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1.
  "Welcome to the Janus List"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on the thrilling episode "The Janus List".
Tough, 10 Qns, dubya64, Jun 18 18
Tough
dubya64
Jun 18 18
74 plays
2.
  "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"NUMB3RS" is a really awesome show. This quiz covers seasons one and two.
Average, 10 Qns, cinema_sleuth, Apr 09 07
Average
cinema_sleuth
1839 plays
3.
  "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about my favorite episode, the second one of the show's third season. How well were you paying attention?
Average, 10 Qns, cinema_sleuth, Apr 09 07
Average
cinema_sleuth
753 plays
4.
  "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the third season finale of "NUMB3RS", entitled "The Janus List". It was very scary!
Tough, 10 Qns, cinema_sleuth, Jul 05 07
Tough
cinema_sleuth
776 plays
5.
  "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on the fourth season premiere of "Numb3rs". I wish you all luck!
Tough, 10 Qns, cinema_sleuth, Oct 27 07
Tough
cinema_sleuth
703 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Megan returned from an absence due to Diane Farr's pregnancy. How long has Megan been away?

From Quiz ""NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'"





NUMB3RS Trivia Questions

1. What were used to detonate the bombs on the bridge?

From Quiz
"NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: cell phones

Taylor Ashby (the bomber) told Charlie that when he answered a question right, he'd throw away a phone. But, when he answered a question wrong, he'd detonate a bomb. No pressure or anything. They disabled the cell provider, but Taylor manually detonated a bomb, resulting in his placement in ICU and "death sentence".

2. There are two brothers on this show. One works for the government. What organization does he belong to?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: FBI

Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) also worked for Fugitive Recovery.

3. One of the questions the man asks is about Francis Bacon's four obstructions to the Scientific Method, the first question Charlie misses. They are written in Bacon's book "The Idols of the Mind". Which of the four does Charlie not remember?

From Quiz "Welcome to the Janus List"

Answer: The Marketplace

After the man on the bridge asks the question, Charlie tells the man they are written in the "Idols of the Mind". Charlie immediately names the cave, the theater, the tribe, but hesitates on answering the fourth. He takes too long to answer and the man detonates a bomb. The man tells Charlie that he is not testing only his mind, but also his heart. He then tells Charlie and the FBI agents on the scene that he is going to give over his life work to them.

4. What sport were Don and Alan about to practice when Don got the news of Colby's escape?

From Quiz "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"

Answer: golf

Don got the phone call and proceeded to come completely uhinged, esepcially when he couldn't find his keys.

5. Megan returned from an absence due to Diane Farr's pregnancy. How long has Megan been away?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: six weeks

She seems a bit off, and you can tell that Charlie notices. I did too. She is my favorite character, after all.

6. Which "Deadwood" cast member played spree killer Crystal Hoyle?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"

Answer: Kim Dickens

Crystal returned to Los Angeles in order to avenge the wrongs done to her by Pierce Brenner and Billy Rivers. She also wanted to get her daughter back, who Rivers sold on the black market because Crystal was only fifteen.

7. Which brother is a tenure professor of Applied Mathematics at CalSci?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: Charlie

Played by David Krumholtz, Charlie Eppes consults for pretty much every major government organization!

8. After the events on the bridge, a few of the FBI agents do some background work on the man. Which government agency did the man on the bridge work for?

From Quiz "Welcome to the Janus List"

Answer: MI6

The man, identified as Taylor Ashby, works for a large international intelligence corporation called Blackrain. He holds dual citizenship between The UK and the United States, and was fired by British intelligence. On asking why, his boss told the FBI that Ashby was a very good cryptographer back in the day, but could not transition from ink and microfilm, so MI6 fired him.

9. Who is the first one to question why the team is treating this like just any other case?

From Quiz "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"

Answer: Megan

"We're acting like this is just any other case and it isn't." David brings up the point that it's easier to treat it like just any other case.

10. What is Charlie drinking in the break room after the bridge incident?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: Pepto Bismal

Don mistakes it for a smoothie, and after Charlie tells him it's Pepto, Don tries to comfort his brother. Megan came in right after that.

11. Which "7th Heaven" star played Crystal's teen lover, Buck Winters?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"

Answer: David Gallagher

Buck killed his father because he was threatening to turn Crystal in to the police. This prompted the two to go on their cross-country killing spree.

