Try to answer all the questions without looking
up the answers. A score of over 40 is certainly a heroic
accomplishment.
Have fun !
Peter Schmies
How many ...
1. ... Graces in mythology ?
2. ... handles has an amphora ?
3. ... planets of our solar system have no moon ?
4. ... Punic Wars ?
5. ... volumes of nitric acid contains Aqua regia (hydrochloric
acid = 3 volumes) ?
6. ... lines per column has the Gutenberg Bible ?
7. ... atoms in each molecule has ozone ?
8. ... symphonies did Brahms compose ?
9. ... balls, including the cue ball, at the beginning of a
snooker game ?
10. ... legs had Odin's horse Sleipnir ?
11. ... raised dots in the Braille System to indicate the letter
Y ?
12. ... months have 31 days ?
13. ... states (=Bundesländer) has Germany ?
14. ... locks has the Suez Canal ?
15. ... Secretaries-General of the UN from 1946 through 1998 ?
16. ... toes has the foot of an ostrich ?
17. ... colors in the Libyan flag ?
18. ... karat has pure gold ?
19. ... (main) periods belonged to the Mesozoic Era ?
20. ... inches is the diameter of an ice hockey puck ?
21. ... persons are to be seen in Edouard Manet's famous 1863-painting
,,Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass) ?
22. ... laws concerning planetary motion did Kepler state?
23. ... edges has an icosahedron ?
24. ... humps has the Bactrian camel ?
25. ... Characters in search of an author in Pirandello's play ?
26. ... prime numbers between 1 and 100 ?
27. ... yards in a furlong ?
28. ... Labors of Hercules ?
29. ... people on Noah's Ark (according to Genesis) ?
30. ... °Fahrenheit equal 10° Celsius ?
31. ... suras has the Koran ?
32. ... vertebrae in the neck of a giraffe ?
33. ... parts has a great gross ?
34. ... syllables in a haiku ?
35. ... sides has a hendecagon ?
36. ... bytes are there exactly in a megabyte ?
37. ... theses did Martin Luthor publish in 1517 ?
38. ... players has a volleyball team ?
39. ... letters in the Greek alphabet ?
40. ... sheets of paper has a printer's ream ?
41. ... years in a lustrum ?
42. ... countries border on Bolivia ?
43. ... human deciduous teeth ?
44. ... pieces has a tangram game ?
45. ... dashes represent the numeral 0 in International Morse
Code ?
46. ... rays has the Japanese chrysanthemum badge (kikumon) ?
47. ... inert gases ?
48. ... spikes on the crown of New York's Statute of Liberty ?
49. ... dollars or pounds is a grand ?
50. ... popes were of English birth ?
51. ... counters altogether in backgammon ?
52. ... strokes under par is an Eagle at golf ?
53. ... cases has the Russian language ?
54. ... masts has a brig ?
55. ... operas did Beethoven compose ?
56. ... successful manned landings were made to the surface of
the moon during the Apollo missions ?
57. ... lines has a triolet ?
58. ... Presidents' heads are carved into Mount Rushmore/South
Dakota ?
59. ... daughters has Shakespeare's King Lear ?
60 ... factors (including 1 and the number itself) has 234 ?
View the Answers
Return to the Uncommonly Difficult I.Q. Tests page.