The answers to the ten questions below are all numbers. They are all whole numbers, and all ten answers are different. If you add up the ten answers the total should be 13.
1. How many items are in a Baker's Dozen?
2. How many legs does a fly have?
3. How many days of the week begin with vowels?
4. What number is Cinco in Spanish?
5. How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of draughts?
6. How many characters are in the title of Walt Disney's first full-length animated film?
7. How many lines of symmetry does a square have?
8. For how many days and nights did it rain in the story of Noah?
9. After how many laps of an indoor 3,000 metres is the bell rung?
10. What is the largest negative number that contains all five vowels when written as words? (NB -1 is bigger than -2)
The answers are:
- 13
- Six (It's an insect)
- Zero
- Five
- 24 (Twelve each)
- Eight (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves)
- Four (Two through opposite corners and two through the middles of opposite sides)
- 40
- 14 (The race is 15 laps of 200 metres with the bell rung before the last lap)
- -101 (Minus One Hundred and One)