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Noughty Noughty Trivia Quiz
Let's have a game of noughts and...noughts. Match the number words on the left to the number of noughts - or zeroes - each has from the column on the right. (As written in the US 'short scale' system.)
I have given you clues to some of them.
A matching quiz
by darksplash.
Estimated time: 3 mins.
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right
side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
Questions
Choices
1. Million
Twenty-seven
2. Billion
Eighteen
3. Decillion
Twenty-four
4. Quadrillion
Twenty-one
5. Nonillion
(Clue: Think pieces of silver.)
Thirty
6. Sextillion
(Clue: Will it get you the key to the door?)
Twelve
7. Octillion
(Clue: The age at which many movie and music stars were dying to get into a club.)
Nine
8. Septillion
(Clue: Jack Bauer would know the answer.)
Fifteen
9. Quintillion
(Clue: This gets my vote.)
Six
10. Trillion
Thirty-three
Select each answer
Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Million
Answer: Six
This can be written in two groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
The first movie to cost more than $1m was "Foolish Wives", which cost $1.104m in 1922. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim, who also led the acting cast.
2. Billion
Answer: Nine
This can be written in three groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
In 1988, "Titanic" became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Meanwhile, "A Billion And One Dalmatians" was the number of doggies left off at Splash's Rest Home For Pampered Pooches, according to a famed quiz on this site.
3. Decillion
Answer: Thirty-three
This can be written in 11 groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
4. Quadrillion
Answer: Fifteen
This can be written in five groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
$1 quadrillion is a bit more than four times the 2018 US National Debt.
Or another way of looking at it, in 2011 it was estimated that the total value of the economic output produced by the human race to that time was $2.3 quadrillion.
5. Nonillion
(Clue: Think pieces of silver.)
Answer: Thirty
This can be written in ten groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
6. Sextillion
(Clue: Will it get you the key to the door?)
Answer: Twenty-one
This can be written in seven groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
7. Octillion
(Clue: The age at which many movie and music stars were dying to get into a club.)
Answer: Twenty-seven
This can be written in nine groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
The clue refers to the so-called '27 Club', the age at which many well known stars of music, stage and screen met their deaths.
8. Septillion
(Clue: Jack Bauer would know the answer.)
Answer: Twenty-four
This can be written in eight groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
Astronomers, meanwhile, estimate that if you multiply the number of stars in our galaxy by the number of galaxies in the Universe, you get approximately one septillion stars. But they do not know for sure, and there may be even more.
9. Quintillion
(Clue: This gets my vote.)
Answer: Eighteen
This can be written in three groups of six zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
10. Trillion
Answer: Twelve
This can be written in four groups of three zeroes after the figures and before the decimal point.
A trillion and four is the number of stars in the sky, according to the song "Jennifer's Rabbit", by Tom Paxton. This was proved by Jennifer and her rabbit (along with a turtle and a kangaroo
and seventeen monkeys from the city zoo) when they counted them one night.
In 2018, the National Debt of the USA was estimated at $21 trillion.
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