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the number of deadly sins * the number of Judaic and Christian commandments
Wikipedia: Seven deadly sins

Glomcast Communications owned 22 subsidiaries before acquiring five more. How many subsidiaries does Glomcast own now?
22 + 5 = 27
Number of JetPunk sovereign states that share a land border with Brunei
Wikipedia: Brunei
Number of clocks in the title of James Thurber’s 1950 fantasy novel
Wikipedia: The 13 Clocks
Number of governorates that comprise the first-level administrative divisions of Bahrain
Wikipedia: Governorates of Bahrain
Year the U.S. Congress declared war on Great Britain
Wikipedia: War of 1812
1813 * 1813
1813 * 1813

   = 3286969

   = 1813
Number of herbs and spices allegedly used in the top secret recipe for the breading used to make KFC’s Original Recipe fried chicken
Wikipedia: KFC Original Recipe
Number of days in August (Mensis Sextilis) in the Roman Republican calendar used until 45 BCE (when it was replaced by the Julian calendar)
Wikipedia: Roman calendar
In CA$, the denomination of the coin sometimes referred to as a “toonie”
Wikipedia: Toonie
Atomic number of the element strontium
Wikipedia: Strontium
Number of sides a tetracontagon has
Wikidata: tetracontagon
Number of milliliters in a centiliter
A milliliter is 0.001 liter

A centiliter is 0.01 liter

0.01 / 0.001 = 10
Cardinality of the sense in the title of the 1999 psychological thriller film that starred Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment
Wikipedia: The Sixth Sense
Number of English monarchs from the House of Normandy
Wikipedia: List of English monarchs: House of Normandy
XV * IV
The Roman numerals XV and IV are equivalent to the Arabic numbers 15 and 4, respectively. So, …

15 * 4 = 60
Year Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo
Wikipedia: Battle of Waterloo
110 27/37 + 110 10/37
110 27/37 + 110 10/37

   = (110 + 27/37) + (110 + 10/37)

   = (110 + 110) + (27/37 + 10/37)

   = 220 + (27/37 + 10/37)

   = 220 + 37/37

   = 220 + 1

   = 221
December date on which the Church of England commemorates Stephen, Deacon and First Martyr
The Church of England: Common Worship
In pounds, the weight of the gorilla in the U.S. idiom that refers to any entity that is so powerful it can act without regard for the law or the rights of others.
The Free Dictionary: eight-hundred-pound gorilla
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2 Comments
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2025
It looks like 221 should be 231.
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Level 77
Jan 21, 2025
Yes, thanks … I caught this when checking out the scores of the first two takers. I have fixed the question by revising the addends, rather than the sum. Changing the sum would have reset the quiz.