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Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Its Quiz Day!

July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests actor, America, American Revolutionary War, Angkor Wat, Australia, Australian stockman, bathometer, battle, beverage, bird, Blithe Spirit, borough of Brooklyn, calypsos, cattle grid, cattle guard, China, citizens of Paris, Cobnuts, commemorated, convert alternating current to direct current, country, creature, deathbed, destination, Doctor Zhivago, education, Entertainment, filberts, flower, fruit juice, general knowledge, Geography, gives birth, Haber process, Hail to Thee blithe spirit, Harry Belafonte, history, Kzahkstan, Ladies Singles Championship, largest young, leisure, manufactured, movie, movies, National Park, nationality, nature, new york, novel, Old Man’s Beard, pealing of all the bells, peninsular, Percy Bysshe Shelley, planets in our solar system, play, questions, quiz, quizzes, rectifier, science, Shelley’s poem, silencing, soda water, songs, southwestern, species, sport, stock grid, suppressing, surrounded, Tajikistan, temple complex, test, tests, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Traveller’s Joy, tree, turning point, UK/Ireland, Uzbekistan, vegetable, Wimbledon 2015, young kangaroo

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

For those of you who find the title a little obscure Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport is one of the best-known and most successful songs from Australia, inspired by Harry Belafonte’s calypsos, it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed.

It also provides a handy link to question one.

As for this and the rest of the questions, if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.

Enjoy and good luck.

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Q. 1. What is a young kangaroo called?

Q. 2. The temple complex of Angkor Wat is situated in which country?

Q. 3. What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current?

Q. 4. Which creature gives birth to the largest young?

Q. 5. What do you call the peninsular leisure/entertainment destination found in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York?

Q. 6. What is a bathometer?

Q. 7. Cobnuts and filberts come from what species of tree?

Q. 8. What country is surrounded by Kzahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China?

Q. 9. About which bird did Percy Bysshe Shelley write ‘Hail to Thee, blithe spirit!’?

Q. 10. Who wrote the play ‘Blithe Spirit’ which took its title from Shelley’s poem?

Q. 11. What is a ‘cattle grid’ (UK/Ireland), a ‘stock grid’ (Australia), or a ‘cattle guard’ (America) used for?

Q. 12. What recently deceased actor was ‘Doctor Zhivago’ in the 1965 movie?

Q. 13. What nationality was ‘Doctor Zhivago’?

Q. 14. ‘Old Man’s Beard’ and ‘Traveller’s Joy’ are names for a variety of which flower?

Q. 15. What is manufactured by the Haber process?

Q. 16. Which novel opens: “It was 348 years, six months and 19 days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University and the Town”; and who wrote it? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 17. What are the names of the first and the fifth planets in our solar system?

Q. 18. No battle was fought here, yet, it was the turning point of the American Revolutionary War and is now commemorated as a National Park. What is its name and in which state is it located? (A point for each correct answer.)

Q. 19. Who won the Ladies Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2015?

Q. 20. This word can mean the name of a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water, part of the name of a well-known vegetable, a sport, or the act of silencing or suppressing – what is it?

ANSWERS

Q. 1. What is a young kangaroo called?

A. 1. Joey.

Q. 2. The temple complex of Angkor Wat is situated in which country?

A. 2. Cambodia.

Q. 3. What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current?

A. 3. A ‘Diode’.

Q. 4. Which creature gives birth to the largest young?

A. 4. Blue Whale – 8 metres and 2,700 kg at birth. In the first 7 to 8 months they reach 16 metres and weigh about 21,000 kg.

Q. 5. What do you call the peninsular leisure/entertainment destination found in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York?

A. 5. It is called ‘Coney Island’.

Q. 6. What is a bathometer?

A. 6. It is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel. You can have the point if you said depth gage or something to measure depth of water.

Q. 7. Cobnuts and filberts come from what species of tree?

A. 7. From the Hazel tree.

Q. 8. What country is surrounded by Kzahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China?

A. 8. Kyrgzstan.

Q. 9. About which bird did Percy Bysshe Shelley write ‘Hail to Thee, blithe spirit!’?

A. 9. A skylark (in To a Skylark).

Q. 10. Who wrote the play ‘Blithe Spirit’ which took its title from Shelley’s poem?

A. 10. Noël Coward.

Q. 11. What is a ‘cattle grid’ (UK/Ireland), a ‘stock grid’ (Australia), or a ‘cattle guard’ (America) used for?

A. 11. It is used as a barrier that allows vehicles to pass, but not cattle.

Q. 12. What recently deceased actor was ‘Doctor Zhivago’ in the 1965 movie?

A. 12. Omar Sharif.

Q. 13. What nationality was ‘Doctor Zhivago’?

A. 13. Russian.

Q. 14. ‘Old Man’s Beard’ and ‘Traveller’s Joy’ are names for a variety of which flower?

A. 14. The Clematis.

Q. 15. What is manufactured by the Haber process?

A. 15. Ammonia.

A. 16. Notre Dame de Paris (also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo

Q. 17. What are the names of the first and the fifth planets in our solar system?

A. 17. The first is Mercury (the smallest, now Pluto has been demoted) and the fifth is Jupiter (the largest).

A. 18. It is Valley Forge located approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.

Q. 19. Who won the Ladies Singles Championship at Wimbledon 2015?

A. 19. Serena Williams.

Q. 20. This word can mean the name of a beverage made from fruit juice and soda water, part of the name of a well-known vegetable, a sport, or the act of silencing or suppressing – what is it?

