BRAINtest

This week all answers contain numbers.

1. How many horizontal lines would appear with a treble clef in European sheet music?

2. Name the 2006 film about the Battle of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars. The film stars Gerard Butler and Lena Headey and was directed by Zach Snyder.

3. Name the 1995 crime thriller directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey.

4. With how many provinces does the Western Cape share a border?

5. How many weeks prior to Easter do Christians celebrate Palm Sunday?

6. What number is known as a gross?

7. How many steps are there in the title of the John Buchan novel that was made into a film by Alfred

Hitchcock in 1935?

8. How many birds feature in the title of the Bob Marley song that has the lyrics “Don’t worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing gonna be all right ...?”

9. What number is worn by AB de Villiers in limited-overs cricket? A) 7, B) 17, C) 23, D) 99

10. Which TV drama that spanned nine seasons featured Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer?

11. Of what number are triskadecaphobics fearful?

12. In geography, how many provinces and territories does Canada have? A) 8, B) 13, C) 17, D) 24

13. In chess, what is the theoretical maximum number of queens either player could attain?

14. Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March. Which date in

March is the Ides of March — a day notable as a deadline for settling debts in the Roman Empire?

15. How many days long was the brief war in 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbours (also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War)?

16. A poem written in Iambic pentameter would have how many syllables per line? A) Five, B) Seven, C) Nine, D) Ten

17. What number goes after “B” to make the name of a band that have hits with “Love Shack” and “(Meet) The Flintstones”?

18. In computing, how many bits are there in a byte?

19. What is the boiling point of water in degrees Fahrenheit? A) 78, B) 156, C) 200, D) 212

20. What number is associated with the San Francisco NFL team? Answers on this page