One to Ten Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nines

"Light she was and like a fairy, and her shoes were number nines,
Herring boxes without topses, sandals were for Clementine."

Answer: One

The Pobble, poor fellow, had no toes, although, as everyone knows, Pobbles are happier without their toes!

Answer: Ten

There are ten-a goalie, three offensive (or attack) players, three defensive players, and three "midfield" players, who play both offense and defense.

Answer: Six

LXIII and LVII are Roman numerals. L=50, X=10, V-5, and I=1.

LXIII=63
LVII=57

The difference is 6.

Answer: 8

Arachnids, when mature, must have eight legs; however, they can also have additional types of "appendages". One type is known as chelicerae, which are mouth parts used to grip food. Another is known as pedipalps, which can be used for a variety of things including reproduction, locomotion, defense and capturing prey.

Answer: Four

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are from the Book of Revelations in the Bible. There are some varying accounts of what they represent, but a common interpretation is that they stand for Conquest, War, Famine and Death. They come to create apocalypse upon the earth as a herald of the final judgment of God. Fun guys...

Answer: Five

"The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" was the first of twelve volumes, written between 1881 and 1916, that dealt with a family of five children being reared by their mother in poverty--but bearing their lot with fortitude and good spirits. They have a variety of adventures, and are eventually "rescued" by a wealthy family, who hire their mother as a housekeeper and take good care of the little Peppers.

Answer: Seven

The House of the Seven Gables, also known as the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, is an real house located in Salem, Massachusetts. It was built in the 1660s by one Captain Turner and later changed hands to be owned by the Ingersoll family. In 1850, when Hawthorne penned his novel, the house was owned by his cousin, Susanna Ingersoll.

In 1908 it was purchased to be restored, and is no longer in use as a private residence. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Answer: Two

Deoxyribonucleic acid is usually just known as DNA, the molecule containing genetic information needed for life. Although there was a body of research dating back to the latter half of the 19th century identifying a "building block" molecule, its structure was first described in the 1950s by James Watson, an American, and Francis Crick, a British physicist.

A helix is a three-dimensional curved shape that winds around a cylinder (real or imagined). A double helix consists of two intertwined helices, somewhat like two snakes coiling about one another.

A strand of DNA roughly resembles a spiral staircase.

Answer: 3

A prime number is generally considered to be one that is positive, and that has exactly two positive integer divisors: the number one and the number itself. By this definition, two is the smallest prime number and three is the second-smallest.