Arithmetricky Trivia Quiz

Answer: 24

In the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, each state elects (at different times) two senators to serve for, as outlined in Article I, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States, a period of six years.

Though other "Gospels" (including those of Thomas, Peter and Judas) have existed since antiquity, by the 5th century CE the collective agreement of regional Synods (a council of a particular church formed to decide matters of dogma), namely the Council of Rome (382), the Synod of Hippo (393), and the two Synods of Carthage (397 and 419) prompted the Catholic Church to officially chose Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to appear in the New Testament.

Ergo six multiplied by four equals twenty-four.

Answer: 48

Topping the "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", "Like a Rolling Stone" was the only single released from Bob Dylan's seminal album "Highway 61 Revisited". Though argument exists about the origin of the phrase (with some believing it involves the Assize of Bread and Ale from the reign of English King Henry III, and others from methods of packing), a baker's dozen is 13, one more than an actual dozen. Ergo 61 minus 13 equals 48.

Answer: 8

A "grand slam" occurs when a batter hits a home run with the bases loaded (different runners on first, second and third base): each player scores for a total of four. Likewise, four Presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln on April 14th, 1865; James A. Garfield on July 2nd, 1881; William McKinley on September 6th, 1901; and John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963. Ergo four plus four equals eight.

Answer: 4

Edward the 8th reigned for just 326 days (from January the 20th, 1936 to the 11th of December, 1936) before giving up the throne in order to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson in 1937. Human DNA exists in a "double helix", with base pairs attached to each other by two sugar-phosphate backbones (the double part of "double helix). Ergo eight divided by two equals four.

Answer: 25

Known as Operation AI to the Japanese, the bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on the 7th of December, 1941 (though as Japan lies across the international date line, it was December 8th in Tokyo). The attack, while meant to be a surprise, was intended by the Japanese Government (and Admiral Yamamoto, the man commanding the fleet) to be preceded by a formal declaration of war.

The 5,000 word document to sever diplomatic relations, however, took too long for the Japanese Embassy in Washington to transcribe; and so the attack broke with both international convention and international law. Ergo 12/07/1941 equals 1 plus 2 plus 0 plus 7 plus 1 plus 9 plus 4 plus 1, which equals 25.

Answer: 24

Heralded as one of the greatest novels not only about World War II, but also of the 20th century, Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" won no major awards upon its initial publication - subsequently, though, it has appeared on virtually every influential list of "Great Books".

A prime number is any numbers who only factors are one and itself; after 11 comes 12 (divisible by 1 and 12, 3 and 4, 6 and 2) and then 13, a prime. Ergo 22 divided by 2 is 11, plus 13 equals 24.

Answer: 113

Radiometric dating uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (C14) to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to approximately 62,000 years.

So associated with his jersey number 99 was Wayne Gretzky that after "The Great One Retired" all NHL teams retired the number.

Ergo 14 plus 99 equals 113.

Answer: True

Prior to the use of the first atomic bomb during warfare in human history on August 6th, 1945 over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the United States had three operable nuclear weapons, named "Little Boy", "Fat Man" and "Thin Man".

The four "Horsemen of the Apocalypse" as described in the Book of Revelation are Conquest, War, Famine and Death.

Function keys can be programmed so as to cause an operating system command interpreter or application program to perform certain actions; by default, for instance, Windows 7 uses F1 to run the "Help" command F8 to enter "Safe Mode" (when pressed prior to the OS booting) and F12, the last of the function keys, to open the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar when running Internet Explorer.

John Hughes and Molly Ringwald worked together on a number of successful films in the 1980s, including "The Breakfast Club", "Pretty in Pink", and her first film with Hughes, "Sixteen Candles".

Ergo 3 over 4 (3/4) equals 12 over 16 (12/16).

Answer: 15

A "silver anniversary" traditionally celebrates twenty-five years of marriage, and as the name implies gifts made of silver are customarily exchanged (though a cheaper option may be to go by flower, in which case the iris marks twenty-five years of matrimony).

Though there is an the official set of rules for Monopoly, the owners of the game, Parker Brothers' have long encouraged the use of "house rules", which could see a player receive a monetary bonus for landing directly on "Go" by dice roll, usually greater than the two-hundred dollars one receives for simply passing "Go".

Ergo 25 plus 200 equals 225, which equals 15 squared.

Answer: 343

Only the Great Pyramid of Giza still remains from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria have all, sadly, been lost to the winds of time.

Originally outlined in the fifth century CE by Martianus Capella, Medieval European Universities codified the seven "Liberal Arts" into two sections, the "Trivium" (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy).

The seven hills of early Rome, the Cermalus, Palatium, Velia , Cispius, Fagutali, Oppius and the Sucusa, figure prominently in Roman mythology, religion, and politics; indeed tradition holds the city was originally founded by Romulus on the Palatine Hill.

Ergo 7 times 7 times 7 equals 343.