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Welcome to our Zero Quiz - 20 questions all about zeros!



Quiz I

  1. What colour is the zero on a roulette wheel?
  2. By what name do we better know the line drawn north to south at zero degrees longitude?
  3. 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a 2012 film dramatizing the decade-long manhunt for who?
  4. What name is given to the lowest possible temperature where nothing could be colder?
  5. How many zeros are in a googol?
  6. Has a United Kingdom entry at the Eurovision Song Contest ever had zero points? Yes or no?
  7. If 3 to the power of 2 is nine, what is 3 to the power of 0?
  8. What is zero degrees Celsius in degrees Fahrenheit?
  9. Name the author of the 1993 book Bravo Two Zero?
  10. How many zeros are there in one trillion?
  11. Which Italian crime drama TV series created by Stefano Sollimazero featured Gabriel Byrne as Edward Lynwood?
  12. In cricket, what name is given to a batsman's dismissal with a score of zero?
  13. On what scale does a zero mean a person is exclusively heterosexual?
  14. Yes or no, is there a year zero in the calendar?
  15. Which golfer is famous for his "zero to hero" victory in the 1991 PGA Championship?
  16. Which country's primary national emergency telephone number is triple zero?
  17. Give any of the two letters which sit below the zero on a standard typewriter keyboard?
  18. On which scale is the number zero described as 'calm'?
  19. What slang word for zero is also the name of a device invented by Whitcomb L. Judson?
  20. How many blank tiles worth zero points are there in a standard scrabble set?

Answers:

  1. Green
  2. Prime Meridian
  3. Osama bin Laden
  4. Absolute zero
  5. 100
  6. Yes (2003 - Jemini with their performance of "Cry Baby")
  7. 1 (any number raised to the power of 0 is 1)
  8. 32 degrees Fahrenheit
  9. Andy McNab
  10. 12 zeros in one trillion
  11. Zero Zero Zero
  12. Duck
  13. The Kinsey scale
  14. No. (The year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC in the Gregorian calendar and its predecessor, the Julian calendar.)




  15. John Daley
  16. Australia
  17. The letters 'O' or 'P'
  18. Beaufort scale (wind speed scale)
  19. Zip
  20. Two