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Here's a game you can play with. You might find it interesting. This all revolves around the number 12, a very interesting number. Google, Yahoo and Bing are off-limits!! Answers will appear much below.

1. Name the twelve Knights of the Round Table.
2. What are the twelve signs of the zodiac?
3. Name the twelve apostles - no peeking in the Bible. Extra credit if you can name the disciple that replaced Judas
4. What were the twelve labors of Hercules?
5. Who were the twelve Olympian gods? Extra credit if you can name their Roman counterparts.
6. Name the the twelve tribes of Israel - again no peeking.

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1, Lancelot, Galahad, Bors, Perceval, Gawain, Tristan, Lamorack, Torre, Kay, Gareth, Bedivere, Mordred 10 points for each correct name

2. Aries, the ram; Taurus, the bull; Gemini, the twins; Cancer, the crab; Leo, the lion; Virgo, the virgin; Libra, the scales; Scorpio, the scorpion; Sagittarius, the archer; Capricorn, the goat; Aquarius, the water-bearer; Pisces, the two fishes. ditto the scoring above

3. Peter, Andrew, James the greater, John, Matthew, Philip, Bartholomew (or Nathaniel), Thomas, Simon, the Zealot, Jude (or Thaddeus), James the less, Judas Iscariot. Matthias replaced Judas. ditto the scoring above except for the bonus gets double

4. Kill the Nemean lion, kill the Hydra; capture the Arcadian stag; capture the Erymanthian boar; cleanse the Augean stables; kill the Stymphalian birds; capture the Cretan bull; capture the mares of Diomedes; fetch the girdle of the Amazon queen, Hippolyte; fetch the oxen of Geryon; bring back the golden apples of the Hesperides; bring the dog, Cerberus, up from the underworld. you get twenty points for each correct answer

5. Zeus (Jupiter or Jove), Hera (Juno), Poseidon (Neptune), Hades (Pluto), Pallas Athene (Minerva), Phoebus (Apollo), Artemis (Diana), Aphrodite (Venus), Hermes (Mercury), Ares (Mars), Hephaestus (Vulcan), Hestia (Vesta), she was later replaced by Dionysius or Bacchus (Liber). 10 points for each correct answer

6. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Napthali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph (divided into Ephraim and Manasseh), Benjamin. 10 points for each correct answer. 10 more each for the split of Joseph's tribe.

Perfect score would be: 1000. I am sure there is someone out there who could nab a perfect score. I want him as my bridge partner, or in my younger days my representative on the College Boards and on Jeopardy. Anyone that gets over 50% can do the New York Times crossword puzzle in ink. Join me at 33 1/3%. Hope you had fun with this.

Gosh that was hard - managed 42% - any more puzzles gratefully received!

You wanted more - here is another list. This time with the number seven featured. Same rules.
1. What are the seven wonders of the ancient world?
2. What were the seven hills of Rome?
3. What are the seven kinds of plane triangles?
4. What are the seven main levels of taxonomic classification?
5. What are the seven sacraments, in accordance with Roman Catholic theology?
6. What are the seven deadly sins?
7. Name the seven dwarves of the Snow White experience (1937 version).
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1. The Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympus, The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicanassus, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Lighthouse (Pharos) at Alexandria. ten points each
2. Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine. ten points each
3. Equilateral, Isoceles, Scalene, Right, Acute, Obtuse, Oblique. ten points each
4. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. these are listed in descending order. If you can name them in this order, double your score of ten points each
5. Baptism, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony, Extreme Unction. ten points each
6. Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust. ten points each
7. Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey. ten points each

There is a potential for 560 points. Same percentages and conditions apply.

Harder than last one: I don't know my triangles or sacraments!

