Prime Time Trivia Challenge Answer
Here are the answers (27 KB word file) to The Prime Time Trivia challenge. Additionally, answers are posted in each post showing just the correct number desired. It seems like a good time was had by all and we want thank all of you for making this a great first project for the site. Thanks especially to Don & Sue, the creators of such a fine contest.
Also congrats to the winners:
First Prize - Clive Dawson
Second Prize - Sean Forbes
Third Prize - Jim from Minnesota
And expect another challenge soon.
Thanks,
JM & Nichole
Message from the Prime Time Trivia Challenge authors
We always look forward to the next issue of GAMES Magazine, hoping for another trivia challenge or a scavenger hunt or some other convoluted type of contest. My mentor, Sue, and I, just can’t seem to get enough of them. So, over the past few years, because our areas of expertise are in research, we have authored new games, puzzles and challenges just for the fun of it. Because of the positive internet responses posted on JM and Nichole’s site, we thought it might be fun to present one of these challenges to the general public. If there is a significant level of interest, we may even be able to make it a regular feature.
We want to thank JM and Nichole for the time, effort and expense they bear to host this site. There is no remuneration for anyone involved. This is a true labor of love.
Good Luck and Happy Puzzling,
Don Vance & Sue Bernstein
1
The amount of “stale beer”, converted to fluid drams, referred to in the second chapter of a fantasy novel concerning adventures on a prehistoric island by an author who had a city in California named in honor of his writing accomplishments, times the number of feet in one furlong.
Answer: 11
2
Excluding dates, serial numbers, plate numbers and security threads, the number of times “20” appears on a twenty-dollar bill issued in 2004
Answer: 151
3
(Note from Nichole: Please pardon the fuzziness of this image.)
Answer: 107
4
Number of the Senate Bill of the 2003 Regular Session concerning disability sponsored by Senators Teitelbaum, Ruben, Lawlah, Jones, Gladden, Forehand, Britt and Grosfeld, plus the number of the area code common to Melbourne, Eau Gallie and Sanford, with the sum expressed in base 6.
Answer: 1304
5
The day of the month on which Alfred Vail received a momentous message times the Chapter of the Number’s attribution.
Answer: 552
6
Number of the flight in a film with a two-digit number in its title, which included in a supporting role an actor who had earlier starred in a movie with a three-digit number in its title.
Answer: 23
7
First part of a seemingly oxymoronic phrase, which describes an American event of almost 208 weeks, with the second and last characters reversed.
Answer: 157
8
Maximum number of days a President of the United States could theoretically remain in office.
Answer: 3653