Number Quiz

[philip1234]

almost there - all answers are numbers
shipley cycle route; earths speed at equator; first recorded sighting of halleys comt; pennies in a guinea; manic street preachers song;

[Dinkypuzzled]

There were 21 shillings in a guinea. There were 12 old pennies in a shilling. So, 252 pennies in a guinea.

[sandyRoe]

252 pennies in a Guinea.

[tonyav]

156 (old ) pennies in a guinea.

[tonyav]

Doh, I'd forgotten how many (old) pennies in shilling.

[fiction-factory]

MSP song- they had a B side called 1404, but I can't think of an A side.
There was album track called something like 4 stone 7 lb

[scorpiojo]

3 239 BC
http://www.space.com/19878-halleys-comet.html

[Davemano]

1 Cycle route 67
2 460 metres per sec - approx 1000 mph

[scorpiojo]

At the equator, the circumference of the Earth is 40,070 kilometers, and the day is 24 hours long so the speed is 1670 kilometers/hour ( 1037 miles/hr). This decreases by the cosine of your latitude so that at a latitude of 45 degrees, cos(45) = .707 and the speed is .707 x 1670 = 1180 kilometers/hr.

[Davemano]

5 MPS 1985