0-10: '7' Trivia

1. The seventh letter of the English alphabet is G. What is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet?

From Quiz Seventh Time Lucky

Answer: Eta

Alpha and beta, from which we derive the word alphabet to describe a system of writing that involves symbols for individual sounds, are the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. The phrase "alpha and omega", meaning the beginning and the end, or the totality of something, is a clue to the fact that omega is the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet. Greek introduced the concept of including separate symbols for the sounds we call vowels. Earlier alphabets had either only shown the symbols for consonants, or used symbols such as dots and dashes to indicate where a vowel was placed in the word.

From Quiz Fascination with "7"

Answer: Pope Gregory the Great

Lust, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, pride, and greed are from Gregory's revised list from the year 590. Pope Gregory ranked them in seriousness, with pride being the most deadly, to lust being the least deadly. St. Thomas Aquinas subsequently objected to such a ranking, since "deadly" does not have a "most" or "least" connotation.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: nevada & nv

This is apropos, as Nevada has statewide legalized gambling. And 7 is considered a lucky number by many. The states larger than Nevada are (in order): Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona. Colorado is the 8th largest, just smaller than Nevada.

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Rest & Rested

In Genesis 2:2, it says 'God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made'.

From Quiz Fascination with "7"

Answer: A irritating and contagious skin condition

Called "camp itch", "soldier itch", or "French itch", it sometimes resulted in fear of contact with soldiers, and appeared in the literature long before the movie of the same name. It had been attributed primarily to scabies or eczema.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959)

"The Rainmaker" was her 7th nomination, but only the 6th she didn't win. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" was her 10th nomination and her 2nd win. "Long Day's Journey Into Night" was her 9th nomination, but her 8th she didn't win. Interestingly, she won her first nomination for "Morning Glory" (1933), then had 8 nominations over the next 30 years without winning. She then had 3 more nominations, winning each of those for "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", "The Lion in Winter", and "On Golden Pond".

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Kimberly Williams-Paisley

When Amy's mother wrote out the rest of Amy's life on a time line, Amy Myer (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) followed her mother's plan exactly. Then Amy met Peter.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: seven priests

The Biblical (Joshua, Chapter 6) account of the fall of Jericho; a city conquered and destroyed by the Israelites. According to the Bible, for seven days the Israelites marched around the city and, on the seventh day, the priests blew their trumpets, the people shouted and the walls of the city came down.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: Yellow River (China)

The Yellow River (or Huang He) is 2900 miles (4667 km) long. It drains an area of China of approximately three-quarters of a million square kilometers. The name describes the nearly constant ochre-yellow color of the muddy water in the lower course of the river. The Chinese expression "when the Yellow River flows clear" is akin to the English expression "when hell freezes over." FYI, the Amazon is the 2nd longest (3969 miles), the Mackenzie - Peace - Finlay is 11th (2635 miles), and the mighty Colorado (which carved The Grand Canyon) is 52nd, at only 1450 miles.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: plagues

Seven last plagues precede the end of the world and the return of Messiah on the Judgement Day. The detailed description can be found in the Book of Revelation, Chapters 14, 15 and 16.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: Ten Million

In number form: 10,000,000.

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe plays the girl that Richard Sherman conjures up in his imagination to help him get through the summer while his wife and son are away.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: Day

The group was created in 1845. They base their religious beliefs exclusively on the Bible, according to which God rested on the seventh day, after six days of Creation. Therefore the seventh day of the week, Saturday is observed by them as the day of rest and worship.

From Quiz Fascination with "7"

Answer: They were seven years old when chosen.

Initially four in number and later six, they were the only females allowed into the priesthood and committed to three decades of celibacy. The vestals commanded enormous respect and power, and could free condemned men by simply touching them.

