Math's Quiz 2

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Math's Quiz 2

• Select a Question Quiz

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Instructions

• Two teams
• Each team picks a question and gets 2 minutes to
  come up with their answer to the question.
• You get a mark for each question answered
  correctly.
• Continue until all the questions have been
  selected.

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Question 1 How many months of the year have 28
days ?
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Question 2 What was the largest island in the
world before they discovered Australia ?
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Question 3 If 2 is a couple and 3 is a triple
what are 4 and 5 ?
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Question 4 What have Napoleon, Julius Caesar
and Henry VIII in common ?
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Question 5 What is wrong with the diagram shown
?
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Question 6 I have two coins in my pocket and one
of them is not a 50p piece. The coins add up to
60p. What are the coins ?
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Question 7 How much earth is there in a hole the
shape of a cuboid and measuring 2m by 3m by
4m.
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Question 8 How many pies can you eat on an
empty stomach ?
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Question 9 What word in the English dictionary
does everyone in Dundee pronounce incorrectly
?
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Question 10 If King Kong went to Hong Kong and
played ping pong and died, what did they put on
the coffin ?
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Question 11 According to the bible how many of
each type of animal did Moses take into the ark
?
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Question 12 What do you call someone who plays
with fireworks and does not heed the
instructions on the box ?
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Question 13 What do you find right in the centre
of Edinburgh ?
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Question 14 What comes first in a year
Christmas day or New Years day ?
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Question 15 I buy a painting for 60, sell it ten
minutes later for 70, buy it back 10 minutes
later still for 80 then sell it finally for
90. How much of a profit did I make ?
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Question 16 A woman bought a cake (cuboid)
measuring 2m by 2m by 2m for 8. When she got
it home she found there was a big hole in the
middle measuring 1m by 1m by 1m. How much
should the cake have cost her ?
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Question 17 They come to see me in there
thousands. I got fed up hearing their car horns
tooting as they approached my house, so I put a
notice up above the entrance to my house asking
them to sound their horn just once and then to
come right in. I can now rest in peace. Who am
I ?
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Question 18 Why is it that a person living in
Dundee cannot be buried in Edinburgh ?
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Question 19 Which liquid can you make from the
letters which lie between G and P in the
alphabet?
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Question 20 A train is coming down the track
towards you. What would you say was the correct
'English' to use a) Here she comes. b) Here he
comes. c) Here it comes.
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Answer to Question 1- All months have 28 days,
some of them have more but they all have at least
28 days. The answer is therefore 12
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Answer to Question 2- Australia was the
biggest island even though it had not been
discovered it was obviously still there. The
answer is therefore Australia
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Answer to Question 3- 45 9 It is as simple
as that.
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Answer to Question 4- They are all dead. Not
a lot more you can say about this question.
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Answer to Question 5- There is absolutely
nothing wrong with the diagram. The heavier of
the two weights goes down as shown.
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Answer to Question 6- The coins are 50p and
10p. While one of the coins is not a 50p piece,
the other is
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Answer to Question 7- None
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Answer to Question 8- One, because once you eat
one your stomach is no longer empty.
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Answer to Question 9- The word is
incorrectly How else would you expect them to
say it?
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Answer to Question 10- A lid.
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Answer to Question 11- Moses did not take any
animals into the Ark I am afraid , it was Noah
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Answer to Question 12- An Ambulance
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Answer to Question 13- The letter b
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Answer to Question 14- New Years day comes
first and then it is a long wait till Christmas.
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Answer to Question 15- You have made a profit
of 20
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Answer to Question 16- You see a cake costing 8
in the shops then the cake costs 8 . The fact
that there is a big hole in it is besides the
point.
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Answer to Question 17- TutanKhamun ( toot and
come in)
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Answer to Question 18- Perhaps when they die you
can bury them in Edinburgh. While they are living
I do not think they would want to be buried
anywhere.
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Answer to Question 19- From H to O ie H2O you
get water.
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Answer to Question 20- Here it comes. It is a
mail train.