Advent
Quiz 2007
This quiz
is for the 25 days of Advent plus Christmas Day. There is one question for each day, and the
answer to each question is one of the numbers 1 to 25, each number used only
once. The number of the answer does not
in most cases correspond with the number of the questions, which are in no
particular order. However, you will find
that when the first letters of the questions are arranged in the numerical
order of the answers, they will spell out a seasonal quotation. Good luck!
1. The humps on an Arabian camel? 
2. ‘Green pastures’ feature in which
number psalm, often used at funeral services?
3. Years of plenty and years of famine
in
4. The number of stripes on the US
flag?
5. Rock musician Buddy Holly died in a
plane crash at what tender age?
6. Always how many points on a
properly-formed snowflake?
7. Restriction to what minimum age of
viewer was indicated by the old X-certificate BBFC film classification between
1970 and 1982?
8. Presidents’ faces carved on Mount
Rushmore in the
9. Only people of what minimum age may
drive a large road-roller in the
10. 
‘Onze’ in French means what?
11. How many little boys, Rolf?
12. According to Gene Pitney, how many hours from
13. Number of imperial gallons of beer in a
firkin?
14. Minimum age for driving mopeds on British
roads?
15. Europium minus Cadmium, atomically speaking?
16. Rameses II was king during which ancient
Egyptian
17. How many lines in a sonnet?
18. Leo is what number in the normal sequence of
the signs of the Zodiac starting with Aries?
19. Each of them stillborn or dying in infancy,
how many children were born to Queen Anne?
20.
21. Into the champagne bottle known as a
Methuselah, how many standard bottles could be poured?
22. Years in a china wedding anniversary?
23. Grandson of Edward III, Richard II was how
old when Edward’s death brought him to the throne?
24. Force number of a hurricane on the standard
Beaufort scale?
25. Number of cents in a US quarter?
Scoring:
one mark per question, plus a bonus of 5 marks for the quotation.