the Old Testament
44 International dialling code for the United Kingdom
45 Revolutions per minute for a single
46 Human Chromosomes
47 Square Miles, area of the Isle of Wight
48 Four Dozen
49 Number of stations on the Centrl line
50 Meters, Height of the Millennium Dome
51 Miles, Length of the Panama Canal
52 Number of American hostages held during the Iranian crisis of nineteen seventy nine
53 Mile per hour, Speed of the first Mercedes car built by Daimler
54 Atomic number of Xenon
55 International dialling code for Brazil
56 Number of Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
57 Episodes of Steptoe & Son
58 Kilometres, Length of the London Underground Northern line
59 The Brighton line in Bingo
60 Degrees, each angle in an equilateral triangle
61 Squadron, the Dambusters
62 Sixty two in Roman numerals
63 Square root of three thousand, nine hundred and sixty nine
64 Squares on a chess board
65 State retirement age for men this year
66 En Francais, C'est soixante six
67 Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on Louis Washkansky
68 Guns, Hit song for Alarm
69 First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong
70 Three score years and ten
71 Per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by water
72 Pints in a Firkin
73 Flight time in seconds, of the fatal Challenger Space shuttle flight
74 Miles per hour, minimum sustained speed of a Hurricane
75 Five times fifteen
76 Trombones in the Big Parade
77 Sunset Strip
78 Prportion of air that is Nitrogen
79 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
80 Eight times ten
81 Nine squared
82 Airborne Infantry Division, United States Army
83 On the Richter scale, the nineteen hundred and six San Francisco earthquake
84 International dialling code for Vietnam
85 Hours running time of the film "A Cure for Insomnia"
86 Flights of stairs in the Empire State Building when it first opened
87 "Four Score and Seven Years ago our fathers bought forth on this Continent..", the Gettysberg Address
88 Keys on a piano
89 The year that the Berlin wall was demolished
90 Atomic number of Thorium
91 Ninety One in Roman numerals
92 International dialling code for Pakistan
93 Million miles to the Sun
94 Minutes, time taken for the Titanic to sink
95 Per cent of Antarctica covered by ice
96 Atomic number of Curium
97 Per cent of the World's baked beans eaten by Britons
98 Hit song for Keith
99 Eleven times nine
100 Metres, height of the first viewing deck in the Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth

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