10 INP (Ten Increasing Number Phrases) Quiz

Answer: 6 stars on the Australian flag

The Australian flag has the five-star Southern Cross on the right hand side of the dark blue field as well as a seven-pointed star (representing the six states and all the territories) on the left hand side of the field underneath the Union Jack in the canton.

Answer: 88 keys on a piano

Around 1885 Steinway and Sons started making 88-key pianos. Other piano builders copied them to meet the rival specifications. Today, nearly all pianos have 88 keys, with 52 white and 36 black keys.

The number of piano keys had reached its (natural) limit at 88 keys for two main reasons. There is limit to the tones that a string can be made to reproduce, especially at the lower end where the sound can jar. Also, the 88 key range is five octaves, which is approximately close to the amazing vocal range of very special singers.

Answer: 101 dalmatians

"101 Dalmatians" is a 1956 novel by Dodie Smith, which was made into a successful Walt Disney animated movie in 1961. The storyline is about two dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, who have a litter of 15 pups. The dogs' owners then adopted a further 84 pups.

Answer: 118 elements in the periodic table

In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev published the first periodic table. He used his table to show relationships between atoms with similar properties. From this he predicted further elements would be discovered where there were gaps in his table. He was proved largely correct.

Answer: 147 highest score in snooker

Snooker is a cue game using 22 balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours: yellow (two points), green (three), brown (four), blue (five), pink (six) and black (seven). The aim is to sink a red ball then a colored ball then another red etc.

It is possible to get a break of 147 by potting all the balls (without even letting the other player have a turn!) This the "traditional" maximum score. There is now a "super maximum" score of 155 possible.

Answer: 206 bones in the human body

When a baby is born, the baby has approximately 300 bones but some of those bones fuse until, at adulthood, the skeleton consists of exactly 206 bones. In most cultures, there is a certain mysticism about the human skeleton. Idioms abound, epitomised by the phrase, "skeleton in the closet".

Answer: 360 degrees in a circle

The reason the circle is divided into 360 degrees is due to the Babylonians who used the sexagesimal system, i.e., their base was 60 rather than 10.
They knew that the perimeter of a hexagon is exactly equal to six times the radius of the circumscribed circle hence they chose to divide the circle into 360 degrees.

Answer: 1001 arabian nights

"One Thousand and One Nights" is the title of a Middle Eastern collection of folk tales, also known in English as "Arabian Nights". Some of the stories within this collection include, "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", though none of these stories, popular in the western world, appeared in the original Arabic version.

Answer: 64000 dollar question

"The $64,000 Question" was an American game show that aired from 1955 to 1958. The show became infamous as it was outed as a sham when contestants were given prior information about the answers.

The phrase, "The $64,000 Question" has become a cliche, meaning the main question that needs to be answered in any given situation.

Answer: zip code 90210 in beverly hills

"Beverly Hills, 90210" was a television show that ran from 1990-2000 about the lives of a group of high school students moving into college and into adulthood. The "90210" was thought to be the Beverly Hills zip code when it fact it is one of five attributed to the city.