A. 20. Squash.

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Significant Number Factoid Friday – Today The Number Had To Be 1776

July 4, 2014 fasab Factoids, Numbers 1776, Adam Smith, Adam Weishaupt, America, American colonies, American Continental Army, American Continental Navy, American Continentals, American friends, American gunboats, American navy, American Patriots, American Patriots Royal Navy, American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, American Southwest, American submersible craft Turtle, americans, an independent nation, Andrew Doria, Arctic, Assembly of New Hampshire, Austria, Bahamas, battle, Battle of Harlem Heights, Battle of Long Island, Battle of Pell's Point, Battle of the Rice Boats, Battle of Trenton, Battle of White Plains, Bavaria, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, bigamy, bird tail, Boston, Bowling Green, Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, British, British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle, British authority, British control, British fleet, British parliament, British Royal Navy, Brooklyn, California, Captain James Cook, Chatterton Hill, Cherokee, Cherokee Nation, cock tail, Col. Johann Rall, Committee of Five, common sense, Continental Army, Continental Congress, Continental Congress delegates, Continental Union Flag, crossed the Delaware River, Crown Prince Paul, customer, declaration of independence, Delaware General Assembly, Doncaster, Dorchester Heights, Duchess of Kingston, Dutch flag, education, Edward Gibbon, England, enlistment of free blacks, Entertainment, espionage, facts, fatal, Father Francisco Palou, first Europeans, first governor, first state constitution, first US fraternity, Fort Orange, Fort Washington, France, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, French support, Gen George Washington, George III of Great Britain, George Mason, George Washington, Gregorian calendar, Guadeloupe, Haffner, Halifax Resolves, hanged, happy Fourth of July, Hessian mercenaries, Hessian troops, HMS Resolution, horse races, hurricane, Illuminati, independence day, independence from British rule, Ingolstadt, interrogation torture, invading spaceships, Jersey bank, Johannes de Graaff, Juan Bautista de Anza, Julian calendar, King George III, Kips Bay, Lake Champlain, leap year, Lee Resolution, Liberty Bell, Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, loyalist leaders, Lt Jose Joaquin Moraga, Manhattan, Marines, Marquis de Lafayette, Massachusetts, McKonkey's Ferry, MDCCLXXVI, Mission Dolores, Mission San Francisco de Asis, Monterey Presidio, Moore's Creek bridge, Mozart, Nassau, Nathan Hale, new york, New York City, New York Harbor, Norfolk, North Carolina, number, number factoid, numbers, Pacific Ocean, pamphlet, Patriot cannons, Patriot forces, patriot victory, peace conference, Phi Beta Kappa, Philadelphia, Plymouth, Presidio of San Francisco, Province of Georgia, published, rebels, renounce allegiance to King George III of Great Britain, Rhode Island, Richard Caswell, Richard Henry Lee, Roman numerals, Royal Colony of North Carolina, Royal Navy, Russia, Salzburg, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Savannah River, Scottish economist, Scottish North Carolina Loyalists, Second Continental Congress, Serenade No. 7, Significant Number Factoid Friday, significant numbers, Sir Guy Carleton, Sophie Marie Dorothea, South Carolina, Spaniards, spy, St Leger, State of North Carolina, Staten Island, successful assault, The American Crisis, The Bronx, The Crisis, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the Rockies, the Sierras, The Wealth of Nations, the world's first submarine attack, These are the times that try men's souls, third voyage, thirteen colonies, Thomas Paine, time bomb, Trenton, United States Declared Independence, Valcour Island, Virginia, Virginia Convention of Delegates, Virginia Declaration of Rights, vote for independence, Washington, Washington's troops, Württemberg, William & Mary College, William Howe, Wilmington

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Hello everyone.

And a very happy Fourth of July to everyone, particularly my American friends.

Independence Day again, and no sign of invading spaceships so I’m assuming its safe to do another number factoid.

And what else could it be today other than 1776, the year America became an independent nation.

Here we go.

Enjoy

And where else to start but with….

American Revolutionary War

On January 1^st, 1776 Gen George Washington hoisted the Continental Union Flag. The same day the town of Norfolk, Virginia, was destroyed by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces.
On Jan 5^th the Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution.
On January 10^th Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense “written by an Englishman” in Philadelphia arguing for independence from British rule in what were then the Thirteen Colonies.

