| Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! |
40 |
200 |
November 8, 2022 |
| Normally, the human body contains this number of chromosomal pairs |
23 |
400 |
November 8, 2022 |
| There's a period before this number that comes before "Special" in the name of Donnie Van Zant's high-caliber 1970s rock band |
38 |
600 |
November 8, 2022 |
| The non-profit, non-partisan news service known as "The" this number covers the state of U.S. education |
74 |
800 |
November 8, 2022 |
| Buzz Lightyear announces feats of derring-do by exclaiming this 4-word phrase, & that's saying a lot |
To infinity and beyond |
1000 |
November 8, 2022 |
| This number is in Heinz' slogan |
57 |
200 |
November 20, 2020 |
| This 2-digit number is part of the title of the artwork seen here |
76 |
400 |
November 20, 2020 |
| Blood money is a synonym for this many pieces of silver, Judas' payment for betraying Jesus |
30 |
800 |
November 20, 2020 |
| Nate Silver is the editor in chief of this website |
FiveThirtyEight |
1000 |
November 20, 2020 |
| "The Main Street of America" was a nickname for this historic route |
66 |
|
November 20, 2020 |
| A bar mitzvah traditionally celebrates the coming of age of a boy who is this many years old |
13 |
200 |
September 16, 2020 |
| The not so fun game of cleaning up after a disgruntled card player has this number in its name |
52 |
400 |
September 16, 2020 |
| In baseball, the sum of balls & strikes represented by a full count |
5 |
600 |
September 16, 2020 |
| This number follows "Section" in the name of a housing voucher program for those with low income |
8 |
800 |
September 16, 2020 |
| The word myriad can refer to any large number of things, or specifically to this big number |
10,000 |
1000 |
September 16, 2020 |
| In musical slang this number refers to a piano |
eighty-eight |
200 |
November 12, 2013 |
| Number of permanent members of the U.N. security council |
five |
400 |
November 12, 2013 |
| A superfecta at Saratoga involves correctly guessing this number of horses in order of finish |
four |
600 |
November 12, 2013 |
| Number of hertz in a gigahertz |
a billion |
800 |
November 12, 2013 |
| Total cups in a gallon |
sixteen |
|
November 12, 2013 |
| The White House is this number Pennsylvania Avenue NW |
1600 |
200 |
May 21, 2012 |
| It follows "MI" in the name of Britain's domestic security service |
5 |
400 |
May 21, 2012 |
| Rome was built (not in a day) on this many hills |
7 |
600 |
May 21, 2012 |
| This interstate runs from Santa Monica to Jacksonville |
10 |
800 |
May 21, 2012 |
| An eye chart is usually read from a distance of this many feet |
20 |
1000 |
May 21, 2012 |
| A goose egg |
0 |
200 |
May 22, 2009 |
| Fourscore |
80 |
400 |
May 22, 2009 |
| Number of ounces in a Starbucks "venti"(hope you speak Italian) |
20 |
600 |
May 22, 2009 |
| A long-playing record, in RPMs |
33 1/3 |
800 |
May 22, 2009 |
| 3-digit number for a gross |
144 |
1000 |
May 22, 2009 |
| A silver jubilee honors this anniversary |
the 25th |
200 |
January 5, 2007 |
| To a Hungarian, this number is "hat", though an ancient Roman might ask "vi?" |
6 |
400 |
January 5, 2007 |
| On the U.S. flag, it's the lucky number of stripes directly to the right of (& not under) the star field |
7 |
600 |
January 5, 2007 |
| Bo Derek knows that Cape Verde's flag has this "perfect" number of stars |
10 |
800 |
January 5, 2007 |
| Herbert P. Windschitl released a 2003 book of this many "affirmations" (just enough for Scheherazade) |
1001 |
1000 |
January 5, 2007 |
| Number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous program |
12 |
200 |
December 15, 2006 |
| At sea level, water boils at this number of degrees Fahrenheit |
212 |
400 |
December 15, 2006 |
| In the Army, number of silver bars a captain has or silver stars a major general has |
2 |
600 |
December 15, 2006 |
| In Mexico, a quinceanera is a celebration of a girl's turning this age |
15 |
800 |
December 15, 2006 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Dublin, Ireland.) The beauty of Ireland has been summed up in the popular phrase, this many "shades of green" |
40 |
1000 |
December 15, 2006 |
| It precedes "Minutes" in the title of a popular Sunday night TV news program |
60 |
200 |
October 2, 2006 |
| Highest number you can throw with just one standard die |
6 |
400 |
October 2, 2006 |
| Of 80, 800 or 1800, the approximate length in miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline |
800 |
600 |
October 2, 2006 |
| By a cumulative count, you get a total of 364 gifts in this song, including 42 swans |
"The 12 Days of Christmas" |
800 |
October 2, 2006 |
| Bill Clinton is officially listed as this number U.S. president |
42 |
1000 |
October 2, 2006 |
| Dial this 3-digit number on the phone to get emergency help |
911 |
200 |