12. At the beginning of season one, the Assistant Director assigns a new guy to Terry and Don's team. Who is this guy?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: David

Alimi Ballard (David Sinclair) is an avid fan of comic books, and I mean avid!

13. Ashby has tried to make the Janus List go public. Which profession did the person he speak with regarding this do?

From Quiz "Welcome to the Janus List"

Answer: Reporter

Charlie remembers the Wheat and Chessboard problem that Ashby asked him on the bridge, and uses that to see if he can find out any more information. Charlie is able to use the stratalling checkerboard equation to get the letters NAOMIVAUGHNALALEDGERORG, which they are able to separate to get naomivaughn@laledger.org, a news reporter.

14. What sport are David and Colby discussing while searching Ashby's apartment?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: baseball

David asks Colby if he liked Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle more in their prime, but Colby chose Williams. Whoever that is.

15. In season two, we learn that Megan Reeves is estranged from her father. How many years have passed since they've spoken?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: ten

Megan also has three sisters.

16. What famous actor plays Mason Lancer?

From Quiz "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"

Answer: Val Kilmer

Val worked with the episode's director, the famous Tony Scott, in "Top Gun" and a few other movies. He was GENIUS as the villain of the episode.

17. Who did Don send in to get information out of Buck Winters?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"

Answer: Ian Edgerton

Later in the season, Don was sent to a psychiatrist and he was asked what had prompted him to send Agent Edgerton in. Ian got the information out of Buck by "torturing" him.

18. In the episode "Counterfeit Reality", Don has to work with an old flame. In what Southwestern city did they live together?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: Albuquerque

Kim Hall left New Mexico and went to work for the Secret Service.

19. Ashby sent an email to the person who he tries to get to make the List public. What does the email contain?

From Quiz "Welcome to the Janus List"

Answer: Code

Amita and Charlie take a look at Ashby's emails to Naomi, and they notice one that is much larger than the rest. When they open it, all it contains are zeros and ones. Seeing this, the two mathematical prodigies think this is a form of cipher.

20. What is the last chemical Mason injects Colby with?

From Quiz "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"

Answer: potassium chloride

It is basically a swift and painful death, which is the reason that it is what's in the "lethal injection". Luckily, David and Don get to him before the chemical can take the full effect.

21. Who figured out that the "knapsack algorithm" kicked out an e-mail address?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: Don

It was naomivaughn@laledger.com. Taylor had contacted her about The Janus List.

22. Are you a fan of "How I Met your Mother"? Even if you're not, can you tell me which actor from the series guest starred on the "NUMB3RS" episode "Prime Suspect" as Ethan Burdick?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: Neil Patrick Harris

Neil made himself famous as "Doogie Howser,M.D."

23. The person Ashby talks to is taken to an FBI safe house. Which two agents are sent to guard her?

From Quiz "Welcome to the Janus List"

Answer: Colby and Megan

After the FBI realizes Naomi Vaughn may be in danger, they put her in a safe house and take away her phone and anything that could be used to track her. Megan and Colby are both assigned to keep watch of her until the time is safe for her to go home.

24. What was one of the things Colby said he came from a generation of?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: duty

This made sense, since Colby used to be in the Army, and he's proud of his morals. Still, as future events made true, he may not have been being so truthful.

25. What word did Larry use to describe David, when the two were talking just after Megan's abduction?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"

Answer: artless

David told Larry, after Larry apologized for using that word, that he had been called a lot of things but that that was a new one.

26. Who brings up "the math of friendship" at the end of the episode?

From Quiz "Numb3rs" - "Trust Metric"

Answer: Alan

He and Don were joking when they brought it up, but Charlie takes it seriously and proceeds to start doing the math on the napkin. This was the moment that signaled that one thing hadn't changed in all the hubbub.

27. Who clued Charlie in about the fact that the G Major scale was the key to The Janus List?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS" - "The Janus List'

Answer: Don

We actually had a "DonVision". It was pretty cool. "See, I paid attention at piano lessons."

28. Which music group was on Megan's t-shirt when she and Larry left the hospital?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": "Two Daughters"

Answer: Rolling Stones

The tongue logo made this one pretty obvious in my opinion. Right after this, they hit a major break in the search for Crystal's daughter when Megan mentions a social security number.

29. In season one, what is the relationship between Charlie and Amita?

From Quiz "NUMB3RS": Calculate this CBS Show

Answer: he's her thesis adviser

Charlie has a major crush on Amita. Can you tell?

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