14 |
13 |
7 |
26 |
20 |
21 |
15 |
9 |
8 |
27 |
28 |
22 |
16 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
24 |
23 |
17 |
11 |
12 |
6 |
25 |
19 |
18 |
A. The number of days in a fortnight = 14. B. The number in a Baker's dozen = 13. C. The number of Wonders of the Ancient World = 7. D. The number of letters in the English alphabet = 26. E. The number of faces of an icosahedrons or the number of vertices of a dodecahedron = 20. F. The total number of pips on a standard die = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21. G. The number of balls used in a standard pool game — not counting the cue ball = 15. H. The number of players in the batting order of a baseball team = 9.
I. The only cube that is one less than a square = 8.
K. The number of Quidditch players on all the house teams at Hogwarts =28.
L. The maximum number of pieces into which a round pizza can be cut by making 6 cuts = 22.
M. The only integer n for which
N. The base of common logarithms = 10.
O. The only number whose spelling contains the same number of letters as the number itself is FOUR (4).
P. The only prime that is the sum and difference of two primes = 5.
5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 7 - 2.
Q. The two-digit number that is divisible by both the sum and the product of its digits = 24.
R. The smallest number of people in a room where the probability of two of them having the
same birthday is at least 50 percent is 23.
S. The number feared by Pythagoreans, since it lies halfway between the only two integers that
can be both the perimeter and the area of the same rectangle is 17.
T. The number of flavors of ice cream at Baskin-Robbins minus the value of a score = 11. 31 - 20 = 11.
U. The number of months in the Julian calendar = 12.
V. The smallest perfect number = 6.
W. The number of years that you must be married to celebrate your silver wedding
anniversary = 25.
X. The number of the amendment that gave women the right to vote = 19.
Y. First determine the radius of a circle when the numeric values of the circumference and the
area are equal. |