1.  How many different positions are there for a Rubik's cube?
    A.  About 37 million
    B.  About 15 trillion
    C.  About 43 quintillion

2.  About how many different possible poker hands are there?
    A.  About two and a half million
    B.  About three and a third billion
    C.  About four and a quarter trillion

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3. What is 11,111,111 squared?
    A.  1,111,111,111,111,111
    B.  22,222,222
    C.  123,456,787,654,321

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4.  Which of the following unusual properties does the number 2520 have?
    A.  It is both a perfect square and a perfect cube.
    B.  Every counting number from 1 to 10 divides into it with no remainder.
    C.  It is the number of sides of a four-dimensional hypercube.

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5.  If you had $10 billion in 1-dollar bills and you spent one every second, about how long would it take you to go broke?
    A.  317 months
    B.  317 years
    C.  317 decades

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6.  How many different ways can you assemble six standard 2x4 lego bricks?
    A.  About 100
    B.  About 100 thousand
    C.  About 100 million

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7.  Which property is true of any prime number p bigger than 3?
    A.  Either p+1 or p-1 is divisible by 6 with no remainder.
    B.  If you divide p into 2 raised to the power p, the remainder is 2.
    C.  It is one less than the sum of two primes.

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8.  About how many ways are there to play the first four moves in a game of chess?
    A.  64
    B.  About 300 billion
    C.  About 200 quadrillion

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9.  Manhattan Island from end to end is about how many inches long?
    A.  About 10,000
    B.  Slightly less than a million
    C.  Well more than a million

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10.  How many nonnegative integers are there which are twice the sum of their digits?
    A.  Zero - it can't happen!
    B.  Two
    C.  Infinitely many - it happens all the time.

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11.  Which of the following interesting properties applies to the prime number 17?
    A.  It is equal to the sum of the digits of its cube.
    B.  It is the only prime that is the average of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
    C.  It is the smallest prime that is the sum of two different fourth powers.

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