Its time for

The quiz that has the whole countrys

tongue wagging
 Maths Pub Quiz 2
Mathematical facts from around the
world.

Calculators at the ready.

 Question 1
The diameter of the Earth at the
Equator is 7926 miles.

What is the circumference of the

Earth at the Equator?
 Question 2
When you are born your body contains
350 bones, but 144 of these fuse after
childhood.

What percentage of your bones fuse?

 Question 3
Barbara Cartland wrote 723 novels in
her lifetime, completing a novel every 2
weeks.

For how many years was she writing?

 Question 4

A jiffy is 100th of a second.

How many jiffies are there in a day?

 Question 5
On average the Amazon has 2.1m of
rain per year.

How centimetres of rain is that per

month?
 Question 6
Statistics from the USA say that 1 in 4
American children is overweight.

If there are roughly 74 million

children in the USA, how many are
overweight?
 Question 7
The average human adult produces half
a litre of flatulent gas per day, spread
over 14 emissions (farts to you and me).

On average, how many millilitres of

gas is there in each emission?
 Question 8
In a lifetime the average human
produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.

How many pints is that?

 Question 9
The average human male contains
5.6 litres of blood, whereas a female
contains 4.5 litres.

What percentage increase is this

from female to male?
 Question 10
The world record for donut eating is
held by John Haight who ate 29 in 6
minutes.

What was his dph (donuts per

hour)?
 Question 11
There are 100,000 miles of blood
vessels in the average human body.

How many kilometres is that?

 Question 12
The world record for staying awake is
held by Randy Gardner, who
managed without sleep for 264
hours.

How many days is that?

 Question 13
The flight path from London to New
York heads north west over Greenland
before turning south west to New York.

Through what bearing do planes turn

over Greenland?
 Question 14
The average temperature on Earth is
15C. To covnert from Celcius to
Farenheit you use the formula:
[(9/5)C]+32

What is the average temperature of

Earth in Farenheit?
 Question 15
In 250BC Archimedes estimated Pi at
3.1418.

How many years ago was this?

 Answers to Maths Pub Quiz 2
1. 24900 miles (circumference of Earth)
2. 41.1% (fusing bones)
3. 27.8 years (Barbara Cartland)
4. 864,000,000 (jiffies in a day)
5. 17.5cm (rain in the Amazon per month)
 Maths Pub Quiz 2 Answers
6. 18.5 million (overweight US children)
7. 35.7ml (capacity of the average fart)
8. 80,000 (pints of saliva)
9. 24.4% (more blood in males than females)
10.290 dph (donuts per hour rate)
 Maths Pub Quiz 2 Answers
11. 160,000km (blood vessels)
12. 11 days (without sleep)
13. 270 (bearing turned from NW to SW)
14. 59F (average temperature on Earth)
15. 2260 years ago (Archimedes and Pi if in 2011
theres no Year Zero!)
 Tie Break Question

It takes 8 minutes for light to reach

us from the Sun.

If the speed of light is roughly

300,000,000 metres per second, how
many kilometres away is the Sun?
Answer to the Tie-Break

153,000,000 km
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