A Holiday Quiz

Numbers and Letters Quiz

Here is a quiz to try over the holidays. There’s a wide range of subjects including literature, film, sport, science, music, politics and general knowledge. There are even a few on the USA though, as a cockney, I make no apology for the several that are London-based.

This is a quiz best done in a group, in a brainstorming kind of way. Some could be researched on the internet but I’ve tried to make that difficult. It is, of course, perfectly legitimate to use the net to check any answers you come up with.

Each question comprises a pattern of numbers and/or letters. Some of these are sequences but some are fully ‘complete’ in themselves. The ones that are incomplete are followed by an ellipsis.

The answer wanted is not therefore to give the next term of the sequence but to identify what the groups of numbers and/or letters signify. If you can correctly decipher the first four questions (quite easy I think) you’ll get the idea. Allow yourself 2 points for a fully correct answer and 1 point for a near miss. Be warned though - some are deliberately obscure. I’d be astonished if anyone gets them all.

I’ll give the answers early on in the New Year though I may offer some clues in due course if I’m feeling charitable over the holiday (ie if my wife and daughter have correctly picked up my clues for presents!).

So, ‘Io Saturnalia’ and ‘Have a good Yule’, to one and all.

1. R, O, Y, G, B, I, V
2. M, T, W, T, …
3. 3.14159 …
4. J, F, M, A, M, J, …
5. 3:59.4
6. W, W, H, S, H, R, J, …
7. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, …
8. G, E, L, N, D, J, …
9. DE, PA, NJ, GA, CT, MA, …
10. 3, 19, 7, 16, 8, …
11. T, L, S, B, W, W, L, V, …
12. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …
13. M, V, E, M, J, S, …
14. 16, 16, 14, 8, 20
15. H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O, …
16. 1in 13983816
17. 60, 90, 108, 120, 128.57, 135, …
18. 11MU, 10A, 8TH, 7AV, 7L, …
19. 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, …
20. M, G, D, F, G, MT or S alternating, …
21. 261.6, 293.7, 329.6, 349.2, 392, 440, 493.9, …
22. CAD, AM, TH, JB, C D-L, JM, …
23. 60, 60, 200, 100, 100, 120, 140, 150, …
24. BMT 216A
25. 41 43 32 N, 49 56 49 W
26. A, P, SL, L, S, A, …
27. 68 – 27 – 90 – 19
28. L, G, A, S, W, E, P
29. 97-99, 88-91, 90-93, 92-95
30. 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, …
31. A, T, G, C, L, V, …
32. 2.71828 …
33. V, NU, SU, F, C, T, D, F, GB, …
34. 841/594, 594/420, 420/297, 297/210, 210/148, …
35. P 15-30, EDP 8-15, EDT 4- 8, EDC 3-5
36. PS, COS, POA, GOF, OOTP, HBP, DH
37. C. 3. 3.
38. GW, JA, TJ, JM, JM, JQA, AJ, …
39. O, T, T, F, F, S, S, …
40. PPM, WTB, AHDN, BFS, H, RS, …
41. 0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21, 2, …
42. CR, LALD, M, DAF, FRWL, DN, G, …
43. COA, AB, JS, AOC, KH, KP
44. LA 1-3, LB 4-7, GB 8-12, MB 13-17, FB 18-24, SB 25-30, etc.
45. C, E, T, M, T, E, P, U, C
46. K, M, R, C, MOL, WOB, F, …
47. 5 EF, 10 CD, 20 AS, 50 JW/MB
48. WH, PT, JP, TB, PD, CB, SM, …
49. φ = (1 + √5) ÷ 2
50. EP21, B17, CR14, W14, M13, TT11, …
51. MS, CM, MW, RG, MP, PP.
52. 2 – black/blue, 3 – red, 5 – black/grey, 10 – black/yellow, 13 – brown
53. WW, AR, JM, DR, RG, BR, GT, TV, …
54. 1 S, 2 M, 4 J, 6 R, 8 M, 12 S, 16 B, 20 N, 24 M, …
55. LS, B, SP, CL, H, TCR, OC, …
56. 3 E, 6 P, 7 AOD, 8 TLS, 9 C
57. WS, RB, JH, AP, WK, TP, GB, HC, …
58. AH, JP, JH, DH, WS
59. YB, BD, SM, CB, JC, RV, HB
60. MJ, KR, BJ, IS, DT, TC
61. 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000
62. TM, RG, CH, JC, ZP, AF, KH, JW, …
63. GWR, LMS, LNER, SR
64. – 27 A, 14T, 37 C, 41 C, 54 N, …
65. C (L), H (A), G (JH), G (M), Z (HM)
66. BB, JS, PG, PD, DW, HH and …
67. T, B, O, N, T, B, T, I, T, Q, …
68. 1S, 2BG, 3B, 4C, 5C, 6EH, 7FG, …
69. HRB, EE, LEGO, RFS, EAW
70. 212 – 736 – 5000
71. C, S, B-H, M, S, M
72. TKS, THL, SM, NCFOM, TD, C, …
73. 1 LY = 5.87849981 × 10¹² M
74. T, T, S, S, RM, PM, BM, T
75. D, D, P, V, C, C, D, B