On Jan 16^th the Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks.
On February 27^th Scottish North Carolina Loyalists charge across Moore’s Creek bridge near Wilmington to attack what they mistakenly believed to be a small force of rebels. Several loyalist leaders are killed in the ensuing battle. The patriot victory virtually ended all British authority in the province.
On March 2^nd and 3^rd the American Continental Navy and Marines made a successful assault on Nassau, Bahamas, and in the Battle of the Rice Boats, American Patriots resisted the Royal Navy on the Savannah River effectively ending British control over the Province of Georgia.
On March 4^th American Patriots capture Dorchester Heights thereby dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts. Threatened by the Patriot cannons on Dorchester Heights, the British evacuate Boston on March 17^th.
On April 12^th the Royal Colony of North Carolina produced the Halifax Resolves making it the first British colony officially to authorize its Continental Congress delegates to vote for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
On May 4^th Rhode Island became the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
On June 7^th Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Second Continental Congress (meeting in Philadelphia) that “these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.”
On June 11^th the Continental Congress appointed a Committee of Five to draft a Declaration of Independence.

On June 12^th the Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason was adopted by the Virginia Convention of Delegates and three days later on June 15^th the Delaware General Assembly voted to suspend government under the British Crown.
On July 2^nd the final (despite minor revisions) U.S. Declaration of Independence was written. The Continental Congress passed the Lee Resolution.
And as we all know, on July 4^th the United States Declared Independence: The Continental Congress ratified the declaration by the United States of its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
On July 8^th the Liberty Bell rang in Philadelphia for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the following day an angry mob in New York City toppled the equestrian statue of George III of Great Britain in Bowling Green.

On August 2^nd most of the American colonies ratify the Declaration of Independence.
On August 15^th the first Hessian troops land on Staten Island to join British forces.
On August 27^th in the Battle of Long Island, Washington’s troops were routed in Brooklyn by British under William Howe.
On September 1^st the Cherokee Nation was invaded by 6,000 patriot troops from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina begins. The troops destroyed thirty-six Cherokee towns.
On September 7^th saw the world’s first submarine attack when the American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe’s flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
On September 11^th an abortive peace conference took place between British and Americans on Staten Island.
On September 15^th British troops landed on Manhattan at Kips Bay.
On September 16^th in the Battle of Harlem Heights, the Continental Army under Washington are victorious against the British on Manhattan.
On September 22^nd the British hanged spy Nathan Hale in New York City for espionage.
The following month, on October 11^th on Lake Champlain near Valcour Island, a British fleet led by Sir Guy Carleton defeated 15 American gunboats commanded by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. Although nearly all of Arnold’s ships are destroyed, the two day-long battle gave Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
On October 18^th in the Battle of Pell’s Point, forces of the American Continental Army resisted a British and Hessian force in The Bronx, whilst on October 28 in the Battle of White Plains, British forces attacked and captured Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
On October 26^th Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.

The last day of that month, October 31^st saw King George III make his first speech before British Parliament since the Declaration of Independence that summer, in which in perhaps the understatement of the year, told the British Parliament that all was not going well for Britain in the war with the United States.
On November 16^th Hessian mercenaries under Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen captured Fort Washington from the American Continentals. The captain of the American navy ship Andrew Doria fired a salute to the Dutch flag on Fort Orange and Johannes de Graaff answers with eleven gun shots.
On December 7^th the Marquis de Lafayette attempted to enter the American military as a major general.
And on December 21^st the Royal Colony of North Carolina reorganizes into the State of North Carolina after adopting its own constitution. Richard Caswell becomes the first governor of the newly formed state.
On December 23^rd Thomas Paine, living with Washington’s troops, began publishing The American Crisis, containing the stirring phrase, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
At Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington ordered the first issue of The Crisis to be read to his troops on Christmas Eve, then at 6 p.m. all 2600 of them march to McKonkey’s Ferry, crossed the Delaware River and land on the Jersey bank at 3 a.m.
And finally December 26^th saw the Battle of Trenton, in which Washington’s troops surprised and defeated the 1500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. Johann Rall outside Trenton, taking 948 prisoners while suffering only 5 wounded.

In other things and other places in 1776

The year 1776 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
In Roman Numerals 1776 is written as MDCCLXXVI.
On January 2^nd Austria ended interrogation torture
On February 17^th Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his famous work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

On March 9^th Scottish economist Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in London.
On March 28^th Juan Bautista de Anza found the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
On April 15^th the Duchess of Kingston was found guilty of bigamy.
On May 1^st Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
On June 17^th Lt. Jose Joaquin Moraga leads a band of colonists from Monterey Presidio, landing on June 29^th and constructing the Mission Dolores of the new Presidio of San Francisco.
On July 12^th Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth, England, in HMS Resolution on his third voyage, to the Pacific Ocean and Arctic, which would turn out to be fatal.

On July 21^st Mozart’s Serenade No. 7 (the “Haffner”) is first performed in Salzburg, Austria.
On July 29^th Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe on an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They were the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.
On September 6^th a hurricane hit Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000 people.
On September 24^th the first of the now very famous St Leger horse races were held at Doncaster, England.
On October 7^th Crown Prince Paul of Russia married Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
On October 9^th Father Francisco Palou founded the Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
On October 18^th in a New York bar decorated with a bird tail, a customer orders “cock tail”.
On December 5^th the first US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), is formed.