Here's one I've come up with:

1) Name the 10 commandments
2) Name the 10 different possible types of cloud
3) Name the 7 countries of Central America
4) Name the 11 component gases of air
5) Name the 11 royal houses of England since 1066
6) Name the 10 plagues of Egypt
7) Name the 9 main planets of our solar system
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1)Have no other gods/ no idols/ not use God's name in vain/ observe Sabbath/ honour father & mother/ not commit adultery/ not steal / not bear false witness/ not covet/ not murder

10 points for every right answer

2) Cirrus/ Cirrocumulus/ Cirrostratus/ Altocumulus/ Altostratus/ Cumulus/ Cumulonimbus/ Nimbostratus/ Stratus/ Stratocumulus

10 points each

3) Belize/ Costa Rica/ El Salvador/ Guatemala/ Honduras/ Nicaragua/ panama

10 points each

4) Nitrogen/ Oxygen/ argon/ Carbon Dioxide/ Neon/ Helium/ Krypton/ Xenon/ Hydrogen/ Nitrous Oxide/ Methane

10 points for first 9 and 20 points for last 2.

5) House of Normandy (William I- Matilda) 10 points
House of Blois (Stephen) -20 points
House of Anjou (or Plantagenets) (Henry II-Richard III) -10 points
House of Tudor (Henry VII-Elizabeth I) - 10 points
House of Grey (or Suffolk) (Lady Jane Grey) - 20 points
House of Stuart (James I-Anne) - 10 points
Houses of Stuart and Orange (William & Mary) -20 points
House of Hanover & Brunswick-Luneberg (George I- Victoria) -10 points if you got Hanover, 20 if you got the Brunswick-Luneberg bit too
House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (Edward VII- George V) -10 points
House of Windsor (George V-Elizabeth II) -10 points

if you could name the kings & queens who began & ended each house, double your score!

6) Water turned to blood/ Frogs/ Gnats/ Plague on livestock/ thunder & Hail/ Locusts/ darkness/ Boils/ death of Firstborn

10 points each

7)Jupiter/ saturn/ Uranus/ Neptune/ Earth/ Venus/ Mars/ Pluto/ Mercury

10 points each

Possible score of 870!

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8) Name 12 animals of Oriental horoscope.

9) Name 12 symbols of English horoscope.- played

10) Name 12 books by Stephen King .-played

11) Name 12 monarchs of the British royalty ending Queen Elizabeth II . - played

Playing on 6, #11
reverse chronological order
2014 back to early 1700s

Elizabeth II

George VI

Edward VIII

George V

Edward VII

Victoria

William IV

George IV

George III

George II

George I

Anne

Playing on 6 # 9

1 Taurus the Bull
2 Aquarius the Water Carrier
3 Pisces the Fish
4 Leo the Lion
5 Gemini the Twins
6 Scorpio the Scorpion

7 Virgo the Virgin
8 Sagittarius the Archer
9 Aries the Ram
10 Libra the Scales
11 Capricorn the Goat

I admit defeat...what's number 12?

Cancer the Crab- No. 4

Aries,Taurus,Gemini,Cancer,Leo,Virgo

Libra.Scorpio,Sagittarius,Capricorn,Aquarius.Pisces ( correct order of Zodiac signs)

Playing on 6, #10

by Stephen King
(no particular order)

Under the Dome

Cujo

Carrie

The Tommyknockers

The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon*

Danse Macabre

9/22/63*

Needful Things

The Green Mile

Bag of Bones

The Talisman#

The Stand

*one of only two SKʻs that I have read, and of those
9/22/63 was fascinating;
tGwLTG merely adequate.

#How old do you have to be to (like me) think of this as a Walter Scott
not a Stephen King title?

Ninety years younger(old)

"Ninety years younger" (11)
(than rolandperkins (?) )
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- - gives you an age of minus 7!

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott was released in 1827. I supposed the language is Middle English, and it does not really appeal to the present generation.

To those born before the Fifties will be aware of such authors of medieval classics by authors of 18 th and 19 th centuries. I remember this kind of classics such as Robin Hood; Ivanhoe were very popular. I am much younger .

". . .the language (of Scottʻs The Talisman) . . . is Middle English . . . (13)
No, Scott didnʻt write Middle English (or Scottish Gaelic, either, in his Scottish novels).
In the dialogue he did have them speak a language never spoken in any country or century - - a pseudo-archaic form of Modern (19th century English), just to "sound medieval".

12: Name the 12 movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock

13: Name the 12 movies starrred Clint Eastwood in a leading role.

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