It is time to start thinking “numbers” as all 25 questions below have a number in the answer – which should keep you amused for a while.
1. What seven words precede, “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum”?
2. Which group had hits with the songs “Sherry” and “Walk like a Man”?
3. Katy Cropper was the first woman to win which TV competition?
4. How are War, Famine, Death and Pestilence collectively known?
5. How many cornets followed 76 trombones in a big parade?
6. What was Michael Jackson’s first UK number one as a soloist?
7. In which 1966 film did Raquel Welch play a cave girl?
8. In which TV series did the Fisher family run a funeral parlour?
9. Billy Pilgrim is the main character in which novel?
10. In which TV show does Kiefer Sutherland play Jack Bauer?
11. The cast of which TV show recorded the album “Hedgehog Sandwich” ?
12. How are Valentine and Proteus known in the title of a play?
13. In which TV series did Nicholas Lyndhurst play Ashley Phillips?
14. What song provided the first chart entry for Queen?
15. In which 1960 film did Elizabeth Taylor win an Oscar for her role as a prostitute?
16. How are Aramis, Porthos and Athos collectively known?
17. In which 1987 film did Anthony Hopkins play Frank P Doel?
18. What is triskaidekaphobia the fear of?
19. What was the London address of Sherlock Holmes?
20. Which 80s hit provided the only chart topper for Paul Hardcastle?
21. In cricket how many runs comprise a double Nelson?
22. How many years of marriage are celebrated on an Emerald anniversary?
23. In bingo slang what number is represented by the term, a duck and a crutch?
24. In which 2001 film did Matt Damon play Linus Caldwell?
25. Which number one hit opens with the line, “You and I in a little toy shop”?
Answers
1. Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
2. Four Seasons
3. One Man and His Dog
4. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
5. 110
6. One day in your life
7. One Million Years BC
8. Six Feet Under
9. Slaughterhouse Five
10. 24
11. Not The Nine O’clock News
12. Two Gentlemen of Verona
13. The Two of Us
14. Seven Seas of Rhye
15. Butterfield 8
16. The Three Musketeers
17. 84 Charing Cross Road
18. The number 13
19. 221b Baker Street
20. 19
21. 222
22. 55
23. 27
24. Ocean’s Eleven
25. 99 Red Balloons
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