that is exactly the sort of thing, mazie. Already have a few ideas but just thought I would call on a greater intelligence than mine9 brain addled from writing 5 different quizzes for the last 300 years (at least it seems like 300!!)
What is the quantity of paper equivalent to 500 sheets? A ream.
NB....a ream (traditional) is 480 sheets..24 sheets = 1 quire, 20 quires = 1 ream, but since decimalisation / metrification it has evolved to become 500 sheets. A printer's ream is 516 sheets = 21 1/2 quires.
In 1988 the Post Office issued 4 new high value stamps featuring the same castles that had first been used some 30 years earlier. Which castle is shown on the 500p (�5) stamp? Windsor Castle.
On whose photographs are these pictures based? HRH The Duke of York / Prince Andrew.
Approximately how much is 500 Euros worth? At �1 = 1.50 Euros that's �333. (Set your own limits of tolerance - say anything between �300 & �360 ie + or - 10%)
or approximately how many Euros can you exchange for �500? Approx 750 ( + or - x%)
When John Dashwood wished to fulfill his promise to his dying father to look after his widow and daughters, Mrs Dashwood exclaimed, "Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot conceive how they will spend half of it!" From which Jane Austen novel? Sense and Sensibility.
In the United States Fortune magazine publishes an annual list known as Fortune 500. What is this a list of?
The 500 largest / most profitable US industrial corporations.