Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• THREE
• 1 Who were the 3 sons of Adam and Eve?
• 2 Who are the 3 gods of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti)?
• 3 Who are the 3 daughters of King Lear
• 4 Who are the 3 Musketeers?
• 5 Who were the 3 sons of Noah?
• 6 What are the 3 ages of Vico's historical cycle?
• 7 Who were the 3 Magi, and what gifts did they bring?
• 8 What are the 3 components of the Freudian psyche?
• 9 What 3 beasts confront Dante in Canto I of the Inferno
• 10 Who were the 3 Furies?
• 11 What are Newton's 3 laws of Motion?
• 12 What were the 3 temptations of Christ?
• 13 Who were teh 3 Fates?
• FOUR
• 14 What were the 4 elements and their associated humours?
• 15 What are the 4 voyages of Lemuel Gulliver?
• 16 What were the 4 chief winds in ancient Greece?
• 17 What 4 US Presidents were assassinated, and who were their killers?
• 18 Who are the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
• 19 Who were the Big Four, and what nations did they represent at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)?
• 20 Who were the 4 Bronte siblings?
• 21 Who were the 4 Evangelists, and what were their symbols?
• FIVE
• 22 What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
• 23 What were the 5 events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon?
• 24 What the 5 classical architectural orders?
• 25 Who were the Russian composers knows as the Mighty Five?
• 26 What were the 5 rivers of he classical underworld?
• SIX
• 27 What are the 6 flavours of Quarks?
• 28 Who were the 6 wives of Henry VIII?
• 29 Who were the 6 French composers known as Les Six?
• SEVEN
• 30 What are the 7 wonders of the ancient world?
• 31 What were the works of the 7 days of creation?
• 32 What were the 7 hills of Rome?
• 33 What were the 7 liberal arts of the medieval curriculum?
• 34 Where do the English names of the 7 days of the week come from?
• 35 What are the 7 Sacraments>
• 36 Who were the 7 against Thebes?
• 37 Who were the 7 Sages of Greece
• 38 What are the 7 deadly sins?
• 39 What are the 7 virtues?
• 40 What are the 7 ages of man according to SHakespeare?
• 41 What were the 7 metals of alchemy and their associated gods and planets?
• 42 What are the 7 voyages of Sinbad the Sailor?
• EIGHT
• 44 What are the components of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism?
• 45 What are the 8 beatitudes?
• NINE
• 46 Who were the 9 great gods of ancient Egypt (the Great Ennead)?
• 47 Who were the 9 muses, and what were their associated arts?
• 48 What are the 9 orders of angels (from lowest to highest)
• 49 Who were the 9 Worthies?
• 50 Who were the 9 lyric poets of ancient Greece
• 51 What are the 9 planets, and how long do they take to orbit the sun?
• 52 What are the 9 Circles of Dante's Inferno?
• TEN
• 53 What are the 10 Commandments?
• 54 What were the 10 plagues of Egypt?
• ELEVEN
• 55 Which were the 11 states of Confederacy?
• TWELVE
• 56 What were the Latin names of the 12 months , and what did they mean?
• 57 Who were the 12 Olympian gods and their Roman equivalents?
• 58 What were the 12 labours of Heracles?
• 59 Who were the 12 Apostles?
• 60 Who were the 12 Knights of the Round Table?
• 61 What are the 12 signs of the Zodiac and the sources of their names?
• Index