By the Numbers #64

Year Queen Elizabeth I was born

In cents, the value of the Australian coin sometimes referred to as “shrapnel” (since 1996)

Cardinality of the protocol in the title of Frederick Forsyth’s 1984 thriller novel (made into a film starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan in 1987)

64 29/48 + 54 19/48

Number of English monarchs of the House of Wessex (exclude Ælfweard, whose reign is disputed, and count monarchs who were restored to the throne for a second reign only once)

Number preceding “Dark Thirty” in the title of the 2012 thriller film that starred Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke

Number of seasons in the year (in temperate and sub-polar regions) * Number of months in the year (using the Gregorian calendar)

According to the idiom, the number it takes to tango

Number of communities that comprise the first-level administrative divisions of Belgium

Number of JetPunk sovereign states that share a land border with Burkina Faso

Number of sides a tetracontadigon has

Year Queen Elizabeth II was born

June date on which the Church of England commemorates the Birth of John the Baptist

Number of decades in two centuries

Number of days in October (Mensis October) in the Roman Republican calendar used until 45 BCE (when it was replaced by the Julian calendar)

Atomic number of the element zirconium

Number of U.S. state capitals that begin with “N”

After digging in her backyard, Aletha found seven fossils for her collection. If she already had nine fossils, how many fossils did Aletha have after the new ones?

MCMXVIII + II