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Nitrogen

The atomic number of an element is defined as the measure of the charge on an atom's nucleus by adding up the total number of protons it contains.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: Wonders & miracles

Other buildings or monuments, which used to be considered the wonders of the ancient world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Phidias's statue of Zeus at Olympia, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum of king Mausolus at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos (a lighthouse) at Alexandria, do not exist anymore.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: Uranus

Trick question: Uranus was always the 7th planet. However, in the late 20th century, Pluto was the 8th closest planet to the Sun when its eccentric orbit brought it closer than Neptune. It has gone back outside of Neptune's orbit, as well as been demoted to "dwarf planet".

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Do

There are seven sounds in the musical scale: Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: wives

Bluebeard is a monstrous protagonist of Charles Perrault's fairy tale entitled 'Barbe Bleue' (the French for 'Bluebeard'). Bluebeard kills his wives and keeps their bodies in a secret chamber, murdering each new wife who discovers them. But the last wife manages to escape this terrible fate.

From Quiz Fascination with "7"

Answer: Central America

They are Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. There are six New England states, ten Balkan countries, and the Scandinavian countries number from three to five, depending on whether one counts Finland and Iceland in addition to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: Ring

Pinkie: 6; Ring: 7; Middle: 8; and Index 9. For 3, the thumb, index, and middle finger are all held out, and the other two down. Using index, middle, and ring would look like 6 or W.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: Dwarfs & Dwarves

It is a fairy-tale by the Brothers Grimm. The story was also adapted into a Disney movie in 1937. The story goes as follows: Beautiful Snow White is to be murdered by the order of a cruel Queen. However, the Huntsman who is supposed to kill her in the forest pities her and lets her escape. She finds refuge in the house of seven dwarfs working in a diamond mine.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven

Answer: 45 RPM

All were valid speeds for vinyl records. The 7", 45 RPM record was mainly used for single song recordings. Read the complex history of records and their evolution on The Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_258b.html).

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: Samurai

Released in 1954, it was regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. The battle sequences are among the best ever filmed. The film was remade by John Sturges into the movie 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960).

From Quiz Seventh Time Lucky

Answer: Chinese

Qixi, which is also called Chinese Valentine's Day and the Magpie Festival, is a celebration that recalls the legend of 'The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd', according to which the two lovers were exiled to opposite sides of the Milky Way as the stars Vega and Altair, because their marriage had angered one or more of the gods (details vary in different versions). Once a year all the world's magpies fly to the skies (as symbolised by the star Deneb, the third corner of the grouping known as the Summer Triangle) to form a bridge across the Milky Way, and they are reunited for the day. The festival is a special one for lovers and newlyweds. There are similar celebrations in some other countries, including Tanabata in Japan and Chilseok in Korea.

From Quiz Lucky Number Seven?

Answer: Seven deadly sins

The movie (sometimes stylized as "Se7en") stars Brad Pitt as homicide detective David Mills, and Morgan Freeman as his partner, William Somerset. Together, they must try to stop the serial killer (Kevin Spacey) before he finishes 'punishing' people - sometimes in a literal sense, sometimes symbolically - for their having taken part in one of the seven deadly sins.

From Quiz Fascination with "7"

Answer: 2350 B.C. Sargon, King of Akkad

In ancient China and Egypt, ten day weeks were the norm (probably because we have ten fingers) but the Sumerians gave us not only the seven day week but the sixty minute hour. Although it is pure speculation, some researchers have postulated that the choice of seven comes from the "wandering" celestial objects visible to the ancients in the night sky, including the planets Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, and the sun and moon.

From Quiz The Magnificent Seven

Answer: Tibet

Brad Pitt was banned from China after playing the real life man, Heinrich Harrier, the Austrian mountain climber who met the Dalai Lama just when China was taking over Tibet. The real life sister of the Dalai Lama, Jetsun Pema, played the Dalai Lama's mother in the movie.

From Quiz Mystical Number Seven

Answer: Seal

The protagonist of the movie, a medieval knight portrayed by the famous Swedish actor Max Von Sydow, challenges Death to a game of chess. His life is at stake of course. The movie was released in 1957.

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