Seventh Heaven Trivia Quiz

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There are seven continents on planet Earth: Asia (the largest), Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Some descriptions group most of the island countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean with Australia to form Oceania. The Seven Seas is a historical term traditionally used for the seas of the known world. The exact nature and location of these seas, however, varies according to different cultures and ages. The traditional list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World included sites located in present-day Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Iraq. Surprisingly, the only one of these sites that is still standing - the Great Pyramid of Giza - is also the oldest of the lot.

The Seven Cities of Gold, or Seven Cities of Cibola, were legendary cities of untold wealth and splendour that in the 16th century were sought by a number of Spanish conquistadors in various parts of the southwestern US and northern Mexico - needless to say, without any success. The Seven Kings of Rome were a series of partly legendary monarchs that ruled Rome from the date of its foundation (traditionally set at 753 BC) to about 509 BC. The first of them was said to be Romulus, the city's founder; the last three were Etruscan. In Christian doctrine, the seven deadly sins (also known as capital vices or cardinal sins) are pride, sloth, greed, lust, envy, wrath and gluttony. They were first classified in the late 2nd century AD by early Christian author Tertullian.

There are seven players in a netball team; this sport, created in the 1890s as a variation on basketball, is played primarily by women. The diatonic scale is a heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones). Western music from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century is based on the seven notes of the diatonic scale. The Seven Dwarfs first appeared in the 1812 fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm; they are prominently featured (with names) in the 1937 animated film produced by Walt Disney. "Seven Samurai" is a 1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film inspired a number of well-known movies produced in the following decades - in particular "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), directed by John Sturgis, in which the Japanese tale is adapted to the Old West.

Musketeers (as in the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas) and wise men (as in the Magi in the Gospels) are associated with the number 3. Cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude) and strings on a violin are associated with 4. Oceans, senses and pillars of Islam are associated with 5. Insects have 6 legs, and a cube has 6 sides. There are 8 planets in the Solar System - after Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet - and 8 bits in a byte. There are 9 ladies dancing in the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas", as well as 9 Muses - the patron goddesses of the arts and sciences in Greek mythology. There are 10 cents in a dime, and 10 provinces of Canada. A soccer team has 11 players, while the labours of Hercules and the tribes of Israel are associated with 12.