Answers To Alst Quiz For Thera Trust

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The answers to the last numbers quiz are:
Entertainment
1 Around the workd in ?? Days? 80
2 The Magnificent - - - - - Seven
3 - - - - Weddings and a Funeral Four
4 - - - flew over the cuckoo's nest one
5 Ocean's E - - - - - Eleven
6 Enid Blyton's Famous - - - - Five
7 Dudley Moore and Bo Derek starred (2) 10
8 - - - - - Shades of Grey by E.L. James Fifty
9 We - - - - - Kings (xmas carol) Three
10 The meaning of the World, the Universe and everything according to these hitchhikers 42
Geeky Stuff
11 What measurement is 24,901.55 miles Circumference of the earth at the equator
12 360° is the degrees of which shape? Circle
13 An Isoceles shape has how many sides? 3
14 How many continents are there in the world, inhabited and uninhabited? 7
15 How many degrees are there in a right angled triangle? 180º it doesn't matter what sort it is
16 What is the world's population, to the nearest million? 700 million
17 Which is the first place on earth to start the new year at 10 am on Monday 31st December, London time? Christmas Island, Kiribati and Samoa
General Knowledge
18 Name the coin that was equal to two shillings andsixpence or 12 ½p today? Half a crown
19 In which year was Australia discovered and colonised by the British? 1770
20 In which year was the Gregorian calendar adopted 1582
21 How many star signs are there? 12
22 What date is the word due to end according to the Mayan calendar? 21/12/2012
23 What is an alternaitve emergency number to 999? 112
24 How many babies do you have if you have octuplets? 8
25 Number of days to Christmas according to a popular song? 12
26 In golf, how many strokes under par is indicated by the term Eagle? 2
27 How many plants are in the solar system? 9
28 If you take the number of people in a Rugby Union team (on field), take away the number in football, add the number on a Rugby League team and take away the number in a netball team what is the answer? 10
29 Julius Ceasar was assasinated on this date in 44 BC, now called the Ides of March, what is the date? 15th March
30 What was the first year that man set foot on the moon? 1969
31 The Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede on which date? June 15th 1215
32 How many days does Lent last for? 40
33 If you were born on 29th February 1948, how many birthdays have you celebrated on the actual date? 16
34 Approx. how many inches are in a metre? 39
Answers given - Find the question
35 365 - Regular periods of Time (6,2,4,2,3,4) Number of days in the year
36 1560 - The above broken down (7,2,3,3) Minutes in the day (should have been 1440)
37 10 - Moral rules from the Bible (3,3,12) The Ten Commandments
38 20,000 - Aquatic book and film (7,5,3,3) Leagues under the sea
39 32º = 0º - One degree or the other? Fahrenheit = Celsius
40 24/7 365 (5,4,2,5,3) - a year Every hour of every day