The Standard Practice for Conditioning and Testing Textiles is Active Standard ASTM D1776
The Standard Specification for Eye Protective Devices for Paintball Sports is Active Standard ASTM F1776.
MTE M-1776 is a Surge Protective Device
P1776 is the code for solenoid stuck in low/reverse which is a fairly common problem and can be prevented most of the time by keeping the fluid clean.
The 1776 Premier Program offers a venue for highly-committed, elite players to receive professional, year-round coaching and to seek competition at the highest levels of US Youth Soccer.

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Hope You Know Your Countries And A Lot Of Other Stuff – It’s Quiz Day!

August 19, 2013August 16, 2013 fasab Factoids, Questions, Tests 1783 treaty, adelph, American flag, American police procedural legal drama, American Revolutionary War, an Indo-Chinese language, atrocious, bad guy, Bill Sikes' vicious dog, Campanology, Childe Harold Wills, Davis Cup finals, Death Cap, education, Entertainment, festive occasions, film, Flivver, general knowledge, Greek, Hawkeye, Hedgehog, Italian restaurant, knowledge, Kurgan, largest countries in the world, Largest Wine Producer In South America, magic, Maitake, Mary Poppins, Methuselah, milk, Misc, Miscellaneous, movie, Oliver Twist, Oyster, Paddy Straw, poison, population density, precocious, priest choker, puzzles, questions, quiz, quizzes, Radar, river of southern Italy, Roman numerals, rows of stars, short chemise, short undergarment, spell, sport term, television series, test, tests, Tin Lizzie, Trapper, TV program, vaporetto, Venice, venom, waiter, wine bottles, word, world famous ship, XL

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

As the title suggests today there are a lot of questions concerning countries.

But don’t worry, they are related to different subjects, not necessarily geography.

And there is the usual random selection to go along with them, so why not have a go?

As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but NO cheating!

Enjoy the challenge.

Q. 1: In Venice, what is a ‘vaporetto’?

Q. 2: What is the difference between venom and poison?

Q. 3: Which country appeared in a record 23 consecutive Davis Cup finals between 1946 and 1968?

Q. 4: ‘Milk’, ‘Oyster’, ‘Magic’, ‘Death Cap’, ‘Hedgehog’, ‘Maitake’ and ‘Paddy Straw‘ are all examples of what?

Q. 5: What are the five largest countries in the world with a population density of 15 people or less per square mile? (One point for each correct answer.)

Q. 6: Kurgan is the bad guy in which movie?

Q. 7: How many rows of stars are there on an American flag?

Q. 8: The name of which world famous ship translated means ‘short chemise’ or ‘short undergarment’?

Q. 9: Which country is the largest wine producer in South America?

Q. 10: Campanology is very popular on festive occasions. What is campanology?

Q. 11: What was designed by Childe Harold Wills and was colloquially known as the “Tin Lizzie” and the “Flivver”?

Q. 12: ‘Trapper’, ‘Hawkeye’ and ‘Radar’ appear in which TV program?

Q. 13: What does the Greek root ‘adelph’ mean?

Q. 14: What was the name of the 1783 treaty that formally ended the American Revolutionary War?

Q. 15: The answer to this one is just three letters and they mean a river of southern Italy, an Indo-Chinese language and the initials of a very popular and long running American police procedural legal drama television series, What are the three letters?

Q. 16: How many normal size wine bottles would you have in a Methuselah?

Q. 17: What would the waiter bring to your table if you ordered ‘priest choker’ in an Italian restaurant?

Q. 18: Which accurate sport term is also the name of Bill Sikes’ vicious dog in the novel ‘Oliver Twist’?

Q. 19: What number do the Roman numerals ‘XL’ represent?

Q. 20: And finally, spell that atrocious and precocious word from the movie ‘Mary Poppins’.

ANSWERS

Q. 1: In Venice, what is a ‘vaporetto’?

A. 1: A ‘vaporetto’ is a Venetian Waterbus

Q. 2: What is the difference between venom and poison?

A. 2: Venom is injected, poison is ingested or inhaled.

Q. 3: Which country appeared in a record 23 consecutive Davis Cup finals between 1946 and 1968?

A. 3: Australia

Q. 4: ‘Milk’, ‘Oyster’, ‘Magic’, ‘Death Cap’, ‘Hedgehog’, ‘Maitake’ and ‘Paddy Straw’ are all examples of what?

A. 4: Mushrooms

Q. 5: What are the five largest countries in the world with a population density of 15 people or less per square mile? (One point for each correct answer.)

