help me out

[JackDanielsU]

Bored on the Bank Holiday I was flicking through the channels and came across one with a phone in quiz. Seems to be loads of them cropping up 

Here it is.

Number of men in a mixed doubles tennis match

Number of dots on a double 2 domino

Number of nostrils on eleven donkeys

Number left when you take away 19 percent from 100

Number of vowels in this phrase  - "lightening never strikes twice" 

Add the numbers. Now I thought I had it (I was nowhere near)..and some of the answers I heard being rung in were very strange. (Minus 44 for example). But as fate would have it before I went to bed I flicked back and it had just been solved, a nice �2000 winner. So I open it to the board, post your answers, and see if you get it

[Plutus]

Further to this thread a few weeks ago - you may indeed have the winning answer but can you explain how this number is arrived at.  We all agree that all of these phone-in-quizzes are a rip-off.   The reason why the answer seems so simple is to get people rushing to phone and get charged the connection fee whether or not they get to give any answer.  Because it is so simple they then recheck and phone again.

[hobbitess]

1?????????????/

[valerieb1254]

  121

[darkstar]

IS THE ANSWER      5,,,,,,,,

[barender]

118

[JackDanielsU]

Nope not 1 nor 121

And no I still cant explain how the answer which I shall reveal soon was got

I got 260

Number of men in a mixed doubles is 2

Number of dots on a double 2 domino is 4 (also add the 2 in the question)

Number of nostrils on eleven donkeys (22 and the 11 in the question) 

Number of vowels in the phrase "lightening never strikes twice" 9 vowels and ten from the word lighTENing

And 19 percent taken away from 100 - 81 (and the 19 and 100 from the question)

All adds up to 260. And that is way too low

[Quizmonkey]

Did they really misspell LIGHTNING?

[johnalex]

....not forgetting TENnis match.

[JackDanielsU]

Yep Quizmonkey they spelt it that way with the extra E

[forgetful]

I think you also have to count Roman numerals eg mcdlvix

forgetful

[gen2]

That was to get an extra 10 out of lighTENing.