Two Hundred Trivia Quiz

Answer: 55.556%

So it's 200 out of 360. The division leaves us at 55.555... Since the number 5 repeats without end, this number is still a rational number because it can be expressed as a fraction, i.e. 200/360, or 20/36, or 10/18, and so on.

Answer: Job

Most Bible commentaries accept that Job's age when his troubles began was 70. Job 42:16 states, "After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years." So he would have been around the age of 210 when he died.

Methuselah lived to the age of 969, Moses to the age of 120, Noah to 950, and Abraham to 175. Jesus was crucified at the age of 33.

Answer: Charleston Peak

Charleston Peak is the official name of this 11,916-foot peak (3,632 m), although it is often called Mount Charleston. Although it is only the eighth-highest peak in Nevada, because it is so well separated from nearby peaks, it is the state's most prominent peak, with a prominence of 8,241 ft (2,512 m). Surprisingly, it is also the eighth-most prominent peak in the lower 48 states!

Answer: Motorcycle race

Yamaha is also the manufacturer with the most wins as of the writing of this quiz, with 22.

Beginning in 1937, the race was run on a beach racing venue in Daytona, moving to the Daytona International Speedway Course in 1961. It is run in 57 laps for an exact distance of 200.07 miles (321.98 kilometers).

Answer: False. It was "Rode the six hundred."

The line "Rode the six hundred." appears twice in the first stanza, as well as at the end of both the second and third stanzas. The last line of stanza four is "Not the six hundred." and the last line of stanza five is "Left of six hundred." The poem's final line is "Noble six hundred."

Answer: the Pax Romana

Sometimes called the "Pax Augusta," the Pax Romana began with Octavian becoming Rome's first emperor, Augustus, in 27 BC, thus ending the Roman Republic. It concluded with the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in AD 180, for a period of about 207 years. The Roman Empire then went on in some form until 1453.

China's Zhou Dynasty was the culture's longest, lasting from 1046 BC to 256 BC, for a period of 790 years. The Hundred Years' War lasted 116 years, from 1337 to 1453. Hitler's "Thousand-Year Reich" began with his accession as Germany's chancellor in 1933 until the fall of Berlin in 1945, for a grand total of 13 years.

Answer: Richard Petty

Richard Petty's first race was in 1958, and in 1959 he was Rookie of the Year on the Grand National Series. He retired after the 1992 season, the same year he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush. At his retirement, Petty held the record for Daytona 500 wins, with seven, as well as being the only NASCAR racer with 200 victories.

Answer: July 19

Interesting events on 19 July through the centuries include Rome's Circus Maximus catching fire in the year 64, the end of Lady Jane Grey's reign as the Nine Day Queen in 1553, the first Wimbledon Tennis Championship being won by Spencer W. Gore in 1877, and the first Tour de France being won by Frenchman Maurice Garin in 1903.

Answer: Tacitus

The earlier of the two men of tat name, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, is believed to have lived from 56 to 120. As a historian, he is known chiefly for two major writings, the "Annals" and the "Histories."

The emperor born in the year 200 was Marcus Claudius Tacitus. He circulated copies of the historian Tacitus' work, claiming to be descended from him, a claim that is not accepted today. He acquired some acclaim for successful campaigns against the Goths and the Heruli. He died from a fever while traveling to Gaul to defend it against incursions by the Franks and Alemanni.

Answer: 1976

The American Bicentennial was celebrated in 1976, 200 years after American independence from Britain was declared in 1776. Ironically, our town was founded in 1877, so when our second son came along the year after his brother, the younger boy, who was our community's first baby that year, became our town's Centennial Baby!

The American Centennial was celebrated in 1876, 100 years after the Declaration of Independence. Since that was the year Colorado was admitted to the Union, it became known as the Centennial State.

Answer: REBECCA

Since the letter C represents the number 100 in Roman numerals, Rebecca contains the number 200. The only other choice in the question with a double Roman numeral that can represent a number is Emma's two Ms, which together would make 2,000. Since Sally's Ls represent 50, however, two of them do not represent numbers, since two 50s equal 100, which is the letter C. Similarly, Teddi's Ds each represent 500, and two of them would be 1,000, which is already taken by the letter M.

Answer: Don't Be Cruel

Although Elvis Presley was not the first to record "Hound Dog," he did have a hit with it, along with its flip side, "Don't Be Cruel." "Hound Dog" was ranked by "Rolling Stone" as the Number 19 best song.

Also released in 1957, "Great Balls of Fire" was a hit for Jerry Lee Lewis and held "Rolling Stone's" position Number 96.

Chuck Berry recorded "Johnny B. Goode" in 1958, earning spot number nine, while his "Roll Over Beethoven" from 1956 earned the rank at Number 97.

Answer: New York Avenue

New York Avenue is the last orange property before Free Parking. Mediterranean Avenue is purple and the first property past Go!. It sells for a paltry $60. Ventnor Avenue is yellow and costs $260. Park Place is one of the two most coveted properties, along with Boardwalk. That blue property costs $350.

Each Railroad can also be had for exactly $200.

Answer: Cruiserweight

These were the weight classes agreed upon by the World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Association (WBA), and International Boxing Federation (IBF). The World Boxing Organization has not yet adopted these standard names.

The heaviest weight class, Heavyweight, was for boxers over 200 pounds.

Answer: Mississippi

Mississippi was the second of four states to enter the Union in successive Decembers: Indiana (11 December, 1816), Mississippi (10 December, 1817), Illinois (3 December, 1818), and Alabama (14 December, 1819). Maine (5 March, 1820) and Missouri (10 August, 1821) would complete a string of six states (three free and three slave) entering the Union in consecutive years.

Answer: Al Spalding

Although he only played seven seasons in the Major Leagues, Albert Spalding won 252 games on the mound, getting his 200th win in only his fifth season, in 1875. One of the game's pioneers, he was one of the first players to wear a glove and later was co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods. He was also an executive with the White Sox and entered the Hall of Fame in that capacity.

Answer: Cigarettes

Cigarettes are traditionally sold in packs and cartons. A pack of cigarettes has a 20 count and a carton holds ten packs, or 200 cigarettes.

Golf balls are generally packaged in boxes of 12, but are not traditionally referred to as being packaged in cartons.

Egg cartons traditionally hold a dozen eggs.

Milk, being a liquid, cannot be quantified by units in their cartons, other than ounces.

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer, DDE's great-great-great-grandfather, emigrated from Karlsbrunn in the Saarland, to Pennsylvania, 1741. General Eisenhower's parents both moved to Kansas, (his father from Pennsylvania, and his mother from Virginia), where they met and married.

Maurice, Count of Saxony, was originally a soldier in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire before serving France. His German name was Hermann Moritz Graf von Sachsen.

While bad weather was in large part responsible for the failure of the 1744 invasion of Britain, Eisenhower was able to execute D-Day on schedule despite less-than-ideal weather.

Answer: Tenscore years ago

The definition of "score" as a total of twenty items or years is related to the use of the verb, to score, to mean to notch or mark a surface as, as an aid in counting a large number of items. The theory is that each twentieth notch was made larger or more prominent to aid in quickly calculating the total number of notches.

Answer: :19.78

In 2009 in Berlin, Bolt set the World Record for the 200 that was in effect at the Rio Olympics. That time was :19.19. At the same meet he also broke the World Record in the 100 meters. At the end of the season the IAAF named him "World Athlete of the Year" for the second consecutive time.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Bolt set the Olympic Record in the 200 at :19.32. In the same meet, he also won the 100 meters, setting a new Olympic Record in that event. This also made him history's first runner to win consecutive 100 and 200 meter Olympic events.