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Welcome to our Square Quiz - 20 questions all about squares!
Quiz I
- How many squares are there on a chess board?
- If that was too easy, how many squares are there on a Scrabble board?
- Which European country has a square flag?
- Who sculpted the four bronze lions in Trafalgar Square?
- Which non-SI metric unit of area is equal to a square with 100-metre sides?
- Who was the star of the early 1960s BBC television comedy series It's a Square World?
- Which Beijing Square is remembered for its 1989 student-led demonstrations?
- Which gives a tighter fuller fit: a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole?
- Who was the host of the 1970s British comedy game show Celebrity Squares?
- In which European capital city would you find Wenceslas Square?
- Which fashionable late 18th and 19th century European dance is related to American square dancing?
- George Square, created in 1781, is a major public square in which British city?
- Looking on a map of the world, Sierra Leone is the world's roundest country - which country is the squarest?
- SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy series created by Stephen Hillenburg for which television channel?
- How many square roots does a positive number have?
- Which square is the hub of the Broadway Theater District in new York City?
- Which large leafy square in Mayfair also features in the title of a romantic British popular song written in 1939?
- Can you name the principal public square of Venice, Italy?
- What is the common name given to the 16 by 16 square pixel graphic image associated with a particular Web page?
- The Grand Place is the central square of which European city?
Answers:
- 64 squares
- 225 squares
- Switzerland
- Sir Edwin Landseer
- Hectare
- Michael Bentine
- Tiananmen Square
- A round peg in a square hole is a better fit
- Bob Monkhouse
- Prague
- The quadrille
- Glasgow
- Egypt
- Nickelodeon
- Two - one positive, and one negative
- Times Square
- Berkeley Square (the song is "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square")
- Piazza San Marco, or St Mark's Square
- Favicon
- Brussels