A. 5: Mongolia (4 people per sq. mile), Canada (8), Australia (8), Libya (9) and Kazakhstan (15)

Q. 6: Kurgan is the bad guy in which movie?

A. 6: Highlander

Q. 7: How many rows of stars are there on an American flag?

A. 7: 9

Q. 8: The name of which world famous ship translated means ‘short chemise’ or ‘short undergarment’?

A. 8: Cutty Sark

Q. 9: Which country is the largest wine producer in South America?

A. 9: Argentina

Q. 10: Campanology is very popular on festive occasions. What is campanology?

A. 10: Bell ringing.

Q. 11: What was designed by Childe Harold Wills and was colloquially known as the “Tin Lizzie” and the “Flivver”?

A. 11: The Ford Model-T automobile

Q. 12: ‘Trapper’, ‘Hawkeye’ and ‘Radar’ appear in which TV program?

A. 12: M*A*S*H

Q. 13: What does the Greek root ‘adelph’ mean?

A. 13: Brother (as in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love)

Q. 14: What was the name of the 1783 treaty that formally ended the American Revolutionary War?

A. 14: The Treaty of Paris

A. 15: LAO (Law and Order)

Q. 16: How many normal size wine bottles would you have in a Methuselah?

A. 16: 8

Q. 17: What would the waiter bring to your table if you ordered ‘priest choker’ in an Italian restaurant?

A. 17: Pasta (Strozzapreti pasta, means ‘priest choker’)

Q. 18: Which accurate sport term is also the name of Bill Sikes’ vicious dog in the novel ‘Oliver Twist’?

A. 18: Bulls Eye

Q. 19: What number do the Roman numerals ‘XL’ represent?

A. 19: 40

Q. 20: And finally, spell that atrocious and precocious word from the movie ‘Mary Poppins’.

A. 20: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS

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Significant Number Factoid Friday – Today The Number Is Ten 10

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Welcome to another significant number factoid Friday.

Today’s significant number is Ten, one of the most important and widely used of all the numbers.

This is just a small selection of what Ten gets up to, but there’s still a lot of stuff in here so brace yourselves for a long read.

Enjoy.

The Number Ten 10

In religion

The number 10 is used 244 times in the Bible.
The 10th word of the King James Version of Genesis is “earth”
The number ten signifies perfection; it is the combination of the number seven which embraces all created things, and the trinity of the Creator.
The Bible records 10 generations between Adam and Noah, and 10 generations between Noah and Abraham.
The 10th Book of Enoch Archangel Uriel warns Noah about Flood.
Noah waited 10 months for the water to recede after the Flood.
The Ten Commandments of Exodus and Deuteronomy are considered a cornerstone of Judaism and Christianity.

Ten Plagues were inflicted on Egypt in Exodus 7-12, sent by God by the intermediary of Moses: the water changed into blood, there were plagues of frogs, midges, big flies, then a plague on the animals, an epidemic of ulcer and tumours, hail and thunder, grasshoppers, three days of darkness, and finally the death of the firstborn in each Egyptian family.
People traditionally tithed one-tenth of their produce. The practice of tithing is still common in Christian churches today, though it is disputed in some circles as to whether or not it is required of Christians.
In Deuteronomy 26:12, the Torah commands Jews to give one-tenth of their produce to the poor (Maaser Ani). From this verse and from an earlier verse (Deut. 14:22) there derives a practice for Jews to give one-tenth of all earnings to the poor.
There are said to be Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (those other than Judah and Benjamin).
The Beast of the Revelation has ten horns each with ten diadems. (Rv 13, 1)
There were ten nations whose hostility towards Israel was constant. (Ps 83,7-9)
God moved back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz by ten degrees as a sign that He was going to deliver Hezekiah from his mortal sickness and the city where he was. (Is 38,1-8)
Christ’s parable of the 10 virgins (5 wise & 5 foolish) in Matthew 25.1-13 symbolizes our 5 inner & outer senses.
Christ healed 10 lepers in a village, but only one turned back to thank him and with a loud voice glorified God. (Luke 17.12)
The Holy Spirit descended on the apostles ten days after the Ascension of Jesus.
Jews observe the annual Ten Days of Repentance beginning on Rosh Hashanah and ending on Yom Kippur.
In Judaism, ten men are the required quorum, called a minyan, for prayer services.

In mathematics

10 Squared equals 100
10 Cubed equals 1000
10 Factorial or 10! equals 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9 x 10 = 3,628,800
A Decagon is a polygon of 10 sides.
10 is the base of the decimal system.
Ten is the sum of the first three prime numbers, of the four first numbers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4), of the square of the two first odd numbers and also of the first four factorials (0! + 1! + 2! + 3!).
Magic square of 10:

1 4 2 3
2 3 1 4
3 2 4 1
4 1 3 2

In science

10 is the Atomic Number of Neon (Ne).
There are 10 hydrogen atoms in butane, a hydrocarbon.
Primates have 10 fingers.
The human foot has 10 toes.
There are 10 spacetime dimensions in some superstring theories.

In space

Messier object M10, a magnitude 6.4 globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus.

The New General Catalogue object NGC 10, a magnitude 12.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission, its purpose being a “dry run” for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself.
The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers.

According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969.
Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA.

