100 Quiz – A to Z Number Quiz

Each CLUE contains a NUMBER from 1 to 100.
The ANSWERS are in ALPHABETICAL order –

1	Term applied to an angle less than 90 degrees
2	UK author who maintained that 42 was the answer to “Life, The Universe and Everything”
3	US heavyweight boxer who had 56 wins, the last against Leon Spinks
4	Smallest of Northern Ireland’s 6 counties
5	Tradesman who traditionally had 13 in a dozen
6	World’s tallest hotel with 89 storeys
7	British civil engineer who designed 83 miles of sewers under London
8	Name of numerical notation with only two digits
9	RU player who made a record 93 appearances for France
10	Temperature which Gabriel Fahrenheit set at 96 degrees on his scale
11	Soccer club in the old First Division for 60 years without winning the title
12	England cricketer who, in his debut, took five Australian wickets for 74 runs in their first innings
13	Naming the 32 compass points in order is known as “___ the compass”
14	Australian cricketer who averaged 99.94 runs per innings from 52 tests
15	UK soccer player who scored a record 49 goals for England
16	UK author who disappeared for 10 day in 1926
17	Australian athlete, the first man to break 28 minutes for 10,000 metres
18	He became pope in 91 AD
19	Footballer who scored 33 goals for Holland in the 1970’s
20	Location of lowest point in North America, 86 metres below sea level
21	Customarily there are 21 spots on this gaming device
22	UK singer: Only Sixteen (1959)
23	Term for a camel with one hump
24	US singer: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
25	US inventor: “Genius is…ninety-eight per cent perspiration”
26	Welsh RU player who made 53 appearances for his country
27	The twelve days of Christmas culminate in this church festival
28	The alternative title to Paul Simon’s 59th Street Bridge Song
29	Nickname of the 22-storey Fuller Building in New York
30	Country divided into 95 departments
31	Woman who sailed solo across the Atlantic in 29 days (1976)
32	Mary Shelley was only 19 years old when she wrote this famous novel
33	Star sign of people born on May 31
34	US author: 84 Charing Cross Road (1971)
35	Hero of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps
36	Czech playwright and politician, imprisoned for supporting Charter 77
37	Company famous for its 57 Varieties slogan
38	King of England who was 18 when he ascended to the throne (1509)
39	62 people survived the crash of this airship in 1937
40	Soccer ground where 66 spectators died when a stand collapsed in 1971
41	Pope who reigned for 34 days
42	UK group who had a hit with 76 Trombones (1961)
43	Japanese film director on whose film The Magnificent Seven is based
44	Motor race at which 82 people were killed in 1955
45	Old measure of distance, approximately 24 furlongs
46	Martial arts actor accidentally killed by a .44 calibre Magnum
47	He delivered an address at Gettysburg, 87 years after US independence
48	He sang lead vocals on When I’m Sixty Four
49	Term for a musical setting of Psalm 51
50	US singer whose album Blue (1971) contains the lyric “The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ’68”
51	City which hosted Expo ’67
52	UK footballer who scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup final, aged 38
53	Austrian composer who wrote 35 violin sonatas
54	City hosting the Olympics at which 11 Israeli competitors were killed
55	He played the part of Steve Rubell in the film 54 (1998)
56	German band who had a UK hit with 99 Red Balloons (1984)
57	Female singer who reached 46 in the UK charts with Heart Attack (1982)
58	Name given to a 5 cent coin in the US
59	Original name of the first Roman emperor who came to power in 27 BC
60	Words giving access to the cave in Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves
61	Latin poet, born 43 BC, banished by Augustus to Tomi on the Black Sea
62	Disciple who denied Jesus three times before cock-crow
63	Concert instrument with 88 keys
64	Footballer who played 72 internationals for France
65	Slang term for £25
66	UK royal, once married to Lord Snowdon, who died at the age of 71
67	Lead singer with the 1980’s punk band Sham ’69
68	She had a UK hit with 48 Crash in 1973
69	Longest lived British monarch who died at the age of 81
70	He had a shoe bomb on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami
71	Type of triangle which has two angles of 45 degrees
72	Spanish composer of Concierto de Aranjuez who died in 1999, aged 97
73	Footballer who scored 8 goals in the 2002 World Cup Finals
74	In rugby union, the player who wears number 9
75	Brazilian motor racing driver who won 41 Grand Prix races
76	Irish writer who died, aged 94, after a fall whilst pruning a tree
77	Opening line of Psalm 23: The Lord is my _________
78	Pre-decimal coin, twenty of which made a pound
79	Thracian gladiator who led a rebellion of slaves in Italy in 73 BC
80	She was married to Jason Alexander for 55 hours
81	Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, which orbited the earth for 92 days
82	Gift from France to US 100 years after US had gained its independence
83	Saint whose feast day is December 26
84	Unit of weight consisting of 14 pounds
85	Host of ’58 World Cup finals for which all four British teams qualified
86	Popular sport played in an area 78 feet long
87	75% as a fraction
88	Country consisting of 50 states
89	Italian city joined to Milan by the world’s first motorway, 85 km long
90	French author: Around The World In Eighty Days
91	Italian composer who wrote The Four Seasons
92	All that was left after the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD
93	He said “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”
94	US artist who produced a work called Ethel Scull Thirty-six Times
95	Thirty Years War (1618-1648) ended with a treaty signed here
96	He painted a famous portrait of his 65 year old mother in 1871
97	He polled 79 votes in the 1975 Conservative Party leadership election
98	37 in Roman numerals
99	He was survived by 17 widows in 1877
100	Battle in 47 BC after which Julius Caesar declared “veni, vidi, vici”