October 19, 2004 |
| If you labor 40 hours in a 5-day work week, you're averaging this many hours per work day |
8 |
400 |
October 19, 2004 |
| Synonyms for happiness include being "in seventh heaven" & "on" this number "cloud" |
9 |
600 |
October 19, 2004 |
| If you throw 12 strikes in a row in a game of bowling, you'll achieve this perfect score |
300 |
800 |
October 19, 2004 |
| When you celebrate a semicentennial, you're celebrating the passage of this many years |
50 |
1000 |
October 19, 2004 |
| The number of days the prophet Elijah spent on Mount Horeb, or Jesus spent in the wilderness |
40 |
200 |
January 8, 2002 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the eye doctor's office.) I'm standing this many feet from the eye chart, the numerator in a common fraction used to evaluate vision. |
20 |
400 |
January 8, 2002 |
| It's the atomic number of neptunium, the first transuranium element |
93 |
800 |
January 8, 2002 |
| In "Old Friends", Paul Simon wrote "How terribly strange to be" this age that he'll be in 2011 |
70 |
1000 |
January 8, 2002 |
| In Roman numerals this number's i.d. is ID |
499 |
|
January 8, 2002 |
| Usually, to begin a long distance call from your home phone, it's the first number you must press |
1 |
100 |
December 5, 2000 |
| In popular phrases it follows "gimme" & "take" |
Five |
200 |
December 5, 2000 |
| Years of bad luck associated with breaking a mirror |
7 |
300 |
December 5, 2000 |
| Total number of royal flushes that can be dealt out of one deck of cards |
4 |
400 |
December 5, 2000 |
| The difference between a million & a billion in the U.S. is just this many zeros |
3 |
500 |
December 5, 2000 |
| States in the United States in 1945 |
48 |
100 |
October 20, 2000 |
| Total number of quarts in 11 1/2 gallons |
46 |
200 |
October 20, 2000 |
| Squares in the opening of "The Brady Bunch" filled by kids |
6 |
300 |
October 20, 2000 |
| Keys on a standard piano |
88 |
400 |
October 20, 2000 |
| The third smallest prime number |
5 |
500 |
October 20, 2000 |
| "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye"; this many "blackbirds baked in a pie" |
Four and twenty |
100 |
April 13, 2000 |
| The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet has this many lines |
14 |
200 |
April 13, 2000 |
| (Alex reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange) Dec. 15, 1886 was the first time that more than this benchmark number of shares were traded in one single day here on the NYSE |
A million shares |
300 |
April 13, 2000 |
| In a 1998 documentary Myles Berkowitz tried to find Ms. Right & get a movie made in this many title "dates" |
20 |
500 |
April 13, 2000 |
| A catalog of athletic wear for women is named "Title" this, after part of a 1972 education law |
IX (9) |
|
April 13, 2000 |
| It's the number of winks or thieves |
40 |
100 |
February 5, 1999 |
| Number of the century that will begin January 1, 2001 |
21st |
200 |
February 5, 1999 |
| According to World Book, it's considered the IQ of the average person |
100 |
300 |
February 5, 1999 |
| According to the rhyme, number of whacks Lizzie gave her father |
41 |
400 |
February 5, 1999 |
| The Bible says the normal life span of man is threescore and ten, this many years |
70 |
500 |
February 5, 1999 |
| Currently, it's the age an American becomes eligible for "full retirement" Social Security benefits |
65 |
100 |
March 6, 1998 |
| The world's population first hit this round number around 1850; it's now about 6 times that |
One billion |
200 |
March 6, 1998 |
| In Revelation 13:8, it's given as "The Number of the Beast" |
666 |
300 |
March 6, 1998 |
| Malcolm X & Martin Luther King both died at this age, months short of a milestone birthday |
39 |
400 |
March 6, 1998 |
| Total number of seats in the U.S. Congress |
535 |
500 |
March 6, 1998 |
| In Jewish numerology, the Hebrew letter Aleph equals this |
1 |
100 |
September 19, 1997 |
| Number of players on an indoor volleyball team, or consecutive consonants in the surname of star Bob CTVRTLIK |
6 |
200 |
September 19, 1997 |
| Number of pieces of silver Judas received |
30 |
100 |
June 18, 1997 |
| A novena is a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers said over this many days |
9 |
200 |
June 18, 1997 |
| Hindsight of a Monday-morning quarterback |
20/20 |
300 |
June 18, 1997 |
| There are currently this many men on the U.S. Supreme Court |
7 |
400 |
June 18, 1997 |
| It's the radioactive isotope of strontium from atomic fallout sometimes found in food |
90 |
500 |
June 18, 1997 |
| You saw thousands of spots before your eyes in the 2 Disney movies about this number of dalmatians |
101 |
100 |
May 5, 1997 |
| In the Biblical flood, the rain lasted this many days; the water stayed 110 more |
40 |
200 |
May 5, 1997 |