In politics

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845). A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President in 1840.
He was the first to succeed to the office of President on the death of the incumbent, succeeding William Henry Harrison.
Tyler’s opposition to federalism and emphatic support of states’ rights endeared him to his fellow Virginians but alienated him from most of the political allies that brought him to power in Washington.
His presidency was crippled by opposition from both parties, and near the end of his life he would side with the South in its secession from the United States.

Virginia is the tenth state in the Union.
Canada is made up of 10 Provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. There are also three territories, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. (The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces are jurisdictions that receive their power and authority directly from the Constitution Act, 1867, whereas territories derive their mandates and powers from the federal government.)

Number 10 Downing Street is the official residence of the British Prime Minister.

The tenth French department is Aube.
There are 10 regions in Ghana.

In sport

In the Olympics, 10 is the highest score for a gymnastic event, attained by Nadia Comaneci in 1976, and Mary Lou Retton in 1984.
The Decathlon is a 10-event athletic contest consisting of 100-meter, 400-meter, and 1500-meter runs, 110-meter high hurdles, javelin & discus throws, shot put, pole vault, high jump, and long jump.
In ten-pin bowling, 10 pins are arranged in a triangular pattern and there are 10 frames per game.

In American football, the end zones are 10 yards deep.
In baseball, 10 is the minimum number of players on the field at any given time during play (including the batter).
In basketball the top of the rim is 10 feet from the floor.
In standard full-court basketball, there are 10 players on the court (5 on each team).
In cricket, 10 is the number of wickets required to be taken by the bowling side for the batting side to be bowled out.
In gridiron football, 10 is the number of yards the offense must advance to maintain possession in a single set of downs—four in American and three in Canadian.
In rugby union, the starting fly-half wears the 10 shirt.

The jersey number 10 has been retired by several North American sports teams in honor of past playing greats or other key figures:
In Major League Baseball by the Chicago Cubs for Hall of Famer Ron Santo; the Cincinnati Reds for Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson; the Kansas City Royals for manager Dick Howser; the Minnesota Twins for manager Tom Kelly; the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals) first for Rusty Staub and later for Hall of Famer Andre Dawson; the New York Yankees for Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto; the St. Louis Cardinals for manager Tony La Russa; the Atlanta Braves have announced they will retire the number for Chipper Jones on June 28, 2013.

chipper-jones-atlanta-braves-batting-autographed-photograph — Chipper Jones Atlanta Braves batting autographed photograph

In the NBA the Boston Celtics for Jo Jo White; the Chicago Bulls for Bob Love; the Detroit Pistons for Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman; the Miami Heat for Tim Hardaway; the New York Knicks for Hall of Famer Walt Frazier; the Philadelphia 76ers for Maurice Cheeks; the Seattle SuperSonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder) for Nate McMillan; the Washington Wizards for Hall of Famer Earl Monroe, who played for the team in its past incarnation as the Baltimore Bullets.

In the NFL the Atlanta Falcons for Steve Bartkowski; the Minnesota Vikings for Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton.
In the NHL the Carolina Hurricanes for Hall of Famer Ron Francis; the Detroit Red Wings for Hall of Famer Alex Delvecchio; the Montreal Canadiens for Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur; the first NHL incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets for Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk.

In books, music, TV and movies

Ten has appeared in the titles of many songs including
“Ten Long Years” by B.B. King and Eric Clapton;
“Perfect Ten” by The Beautiful South;
“Ten Cent Pistol” by The Black Keys;
“Clock Strikes Ten” by Cheap Trick;
“Eight By Ten” by Ken Dodd;
“Ten Years Gone” by Led Zeppelin;
“Ten Ton Hammer” by Machine Head;
“Ten Cents A Dance” Richard Rodgers performed perhaps most famously by Ella Fitzgerald;
“Force Ten” by Rush;
“Ten with a Two” Willie Nelson;
“Ten Foot Pole” by ZZ Top;
“Ten Green Bottles” Traditional British children’s song, very much similar in theme to the US “99 Bottles Of Beer”;
and “Ten Feet Tall” by XTC.

“Ten lords a-leaping” is the gift on the tenth day of Christmas in the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas”

On TV there have been:
A series on HBO entitled “1st & Ten” which aired between December 1984 and January 1991.
A series on ESPN and ESPN2 entitled 1st and 10 which launched on ESPN in October 2003 to 2008 and moved to ESPN2 from 2008 to present.
A 1977 short documentary film “Powers of Ten” depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (orders of magnitude).
A game show on CBS called “Power of 10”, where the player’s prize goes up and down by either the previous or next power of ten.
and, “Ten Chances” is one the pricing games on “The Price is Right”.

Movies with “10” in their titles include,
“10”;
“10 Things I Hate About You”;
“10 to Midnight”;
“The Whole Ten Yards”;
“10 Items or Less”;
“Ten Little Indians”;
“10 Rillington Place”;
“The 10th Victim”;
“3:10 to Yuma”;
“The Ten”;
and, “The Ten Commandments”

In militaria

To reduce something by one-tenth is to decimate. (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ten soldiers in a cohort was the punishment for cowardice or mutiny; or, one-tenth of the able-bodied men in a village as a form of retribution, thus causing a labor shortage and threat of starvation in agrarian societies.)

