Unknown Quantities Trivia Quiz

'Three Coins in the Fountain' is a 1954 American romantic comedy about three American women working in Rome and hoping for romance. Filmed on location in Italy the movie was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. The title song, composed by Jule Styne with words by Sammy Cahn, won the Academy Award for Best Song.

There were five years in a lustrum, which was used in ancient Rome to denote the period between censuses. Another Roman time period was an indiction, a 15-year cycle used in connection with reassessment of taxes.

The term 'baker's dozen' originally referred to a batch of 13 loaves of bread. Bakers would throw in an extra loaf, possibly to avoid punishment for selling short weight.

A haiku is a Japanese poem consisting of three lines and 17 syllables. The first line has five syllables, the second seven and the last line five.

Australian or Aussie Rules Football is a fast-paced contact sport played by two teams of 18 players. It is played with an oval ball on an oval pitch.

According to the 1975 Paul Simon song there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Not all the ways are listed, but the ones that are include 'hop on the bus, Gus', 'slip out the back, Jack' and 'drop off the key, Lee'.

Human babies are born with about 270 bones, many of which fuse together. The average number of adult bones is 206, but this can vary because of individual anatomical differences.

Under the imperial system of measurement a furlong was a distance of 220 yards, or one-eighth of a mile. Originally denoting the length of a furrow in an acre of ploughed field, the furlong is still used in connection with horse racing. The chain, or 22 yards, also persists in a sporting context, being the length of a cricket pitch.

Scrabble is played on a board consisting of 15 x 15 squares, ie 225 in total. These include double and triple letter and double and triple word squares.

To work out the number of seconds in a leap year simply multiply 366 (days) by 24 (hours) by 60 (minutes) by 60 (seconds). Obviously this comes to 31,622,400 seconds.