A Matter Of Numbers Trivia Quiz

Answer: 12

Four Kings, four Queens and four Jacks (or Knaves). Other numbers in games: 64 squares in a chessboard and 100 in a chequers board. Eight pawns per side, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, etc.

Originally face cards were called court cards. They were superior in rank to the numerals. In some games however some numerals (such as the ace and the ten) became superior to the court or face cards. Yet, this did not make them into face cards yet as by definition a face card has a representation of a human figure.

Jokers are not counted as face cards. Probably because originally they were not "court cards".

Answer: 7

Apart from Seven, Three was also a Holy Number: three Archangels (Michael, Gabriel and Raphael), three Persons in One {Trinity} and many triads in non-christian mythologies too. Twelve got preferential treatment: twelve hours in a day, twelve months in a year, twelve apostles, ... Four Evangelists; four Cardinal Virtues; four wind-directions; four seasons; four Apocalyptic Horsemen.

The Seven Wonders: Pyramids Egypt; Hanging Gardens Babylon; Statue of Zeus at Olympia; Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Mausoleum of Halicarnassus; Colossus of Rhodes; Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Answer: 10

In St. Augustine's view there was only ONE basic commandment: 'Ama et fac quod vis', which can be understood as: "If you are inspired by the Love of God, you will act right". Rabelais took this principle over for his Abbey of Theleme. The hippies made their own interpretation of this view. The May 1968 movement in France even turned it into a very unholy slogan.

Answer: 40

Also Lent has 40 days.

Answer: seven planets in the solar system

Eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Seven cardinal or deadly sins: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony and Lust. Other holy, or Biblical sevens include seven plagues of Egypt, seven meagre years, seven fat years ... Seven orders of architecture. And of course in modern mythology there are the Magnificent Seven.

Note: Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006. (National Geographic Website, 2006).

Answer: Seven ( Liberal ) Arts (in the Middle Ages)

Seven (liberal) arts indeed: in the medieval tradition: the trivium: grammar, rhetoric and logic; the quadrivium: arithmetic; geometry; music and astronomy. Nine Muses as described by Hesiod. Their names are Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania.

They are the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Twelve inches in a foot (and three feet in a yard). Four quarts in a gallon, which makes eight pints (but sixteen ounces in a pound).

Answer: Snow White

These are the names of Snow White's dwarfs in the Disney version of the story. The Smurfs are a creation of Peyo. The Wild Swans are by H.C. Andersen. The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats and Snow white belong to the fairy-tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Answer: Musketeers

The fourth one is of course d'Artagnan.

Answer: 7

The expression the "seven seas" is a figure of speech dating back to the Romans ("septem maria"). It has been used to refer to different bodies of water at various times and places. The original "seven seas" seem to have been the Indian Ocean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Today we recognize more than 50 seas worldwide.

A sea is defined as a division of the ocean which is enclosed or partially enclosed by land. The Caspian Sea, Dead Sea and Aral Sea are only "seas" in name. Technically speaking they are "saltwater lakes". On the other hand the Gulf of Mexico and the Hudson Bay do not get the name "sea" though, again technically speaking, they are seas. Linguistically the stock-phrase is "the seven seas".

Answer: the Nineteenth Hole

Seventh Day was the day of rest indeed. The Seventh Heaven is for VIPS in the Hereafter. The Eleventh Commandment has been used as a name for restaurants,pubs etc. and probably comes down to: DO not forget to relax from the other ten, time and again. The Nineteenth Hole is of course for relaxing too.