A Journey From 1 To 20

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

Snails have sex only once in their lives.

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.

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.

Brahmin Indians originally wrote two as two horizontal lines =

There are 3 primary colours.

3 is the 3rd Fibonacci number.

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

Our spatial world has 3 dimensions.

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.

The god Brahma has 6 heads or faces.

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

Beehives and snowflakes are constructed from hexagons.

There are 7 deadly sins.

7 is not a prime number.

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

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

Light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the sun.

8 is the 2nd cubic number.

The average man thinks about sex every 8 minutes.

In Islam there are 8 hells.

Carthage was besieged for 9 years.

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

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

To the ancient Greeks the River Styx had 9 cataracts.

10 is the basis for Arabic numbering system.

The average human tastebud lives for 10 days.

Moses handed down 10 commandments.

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

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

There are 11 players on the field in a cricket team

11 is a prime number.

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

It takes snails 12 hours to have sex.

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

There were 12 episodes of 'Fawlty Towers'.

The longest game of Monopoly on record lasted 12 days.

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.

There are 14 letters in the Arabic alphabet.

The garden pea has 14 chromosomes.

You need 14 calendars to make a perpetual calendar.

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

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.

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

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

In classical Indian aesthetics there are 16 signs of beauty.

Hexadecimal counting is based on 16.

There are 17 words in the Muslim call to prayer.

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

17 is a Fibonacci number.

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

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

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

The game of chess originally had 18 pieces per side.

Domestic cats have 18 claws.

Ancient Babylonians often suffered from nonadekaphobia.

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

The Metonic cycle of the moon occurs every 19 years.

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

The Mayans used a counting system based on 20.

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

An "icosahedron" is a 20 sided figure.

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