USS Annapolis (PG-10)
The first USS Annapolis (PG-10/IX-1) was a gunboat in the United States Navy. She was named for Annapolis, Maryland.
She took part in the Spanish-American War and later was sent to the Far East and then central American waters.

USS Maine (BB-10)
USS Maine (BB-10), the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 23rd state.
She was launched on 27 July 1901 and during WWI operated along the east coast where she trained engineers, armed guard crews, and midshipmen.
Later Maine operated with ships of the Atlantic Fleet until 15 May 1920, when she decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard.

USS Bridgeport (AD-10/ID-3009)
The USS Bridgeport (AD-10/ID-3009) was a destroyer tender used by the United States Navy during World War I and the years after.
Originally she had been built in 1901 at Vegesack, Germany as SS Breslau of the North German Lloyd lines as a steel-hulled passenger and cargo steamship.
Interned at New Orleans, Louisiana at the outbreak of World War I, Breslau was seized in 1917 by the United States after her entry into the war and commissioned into the Navy as USS Bridgeport.
Originally slated to be a repair ship, she was reclassified as a destroyer tender the following year. Bridgeport completed several transatlantic convoy crossings before she was stationed at Brest, France, where she remained in a support role after the end of World War I. After returning to the United States in November 1919, she spent the next five years along the East Coast and in the Caribbean tending destroyers and conducting training missions.
She was decommissioned in November 1924 and placed in reserve at the Boston Navy Yard.

USS L-10 (SS-50)
The USS L-10 (SS-50) was an L-class submarine of the United States Navy. She was assigned to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla and operated along the United States East Coast until April 1917 developing new techniques or undersea warfare.
Following the United States’s entry into World War I, she was used to protect Allied shipping lanes to Europe.
She was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 5 May 1922

USS Barnegat (AVP-10)
The second USS Barnegat (AVP-10), operated from 1941 to 1946, was the lead ship of her class of small seaplane tenders built for the United States Navy just before and during World War II.
First operating in the North Atlantic she provided not only tender services but salvage and logistic support as well.
Later she participated in Operation Torch, the Allied landings in French North Africa.
From June 1943–May 1944 she transferred to the South Atlantic, reporting for duty with Fleet Air Wing (FAW) 16. Her arrival coincided with the opening shots of a local German submarine “blitz” against coastal shipping; the day before, the German U-boat U-513 had torpedoed the steamer SS Venetia.
She was decommissioned on 17 May 1946.

USS Yorktown (CV-10)
The USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. Initially to have been named Bon Homme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while under construction to commemorate USS Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Yorktown was commissioned in April 1943, and participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning 11 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation.
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle stars.
Late in her career she served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, was used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriot’s Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
She is a National Historic Landmark.

USNS Bridge (T-AOE-10)
USNS Bridge is the fourth ship in the Supply class of fast combat support ships and the second ship in the Navy named after Commodore Horatio Bridge.

USS Sampson (DDG-10)
The USS Sampson (DDG-10), named for Admiral William T. Sampson USN (1840–1902), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer launched on 21 May 1960 commissioned on 24 June 1961.
She was tasked with operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
Sampson was decommissioned on 24 June 1991 exactly 30 years after commissioning.

USS Tripoli (LPH-10)
The USS Tripoli (LPH-10), is an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship launched on 31 July 1965. She was named for the Battle of Tripoli Harbor.
She took part in three tours during the Vietnam war and has more recently operated in the Middle East.
She was decommissioned in 1995.

USS Juneau (LPD-10)
The USS Juneau (LPD-10) is an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the capital of Alaska.
The ship entered service on 12 July 1969, and participated in the Vietnam War, was command ship for the response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, transported troops to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Storm, and was part of the attempted US response to Cyclone Nargis.
Juneau was decommissioned in 2008, and is part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

USS Warrior (MCM-10)
The USS Warrior (MCM-10) is an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship launched on 8 December 1990, and was commissioned on 7 April 1993.
The Avenger-class ships were designed to have very low acoustic and magnetic signatures to avoid detonating mines. While most modern warships have steel hulls, the Avengers have wooden hulls with an external coating of fiberglass. They are equipped with sophisticated mine-hunting and classification sonar as well as remotely-operated mine neutralization and disposal systems.
On 26 February 2013, 7th Fleet announced that the USS Warrior would be transferred from 5th Fleet in Bahrain to 7th Fleet in Sasebo Japan to replace the USS Guardian, which had recently been decommissioned after running aground in the Philippines.

USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10)
The USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) which is currently being built by Austal USA, is scheduled to be completed and delivered to the Navy in August of 2015 and will be an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.
The ship is named after former United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot along with eighteen other people during the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona.
Gabrielle Giffords will be the 15th U.S. naval ship to be named for a woman by the United States Navy. But the name choice has been controversial, with two retired U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps officers criticizing the trend of naming ships for political reasons.

