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Trivial numbers!

  • 05-04-2009 11:51am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭


    How about this folks? It’s like the counting thread(s) but a bit more interesting. You count up in ones but add a little factoid about the number. 1948 was the year in which the state of Israel was founded. 27 is the number of countries in the European Union. 101 is the smallest three digit prime number. 5 is the number of points in rugby for an unconverted try.

    It’ll get harder the further up we go.....!

    I’ll do the first few:

    1 = number of colours in the Libyan flag
    2 = number of popes called John Paul
    3 = the atomic number of Lithium
    4 = number of provinces in Ireland
    5 = the number denoting a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale
    6 = number of wives Henry VIII had
    7 = number of grooves on a 20c coin
    8 = the number of days after his birth when a Jewish boy is circumcised
    9 = number of countries bordering Germany


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭RHRN


    10 = Number of the outhalf in rugby

    Is that it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    RHRN wrote: »
    10 = Number of the outhalf in rugby

    Is that it?

    Well, that's the idea but people can just keep it going.

    11 = the day in September 2001 when the attacks on the NY twin towers were carried out.

    12 = ?
    13 = ?
    14 = ?
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    12 = number of buns in a dozen

    13 = number of buns in a bakers dozen!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭fcleere


    14 = johan cryuff's number


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    15 = Yossie Benayoun's squad number.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    16 = Sweet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    17 is the age of consent here in Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    18 = number of people killed in Buttevant train disaster in Cork in 1980.

    (Sorry to be grim!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    19 - Paul Hardcastle (we all remember 1985!!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭patmac


    20: The vision I used to have in both eyes up until recently! Old age is a fecker.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    21 - Legal age of Drinking in USA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    22 - Catch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    23 = number of chromosomal pairs in every human cell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭fcleere


    24=jack bauer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    25 - Percent of the Beatles named Ringo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    26 = The number of counties in the Republic of Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    27 = The planet Uranus has 27 moons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    A 28-sided polygon is called an icosikaioctagon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    29- Number of Days February has in a leap year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    30 = harminc in Hungarian.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    31 = seven months of the year have this many days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    32 - Number of Bits the Mega Drive was.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    33 - The age at which Jesus is reported to have died.

    34 - Double 17 on a dartboard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    35 = in number of frames, the longest possible final in the World Snooker Championships


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    36 -the square of 6 as well as a triangular number, making it a square triangular number, the smallest square triangular number other than 1 and also the only triangular number whose square root is also a triangular number.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    37 = in degrees celsius its the normal body temperature of a human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    38 Special - American rock band from the 70's
    39 Steps - Hitchcock Movie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    40 - the new 30. Also, the number of thieves Ali Baba had.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭patmac


    41= 1 Year after some block lost his virginity(poor I know)
    42= The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    43 - the number of points Ireland scored against England in their record breaking Six Nations win (43-13) at Croke Park in February 2007.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    44 = The number of US Presidents there have been.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,046 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    45 - .45 Automatic Colt Pistol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    46 - The age John F. Kennedy was when he died


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Photi


    47 - International dialling code for Norway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭kcools


    47 - The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are located 47 degrees apart.

    Damn, beaten to it!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    48 - Hours, Eddie Murphy


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    49 - ers San Fran American Footballers!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    50 - Hawaii 5 0h


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    51 st state a great film with Samuel Jackson


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    52 - number of cards in a pack minus the joker.

    (innit?)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    53 - Maximum number of Mondays in a year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    54 - Car 54 where are you?

    55 - Britvic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    56 - length of Togo's coastline in kilometres


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    57 - number of US states Barack Obama claimed to have visited on the campaign trail.

    (Yes, there are only 50.......)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    58 - Sum of first seven prime numbers (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    59 - Beethoven's Opus 59 consists of the three so-called Razumovsky Quartets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    60 often referred to as 3 score also the amount of seconds in a minute and the amount of minutes in an hour


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    61 - Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    58 - Number of counties in California


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    62 - number of countries that signed the Kellogg-Briand pact in 1928.

    This was an international treaty "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy."

    What did it achieve? Sweet F.A.


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