Maths Christmas Quiz
Team name
Section A
Write the first letter of the first name of the following celebrities – what do you get?
Question
1
Photo
Letter
Question
8
2
9
3
10
4
11
5
12
6
13
7
14
Photo
Letter
Section B
Each number has a saying or phrase associated with it. Work it out and write
your answer in the space provided.
Question
Numbers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
365
1000
3600
13
3
200
1001
57
D in a Y
M in a K
S in an H
U for S
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
180
147
90
366
9
10000
360
60
T S in D
M B in S
D in a R A
D in a L Y
L of a C
G O D of Y’s M
D in a C
M in an H
17
18
4
54
S in a Y
C in a D including
J
19
20
24
12
D on an A C
D of C
B M (S H they R)
P for P G in a G of M
AN
HV
Section C
Work out the following number puzzles:
1. The number of men in the pop group Westlife + the total number of legs on the
Teletubbies
2. The number of legs on a spider multiplied by the number of days in a week.
3. The number of colours in the Union Jack times the total number of legs on a pig,
penguin and python.
4. The number of days in a leap year + the number of blind mice in the nursery rhyme.
5. The number of cards in a deck (excluding the jokers) multiplied by the total number of
fingers and thumbs on a person.
6. The number of days in February (not in a leap year) divided by the number of children
the Queen has.
7. The total number of eyes on 4 people the number of countries that make up the UK.
8. Number of minutes in an hour – number of hours in a day.
9. Number of weeks in a year – the total number of people in a football team (not including
subs)
10. Number of centimetres in a metre the number of the Prime Minister’s house.
11. The number of wise men the number of doors on a standard advent calendar.
12. The number of boys in the class squared.
13. The number of degrees in a right angle + 6 / number of months in a year
14. The number of degrees in a right angle the number of lessons before lunch
15. The number of sides on an octagon the number of metres in a kilometre.
16. The number of pairs of parallel sides on a parallelogram number of sides with equal
length on an isosceles triangle.
17. The number of letters in the alphabet the number of letters in the word
‘mathematics’.
18. The number of lessons in a week the number of sides on a pentagon
19. Jesus’ birthday the number of gifts that the wise men brought.
20. The total number of legs in the first five days of Christmas….
Section D Solve the questions, write down the answers and then find them in the wordsearch!
No.
Question
Answer
No.
Question
Answer
1
12²
16
5501 to the nearest thousand
2
Total degrees in a triangle
17
Top darts score + maximum
snooker break
18
3n – 8 (n = 99)
Area of a square, length = 11cm
3
4
(4800 x 3 x 0) + 271
19
9³
5
Days in a leap year
20
3.5kg in grams
6
10² + 4²
21
Letters in alphabet x a baker’s
dozen
7
46 x 9
22
√100 + √9
8
Total degrees in a quadrilateral
23
Arabian nights + Heinz varieties
9
Doors on an advent calendar
24
Great Fire of London – Battle of
Hastings
A dozen x number of days in
May
10
11
25
Number of wise men x years in a
millennium
Letters in the word ‘mathematics’
x 111
26
5n + 12 (n = 202)
12
Volume of a cube, height = 4m
27
10 x 10 x 10 x 10
13
√121 + √225
28
Lessons in a week x minutes in a
lesson
14
Total degrees in a right angle
29
(Unlucky for some)²
15
Metres in a kilometre
30
Jesus’ birthday x 8
1
2
2
3
5
2
4
7
9
8
2
6
5
8
1
8
0
9
6
1
3
3
1
4
5
4
9
8
7
7
9
6
3
0
7
4
7
3
7
2
9
8
9
8
5
0
1
2
4
6
0
7
2
7
7
9
2
1
8
5
9
1
8
7
1
9
4
6
7
3
1
4
3
9
2
7
3
2
9
3
2
4
9
1
9
6
6
8
5
9
7
4
3
5
7
5
7
8
4
9
9
2
8
9
4
6
6
7
1
4
8
4
2 6
9 7
3 4
2 1
9 8
1 7
2 4
1 5
3 6
9 1
5 6
2 8
3 9
0 0
2 5
8 1
1
9
2
0
3
2
7
8
2
7
2
5
8
3
3
7
4
3
8
9
4
3
1
9
6
9
3
9
2
8
9
2
3
1
2
1
9
5
6
6
5
3
0
0
5
1
8
0
7
2
9
0
2
9
3
4
7
1
8
7
1
3
7
0
9
4
7
0
3
6
8
6
3
6
4
8
3
9
4
0
2
3
9
6
1
1
7
9
0
9
9
1
5
1
9
0
0
8
1
6
8
4
5
1
8
0
5
7
0
8
3
1
0
4
9
8
1
0
0
0
7
9
2
9
0
5
9
2
4
7
2
4
4
3
9
8
2
3
8
1
4
7
8
1
1
8
2
6
8
9
7
8
2
6
9
7
8
9
5
4
9
6
3
7
1
2
2
1
0
7
2
0
0
0
3
3
1
8
4
8
2
8
1
9
1
3
9
2
4
5
2
5
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