A Journey From 1 To 20

The 1st toilet shown on tv was in 'The Munsters'.

Citizens of Kentucky are required by law to have at least 1 bath per year.

Snails have sex only once in their lives.

In the 1st 2 seasons of Southpark, Kenny survived only once.

Brahmin Indians originally wrote two as two horizontal lines =

2 is the only even prime number.

'Two Tribes' was the 2nd hit single for Devo.

According to the Greeks, 2 is the first "female" number.

There are 3 primary colours.

Our spatial world has 3 dimensions.

If a number's digits add to a number divisible by 3, then the original number is always divisible by 3.

3 is the 3rd Fibonacci number.

4 is the 2nd "square" number.

Tuvalu is the 4th smallest country in the world.

4 is the perfect number for the Sioux Indians.

Isaac Newton's space-time universe was 4-dimensional.

The pentagram is called the Devil's knot in English tradition.

The Pentagon building in Arlington has 5 sides, 5 stories and 5 acres in the middle.

The pentagondodecahedron is the 5th geometrical body.

Celtic music is based on just 5 notes.

There are 6 notes in the whole-tone scale.

Beehives and snowflakes are constructed from hexagons.

Over the course of 'Charlie's Angels' on tv there were 6 "angels".

The god Brahma has 6 heads or faces.

There are 7 deadly sins.

At the movies there was 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.

Star Trek's Vulcans are sexually active just once every 7 years.

7 is not a prime number.

8 is the 2nd cubic number.

Light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the sun.

In Islam there are 8 hells.

The average man thinks about sex every 8 minutes.

To the ancient Greeks the River Styx had 9 cataracts.

Odysseus travelled for just over 9 years to get home from Troy.

Carthage was besieged for 9 years.

A cockroach can live for up to 9 days without its head.

The average human tastebud lives for 10 days.

10 is the basis for Arabic numbering system.

During the Sex Pistols' 1st gig, they played 10 songs.

Moses handed down 10 commandments.

11 is a prime number.

11 is considered by Christians to be the number of winners.

There are 11 players on the field in a cricket team

In 'This is Spinal Tap' the Marshall guitar amplifiers went to 11 on the volume dials.

There are 12 notes in the chromatic scale of western music.

It takes snails 12 hours to have sex.

The longest game of Monopoly on record lasted 12 days.

There were 12 episodes of 'Fawlty Towers'.

If you are doing this Quiz on Friday the 13th, you will know that this month began on a Saturday.

Pineapples always have 8 or 13 spirals coming put of their tops.

Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.

13 was Louis XIII's favourite number.

You need 14 calendars to make a perpetual calendar.

One of Muhammad's (PBUTH) names, 'Taha', has a numerical value of 14.

The garden pea has 14 chromosomes.

There are 14 letters in the Arabic alphabet.

There are 15 red balls on a snooker table.

15 is a "triangular" number.

Andy Warhol said we'd all be famous for 15 minutes.

The shortest war ever recorded lasted only 15 minutes.

In classical Indian aesthetics there are 16 signs of beauty.

Hexadecimal counting is based on 16.

Each player in a game of chess starts with 16 pieces.

A Roman foot (measurement) was divided into 16 toes.

Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan believed 17 was the basis for the material world.

There are 17 words in the Muslim call to prayer.

In 'The Terminator' "Arnie" speaks 17 lines in his own voice.

17 is a Fibonacci number.

Eclipses of the sun and moon recur in the same sequence every 18 years.

To become a Whirling Dervish you must first become a house boy for 18 days.

Domestic cats have 18 claws.

The game of chess originally had 18 pieces per side.

Ancient Babylonians often suffered from nonadekaphobia.

The Japanese game 'Go' is played on a board with 19 vertical lines and 19 horizontal lines

The Metonic cycle of the moon occurs every 19 years.

Australian Rules Football has 19 players per side on the field.

In real life, Jerry Seinfeld had an overdue library book for 20 years.

An "icosahedron" is a 20 sided figure.

The Mayans used a counting system based on 20.

In a soccer match in Paraguay, 20 players were all sent from the field.