Lockheed Model 10 Electra
The Lockheed Model 10 Electra was a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1930s to compete with the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2.
It was used both in civilian and military roles.
The aircraft gained considerable worldwide notoriety when a highly modified version was flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world expedition in 1937.

McDonnell Douglas DC-10
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engine widebody jet airliner, capable of carrying a maximum 380 passengers, and used for medium to long-haul flights. Its most distinguishing feature is the two turbofan engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer.
The model was a successor to McDonnell Douglas’s DC-8 for long-range operations, and competed in the same markets as the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, which has a similar layout to the DC-10.
The DC-10 has had an eventful existence, as of January 2012, it has been involved in 56 aviation occurrences, including 32 hull-loss accidents, with 1,262 occupant fatalities. It has been involved in nine hijackings and criminal events resulting in 171 occupant fatalities.
But despite its troubled beginnings in the 1970s, which gave it an unfavorable reputation, the DC-10 has proved a reliable aircraft, it’s initially poor safety record continuously improved as design flaws were rectified and fleet hours increased. The DC-10’s lifetime safety record is comparable to similar second-generation passenger jets as of 2008.

Douglas F-10 Skyknight
The Douglas F-10 Skyknight was a United States twin-engine, mid-wing jet fighter aircraft manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company in El Segundo, California.
It was designed as a carrier-based all-weather aircraft and saw service with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps.
While it never achieved the fame of the North American F-86 Sabre, it did down several Soviet-built MiG-15s as a night fighter over Korea with only one air-to-air loss of its own against a Chinese MiG-15.
The Skyknight was the only Korean war fighter that also flew in Vietnam (as also did the Douglas A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft). EF-10Bs served in the electronic countermeasures role during the Vietnam War until 1969. The U.S. Marine Corps retired its last EF-10Bs in 1970. Some aircraft continued flying as testbeds for Raytheon until the 1980s.

Jianjiji-10 Fighter Aircraft
The Jianjiji-10 Fighter Aircraft 10 (J-10) “Vigorous Dragon” was part of the development of an indigenous Chinese multi-role fighter equivalent to the Mirage 2000 operated by Taiwan. It is a replacement for the obsolescent Q-5 and J-7 and armed with much improved weapons.
The J-10 is reportedly similar to the American F-16 and a cancelled Israeli fighter based on the F-16 called the Lavi. Although Israel denies transferring any unauthorized technology, it is known Israeli companies supplied assistance in J-10 development.
Pakistan also reportedly provided one of its F-16s to China for study, and several Russian engineers who worked on the J-10 indicated a Lavi prototype was located in Chengdu’s facilities.
The resulting design, very similar to the Lavi externally, features a delta wing with canards mounted just aft of the cockpit.

Smith & Wesson Model 10
The Smith & Wesson Model 10, previously known as the Smith & Wesson .38 Hand Ejector Model of 1899, the Smith & Wesson Military & Police or the Smith & Wesson Victory Model, is a revolver of worldwide popularity.
It was the successor to the Smith & Wesson .32 Hand Ejector Model of 1896 and was the first Smith & Wesson revolver to feature a cylinder release latch on the left side of the frame like the Colt M1889.
In production since 1899, it is a six-shot double-action revolver with fixed sights. Over its long production run it has been available with barrel lengths of 2 in (51 mm), 3 in (76 mm), 4 in (100 mm), 5 in (130 mm), and 6 in (150 mm). Barrels of 2.5 inches (64 mm) are also known to have been made for special contracts.
Some 6,000,000 of the type have been produced over the years, making it the most popular centerfire revolver of the 20th century.

Colt model 10 Double Eagle
The Colt Double Eagle is a double-action / single action, semi-automatic pistol manufactured between 1989 and 1997. It was available in standard full-size, as well as in more compact versions, features a decocking lever, and was chambered for several calibers. The family of models was known as the Series 90.
The design of the Double Eagle was based on the Colt M1911 pistol. Magazines are single stack and are identical to magazines shipped with the M1911. Most of the Double Eagle models were available in stainless steel only, however the “Lightweight” Officer’s had an alloy frame and blued slide.
The Double Eagle was chambered for several calibers but the most common are 10mm Auto asn well as the standard .45 ACP and 10mm Auto.

Other stuff

Deca- means 10 (Latin, Greek: deka).
Decade is a period of 10 years.
U.S. currency: One dime = 10 cents.
Tin wedding anniversary celebrates 10 years of marriage.
X is the Roman numeral for 10.
The Passion Flower (Passiflora) has 10 petals.

Each of the thirty six parts of the astrological Zodiacs is divides into ten degrees.
In a standard deck of playing cards there are 10, numbered 1 thru 10, of all four suits.
Counting from one to ten before speaking is often done in order to cool one’s temper.
There are ten official inkblots in the Rorschach inkblot test.
The traditional Snellen chart uses 10 different letters.
Number of dots in a tetractys.

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