Memorize these and you could recognize 21.8% of all Mathematics clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 48 | Total number of Miss Americas in calendar year 1984 |
| 2 | 7 | 36 | Number of players in a string septet |
| 3 | 12 | 28 | # of buttons on face of standard touchtone phone |
| 4 | 5 | 27 | Dave Clark's 1960s rock group had this many members |
| 5 | 4 | 27 | Total number of humps of 1 Bactrian camel & 2 dromedaries |
| 6 | 6 | 26 | Of the 36 rolls on a pair of dice, you have this many ways to roll a seven, whether you "root" for it or not |
| 7 | 8 | 25 | Number of strings on a standard mandolin |
| 8 | 2 | 24 | The number of senators divided by the number of states |
| 9 | 10 | 19 | Sum of the fingers & toes on your hands & right foot minus the toes on your left foot |
| 10 | 9 | 18 | Total of chairs, bowls of porridge, & beds Goldilocks tried |
| 11 | 13 | 18 | Sum of the digits in "THX-1138" |
| 12 | 1 | 18 | In a computer's binary place system, 0 is "current off" & this number is "current on" |
| 13 | 40 | 17 | In 1932, Walter Pitkin published a book that maintained "Life Begins at" this age |
| 14 | 30 | 15 | If we were to end this category the way a reporter finishes an article, we'd put this number on it here |
| 15 | 21 | 15 | Approximate # of miles covered when taking a giant step in 7 league boots |
| 16 | 17 | 14 | "She was just" this, "you know what I mean? And the way she looked was way beyond compare" |
| 17 | three | 13 | Number of lives led by Richard Carlson while portraying Herbert Philbrick |
| 18 | 14 | 13 | Number of days--or nights--in a fortnight |
| 19 | 100 | 13 | Sesquiduplicate means "twice & a half as great", like the number 250 from this number |
| 20 | 0 | 13 | The numbers of U.S. Interstate Highways that run coast to coast end in this digit |
| 21 | Zero | 13 | States outside the contiguous U.S.minus people on the dais behind the president at the State of the Union |
| 22 | Seven | 12 | When "General Hospital" began in 1963 it was set on this floor of the hospital, also the dial position of ABC in L.A. & NYC |
| 23 | 24 | 12 | Anything that occurs semimonthly will happen this many times in 1 year |
| 24 | 18 | 12 | Big "Ten"? In that sports conference, there are currently 2 fewer than twice that number of member schools, or this many |
| 25 | 16 | 12 | "Ooh, you came out of a dream, peaches & cream, lips like strawberry wine, you're" this |
| 26 | 15 | 12 | The next number in the series of 1, 3, 6, 10, ____ |
| 27 | Four | 11 | Each day, Art Linkletter interviewed this many children on his "House Party" show |
| 28 | 20 | 11 | A standard distance vision test is given this many feet from the eye chart |
| 29 | Euclid | 10 | Trigonometry is another angle of the geometry developed in his "Elements" |
| 30 | 88 | 10 | Referring to the keyboard, this number is a slang term for a piano |
| 31 | one | 9 | In a 1969 Three Dog Night ballad, this number is "the loneliest number that you'll ever do" |
| 32 | 400 | 9 | If you bought a CD player in ancient Rome for "CD" denarii, you spent this many |
| 33 | 23 | 9 | In the equationx-4=19, x is equal to this |
| 34 | 11 | 9 | Colonel Sanders created his famous chicken using this many "herbs and spices" |
| 35 | two | 8 | In 1963 Lou Christie sang this many "faces have I-yi-yi-yi-yi hi-yi-yi-I-I-I-I" |
| 36 | pi | 8 | To find the area of a circle, you multiply this by the radius squared |
| 37 | five | 8 | In popular phrases it follows "gimme" & "take" |
| 38 | 64 | 8 | The cube root of this number is 4 & its square root is 8 |
| 39 | 48 | 8 | From 1912 to 1959 there were this many states in the United States |
| 40 | 144 | 8 | The square root of 9 times the square root of 16 equals the square root of this number |
| 41 | 70 | 7 | According to the book of Psalms, the normal life span of man is "threescore and ten" or this many years |
| 42 | 180 | 7 | A single straight line forms an angle of this many degrees |
| 43 | 1,000 | 7 | A bar placed over a Roman numeral indicates it should be multiplied by this number |
| 44 | the hypotenuse | 7 | It's no hype that in geometry "hyp." is short for this |
| 45 | the 600 | 7 | "Boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell" rode this Tennyson number |
| 46 | plane geometry | 7 | This branch of geometry deals with 2-dimensional objects, not 747s |
| 47 | a tangent | 7 | It's a straight line having 1 point in common with a curve; you might go off on one |
| 48 | Eight | 6 | It was "Enough" for the Bradford family on TV |
| 49 | algebra | 6 | You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math |
| 50 | 911 | 6 | On Jan. 12, 1968, AT&T announced this would be the nationwide standard emergency phone number |