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Quiz: How much do you know about numbers?

We all know that 42 is the most important, but anyway…
10.00pm, 16 Oct 2021
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YOU MIGHT HAVE noticed a lot of numbers this week.

Numbers of all different shapes and sizes. Maybe some numbers you hadn’t even seen before.

There were all contained in Budget 2022 – and so, without further ado, let’s test your knowledge of more numbers.

An easy one to start - which digit is this?
One
Four

Eight
Ten
What about this numeral?
Eleven
Twenty-five

Thirty-eight
One hundred
I've been informed by an editor I need to broaden this quiz out further. What is the third decimal point of pi?
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1
7

8
9
Charles Ingram controversially won £1 million with this next one: A number one followed by one hundred zeros is known by what name?
Googol
Megatron

Gigabit
Nanomole
The CSO's latest estimate of Ireland's population was made in April 2021 - what was it?
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4.53m
4.99m

5.01m
6.01m
What phone number replaced 999 in The IT Crowd?
69 69 420
1800 P-L-E-A-S-E-H-E-L-P-T-H-I-S-A-N-E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y

0118 999 888 999 199 123 3
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
What type of numerals are we looking at here?
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Western Arabic
Eastern Arabic

Ogham
Urdu
'Ichi' translates as 'one' in which language?
Japanese
Cantonese

Mandarin
Irish
I made you some millionaire's shortbread to enjoy with this next one: what's one million million?
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A billion
A trillion

Quadrillion
Quintrillion
Are you enjoying that now?
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Yes, thank you Nicky, you truly are an amazing baker.
No, it tastes like a dirty sewer rat.
What's the opposite of a prime number?
Subprime
Natural

Composite
Algebraic
This fella, Jeremy Harper, holds the Guinness World Record for the highest number counted to out loud. What was it?
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15
500,000

1,000,000
10,034,204
How many is a baker's dozen?
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11
12

13
14
What is e? It is also known as Euler's number (that's a picture of Euler himself there, which probably doesn't help you whatsoever).
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2.71828
6.34 (double pi)

-1
That's a matter for Euler and not me.
What is 420 divided by 6.08?
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66
67

68
69 (nice)
Answer all the questions to see your result!
You scored out of !
You are 69
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You're one of those fancy-dan calculators everyone had in secondary school
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You are Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You are a classic and robust abacus
Share your result:
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You scored out of !
You are this retro calculator that spells out BOOBS
Share your result:
You scored out of !
You are The Count
Share your result:

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