| On a square, it's the total number of degrees of the interior angles |
360 |
300 |
May 5, 1997 |
| John Lennon & Paul McCartney were in their 20s when they wrote "When I'm" this old |
64 |
400 |
May 5, 1997 |
| From 1912 to 1959 there were this many states in the United States |
48 |
500 |
May 5, 1997 |
| Heinz' varieties |
57 |
100 |
February 28, 1997 |
| Days in a quarantine or in Lent |
40 |
200 |
February 28, 1997 |
| Joseph Heller's famous "catch" |
22 |
300 |
February 28, 1997 |
| Number of "Arabian Nights" |
1001 |
400 |
February 28, 1997 |
| Slang for a piano |
88 |
500 |
February 28, 1997 |
| On an outing to a baseball game, you'll usually see this number of innings |
9 |
100 |
November 17, 1995 |
| Winks in a catnap or days in Lent |
40 |
200 |
November 17, 1995 |
| Number of stars in the Big Dipper; it's two less than the number of stars that made up "The Hollywood Squares" |
7 |
300 |
November 17, 1995 |
| A dodecahedron has this many faces, one for every letter in its name |
12 |
400 |
November 17, 1995 |
| On a telephone, the letters GHI go with this number |
4 |
500 |
November 17, 1995 |
| It's ten hundreds |
1,000 |
100 |
October 27, 1994 |
| Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of this number |
13 |
200 |
October 27, 1994 |
| When you reverse direction, you're said to "do" this number |
180 |
300 |
October 27, 1994 |
| It's the number of items in a gross |
144 |
400 |
October 27, 1994 |
| It's the number of lines in a sonnet |
14 |
500 |
October 27, 1994 |
| 16th century author John Heywood wrote, "A woman hath" this many "lives like a cat" |
9 |
100 |
June 22, 1993 |
| This number was "enough" for Dick Van Patten |
8 |
200 |
June 22, 1993 |
| In lunch counter slang, this number means the chief soda jerk, as Barbara Feldon might know |
99 |
300 |
June 22, 1993 |
| A bouncer could tell you that to eject someone from a bar is to do this to him |
86 |
400 |
June 22, 1993 |
| The war with this number in its name erupted in central Europe in 1618 |
30 |
500 |
June 22, 1993 |
| When a girl reaches this "sweet" age, it's traditional to have a party for her |
16 |
100 |
May 6, 1993 |
| St. Patrick's Day is observed on this day in March |
17th |
200 |
May 6, 1993 |
| In "Treasure Island", the pirates sing of this many "men on the dead man's chest" |
15 |
300 |
May 6, 1993 |
| The U.S. Vice President gets a salute of this many guns, 2 fewer than the President |
19 |
400 |
May 6, 1993 |
| A haiku consists of this many syllables |
17 |
500 |
May 6, 1993 |
| In bowling, roll 12 strikes in a single game & you'll achieve this perfect score |
300 |
100 |
January 10, 1992 |
| On the FOX TV series, it's Brandon & Brenda's Beverly Hills zip code |
90210 |
200 |
January 10, 1992 |
| In the Grimm's fairy tale, Briar-Rose (or Sleeping Beauty) slept for this many years |
100 |
300 |
January 10, 1992 |
| In roulette, it's the highest number on which you can bet |
36 |
500 |
January 10, 1992 |
| A Japanese haiku consists of three lines & this many syllables |
17 |
|
January 10, 1992 |
| A dozen dozen |
144 |
300 |
October 5, 1990 |
| It's the total number of dots on a pair of dice |
42 |
400 |
October 5, 1990 |
| People generally work 40 hours out of this many in a week |
168 |
500 |
October 5, 1990 |
| A novena is a religious devotion in which prayers are said for this many days |
9 |
100 |
March 3, 1989 |
| Number of balls used to symbolize a pawnbroker's shop |
3 |
200 |
March 3, 1989 |
| Number of companies used for the Standard & Poor's stock index |
500 |
300 |
March 3, 1989 |
| Since 1960 all I.Q. tests have been based on this being the average score |
100 |
400 |
March 3, 1989 |
| Number of shots fired in an arrival salute to the V.P., any cabinet member or the speaker of the house |
19 |
500 |
March 3, 1989 |
| Number of dollars in a "C-note" |
100 |
100 |
June 1, 1988 |
| Referring to the keyboard, this number is a slang term for a piano |
88 |
200 |
June 1, 1988 |
| At a baseball game, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is traditionally played during this inning |
7th |
300 |
June 1, 1988 |
| In classical mythology, the number of Furies |
3 |
400 |
June 1, 1988 |
| Number of syllables in a traditional haiku poem |
17 |
500 |
June 1, 1988 |
| Having this number of corners gave the tricorn hat its name |
3 |
100 |
September 14, 1987 |
| Minimum number of people needed to form a "nuclear family" |
3 |
200 |
September 14, 1987 |
| According to the best seller & 1950s TV series title, number of lives led by Herbert A. Philbrick |
3 |
300 |
September 14, 1987 |
| In its entire-52-year history, the New Yorker magazine has had only this many different editors |
3 |
400 |
September 14, 1987 |
| Total number of times the number 3 has been the correct response in this category |
4 |
500 |
September 14, 1987 |