Roaring Forty Trivia Quiz

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In more detail: 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' is one of the tales from 'The Arabian Nights', about a poor woodcutter who finds a magic cave filled with treasure after watching some thieves enter it using the password 'open sesame'. He grows rich after stealing from the cave and his brother Cassim finds out about the cave, but forgets the password and is killed by the thieves, with his body left outside as a warning. Ali Baba retrieves the body and the thieves plot to kill him as well, but are foiled by Morgiana, a cunning servant girl.

In tennis, 'deuce' is the term for a 40-40 score. To win a game from a score of deuce, a player must win two points, although the tournament may use a deciding points system instead.

In Matthew 4:1-11, G-d sent Jesus into the wilderness, where he had to fast for forty days and forty nights and resist the Devil's temptations (such as telling him to turn stones into bread). The number forty also appears in the story of Noah in Genesis 6-9, when G-d punished the world with a flood and made it rain for forty days and forty nights. However, He spared Noah and his family by telling him to build an ark and take various animals on board. At the end of the flood, Noah landed on Mount Ararat and G-d made a covenant with Noah that He would never flood the world again, in the form of a rainbow.

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked Central Asian country bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, China to the east, Tajikistan to the south and Uzbekistan to the west. Its name comes from a Turkic word meaning 'we are forty' and refers to forty tribes said to have been united by the legendary hero Manas. The sun on its flag has forty rays.

A ruby wedding anniversary celebrates forty years of marriage.

'Forty Licks' is a greatest hits album by the Rolling Stones, released in 2002. It contains both their Decca/London material and material from their own label, Rolling Stones Records.

'Forty Shades of Green' is a song about Ireland by Johnny Cash, which he wrote while travelling there. It was originally released as a B-side to 'The Rebel - Johnny Yuma' in 1961 and has been covered by Dexy's Midnight Runners and Daniel O'Donnell, amongst others.

The 'water displacement solution' in question is a reference to WD-40, a lubricant and moisture dispenser made by the WD-40 Company.

Zirconium is the fortieth element in the Periodic Table and comes from the mineral zircon. It is a shiny grey-white transition metal and is used in gas turbines, space vehicles and jet engines due to its high resistance to heat.

As for the wrong answers: 'Inch Nails' is a reference to the industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails. A 'score' is an archaic term for the number twenty (see Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 'fourscore and seven years ago...') There are fifty-two weeks in a year. A baker's dozen is thirteen: a dozen (twelve) plus one extra, said to originate from the practice of including an extra loaf of bread to be sure to make the correct weight. The Number of the Beast is 666 and appears in Revelation 13:18: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666."