How Many? Quiz
Test your knowledge of science, sports, and government. See how many of these How Many's you can answer.
How many
a) legs on a spider?
b) colors in the rainbow?
c) teams in the National Football League?
d) pounds in a ton?
e) members in the U.S. House of Representatives?
f) teeth in an adult?
g) justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?
h) lines in a sonnet?
i) years in a U.S. Senator's term of office?
j) innings in a baseball game?
k) February days in a leap year?
Answers:
a) 8 (By definition, spiders have 8 legs; insects have 6.)
b) 7 (The colors of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.)
c) 32 (The teams are divided by conference and region, with 4 teams in each of 8 categories.)
d) 2,000 (A short, or U.S., ton is 2,000 pounds; a long ton is 2,240 pounds; and a metric ton is 1,000 kilograms or slightly over 2, 240 pounds.)
e) 435 (The number is fixed by law but can be changed by Congress.)
f) 32 (This includes molars and wisdom teeth; children have 20 teeth.)
g) 9 (U.S. Justices are appointed by the President and must be approved by a majority vote in the Senate.)
h) 14 (Sonnets have 14 lines. While the rhyming schemes of sonnets vary, the typical Shakespearean sonnet follows an a-b, a-b, c-d, c-d, e-f, e-f, g-g format.)
i) 6 (Each senator is elected for a six-year term. There are 100 Senators in Congress, two serving from each state.)
j) 9 (When the score is tied, a game goes into extra innings. The longest games on record have played over 20 innings.)
k) 29 (Usually February has only 28 days, but the extra day is added every four years so that the calendar year can catch up with the solar year, as it actually takes a little more than 365 days for the Earth to make a complete circuit around the sun. Leap year has 366 days.)