The state of Israel has been under the world media spotlight since its inception in 1948. How well do you know its Prime Ministers? Enter and find out. Lots of enriching information inside.

All the questions relate to bands that have numbers in their names. Some questions deal with the bands, some with the numbers and some with both. Have fun!

No autobiographies are allowed in this quiz on prose, fiction and poetry written by rock, pop and folk musicians. I find this type of knowledge enriching and horizon widening and I hope that after playing you will share my view.

Let's define a "hexadecimal word" as a word consisting ONLY of the letters ABCDEF. Consequently, it is also a valid hexadecimal number. The question body is a linguistic lead to the word and the hint is a mathematical lead to its decimal value. Enjoy!

A salutation to Magazine's "A Song From Under The Floorboards", one of my desert island songs.

Israeli sports has not had too many notable success stories throughout the years, but it had enough ones to populate this quiz. Join in and relive those moments.

Unlike "thing" and "where", some words can alter their meaning in an unexpected manner when the word "no" is prefixed to them. You may provide either the original word or the one prefixed with "no" as an answer.

Patrik Fitzgerald, Bauhaus, The Cure and Crass - all of these extremely influential and innovative icons started their recording careers in Small Wonder. This London record shop ran a small label - come inside and share the memories with me.

Fantasy Premier League 2011-12: Dream Team edition. Test your knowledge on the official Barclays Premier League fantasy football game's best 11 players of 2011-12.

You may like some, and you may not, either way all the songs of this quiz share the word "left" in their title or lyrics.

A homage to the classic FT quiz series by eburge. As you progress you will be asked to apply various techniques at variable difficulty levels, some in the spirit of the original series and some best described as "Follow My Directions on steroids".

The Unix C Shell (CSH) was developed by the famous Bill Joy. This quiz is a joyful one indeed. Knowledge of CSH is NOT a pre-requisite. Sit back and prepare yourself for a good laugh from the erratic responses CSH can produce, a Unix folklore by now.

Care for a magic ride in a fascinating realm of number theory? Those of you who need to refresh their memory, a Ruth-Aaron pair consists of two consecutive numbers that have an identical sum of prime factors.

An innocent word daydreams happily. Suddenly, the letter I barges in and sits next to it. The startled word gasps "If I'd have known I was coming!". The I squeezes in a "huh?!", but it's too late - a new word is formed.

Here's my ladder: rung N+1 is an N+1 letter word which is an anagram of the N letters of rung N plus a new letter. Unlike a real ladder, at a certain rung you might want to skip a few upwards, then reverse and climb the skipped ones at ease.

Teasing your brains with ten words which maintain a meaning when their first and last letters are switched.

Use dictionary definitions to identify word pairs which differ by a constant shift of letters. Example inside.

Enter the wonderful and frightening lyrical world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall at your peril. Should be fun.

The rules here are pretty simple - I will be giving you three clues, and you will figure out the number hiding behind them. Requires basic mathematical knowledge (squares and primes). Have fun!

You're invited to delve into my second homage to eburge's classic "Follow My Directions" series. This time it is combined with a salute to minch's "9 for 10" series. Enjoy!

Use my cryptic, dictionary, and mathematical hints to identify words formed by an arithmetic progression of letters. Example inside.

I love playing Fantasy Football. I need your help please in calculating the number of points my players have scored. Thank you in advance.