Just 17, Do You Know What I Mean?

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1. The title of this quiz (Just 17, if you know what I mean) is a direct lift from the first line of which song? At 17 - Janis Ian I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles Sexy and 17 - Stray Cats 17 - Jethro Tull

2. Abraham Lincoln, attacked on April 14th 1865 and died a day later, was the 16th president of the USA. Who succeeded him? Andrew Johnson William Howard Taft Andrew Jackson Richard Milhous Nixon

3. Which of the following tidbits about the number 17 is NOT true? It is the life cycle of the Magicicada Cassini It is the number of lines in a sonnet It is the number of bony plates of the Stegosaurus It is the emergency Police number in France

4. In Italy, 17 associated with bad luck. The common explanation for this is that the Roman numeral representation of 17 (XVII) can be anagrammed to VIXI. What is so scary about the word VIXI? It's a Greek omen meaning "a fox shall eat us" It's the acronym of the mass murderer Vincento Ichabod Xavier Iolanthe It's a Hebrew pun meaning "choke by an artichoke" It's Latin for "I have lived" (i.e. "I am dead now")

5. In Internet standards, network port 17 is reserved for a peculiar network service. This service was occasionally used for one of the first computerized Quizzing applications. What is the acronym of this service (hint: a certain letter should give you the lead)? SMTP QOTD HTTPS SSH

6. The following mathematical expression always yields a prime number. N^2-N+17 Where N is a natural number (1,2,3,...) and N^2 means N squared. True False

7. Which band released the album "Seventeen Seconds" in 1980? Heaven 17 E-17 East 17 The Cure

8. German neurologist Korbinian Brodmann studied the human cortex and perceived that it is organized in anatomically distinctive regions. The brain region he named "area 17" was especially studied later. One of the researches of Area 17 led to a Nobel prize for medicine. What is the main function of Brodmann area 17? Neurotransmitter production Short-term memory consolidation Visual perception Emotion generation

9. This biblical figure was 600 years, 2 months and 17 days old when the major event of his life started. Who is he and what is the event? Lot and the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah Abraham and the birth of Isaac Noah and the deluge Ezekiel and the vision of dry bones

10. The divisibility rule for 17 is as follows: take the last digit of the number under test and multiply it by 5, then subtract the result from the number formed from the number's remaining digits. Repeat the process. If at the end you get 0, 17 or -17, then the number is evenly divisible by 17. Which of the following numbers is evenly divisible by 17? 2006 all of them 1111111111111111 969